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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (64094)5/7/2008 12:55:35 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 542247
 
If you feel like you have made a good argument for your position and have effectively countered the arguments of those who will not change their point of view, the process is not exhausting but rather energizing.

Ed, a terrific point. And I would like to underline it. I've found, repeatedly, that the act of summoning up arguments for positions has not only been energizing but led me to rethink old positions. And to read a great deal more on current affairs/events, whatever.

One of my best illustrations is that long discussion we had over right brain/left brain stuff. We clearly disagreed about the relevancy of those arguments, even the basis for arguing such existed. But it led me back into the trenches to rethink that stuff.

Now I find I read new articles/essays on it. I had quit reading them.
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