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To: carranza2 who wrote (485302)	5/1/2012 9:00:11 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Respond to of 793737

A better book on this subject is: amazon.com One of the key points is that people always rationalize in order to support their own moral beliefs. So if you are trying to use a scientific argument to undermine a strongly held "moral belief" then you won't get anywhere. The person will just deny believing in your scientific argument. Thus cuts both ways by the way. With the right it is most of seen with religious beliefs, but here the left substitutes is own religion with belief in Gaia or disturbing of the natural way. And for "unclean" morals it substitutes belief in "Natural", "Organic", "Vegetarianism", etc...