(05-16-2016, 11:27 AM)Bronco80 Wrote: See, to me, the civility of the conversation has to do with the actual meaning of the expression than specific syntax being used. Saying "Donald Trump is lying" and "Donald Trump is peddling bullshit" expresses the same statement. People feel comfort in saying certain words over others, in certain circumstances. Personally, I got far more annoyed back in the day when Glick and playwrite kept tossing around the work "amygdala" to personally insult each other, but I wasn't calling for the word amygdala to be censored.
I'm curious as to why "amygdala" as in "amygdala-dominated thinking" is offensive to you. It is a scientifically-shown phenomenon that gives credence to behavioral differences between those considered to have more conservative than progressive political viewpoints. Here is a good summary and links to several scientific papers on the subject -
http://2012election.procon.org/view.reso...eID=004818
Quote:Differences in Conservative and Liberal Brains
16 peer-reviewed studies show liberals and conservatives physiologically different
For some, it is akin to climate change denial: the science is there but it is perhaps a tad too frightening to grasp that political differences have biological foundations, particularly with the realization that those differences include different preferences for logical versus emotional thought processes and the two poles can only talk past one another.
There is also a value judgement that the amygdala-dominated conservative is operating on a lesser, emotionally-based, paradigm. However, many conservatives actually embrace the difference and see theirs as being the superior thought process particularly in a longer-term survival mode of what they part-in-parcel see are eventual societal catastrophes like a Muslim Brotherhood takeover or a zombie apocalypse. One of the best examples of this is a book on the topic -
"The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics: How Conservative and Liberalism Evolved within Humans"
In that book, an obvious amygdala-dominated tells us the benefit of studly "K-onservative wolfpacks" running roughshod over and culling "promiscuous progressive sheep" that would otherwise drain everyone's resources!
"Amygdala-dominated" is shorthand for a phenomenon that explains much of what we consider contemporary issues, providing a very insightful lens to look at the 4T framework. Perhaps I'll start a thread to better explain it. If the new forum is like the old, there will be reams of examples of the phenomenon