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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
correct.
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OH, good. It sounds like you weren't a birther, you were just concerned so you checked it out. When I first heard the claim, after I finished laughing, I went and researched it and found that the claim was unfounded.
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Originally Posted by aceventura3
We have been through this before but it is worth repeating. True there are facts. But there are also legitimate emotional responses to facts. Your position seems to suggest there can or should be only one response to a given set of facts. The reality is that this is not true, never has been true and never will be true. People respond differently even when presented with the same facts. Why do you ignore this? Why do you imply that those who don't agree with you don't know the facts or don't care about facts?
Health care (health, life death, quality of life, care of loved one's) is the most emotional issue people deal with. I would argue on a national level this is even going to be more emotionally charged than war - war is often removed from most people health care issues are not, they affect us all.
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"Death panels" aren't an emotional reaction, though. They're lies that are bought by people unwilling to set aside 5 minutes to objectively fact check the statement. I have a serious problem with that level of selective laziness. They're not interested in spending 5 minutes to verify the claim, but they will drive 2 hours to troll a town hall meeting? You know that's dishonest. The reason I mentioned emotion is that there's a reason that someone is unwilling to objectively research a claim, but is willing to fight tooth and nail because of it: bias. The prejudice against anything considered liberal is not an intellectual, but an emotional reaction, overriding reason in order to appease a sense of "us vs. them"ism.