It’s all there in the text, if you crack a book. The people who listen to others, no matter how abhorrent, confident in the power of reason to expose those abhorrent ideas as nonsense, are usually the ones who push society and humanity forward. From the great thinkers like Aristotle, Plato, and Diogenes, right on up…

It’s all there in the text, if you crack a book. The people who listen to others, no matter how abhorrent, confident in the power of reason to expose those abhorrent ideas as nonsense, are usually the ones who push society and humanity forward. From the great thinkers like Aristotle, Plato, and Diogenes, right on up…

I do! Everyone who’s ever studied the issue has come to the same conclusion: listening to differing viewpoints is far more valuable than ignoring them, or preventing them from being heard. I like to be on the side of history’s greatest thinkers, rather than on the side of history’s greatest monsters.

Nu-uh. =P

“The percentage of black people that kill other black people is much higher than the percentage of white people that kill other white people, so black people have a problem.” is a racist argument. But, if it’s true, it’s worth entertaining. Not capitulating to, but entertaining. You then have to find out the…

There’s a difference between being extremely against racism, and being extremely against racist arguments. People that conflate the two are extremists.

I appreciate this type of “Gotcha” questioning, because it exposes how simple-minded that train of thought is.

I am extremely opposed to racism. I do not have sympathy for anti-immigrant perspectives. It wouldn’t be rational to build a racist, anti-immigration wall on the border with Mexico.

And this is why you’re not worth talking to. Extremists are bad. Not all of them (see, that would be an extremist view), but a vast majority of them are blinded by their extreme views. They only focus on what they want to achieve and they have no sympathy for other perspectives. That’s a bad stance to take because it…

None. How does that change what I said, stupid?

You responded to me. What the fuck are YOU talking about?

Compromise is a foundation of democracy.

It’s not the centrists that are the problem. Or, at least, it’s not BEING centrist that’s the problem.

Very well corrected. Republicans can be dealt with, if you have a fucking spine. But they stand to gain nothing by reasoning with people who can be steamrolled instead.

Come on. I realize this is hyperbole, but it’s so far a stretch as to be cartoonish. Tyranny, in the United States? Just a quick check of Trump’s twitter feed, where he pisses and moans every time something gets in the way of his agenda (Healthcare, Luther Strange, Roy Moore, Border Wall, etc), should prove that he…

I always hate that argument of “We can’t beat the government, so it’s a stupid thing to argue for our right to bear arms against them.”

Chocolate pretzel, anyone?

Hey thanks! Glad you’re enjoying it.

Because ne had made a comment directly to a commenter, instead of to the article. I was saying nir hypothetical comment to the article would probably be right.

Ah, I see, you misunderstood.