There has been a whole of attempt to engage sensibly with people who aren't interested in engaging sensibly. They're not actually intending to listen at all to the "other side" of the discussion--they only want to force the other side to listen to them.
We've wasted a lot of time the past five or ten years considering all opinions equally valid, rather than being smart enough to recognize that opinions based on verifiable facts are generally more constructive than opinions based on jingoism and self-contradiction.
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Date: 2010-10-25 03:03 pm (UTC)There has been a whole of attempt to engage sensibly with people who aren't interested in engaging sensibly. They're not actually intending to listen at all to the "other side" of the discussion--they only want to force the other side to listen to them.
We've wasted a lot of time the past five or ten years considering all opinions equally valid, rather than being smart enough to recognize that opinions based on verifiable facts are generally more constructive than opinions based on jingoism and self-contradiction.