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Originally Posted by roachboy
but in this case, almost all conservative arguments are empty.
politics is not simply a matter of opinion if by that you mean arbitrary positions that one adopts not on the basis of any factual material, or considered engagement with material whose status is problematic, but rather because it follows from a disposition.
nor is there much value to a diversity of positions for its own sake if, as in teh case of the war in iraq, every single premise brought to bear on the matter from teh right had proven to be either false outright (wmds, the linkage of iraq to the "war on terror"), incomplete to the point of total incompetence (the "strategy" for dealing with iraq), a thin veil for the rationalization of crimes against humanity (the administrations apparent affection for abuse/torture in addition to the creation of the various legal black holes)....
there must come a point when even the most dispositionally committed conservative has to reconsider his or her position, dont you think?
or is message board culture a space where you can go to write out otherwise totally untenable positions that you defend in big lebowski fashion (that's your opinion, man)....
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Reconsidering position doesn't mean 180 degree turn.
The message board is a place to express your opinion because it's the choice of the person listening to you to either give you attention or not. It's also a place that allows you to develop the repetoire among the people you chat among.
Me personally if you qoute me facts and documents all day long, your opinion to me is more in tuned to a cookie cutter liberal or republican. Yet if you don't need to depend on documents, don't paste hyperlinks left and right saying "See, someone wrote about it so it has to be true"...if you put down exactly what you feel from what you've read and what you deduced in the intelligent head of yours then I honestly believe it's you.