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To: Dale Baker who wrote (402)6/5/2005 1:01:14 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541347
 
I find those ideological debates completely useless outside parlor games

Maybe that explain why you're not ideological. <g> I'm not comfortable without a framework to bounce things off of. It's not a rigid framework in that I don't try to fit square pegs into it and it's always subject to enlightened revision, but I gotta have it.

[The size of government and nanny vs. the marketplace, which you find useless, are keenly related to the philosophical issues of which you approved.]



To: Dale Baker who wrote (402)6/5/2005 5:19:25 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541347
 
Ideological debates make more sense on purely philosophical issues like conformity/freedom, evangelism/tolerance, etc. I can see the sense behind those debates.

But if a public policy issue can't be operationalized into a model that one can evaluate, it's a nonsensical question,

Ideology sets the criteria you use to evaluate it.

Tim


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