02-14-2018, 05:52 AM
(02-10-2018, 07:18 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: There's no doubt that some on the blue side can be dogmatic and narrow-minded, and most others like me are pretty well determined in a lot of our opinions, based on real concerns and important ideals, even though we can understand opinions from other sides and know their mistakes and concerns. Most of the dogma on the left probably comes from the identity politics element, such as militant feminists who can't consider any compromise of the abortion issue. Sometimes I find the anti-war element to be so determined in their opposition to USA militarism that they can't conceive that any military action or support carried out by the USA can be anything but wrong. It's like the familiar right-wing phrase as been altered to mean "my country, is always wrong." There are probably others on the left like this as well.
Hmm... I don't blame the ladies for making the abortion or abuse problems important. I do not blame them for being dogmatic in that other people are using their privilege to oppress. Always have. Always will?
And I can see those who say war is terrible, no matter how good the justification. It is organized murder, after all. I would at least ask Powell's questions, not assume it would be easy, and be unsure that all implications can be seen without 20 20 hindsight. Then again, claiming a country is always wrong or claiming war is never justified is extreme.
In general, it is easy to become dogmatic. It is easy to say a problem shall be solved, or to ask why a culture has never solved a problem before. Why now? It is easy to see the other guy as dogmatic, and one's self as having an abundance of common sense.
It is harder to see the other way around.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.