On Mar 27, 2012, at 10:39 AM, John D wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-righteous-mind-by-jonathan-haidt.html?pagewanted=all
Many good points, and deftly dancing around the gigantic elephant in the room, best explained by Senator Moynihan: "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts." You cannot have a discussion, reasoned or otherwise, if one side persists in believing provable falsehoods. "Death Panels." "Culture of Death." "Sandra Fluke wants taxpayers to pay for her contraceptives." "Obama is not a natural-born citizen." "90% of Planned Parenthood's business is abortions." "Obamacare is government takeover of health care." "Global Warming doesn't exist" "Global Warming exists, but it's not due to human activity." "Global warming may or may not exist, there is wide scientific disagreement about this." "Austerity in a severe recession leads to expansionary growth." "Tax cuts always increase government revenue." "We can lower the price of gasoline by drilling more oil." "The high price of gasoline proves that the Fed's policy of QE is inflationary." "They'll greet us with flowers and candy!" "We're really dealing with a country [Iraq] that could finance its own reconstruction." "There is a liberal media bias." "Obama has a plan to take all your guns." Each and every one of these assertions is a sometimes to widely held conservative idea (from their own mouths!), and each of them is absolutely, provably false. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
