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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (23888)1/11/2004 2:35:56 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 793755
 
I simply have no desire of being part of either mentality, which at times, they both make me sick.

Let me try a different angle, the intransigence angle.

The socialists can be converted. The religionists can't. At least there is a possibility that a fair number of the socialists can be converted. There is, after all, evidence of the long-term infeasibility of socialism. So there's at least a basis for persuasion. With the religionists, that opportunity doesn't exist both because a religious belief system is not susceptible to reasoning and because people have a Constitutional right to those beliefs so it's really tacky to try to talk them out of them. So we have one group where there's a small hope of converts vs. a group where there is no hope. Some hope is better than no hope.

I said "converted" deliberately. Conversion, the intellectual process of mind changing, might be possible. Weaning from the safety net is another matter. <g>
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