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

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jul 24, 2005, at 11:21 AM, David Lubkin wrote:

> Bret wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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> I'm surprised that anyone here would question its value, as  
> Samantha did. It is an extraordinarily useful skill, beyond its  
> value in detecting error in your own viewpoint.
>

I question try intellectualizing of living issues of real people that  
leads more to head tripping one another than to understanding or  
wisdom.  That is a bit different from questioning the value of seeing  
multiple viewpoints which I in fact esteem highly.

- samantha
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