No Will, you can ask why.
I even gave some whys in the above example, here I'll quote them:
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If the Federal government believes it is easier to control diseases coming into this country, provides a safer environment for it's citizens and is in the nation's best interest as a whole to have a law on how people can immigrate (for example), they pass the law, the set forth the punishment and classification, then it is a law one must follow.
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See now this wasn't so hard. Now then you tell me why, when one says ILLEGAL immigrants should be deported and believes the laws should be more stringently enforced and the punishments stiffer.
They are labeled and talked to in negative tones.
But the one doing the labeling can sit there and say, "the law is stupid... needs changed and I refuse to show it any respect."
Why not try to converse learn from one another figure out a compromise that is acceptable to both sides and move on?
Why does it have to be a negative, divisive, dig in and don't give anything and take no prisoners exchange of ideas?
All the labeling, the condescending attitudes and the "my view is better than your view" tones do is set further negative exchanges, and nothing gets done except hatred, anger, and other negative energies build.
To say "it ain't personal" or "don't take it personally" when one negatively label someone isn't truly going to work.
At the very least the respect is gone, the desire to hear your side and maybe learn from you is gone and you have divided the differences even further and more militantly. (YOU in this paragraph does not mean YOU personally Will... it just sounds more aesthetically pleasing when used in this paragraph.)
Now, the labelee can take the labeler's negatives, try to turn them into a positive by trying to work on ending the negativity... but if that is responded to with more negativity and further condescension eventually.... even the most positive person will in return become negative. Once that happens there is very little hope of any compromise.
That isn't just the story here but the story of partisan politics the past 20 years. And we see exactly where it has been leading this country.
I also find it very interesting how on one hand we see for a fact 1 million homes foreclosed, 3 million homeowners behind in payments, unemployment raising at record paces, inflation is strangling us, how medical costs are out of control, how the rich are controlling more and more of the wealth and so on.... yet we should open our borders so that people who want to come in can partake in this great prosperity we are enjoying....... shouldn't we work to find ways to get the prosperity back? Get the jobs back? Find ways to distribute the wealth better? Work to find a way to rebuild the medical costs and basically just fix our country, before we bring in others? Or should we just continue to bring people in on a system that s overburdened now only to add more weight and speed up the decline?