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To: thames_sider who wrote (12561)	2/17/2006 7:26:57 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 541376

I'm not sure that's true about liberals. I've met some incredibly dogmatic liberals out there on SI- the kind who are just amazingly brutal in their name calling (WRT republican figures), and on top of being brutal, are just off the mark, and unrepentant when called on it by even another liberal (such as my gentle self :-) I think there are absolutists on both sides of the aisle, and the dogmatic liberals are every bit as closeminded as the dogmatic conservatives. The fascinating thing I observe, is that the dogmatic angry liberals have much more in common with their angry conservative counterparts, than they do with me. It's the same odd affinity that I see between hard atheists and true believers- both sides are so convinced of the absolute correctness of their positions that they are almost identical, and they have nothing in common with a wishy washy agnostic (albeit a partisan one) like me. The real divide is between relativists and non-relativists- or if you prefer, between absolutists and non-absolutists. IMO, of course.

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