Reply #75: Yes, a huge gray area.

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However, a few are unwilling to even consider that possibility for one reason or another.
There was a Berkeley study a couple years ago that revealed that one identifiable difference between liberals and conservatives, is that liberals are more comfortable with ambiguity and that conservatives tend to categorize concepts in black and white fashion:

Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include:

* Fear and aggression
* Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
* Uncertainty avoidance
* Need for cognitive closure
* Terror management
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This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes, the researchers advised.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml

I bring that up as some counterpoint to those who launch ad hominems ('you're not a real progressive' or worse) against others who would simply like to see any evidence for the common yet extreme claim that rape never has anything to do with sex. www.nononsenseselfdefense.de/german/bonding_process.html

Given the subject matter, it's not surprising that the discussions can become very heated, but it's troubling that some enter the discussions heated and unreasonable at the onset.