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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
The reason people object to this because it is yet another example of the flawed mindset and poor decision making that is continually happening at City Hall right now. There's a lot more examples and people are tired of it.
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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
That's a pretty poor representation of a lot of the arguments being put forth.
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Maybe I'm misreading what you said in the first quote, but perhaps you can explain to me how a "another example of a flawed mindset and poor decision making that is continually happening at City Hall right now" is not refuted by "city council actually doesn't have anything to do with road closures".
It's very simple. Any citizen could've had the road closed if that person had a mind to. That it was Druh reflects only on her, and not the City or the City's methods.
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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
As for your signature - I recognize that other people have put thought and reason into their opinions whether or not I agree with it. I wouldn't be so arrogant to assume that someone didn't "reason themselves into their opinion.".
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I have plenty of opinions that I haven't necessarily based on anything logical either. Everyone does. Arrogance would be thinking that because I - or anyone else - has an opinion, that it's necessarily an informed or valid one.
As far as other people's opinions go, the only thing I can evaluate them upon is whether or not they are susceptible to reasonable argument - if the answer to a refutation is merely repeating that argument or varying its wording, is it wrong to assume that the opinion in question is therefore not based upon reason, but rather emotion, prejudice, or ideology? I don't think it is - one of the great failings of our culture is that "everyone deserves to be heard" is interpreted as "everyone has something worth saying."