(08-09-2018, 07:49 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(08-08-2018, 02:03 PM)mikesez Wrote: most comments that I make are not directed at you or even at anyone in particular.
As I already said I don't deviate from the top three in Merriam Webster.
it would be a pretty sad and useless discussion if no one was learning anything and no one ever said anything that they later had to back off of.
Republicans used to believe that it was OK to candidly change your mind when presented with new information or possibilities.  I still do.  But now most don't believe that.  So they have two choices.  One is that they can adopt an extremely simplistic worldview, "government bad, letting people do whatever they want good," as you have done.  The other option is to keep their complicated and nuanced point of view, but aggressively deny and counter-accuse if someone catches you changing your mind, as most politicians and pundits do now.

Third option, laugh at folks who put on airs to impress on a message board. And you are so stuck in binary thinking that you have to force other people's worldview and philosophies into your narrow understanding so that you can have all these either/or scenarios you keep pushing in all your conclusions. You talk so much to end up in the same place every time ie everyone else needs to accept your conclusions as gospel.

LOL.  If you think I'm trying to force conclusions on anyone we have a serious misunderstanding.  As often as not I'm asking questions. 
I just described my point of view as adaptable and nuanced and you described it as binary.  Dunno.  Only one of us knows my thoughts.
I know where you're coming from.  I'm not going to change your mind.  You're an "all government bad let me do whatever I want and that would be better" person.  Non-aggression principle and all that.  Apply what you believe about actions to your words to me and I think we'll do a good job of staying out of each other's way.

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