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Originally Posted by **********
And no I don't agree that they are 2 sides to the same coin. I think it is easy to think that, but looking closer into things and people reveals interesting and important differences.
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Of course you don't agree.
Why would any reasonable person to expect you to agree?
You've joined a team.
You love your team.
You let it be known, day in and day out.
You wear the colors.
You wave the flag.
You proudly sing the team fight song.
You proudly parrot and recycle all the same tired cliche's and jokes targeting the other team and pick of 1-2 easy targets to malign 100,000,000 or more people and think you are doing a service to others.
You look at the good of your team and ignore the bad.
You look at the bad of the other team and ignore the good.
You are incapable of admitting you are biased towards your views just as those on the opposite side of the spectrum from you are. You have only reluctantly conceded that you are liberal after fervently denying any bias at all. Even then, you admit to being on one side, but deny being biased - and any child could pick apart that logic. And the fact that you can attempt to argue that you've chosen one side, then arguing that you aren't biased towards that side shows how immature you are in your thinking.
You believe those on the opposite side are just "dumb" or "ignorant" or "crazy" because that is all you can conclude being that you are blissfully unaware of the fact that you only see part of the picture to begin with, which of course, makes the other side seem odd and irrational... never once considering that its your own inability to take a step back, open your mind, open your eyes and accept that you are just as flawed as everyone else in your reasoning and to train yourself to see and understand the other side of every argument, or other views and their merits.
You are nothing more than a tiny cog in a machine playing out your inconsequential role for your team and fulfilling your genetic mandate and basic human behavior... to put the tribe and its beliefs first and reject other tribes and their beliefs. Your denial of that fact is exactly what you are expected to do. When everyone questions the tribe, the tribe becomes weakened. It's not your fault though... its how we are designed as human beings from many many eons of successful evolutionary adaptation which has set homo sapiens apart from apes and other failed lines of ancestors.