Reply #58: Oh hell no - too many people here are far too self-righteous [View All]

[WildEyedLiberal]

NB: plenty of DUers are great people. Unfortunately, the loud subset whom I like to call "lefty freepers" are so assured of their impeccable logic and reasoning on every single issue that anyone foolish enough to challenge them is condescended to in a very snide and patronizing manner. Read just about any thread on religion here; there are plenty of people who aren't content to say "I don't believe in a god because I see no evidence for one." No, they MUST harangue and browbeat YOU for persisting in your "delusion" because they are "reasonable" and therefore, since you do not believe as they do, you are not, and, being not reasonable, your beliefs are not to be accorded any respect. It's circular logic at best ("You are wrong because I am right, and I am right because I say I am") but that doesn't stop the "progressives." It's not just religion, either; there are a whole host of both political issues and cultural arguments which receive the same unthinking militancy from the same group of self-righteous locksteppers.

The problem isn't that people here hold passionate beliefs about issues. That is a good thing, when done properly. The problem is that too many people here possess no capability for self-reflection and no ability to turn inward and truthfully explore how good-hearted, reasonable people could arrive at a much different conclusion than they. Rather, anyone who disagrees is WRONG - and not just wrong, but stupid, hateful, irrational, a bigot, etc. Such self-righteousness closes the mind and leads to mental atrophy, because it never allows for honest self-reflection or examination of all considered points of view.