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To: cgbg
"...I see that here all the time. I may agree with a person on ninety nine out of a hundred issues and think we agree on everything, and then one of us touches the previously unknown “third rail” where we strongly disagree..."

I see that all the time, and I do work hard to avoid it. It doesn't mean I avoid discussion. I just know that stoking a certain fire that will have no effect beyond damaging my enjoyment of this site is simply not worth it.

Granted, I do have my limits as we all do, and there are certain things that I won't allow to pass, but...that is life.

I will say, that one of the issues I see that goes beyond that "bubble" created by language is the Leftist practice of relativism, where they ostensibly maintain the veneer that any "reality" is just as valid and worthy of consideration as any other "reality".

(I say "ostensibly", because it only covers their bizarre versions of reality. Yours and mine are not worthy of consideration.

The problem is, it balkanizes reality, in that everyone is allowed to have their "own reality". In this world, there is no such thing as a common reality, and I have seen that an allowance such as that is exceedingly dangerous and is corroding the very foundations of society.

68 posted on 11/22/2021 7:28:51 AM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: rlmorel

Notice that I made no claim that any one person’s “version” is more “valid” than any other persons “version”.

That is not a value judgement. That is just an observation.

That is not “relativism” either.

If we can’t agree about the most basic facts with leftists, it makes it kinda hard to even begin to talk about values.


69 posted on 11/22/2021 7:34:08 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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