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Originally Posted by sgtlethargic
Perhaps you didn't see or read the paragraph after that one? And, you expect me to decipher and counter all of freebeard's ~stuff?
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I did, and it didn't address freebeard's comment with regards to what was wrong about it.
I'll give an example of how a good-faith person disagrees with someone. You quote the part you might disagree with;
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Originally Posted by freebeard
I've been thinking about what distinguishes Left and Right. It used to be anti-war and free speech vs lawn odor; but those qualifiers have been reversed.
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It was the right that was against the Vietnam war, as evidenced by Republican senator Mark Hatfield's opposition, and it was Democratic president LBJ that massively escalated involvement. The left was the party concerned with law and order, as evidenced by Democrat McTough O'crimey, and the right was soft on crime as evidenced by Republican Givem Anotherchance (I got no Google results on that search).
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So I think it comes down to collective vs sovereign.
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More fundamentally, it comes down to two of the Big Five traits in psychology of Neuroticism and Conscientiousness.