The Left Loses Again!

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...All of these unthinking, brain-dead dumbasses are nothing if not entertaining - it's like watching
a slow motion train wreck, with Hillary pulling the train... take that last comment any way you like!

I agree and this is what I mean by the expression 'dumbing-down' and quickly add that my comment isn't
in regards of Ninurta's fine counterpoints!

A point of view is just that, a rational suggestion based on grounded, mature evidence which improves lives for both
parties. If a contradicting view is offered, this must also have equal -if not better evidence to negate the former.
Negotiation where sacrifices of parts of both opinions are discarded and accepted, can bring about an agreed
compromise.

And that's it! No emotional platitudes or insincere pleadings for unsaid reasons that only benefits one party, that's
the act of a dishonourable person and undeveloped children. This might seem nieve to some reading this, but the
benchmark of a civilised discourse must be high to reach a sensible agreement.

That's why there's hardly any worthy politicians in current official positions. To deceive is to 'get away with it' -instead
of pointing out a missed opportunity to counter a claim. We've been indoctrinated to win only, when serious problem
-solving isn't a competition, it's arriving at a place where -hopefully, everyone succeeds.

Some might suggest lawyers decieve and they do. But it's done in a form of broaching, an manipulative act to draw
out information that may enhance their client's claims. It's subtle, but it falls within an agreed framework of ethics to
acquire neutral justice.

Free speech is just that, every legal citizen of a country where free speech is held to a high standard can lie... it's not
noble or principled, but it occurs because it's deemed necessary to win an argument. The deliberate use of falsehood
carries none of the highborn ideals that we currently pretend we possess in debate forums and therefore, we struggle
in a mire of ego-caressing bickering.

That's where 'Fake News' resides in regards of the media. As long as it doesn't defame an individual, an article can be
created from nothing and be just a Trojan horse to display a preferred message.
Truth is a creature rarely fed, these days!

The two decades-old (maybe more?!) conditioning of beating your opponent at any cost doesn't work in a social-control
setting. A law is created after all the facts are in and not by looking from one angle.

To ignore a binding accordance because it doesn't suit a personal purpose is to trespass on a majority's claim for reasons
that only benefit the minority. When forming laws, that minority has already been considered and baked into the whole ruling.
In a mature world, such an act of ignoring that a known law is to leave the forum of civil conduct.
One might even say, behave like a child.

Of course there's arguments for and against a subject and of course, one may find themselves on the ropes in a discussion
through lack of fact-diligence, but it's not a competition. You don't win or lose in a problem-solving situation, you just succeed
or fail to solve the problem.

To offer another side to that, 'winning' peace through strength isn't a bullying tactic either, it's a nuanced reminder from a force
more powerful than oneself that obliteration doesn't benefit either party and there are better roads to global welfare and emotive
harmony.

We're currently wallowing in ratings-hungry media misstatements and ten-word political pharisaicalness. The laws of a land
are to be upheld to protect a nation's contents and the safety of those within and outside that land. To suggest otherwise is the
act of an uneducated trickster who revels in using virtues has chess-pieces and carry no prudence.

Some say that within the movie 'The Godfather' resides all the wisdom one needs to be a well-formed adult.
In this case of mewling outrages of shallow conversation, Michael Corleone's quote to his brother might be in order.
"...It's not personal. It's strictly business".

Basically speaking, it means the grizzled Woods-Runner is right again.