Polite Political Discussion- is it Possible? An Experiment.

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Politics
Polite Political Discussion- is it Possible? An Experiment.

An SI Board Since July 2006

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Emcee: epicure	Type: Moderated

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1270	How exactly are you defining these threatened (or already expanded) roles? Where	Rambi	9/1/2006
1269	DId you mean to yell?	Rambi	9/1/2006
1268	Much of what we do "now" (since civilization began), is probably at od	epicure	9/1/2006
1267	WHICH ONES DO YOU WANT ME TO ADDRESS?	Bread Upon The Water	9/1/2006
1266	No, my reasoning is based on what I see are the effects of biology, history, and	Bread Upon The Water	9/1/2006
1265	I will pull out my old Jungian textbooks and see what I can find, but since you	Rambi	9/1/2006
1264	Thanks for your thoughts Euterpe. I've tried to sum up my position and addr	Bread Upon The Water	9/1/2006
1263	Thanks for thoughts. I've tried to sum up my position and address some of y	Bread Upon The Water	9/1/2006
1262	Well, at least you pick up on the historical argument--unlike anyone else here.	Bread Upon The Water	9/1/2006
1261	<i>And there I thought you'd be deriding Venus's presence as token	Rambi	9/1/2006
1260	And there I thought you'd be deriding Venus's presence as tokenism. Wer	thames_sider	9/1/2006
1259	Ha. I'm surprised they haven't tried to take away Venus' planethood.	Rambi	9/1/2006
1258	I hear they are from Mars. I'm sure that's the problem. Venus kicks as	epicure	9/1/2006
1257	We have come full circle on the thread, haven't we? Back to gay rights. No	Rambi	9/1/2006
1256	Fortunately rap is so disposable we won't be hearing the same noise 50 years	Dale Baker	9/1/2006
1255	Well, between Jurassic Park and John Lennon, I think we have the great philosoph	Rambi	9/1/2006
1254	You can find the same debate about minorities. Not as many people are willing t	epicure	9/1/2006
1253	Yes, that certainly occurred to me. It's why I'm intrigued by the questi	Rambi	9/1/2006
1252	And the corollary is that the other side "wants" to keep the oppressed	epicure	9/1/2006
1251	<i>I want women to have a choice to be what they want because that is what	Rambi	9/1/2006
1250	John Lennon used to say that life is what happens while you are sitting around t	Dale Baker	9/1/2006
1249	And your reasoning seems to rely on the belief that things can't change rega	Rambi	9/1/2006
1248	Biology is important, but it isn't determinative in all things. It is true	epicure	9/1/2006
1247	I don't especially distinguish between the behavioural changes wrought by te	thames_sider	9/1/2006
1246	We disagree about what are fundamental premises are. You, apparently, think t	Bread Upon The Water	9/1/2006

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