Above all, one should be a pluralist when it comes to politics because if there was no disagreement there would be no politics at all. Polarization clarifies things. — NOS4A2
I've just posted this thread and another about the text by Karl Marx which includes the statement, "Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.", and, so, am not really one to make such a critique, but I think that there could be an inherent contradiction to your line of reasoning there.
Well, I'm all for pluralism, but that "polarization clarifies things" runs directly contrary to the general sentiment of this post, which you have claimed to be in agreement with.
my rather intransigent interpretation of the entire political foray, being that there exists the libertarian Left, their allies, and everyone else — thewonder
What I really mean is that ideally people would engage in discourse not as a contest of wills, but to come to a better understanding of the world, as in Philosophy, or decide upon the best course of action when situations have been produced that require some form of mediation, as in Politics. — thewonder
But I don't think it's much in dispute that we associate confidence with competence as well as status with competence. Perhaps I remember this wrongly though — Echarmion
By that same token, though, isn't trying Donald Trump for treason kind of excessive? He's been made enough of an example of already. — thewonder
Any form of equitable conflict resolution requires that all parties are willing to sincerely engage within a debate, which means to be willing to take the perspective of others into consideration. — thewonder
Every country in the world would adopt the Nordic model, there would be a proliferation of communes that generally agree to some form of nonviolence, permanent autonomous zones, and micronations, — thewonder
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