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randome

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7. For one thing...

Reply to patrice (Reply #4)

Sun Jul 15, 2012, 10:06 PM

Jul 2012

...if we insist on calling them 'evil' or 'stupid', they will only react more obnoxiously. Those kind of labels will not 'calm' them, if that's possible.

I'm glad Obama is not all 'blood and brimstone' with them. I think because he knows they will never go away. Therefore, the only thing to do, no matter how difficult, is find ways to turn them into fully functioning -or just better functioning- representatives of the country.

It's a slow process but it's the only thing that will work outside of public executions.

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I don't get why it matters one way or the other what we think, positive or negative, without patrice Jul 2012 #1

I don't know. randome Jul 2012 #3

Yes. So there are questions about what those understandings are about, what are the cardinal traits patrice Jul 2012 #4

For one thing... randome Jul 2012 #7

I think there is this instinct for freedom, because freedom serves one's ability to adapt patrice Jul 2012 #19

I think sometimes you are right. randome Jul 2012 #2

True. But it is also true that at some point you DO have to take that gamble. It is important to me patrice Jul 2012 #5

I'm not trying to belittle anyone who has faith in someone else. randome Jul 2012 #9

Precisely. No matter how high the odds are, they're still only a probability, so you don't really patrice Jul 2012 #11

NO!!!! nt valerief Jul 2012 #6

Yeah. Igel Jul 2012 #18

Some people are prone to hero worship Warpy Jul 2012 #8

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you got some good responses in that thread, nothing RWish at all Enrique Jul 2012 #12

I think about two thirds of the people here suffer from that syndrome. Poll_Blind Jul 2012 #13

1+++ patrice Jul 2012 #22

In a word, yes. 11 Bravo Jul 2012 #14

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Likely. turtlerescue1 Jul 2012 #16

Without a doubt RegieRocker Jul 2012 #17

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