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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (25726)	9/1/2001 8:47:44 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

These are the people with no intellectual curiosity or open minds, but rather with fixed ideas and closed minds who don't want to be bothered thinking, but want only to react. Relax, I've never called you a bigot. For these people, consensus is quite possible and perhaps even desirable, particularly if we concede that there is one "best" way to solve most human problems if we could only find it. I never said that. I did say even if there was one best way it was still up to each individual to find his or her own way. But don't demean others who have a more open mind and more intellectual curiosity, and who feel that if minds that differ as much as those on this thread do could actually achieve consensus on some issue, that would be a significant step forward. I've never demeaned anybody who has an open mind and if you are ascribing intellectual curiosity to someone who believes in "consensus thinking" at any cost you are being ridiculous.