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Originally Posted by Izzibeth
I think the "liberals" that are defined in articles like these are almost non-existant. This is not the average viewpoint of someone who is of liberal mind-set.
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This isn't actually an article. It's a bit from one of his books. A book I doubt you'll ever be interested in reading.
Anyways, he's not talking about certain liberals. He's talking about the general differences in the respective conceptions of the nature of man, the nature of the world, and the nature of causation, knowledge, power, and justice. The general differences between them and people who are more conservative.
These general differences of thought and analysis apply to MOST on BOTH sides. That you've failed to understand the actual underlying topic of this bit from a book of his, isn't really of any interest to me. If you'd like to dismiss what is written as "not really about anybody that exists" then I suppose there's not much more required of you.
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Originally Posted by Izzibeth
Those are the thoughts of extremists on the liberal side. (Believe it or not, there are also extremists on the conservative side). This generalization of liberals is false. Plain and simple. If you want to call Extreme Liberalism a mental disorder, I will agree. Just as I will agree if you want to say anyone who is anything to the extreme is suffering from some form of mental disorder (extremism is VERY rarely a good thing).
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You say:
Those are the thoughts of extremists on the liberal side.
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This generalization of liberals is false.
But offer nothing about how you came to the conclusions you CAME to.
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Originally Posted by Izzibeth
So.... I suppose in a way I agree. Do not let extremists run the country. Extreme Liberals, Extreme Conservatives, Extreme Christians, Extreme Buddhists (hehe... though I think those are nearly impossible to find.. or at least any that would try to run a country)... etc. But also don't go defining a whole group of people by those extremists you'll find. Their voices may be the loudest but they do not speak for everyone.
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Very good. You're against extremeists as are most of us. I offered the writing to possibly stimilate discussion on the PARTICULARS of the writing itself and what is said in it. You manage to skate right past much of it by dismissing it as mostly against a few extremeists and not worth making much MORE note of. If you aren't interested in discussing what is said there's not much more to DO I guess. We seem to agree in general terms on everything ELSE so .......................