Saturday, September 26, 2015

This explains much-----Liberals Are Done Debating

Liberals Are Done Debating - Reason.com:
This week, for example, while thinking about the pope's take on global warming, I tweeted out this comment:
"Celebrate climate change, an externality of the greatest poverty destroying program in the history of mankind." 
There is plenty to disagree with in my observation, I admit.
Although I believe what I wrote to be true, I sent it out partly to elicit exactly the sort of reaction my tweet got—with one person calling me a psychopath (a Slate writer, not some anonymous critic) and another calling me sociopathic, among other things.
I don't mind the insults (perversely, in fact, I sort of enjoy them), but I do mind that the debate is over.
...When a group confuses its politics with moral doctrine, it may have trouble comprehending how a decent human could disagree with its positions.
This is probably why people confuse lecturing with debating and why so many liberals can bore into the deepest nooks of my soul to ferret out all those motivations but can't waste any time arguing about the issue itself.
Are you also corrupt?
Probably.
Bought off by big oil, big food or big something or other?
Washington is teeming with Manchurian candidates, because no one could possibly be this malicious on his own.
Why should liberals debate a point when they can debate your imaginary sugar daddy?
Why else would conservatives "hate workers"?
Why would they "bet against America"?
Why do they want to destroy democracy?
Why would conservatives vote against their own interests?
Someone pays them to lie.
...You're not in favor of a cost-benefit analysis when it comes to climate change policy; you're anti-science.
Skeptic.
Denier.
Psychopath.
Why do you hate Earth?
...Or maybe you can't see things clearly because you're hooked to the most addictive opiate imaginable, religion—which, let's face it, you probably don't properly understand or adhere to correctly.
Here, let them tell you what Jesus would do...
What conservatives (and some libertarians) possess are not arguments but corrupt and nefarious ambitions. 
Defend yourself.
What you can't possibly have are legitimate differences of opinion.

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