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Politics : Polite Political Discussion- is it Possible? An Experiment. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (782)	8/10/2006 12:58:35 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1695

I was being polite about the topic you already brought up. You called someone dishonest, I politely asked you for some evidence of dishonesty. Now, it seems, you have several other topics- will the lack of evidence on your side be the same as it was with your former topic? If so, what's the point? I'd say there is quite a bit to say on the subject of folks who want to call people names, but who do not want to be called upon so substantiate the reasons for the name calling. Wouldn't you say there is a lot to be said on this subject? If someone wanted to say Bush lied (for example, and I'm certainly not saying he did), wouldn't you want them to provide evidence? I am sure you might be rather firm about that. Wouldn't you? And how would you feel if they just gave you a few quotes that didn't prove anything other than that he believed the republican agenda? I'd think this sort of thing is very important. Isn't it this sort of simplistic name calling that obscures many of the larger issues? If we don't think critically about the names we call people- whether they are people on SI, or people in the media- we aren't likely to think critically about other things, are we? Most people seem to start with the name calling, and then sort of stop there- as you seem to have done. So while I understand why you don't want to address the labeling which you yourself introduced here, I think honesty and critical thinking demand you should address it, or attempt to do so. If you can't do it, then you can't do it- but I don't see much point in pursuing anything else if you aren't prepared to back up your opinions when proof appears to be lacking. There's no point in approaching an endless series of unsupported opinions. That would be rather dull. I am tempted to make backing up one's opinions (or at least making a logical attempt) a requirement of posting here.