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In reply to the discussion: Drones: Do I have a line in the sand? [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)It's funny that you asserted that what I wrote was irrelevant because that is exactly what was going through my mind reading your response. All of what you wrote is irrelevant. The difference is, what you wrote is irrelevant because I understand your position already. Everyone on my side of the issue understands your points and understands where you are coming from. You haven't added anything new to the several dozen times I have heard the anti-drone position explained.
Being progressive is more than having a set position on the issues. It's being able to understand where other people are coming from. Its being able to understand why other people have differing positions particularly when those positions have logic to them. That's regardless of whether the differing opinions come from a different culture or people in your own country.
You asserted my points as being irrelevant not because you considered and rejected them. You refuse to consider them. You refuse to see them for the completely logical points that they are. This is part of the reason why people on your side of the issue cannot convince anyone. You can't pretend that other inconvenient logical arguments don't exist.
In fact, because most people on the anti-drone side have no answer to many if not most of the points I raised and that many others have raised, because you engage in the rhetorical equivalent of a three year old yelling "la la la" at the top of their lungs so that they don't hear something they don't want to hear, it makes it clear to many of us that your position is weak, far too weak to stand up to a calm and thorough examination of all the facts and points of view involved.