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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Suma who wrote (57769)4/15/2007 2:34:44 PM
From: ManyMoose   of 90947
 
Hatred begets hatred.

For the first two thirds of my life I allowed that any two (or more) points of view could be valid at the same time. I got over this false tolerance because as I matured I saw that if I didn't stand up for my views nobody else was going to.

Perhaps it is true that your truths are true for you and false for others. You could say the same thing about mine, I'm sure. That would make both of us right.

In some matters, such as allowing that terrorists have a valid point of view, tolerance is simply delusional. You can't change them, so the only thing left is to eliminate them.

If I see Osama bin Laden I'm going to shoot him between the eyes, which I've done already in effigy. Call it hatred if you want. I call it simple survival.

I frequent threads such as this one because the left leaning ones I've explored are vicious and intolerant, and their ban lists prove it. I don't agree with everything that is said by people that I agree with in general, but I find that they are more tolerant of people like yourself than their counterparts in left wing threads are for people like me. I've also seen some of my compatriots here moderate their approach to opposing views, but I have seen NONE of that on the lefty threads.

A lot of what you call hatred, SUMA, is simply dismay at self-destructive points of view held by way too many Americans.
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