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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #120 on: May 23, 2011, 09:05:17 PM »
When you find logic and intuition at odds , which do you prefer?
Hmmmm........I'm going to have to go with logic


Yes most people would , but intuition is more availible and not entirely useless.

Never claimed "useless".  Your question required a choice, a prioritizing.  I had to go with logic, knowing that emotions can completely cloud one's logic and common sense.  Experience is one thing, but merely going "with one's gut" doesn't quite do it for me.........unless experience is the predominant foundation, behind that gut feeling

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle

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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #121 on: May 23, 2011, 09:17:06 PM »
When you find logic and intuition at odds , which do you prefer?
Hmmmm........I'm going to have to go with logic


Yes most people would , but intuition is more availible and not entirely useless.

Never claimed "useless".  Your question required a choice, a prioritizing.  I had to go with logic, knowing that emotions can completely cloud one's logic and common sense.  Experience is one thing, but merely going "with one's gut" doesn't quite do it for me.........unless experience is the predominant foundation, behind that gut feeling

That is right, most people respect logic most.
Even if they don't use it much.

It might be interesting to list every alternative means of decision making in order by dependbility and fondness, but it would be a serious chore.

I am pretty sure I would not place randomised choice last on the list anyway.

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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #122 on: May 23, 2011, 09:30:20 PM »

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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #123 on: May 23, 2011, 09:50:22 PM »
First you have to be in the right place before logic can work for you. Ever watch someone who is just wrong headed, then they try and apply logic? It an be kinda funny to watch but its damn dangerous in certain situations.

Getting the lay of the land, understanding where you are, etc., that comes from the gut. You can't logic your way into that kind of understanding. Logic is a secondary resource. First you gotta be there, then you can begin to find the hidden logic. That's the key to logical explanations, they're hidden. You can't get at them from the outside. You can't impose logic. You can't just take a formula and put it anywhere you want.  That's one of the differences between those who want to conserve things, and those who except change. The conservative wants to keep applying the same old formula. Ain't going to work, boys and girls.

"Inside every gook there's an American trying to get out." No there isn't.


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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #124 on: May 23, 2011, 09:58:21 PM »
  Yes, logic requires the facts.
It is good to gather facts enough to make logic possible before an important decision,..

But...

When you can't get all of the facts sometimes you have to move anyway, seldom is dithering better than making a choice.

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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #125 on: May 23, 2011, 10:57:12 PM »
Whose facts do you gather, Plane?

Example: When Colin Powell got in front of the UN and reported on the analysis he was given by the CIA, on Iraq's weapons program, whose facts was he given, and how were those facts gathered?

They were gathered by applying a method that had been used to identify the movement of weapons around the old Soviet Union. This means of identification was Soviet weapon specific. It had zero to do with Iraq's weapons, real, or imagined.
They could have used any and all logic they wanted to and it would have turned out wrong every time. They weren't there either in reality or figuratively. They were imposing the wrong method from the outside.

So, my friend Plane, do you. You are calling the abortion of a fetus murder by applying the wrong method from the outside.


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p.s. I wonder what any of that means?

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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #126 on: May 23, 2011, 11:06:08 PM »
Whose facts do you gather, Plane?

Example: When Colin Powell got in front of the UN and reported on the analysis he was given by the CIA, on Iraq's weapons program, whose facts was he given, and how were those facts gathered?

They were gathered by applying a method that had been used to identify the movement of weapons around the old Soviet Union. This means of identification was Soviet weapon specific. It had zero to do with Iraq's weapons, real, or imagined.
They could have used any and all logic they wanted to and it would have turned out wrong every time. They weren't there either in reality or figuratively. They were imposing the wrong method from the outside.

So, my friend Plane, do you. You are calling the abortion of a fetus murder by applying the wrong method from the outside.


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p.s. I wonder what any of that means?

You may have to symplify that a bit before I catch the connection.

A Human Fetus is certainly alive and certainly human, but by some mysterious process not a human being nor even an animal worthy of protection from cruelty .

In my state cruelty to animals can be a felony, but there is no limit to what can be done to a fetus.

If you wanted to kill a dog by rinsing its lungs with a salt solution you could be arrested, or pulling it limb from limb with a wire , maybe gets you a bit of jail time.

A fetus is not proven to be anything , where are any facts?

So it is not anything , it is not even an animal worthy of pity.

Good thing we need not be certain hm?

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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #127 on: May 24, 2011, 12:46:12 AM »
Again, I am not going to defend some woman's fetus. This is not my concern.
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #128 on: May 24, 2011, 05:56:10 AM »
Again, I am not going to defend some woman's fetus. This is not my concern.

  Of course , as a class of person that can never vote nor even protest , why care about them?

   When it happens to you , with identical logic , perhaps ?

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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #129 on: May 24, 2011, 10:17:59 AM »
Only if I am reincarnated as a fetus.

And if that happens, and I am aborted, I know can always try again.
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #130 on: May 24, 2011, 07:20:30 PM »
Only if I am reincarnated as a fetus.

And if that happens, and I am aborted, I know can always try again.

If that is true , then it is true for you right now.

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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #131 on: May 24, 2011, 09:12:47 PM »
I am overly worried about this.I don't think that a fetus has enough self-awareness to make an abortion unpleasant for more than a few seconds. And of course, then you just try it again.


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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #132 on: May 25, 2011, 12:19:19 AM »
I am overly worried about this.I don't think that a fetus has enough self-awareness to make an abortion unpleasant for more than a few seconds. And of course, then you just try it again.

Are you willing to admit this is an assumption?

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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #133 on: May 25, 2011, 12:32:30 AM »
I am willing to just let every woman decide for herself.

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

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Re: Trying to understand Liberals
« Reply #134 on: May 25, 2011, 01:33:37 AM »
I am willing to just let every woman decide for herself.

But not let Tom decide to kill Harry?

Why this strong inconsistancy?