[extropy-chat] Gay marriage in Spain, a world of change

[Bret Kulakovich]

I try to do it, to understand where people are coming from. Honestly  
it scares me sometimes, I see someone I respect or at least suspect  
of intelligence and they have an incompatible opinion. "Playing  
things out" - can help especially when wanting to explain your side  
to people who of the opposite opinion.

]3


On Jul 23, 2005, at 11:25 PM, Samantha Atkins wrote:

> Perhaps.  I don't find arguing positions I do not hold a  
> particularly fruitful activity.  At least not publicly.  It seems  
> to be too easily arguing as mere sport without really saying what  
> you hold to be true.   I have little patience for such.
>
> - samantha
>
>
> On Jul 23, 2005, at 6:38 PM, Bret Kulakovich wrote:
>
>>
>> Thank you David, for this and your earlier post. Very refreshing.
>>
>> ]3
>>
>>
>> On Jul 23, 2005, at 2:48 PM, David Lubkin wrote:
>>
>>> That I present a position does not mean that I either agree with  
>>> it or do not. That was, in fact, a central theme of what I *was*  
>>> saying -- I don't start from the premise that people who have  
>>> different concerns or conclusions than I do are necessarily  
>>> stupid, evil, or wrong. Rather, that there are viewpoints other  
>>> than my own that are worth understanding, considering, and taking  
>>> into account. And that, in most everything I believe to be true,  
>>> I may in fact be wrong. Viz., extropian principle 7 --
>>
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