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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (51062)2/29/2008 8:49:42 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 543207
 
It is, however, possible to make an objective assessment of what is reasonable if one is so inclined. It's pretty cut and dried.

Well, if someone were so inclined, that someone might conclude the little exercise you and I are having stretches the bounds of "reasonableness." ;-)

But a bit more seriously, you are apparently convinced there is a "reasonable" center; I'm convinced there are "reasonable" positions across the political spectrum. Folk who think of themselves as having a certain set of views tend to think of other views as unreasonable.

My own view, fwiw, is that reasonableness is a methodology not a content; that it's an open, receptive attitude to new information, always from within a given framework. And a willingness to share both that information and the frames with others.
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