I often agree with what are labeled as “liberal” positions on many issues. That doesn’t mean that anyone who identifies as “liberal” suddenly becomes a staunch friend and ally to me. When I personally am involved in a debate and do not feel that I am communicating my own point well, this is the most emotionally involved state that I regularly get into—I tend not to feel so strongly about debates between other people.
I certainly agree that I will have some degree of problems coping with a point that “attacks liberals,” but it seems like a pretty weird hypothesis to say that I will have an equal degree of difficulty seeing biases even in friends as I do in myself. Rational is far, right? And anything that involves me specifically puts me in near mode more than anything else possibly can.
Mind-killed? Yes. I will have to deal with that, I want to deal with that, that’s why I asked for examples. But equally? No way.
Given that you seem to be a liberal, what makes you think you won’t be equally mind-killed by the other examples?
I often agree with what are labeled as “liberal” positions on many issues. That doesn’t mean that anyone who identifies as “liberal” suddenly becomes a staunch friend and ally to me. When I personally am involved in a debate and do not feel that I am communicating my own point well, this is the most emotionally involved state that I regularly get into—I tend not to feel so strongly about debates between other people.
I certainly agree that I will have some degree of problems coping with a point that “attacks liberals,” but it seems like a pretty weird hypothesis to say that I will have an equal degree of difficulty seeing biases even in friends as I do in myself. Rational is far, right? And anything that involves me specifically puts me in near mode more than anything else possibly can.
Mind-killed? Yes. I will have to deal with that, I want to deal with that, that’s why I asked for examples. But equally? No way.