06-24-2004, 09:01 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 5,303
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Quote:
Originally posted by PC Dave
There are many, many people, and I am one, who realize that the world isn't a simple place with one set of correct answers. When you don't see the world through a rigid, dogmatic filter, actions that can be interpreted as war crimes and conspiracy can also be interpreted as well-meaning acts by imperfect people with good intentions operating in an absence of perfect knowledge. Their actions may be ill-advised - in retrospect -, and they inevitably lead to unforeseen and painful consequences for many people, but they are not the actions of Satan and his minions operating in a well-oiled conspiratorial machine invisible to anyone not privy to the "truth". I believe what I am doing is what all people who love this country should be doing, thinking for myself and taking into account a lot of data, and acknowledging that most of it can be interpreted to support any number of theories. I don't trust zealots, whether they're Birchers or Spartacists. Reasoned argument admits the possibility that that the arguer might occasionally be wrong. Anything else is just preaching, usually to a bored congregation looking at their watches; they've heard it all before.
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I am hurt you don't trust me. It's hard to type thru the tears, but I'll try. I can't help but think what you are describing is not reasoned arguments, but the making up of excuses for people who seem to be getting caught in one lie after another.
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