Do you feel that people who support a military strike against Syria are necessarily bad people?

[el_bryanto]

2 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	They are certainly bad people
	0 (0%)
	They are probably bad people
	0 (0%)
	It depends on their rationale
	1 (50%)
	There's no way to know
	0 (0%)
	They might well be right
	1 (50%)
	They are right
	0 (0%)
	Only a very bad person could support this bullshit poll!
	0 (0%)
	I like to vote!
	0 (0%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. It would be nice if we could give each other the benefit of the doubt

There is a world of difference between a fundamentally evil person and a misguided one.

[treestar]

2. More challenging would be

1 - not jumping to conclusions about other people
2 - asking whether gassing people with chemicals makes one a "bad" person.

[cali]

3. how about an option for "no"?

in fact, I think that at least as far as DUers go, they're not bad people at all. I think supporting bombing Syria out of outrage over the gas attacks is "idiot compassion"- which by the way doesn't have anything to do with anyone being an idiot- or that they're supporting it because they trust the President.

[Scuba]

4. Bad, dumb, misguided.... there's lots of possibilities.

[agent46]

5. Good people bad people

John Kerry is a good person? Obama is a good person? People who support a military strike on Syria just happen to like war a lot and they are bad people? Or are they really just misguided good people?

Are we actually operating on such a childish binary moral level? No wonder Americans get fooled by every scam the government and corporate marketers pull out of their asses to get the public to go along.

[woo me with science]

6. So many of these posts lately.

Interesting.

[el_bryanto]

7. Elucidate? nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. What do you think the agendas of these posters are?/nt

[Junkdrawer]

9. A known minority making themselves, unsuccessfully, out to be a majority....

and mourning the loss of any disguise.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. Could you please elaborate?

I have been coming here for over ten years and I have never been mistaken about whether my views were consistent with the majority or minority on any given issue. I would have to be non compos mentis not to know.

[Junkdrawer]

12. I wasn't addressing you....

odd you should take it that way.

[el_bryanto]

13. Textbook. "I didn't mean to accuse you of course, but your questioning of it proves your guilt." nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. I'm bored. What I am guilty of?

Divining what the majority and minority opinion on any given issue is.

[el_bryanto]

17. I'm just commenting on the technique used - not its validity

It's used by a lot of passive aggressive people who want to make accusations but don't want to suffer any consequences. I'm sure you are a quite a lovely person.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. Why, thank you/nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. I'm more confused now.

Are you suggesting that a reasonably informed person couldn't divine where the majority and minority of DU members fall on any given issue?

[Douglas Carpenter]

10. no, most people who supported the Vietnam War or the Iraq War - were not necessarily bad people

in most cases - they were and are just uninformed and naive

[David__77]

16. It depends on if they are unwitting dupes or consciously evil.

The former is not bad at all. That's handled by education.

[whatchamacallit]

18. Misguided. n/t

[Iggo]

20. They're wrong.

Good, bad...don't matter.