"Governor Republican, you've said that 15% of children in the richest country in the world should regularly experience hunger. Senator Democrat says that number should be closer to 10%. What do you have to say to that?" |
Hardly. Do you thing Ralph Nader votes were meaningless in the 2000 election? If Obama and Cain are the nominees of the two major parties, a white, third party candidate will win in a landslide. Obama has doomed any other AA candidate for a long time. |
Someone's said this before, but isn't it funny how common sense, rational ideas typically seem to track YOUR ideas? |
What's your point? That all ideas are equally valid? That anyone loudly proclaiming his/her rightness is per se hypocritical or silly? Imagine three people doing a math problem and getting three different answers. Each of them is confident in her answer and confident that the other two are way off. Two of them are definitely wrong on both counts, but one of them may be right. |
But, if I may push the simile a bit further, a math problem might have different answers under different sets of assumptions. And I think much of the arguing here is precisely because there are different sets of assumptions. We think the other side are idiots because they do not see that their conclusions do not gibe with our assumptions. In case that sounds like a reason to drop the whole discussion, that's not my intent. It's to try to understand the other side's thinking a bit better than "What a bunch of idiots!" |
PS on my last note: It was not directed at The Man, but at all of us. |
As Stephen Colbert would say, "We'll just put you down for Obama then." ![]() |