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

To: Lane3 who wrote (77990)	10/21/2003 12:57:03 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Sure, think it through and take your best guess, but don't claim it's an answer. And certainly don't think it's enough of an answer to warrant conflict with your fellow guessers. That's most definitely not rational. If that were a standard of rationality, then virtually no college professors could be considered rational. I've never had a single college professor who didn't claim their best guess about something in their purported field of expertise was the answer, at least for the time being, and defend it sometimes with much more passion than most religious or atheistic people defend their beliefs. Have you ever been to an academic conference where divergent papers were presented on who wrote Shakespeare's plays? The division between Catholic and Protestant is nothing compared to the passion and vehemence of that debate. Or a feminism conference discussing the intended destruction of the Western Canon? Back in my teaching days I attended a few of those conferences, and boy, if you think they didn't think their answers warranted conflict with their fellow guessers, you are out to lunch. How about the political debate over whether Affirmative Action is good or bad for minorities. If your standard for rationality is to be adopted, every one of those persons is most definitely not rational.