George Rebane
This marks the start of a new series on Ruminations which will seek to shed light on the profound differences between the conservative and liberal views of the world, reasoning about human behavior, and prescriptions on how we should best live together. Specifically we will examine the liberal mind to understand its wonders and workings. These posts will be filed in the new category of ‘The Liberal Mind’.
In recent weeks I have been taken to task for both not revealing the causes to which I contribute my personal funds, and for revealing from what sources others receive funds for their personal benefit. In the discussions surrounding both cases, it was made clear to me by several liberals that both cases are equivalent. In other words Case A and Case B as shown in the figure above are equivalent in the liberal view of the world. And being so, both come under the same rules of disclosure when the parties in Cases A and B meet for public discourse. Furthermore, there is no differentiation if the person receiving funds gets those funds from tax-payer or public sources, they are still equal.
I hope that these little vignettes and illustrations will serve to illuminate a good portion of why progressives and conservatives more often than not talk past each other, and have so little respect for each other’s reasoning faculties. Forewarned is forearmed – wish I would have known about this one. And now you know how and when to gird your loins.
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