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Offline CC27

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What if you're wrong? Will you cop to it?
« on: December 22, 2009, 08:16:34 AM »
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What if you're wrong? Will you cop to it?
   
If you support the legislation and it turns out not to improve things, will you cop to that?
If you oppose it and it does improve things, will you cop to that?

The reason I ask is that a lot of people here seem to become so entrenched in their positions that they can't change them even in the light of new information.

Big bonfire.

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Re: What if you're wrong? Will you cop to it?
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2009, 08:33:01 AM »
What a bunch of retards.  There are a few good comments strewn in there - such as the dawning realization by some that this socialist nightmare is going to empower the IRS to give them each a yearly fisting - but then there are way too many idiotic comments like the following:
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madokie  (1000+ posts)      Tue Dec-22-09 08:53 AM
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27. I take pride in having the ability to change as I gain new knowledge
 You have to believe in something to ever be anything but you also must keep an open mind as to what you believe in and change as needed.

I think we've found Obama's DU sock-puppet - or at the very least his speech-writer's sock-puppet!
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Re: What if you're wrong? Will you cop to it?
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2009, 08:55:41 AM »
Quote from: Oceander on December 22, 2009, 08:33:01 AM
I think we've found Obama's DU sock-puppet - or at the very least his speech-writer's sock-puppet!

Maybe it's TOTUS!  :-)
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Re: What if you're wrong? Will you cop to it?
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2009, 10:09:54 AM »
It seems like a growing group, if not the majority there, are against this bill now.  Telling huh?
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Re: What if you're wrong? Will you cop to it?
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2009, 10:24:11 AM »
Quote from: djones520 on December 22, 2009, 10:09:54 AM
It seems like a growing group, if not the majority there, are against this bill now.  Telling huh?

There was a thread yesterday over there about how the progressive lefties may have to join forces with the TEA Party forces to fight this bill.  They hate it for different reasons, but the objections are still there.
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Re: What if you're wrong? Will you cop to it?
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2009, 10:35:25 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on December 22, 2009, 10:24:11 AM
There was a thread yesterday over there about how the progressive lefties may have to join forces with the TEA Party forces to fight this bill.  They hate it for different reasons, but the objections are still there.

Even though there's a lot of conservatives who hate the idea of doing that, I think that this saying applies:

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.  Even if only temporarily.
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Re: What if you're wrong? Will you cop to it?
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2009, 10:11:16 PM »
More evidence (as if it were needed) that the left strictly adheres to a teleological ethic: the morality of an action is determined solely by its consequences. (Which is a bit ironic, given that so many of them seem not to even realize that their actions have consequences.)

The very notion that there could exist some moral compass other than utilitarianism, continues to elude them.
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Re: What if you're wrong? Will you cop to it?
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2009, 10:25:08 PM »
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madokie  (1000+ posts)      Tue Dec-22-09 08:53 AM
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27. I take pride in having the ability to change as I gain new knowledge
 You have to believe in something to ever be anything but you also must keep an open mind as to what you believe in and change as needed. Now let's all join hands and sing Kumbaya to Gaia.
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