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[dancingguy]

Report: 60 Million People You'd Never Talk To Voting For Other Guy
BOSTON-According to an eye-opening report released Tuesday, 60 million people whom you would never talk to, would never be in a position to talk to, and wouldn't even be able to talk to if you tried will be voting for the other candidate in this year's presidential election, and

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[brookswift]

"The report maintained that, during your purely hypothetical discussion, both of you would come off as smug, narrow-minded, or downright ignorant if you tried to criticize the other candidate's positions on key issues such as abortion and gay rights. The ensuing argument would only further cement both of your feelings of disgust toward the other candidate

[dancingguy]

What if life starts at 4 weeks (first "brain" activity)? Or when the ultrasound first "looks human"? It's not just "conception or nothing."

But good luck finding people willing to have that discussion with you.

:-(

[brookswift]

well, then we have the various compromises of things like no abortion after week x (such as the many bans of third trimester abortion). The point is that one extreme believes that life begins at conception, another extreme believes it starts at birth. The middle ground there is quite murky.

I know, I find that most do not want to sit down and really learn about their own basic beliefs and what implications those might have.

[terpsichoros]

"You can, however, have an intelligent and respectful discussion. It just takes patience, respect for another's beliefs, and an understanding of where they are coming from."

My experience has been that the lack of the latter disproves the former. In particular, the abortion issue has become a shouting match between two sets of religious extremists, neither of which is willing to grant humanity to the other side.