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Mark, i appreciate your response. I truly do. I appreciate the honesty and offer of peace. I don't have a problem with you really... i was just posting about the behavior.
We all see things differently... and that's fine. We are supposed to. It is how we are wired. But when take to posting constant derisive and insulting remarks about a group of people that represents 1/2 of the nation,... one that you aren't even a citizen of, you should expect and understand that you are offending those in that group and often turning off those who are more in the middle as well. And when you do it in conjunction with a constant undertone of arrogant superiority (they are dumb and crazy and we're not), then you have to expect people to push back. And you have to expect that people are going to start being equally disrespectful towards you.
It's fine to be biased in ones thinking. We all are. I know I am. I know I see things from a Conservative perspective. I've even taken great pains to read extensively and understand why and how we see things differently as someone that appreciates how the brain works, psychology and so on. To me, its an important part of how a society functions and those bias' are necessary from a standpoint of evolutionary biology. This is complicated to explain, but the punchline is that the best decisions for the groups survival arise from heated debate about anything that matters to the group, not widespread agreement.
Above all things, it used to bother me as a reasonably intelligent person to see that someone is seeing something that I just don't or that I am seeing something that they clearly don't (as happens in conservative/liberal debates) and always felt that an intelligent person should strive to get to the bottom of that and at least make an effort to understand why that is and to be respectful of the other side. After all, our brain employs not only the general bias of liberal/conservative (this is actually rooted in moral decision making and the different weights or values we assign to moral issues), but also a massive number of other cognitive bias'. It's normal to an extent to seek out information that supports a view and instantly dismiss information that challenges it (confirmation bias), its normal to reflexively support an in-group and attack an out-group (basic tribal behaviors) and normal to do 1000 other things that reinforce our bias.
It's fine to be biased. We all are. It's pure insanity to deny that as you have which is really also a way to add a little more venum to your constant attacks. And being biased doesn't mean you have to be obnoxiously disrespectful towards those who do not see things as you do and I keep expecting that you as someone who appreciates science would act in a more mature manner and be more appreciative of views that challenge your own and use every interaction as a learning experience, and not be the one acting out day in and day out, completely mystified and embittered that people think and perceive things differently.
It's all good. I'll be nice for as long as you are.
current date and time: 5/11/2015, 4:50pm Central. Lets see how long it lasts.
peace ;)
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