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To: bentway who wrote (175049)	11/15/2005 11:12:50 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 281500

Conservatives, God knows why, have a habit of "quote mining", wherein a specific phrase is quoted out of context to prove a point, generally rather different than the original meaning. I suspect this is rooted in a religious upbringing, where major theological points are learned at a young age by memorizing short specific biblical passages, purported to support the point of view. In the adult world, this is similar to legal/logical thinking. The idea that aggregate knowledge makes a more solid mean than any single strand of logic is largely alien to such thinking. IMO, this is why religious/legal thought is often at odds with scientific thought, and it somewhat explains the conservative/liberal divide as well.