11-29-2010, 09:40 PM
Hi,
"Moderate" in discussion, as in "not a raving moron". Someone willing to, at the least, consider and evaluate the opponent's position. Not "moderate" as in accepting the middle of the road viewpoint. And, yes, one requires moderates to have a reasonable discussion, otherwise one ends up with a shouting match. And it usually only takes one bigoted, prejudiced, small minded, a-hole to bring that about by forcing the polarization of opinions.
And, while the answer (is there really only one?) might indeed be at an extreme, I'm hard pressed to think of a situation in history where an extreme answer proved itself right in the long run.
--Pete
(11-29-2010, 09:23 PM)Jester Wrote: One does not require "moderates" to have a reasonable discussion. One needs only stick to facts and logic. There is no valid reason to suspect the answer does not lie with one extreme or another.
"Moderate" in discussion, as in "not a raving moron". Someone willing to, at the least, consider and evaluate the opponent's position. Not "moderate" as in accepting the middle of the road viewpoint. And, yes, one requires moderates to have a reasonable discussion, otherwise one ends up with a shouting match. And it usually only takes one bigoted, prejudiced, small minded, a-hole to bring that about by forcing the polarization of opinions.
And, while the answer (is there really only one?) might indeed be at an extreme, I'm hard pressed to think of a situation in history where an extreme answer proved itself right in the long run.
--Pete
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