The virtue of faith:
So, sadly, I don't think the execution of Troy Davis will have much effect on the national "conversation" about the morality of capital punishment or the glaring flaws in America's system of justice. Because while it's very reasonable to argue that "we" should only kill someone if we're really, really, really sure they did it, the modern American conservative is really, really, really sure about everything.As in, not a virtue.
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I have faith that thou shalt always be able to striketh down a strawman. Verily.
So, was Troy Davis guilty? If so, you're sure of that how, exactly?
Conservatives are sure about everything? strawguy FTW
Yet you can't offer a counterexample that suggests even the feeblest skepticism of Limbaughism.
a challenge? Or a prediction of your own response? Yea dverily other seeds fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.
Fail.
There are a few who are called conservatives that are really really really sure about everything, so you're not wrong in what you posted. I think what your readers are objecting to is that many others who are called conservatives are actually quite open-minded about a lot of things - at least compared to a few that are called liberals; you can find close-minded people in all camps.
Pareene is of course generalizing, and few if any generalizations about a large population are universal. The modern American conservative can seldom be engaged rationally. They have certitude that wins out psychologically in their minds over reason. That is the cultural fact that will be responsible for the death of the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders.
You must begin with premises acceptable to a liberal to engage. Hence the post.
How can you pack so much wrong into two sentences? Are you a savant idiot?
It's analysis and explanation we're already engaged about.
No matter how conservative you are, you're not entitled to your own facts.
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