Matthew330,
I've been dealing with someone at work who disagrees with me on an important issue, but won't sit still long enough to discuss it. As a consequence, we can't really move forward one way or the other. The similarities between that and your last post prompt this opinion:
If I believe something that someone says is demonstrably wrong, but I won't listen to their evidence I feel my credibility crumbles to dust. How can I expect someone to listen to me, or believe me, if I can't do the same? More importantly to me, how can *I* continue to believe myself?
With the history of people being wrong on most every conceivable issue (flat earth, plate tectonics, slavery, and on and on), how can I *not* challenge my own beliefs? If I'm not prepared to change my mind, aren't the odds near certain that I'll become an old and inflexible thinker?
In related news, I've found that the people that are most likely to get under my skin are most likely the ones likely to teach me something. Even if it's unintended lessons.
Having said that, you are obviously free to read/not read anything. But I don't think there's much credibility in that, do you? Host's posts are long, but I'm not sure it's ever taken me an hour to read any of them
edit: and to tie to the original thread, my guess (too) is that the soldier just can't let himself think differently about the war. Understandable, of course. But a shame. I hope I never need to dig in like that.