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Originally Posted by Willravel
Whether or not Saddam was seeking yellow cake uranium in Africa is not a matter of emotion, but rather a matter of demonstrable, factual evidence. How you feel about it isn't important to me, whether or not it happened is.
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Here is how we differ.
I agree Saddam seeking yellow cake uranium in Africa is a matter of fact (we may not know the whole truth, only what the evidence suggests is the truth, but there is a known truth), however the way "I" feel about it may be very important to you even if you don't want it to be. If "I" have the power to act on my feelings/emotions, in a manner that impacts you, you may find my feelings/emotions are important. Given the numbers of people that responded to a series of things involving Iraq that may or may not have turned out to be factually accurate (again we are limited by what the evidence suggests and our predispositions regarding evidence presented - and given the importance of studies like the one referenced in the OP understanding how people respond to "reports" puts a interesting value on such studies) the way that I do or did, you may be in a minority and suffer serious consequences. All of this can create a reality involving you, that you would not accept as rational relative to your belief of what reality is. So, you can accept this new reality that you don't think is rational, or you pretend this reality does not exist, or you find some other way to reconcile this unrational reality.