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unless parroting stories from sources akin to the National Enquirer.
Yeah, again, exactly this. I assume you're just parodying yourself now?
You see what you want to see and believe what you want to believe and any time a credible source offers facts which don't fit into them you dismiss the source in your usual pantomime way.
Which is fine, in and of itself, but is not conducive to an actual adult
discussion. It's how children behave.
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I can't believe I am arsed to discuss things with many of you.
Well... you don't.
To be clear, I don't mind at all that you are generally to "the right" of me - I'm happy to discuss anything with anyone so long as they do so in good faith and with an open mind.
I have a lot of respect for many (relatively) right wing positions and often find that the right is more intellectually honest and cohesive than the left.
I do not believe that the right is evil and the left is saintly. There are just as many angels and devils, albeit of different character, on the left as there are on the right. I believe that those who approach politics with honesty, on both sides, do so with a desire to make the world better and improve lives.
I love discussing things with people with whom I have a
fundamental disagreement when they have arrived at their position through intellectual rigour and honesty. People who, for example, believe that human dignity is fostered through individual sovereignty and that collectivism is an affront to that dignity. I disagree.
Strongly. But I respect the position a great deal.
This doesn't, to my mind, describe you.
My impression of you is that you are one of those people who wants to sound tough and decisive without doing the hard work of actually thinking about anything.
When information runs contrary to your beliefs you, rather than thinking about it and discussing it in good faith, dismiss it out of hand.
When asked to explain how you arrived at a position you, instead, reiterate - without ever justifying - your position and resort to anecdote in lieu of evidence or thought.
And when it becomes clear - even to you, I'm sure - that your position has no intellectual foundation whatsoever, rather than doing what I really firmly believe a rational being ought - have a bit of a think about it - you resort to impotent infantile baits and limp insults. Like:
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You have your heads so far up your ass I am surprised you haven't expired by now. Maybe you're just restin'.
You're a grown, adult human being for fucks sake. Act like one or fuck off.
(And, just to be absolutely clear, we are not a hive-mind; I do not speak for anyone but myself. That 'fuck off' is from me alone, not 'us')
EDITED: 7 May 2016 05:45 by X3N0PH0N