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Friday, January 07, 2022

So close...

Sometimes you can have an awful lot of brains and still come to some pretty dumb conclusions.
I know of no more definitive expression of stupidity than proudly professing a total inability to understand an opponent’s position on a controversial issue. That a fetus is an integral part of a woman’s body and thus under her sovereign moral control, that a fetus is a form of human life entitled to certain protections, that in a world where maniacs go around shooting schoolchildren it’s a good idea to get rid of guns, that in a world where maniacs go around shooting schoolchildren it’s a good idea to get a gun—“I simply can’t understand how anyone can think like that.” Really? Can’t agree with it, sure. Can’t accept its basic premises, fine. But can’t understand it? And yet I catch myself saying this all the time, and what is more, I think I might be telling the truth. Because after a while the refusal to understand becomes the inability to understand.
When an article starts out like that, I have hope, but for the rest of the piece the writer bats not much over .500, at least in my estimation. As a certain serially-inept real estate magnate would say, "Sad!"

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Posted by Tam @ 11:18 AM
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