[ExI] Costs of the Roads Not Taken

Jef Allbright jef at jefallbright.net
Fri Jul 27 14:32:36 UTC 2007


On 7/27/07, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:

> I can hardly think of anything that at this point seems more a waste
> of my time than debating the merits of the Iraq war, and so I won't.
> Here I'm only  replying because of nature of your over-the-top
> response, which is of psychological interest.
...

> I can only serve this up as an illustration of absurd narrowmindedness:
> How is it, I wonder to myself, that people become so wrapped up
> in the conviction of the correctness of their own opinions---a form
> of bigotry, really---that they begin to seriously entertain the idea that
> those who disagree with them must not be sincere.

Fascinating...

- Jef



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