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Originally Posted by longsuffering
I see an interesting dynamic in this thread. Slava on the centre-left, making patient, rational arguments.
Meanwhile the posters representing the right continually resort to name calling and personal attacks.
Is the right incapable of polite, rational argument or has it's culture devolved to the point where civil debate is impossible?
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I think everyone views their own beliefs as being more rational than others. Whether or not Slava's arguements are in fact rational and make sense depend on whether you buy into the assumptions that underpin them.
The problem where polite arguement goes out the window is when one starts labelling people who believe in certain beliefs as espousing certain other characteristics outside of said beliefs. In this case you try to describe centre-left personalities as virtuous and right wing personalities as vicious. I find your quoted post as doing nothing to support civility but rather supporting and taking part in the very culture you are lamenting.