Kerry Concedes!!!

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Originally posted by highlander
For the first time since 1988 I believe.

Steve, you are always one to preach on your high horse about how great it would be if all humans have our own viewpoints and how we should all be able to express them, yet you completely refute any argument that does not mesh with your own. You are the type of person that says he will agree to disagree only with people that don't disagree with you. There are some fundamental human psychological insights that I agree with you on, but in terms of politics and governing those same people, I think you are way off base, but that is merely my opinion, it is neither correct nor incorrect. By saying that something is wrong because I believe it and you don't is far more shallow and narrow-minded than the "brainwashed military" as you put it and is far more ridiculous than the people you accuse of being narrow minded. Read that over a few times and let it sink in (without your self-defense mechanisms) before you comment.

First of all, I have to correct you. I wasn't the one talking about the "brainwashed military". That was someone else. I have, in the past, voiced my own displeasure at the sometimes sheep-like nature of basic training, but at the same time will begrudgingly accept that it has to be that way or else things get fucked.

I don't really see a conflict of interest here. Of course I expect and encourage people to voice their own opinion as I express my own every chance I get. However, saying that I "completely refute any arguement that doesn't mesh with my own [ideas]" is just wrong. I'll listen (or read, as the case may be) and if I disagree I'll let you know. Whether or not I think it's wrong is not relevent. My word is not law. My ability to make such broad and sweeping statements is merely an extention of my opinion. Don't take my opinions as more than what they are. If I believe something is correct, then I'll say it. That doesn't mean you have to accept or even like it. Hell...you can fire off on your own rant for all I care. I say the things I do because they're what I believe and also in hopes of getting people to think and discourse whether you agree with me or not so long as it's constructive. the post I left earlier doesn't quite fit that motif, but I had just woken up, heard the news, and I was hung over. So sue me. But don't think that simply because I disagree with things you or others may say that I dismiss them. I take it all into account...I might just not agree with it.