A value (actually values) that I find in these commentaries is both your studied thoughts on matters of controversy and the thoughts of other readers. This is not the often-hostile environment found in other places.
I don't view these conversations as a debate I am trying to win. Sometime discovering that I am wrong is a big win if it inc…
A value (actually values) that I find in these commentaries is both your studied thoughts on matters of controversy and the thoughts of other readers. This is not the often-hostile environment found in other places.
I don't view these conversations as a debate I am trying to win. Sometime discovering that I am wrong is a big win if it includes a better understanding of something for me.
I often give background information about how and why I came to a conclusion, which has little to nothing to do with a universal truth or correctness. I am as interested in why presumably intelligent people hold views that I may see as fabulous as their views. Links to studies can be informative, but they are also often annoying when they are an appeal to authority via conclusions that support their view so they "win." You can find a study to support any view. They often confuse opinions and conclusions about data with facts.
I think that one of the things at the root of all this is that people wrap their identity with their beliefs which are often more about belonging to a tribe than their personal honest beliefs.
The queen? An apparently nice lady who dutifully performed in a position not of her own choosing with grace. That was both good and bad. if she had openly been an asshole the monarchy might have already collapsed. As an American I wouldn't find that disturbing. The UK already has an incredibly asinine system of government where you vote for the ultimate evil, a political party to rule over you. But then in the US the "vote blue no matter who" and its "never vote for a lunatic leftist" evil twin demonstrates that what we call democracy is basically the same steaming pile of crap with a buzzard vomit topping.
A value (actually values) that I find in these commentaries is both your studied thoughts on matters of controversy and the thoughts of other readers. This is not the often-hostile environment found in other places.
I don't view these conversations as a debate I am trying to win. Sometime discovering that I am wrong is a big win if it includes a better understanding of something for me.
I often give background information about how and why I came to a conclusion, which has little to nothing to do with a universal truth or correctness. I am as interested in why presumably intelligent people hold views that I may see as fabulous as their views. Links to studies can be informative, but they are also often annoying when they are an appeal to authority via conclusions that support their view so they "win." You can find a study to support any view. They often confuse opinions and conclusions about data with facts.
I think that one of the things at the root of all this is that people wrap their identity with their beliefs which are often more about belonging to a tribe than their personal honest beliefs.
The queen? An apparently nice lady who dutifully performed in a position not of her own choosing with grace. That was both good and bad. if she had openly been an asshole the monarchy might have already collapsed. As an American I wouldn't find that disturbing. The UK already has an incredibly asinine system of government where you vote for the ultimate evil, a political party to rule over you. But then in the US the "vote blue no matter who" and its "never vote for a lunatic leftist" evil twin demonstrates that what we call democracy is basically the same steaming pile of crap with a buzzard vomit topping.