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Originally Posted by jammies
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".
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City Hall refers to more than just council - in fact one of the biggest problems with our this city operates is the city administration. Moreover, the original idea for this whole thing came from a council member...so in that sense it is about how or council operates and come up with these ideas.
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Originally Posted by jammies
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."
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Yes I think it is wrong to assume what the methods were that someone used to arrive at their opinions.