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Originally Posted by pan6467
.....Also, if someone posts a bunch of articles from a biased source, for people to read, but does not add anything of their own (maybe a few sentences) then nothing is achieved either. The average poster/reader feels they can find their own sources to read based on their own bias, why comment on something that even the poster really doesn't comment on?....
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pan, all information is not equal, and your entire premise, IMO, is contradicted by the entire history of discourse of American politics.
Some will regard even these linked pages as "biased".
http://www.google.com/search?q=host+...e=off&filter=0
How does your "formula" fit with debates on issues like WMD in Iraq, abolition of slavery in the U.S., or what is the appropriate way to react to a thread, posted on a politics forum, that is titled:
"Please take a moment to pause, and think of our Military overseas this Christmas" in a politcal environment where an appreciable number believe that most of the military "overseas" are involved in illegal occupations.
There is a reason that some people limit themselves to never discussing religion or politics in public. There is a reason why there is a separate "politics" forum at TFP.
It is a challenge to participate on a political discussion forum on the internet. The forum at TFP is already moderated. You propose to remove the challenge of participating.
Why not propose a new forum restricted to the discussion of political feelings? That way, the implications and consequences of "owning" (attempting to advance) a political opinion, need never be confronted, recognized, or fully considered.
Folks who want to "ban all abortion", need never be exposed to information about the consequences to poorer women of childbearing age, versus the lack of consequences of the ban to wealthy women who have the option of travel out of the jurisdiction of the ban, to obtain safe, skilled, sterile clinical abortion services....they can just "feel" their opinion without exposure to information that might make them have a choice of ignoring what it is that influences others involved in a discussion to THINK otherwise.
...And, they can "feel" their pro abortion ban opinion, on a new and improved TFP politics discussion forum. No thank you, pan.