Political Constructs and Demonstrating the Irrationality of them.
You realize that when you say you are "Left Wing" or "Right Wing" or "Centre" you aren't actually ascribing to a political framework built up on reason. You are actually ascribing yourself to being a round peg to fit in a round hole and not to fit in a square hole; to being a social construct, and product of the system in which you live in.
For example: Let us take Republicans and Democrats. Supposedly "Right Wing" and "Left Wing".
How do you convince left wingers that Abortion (molecular infanticide) is "ok" and should be up to "choice" but capital punishment for child killers isn't "ok". How so? It's easy.
Before I go on, I'd like to address those who do not think Abortion is molecular infanticide to refer to the logical fallacy of "line-drawing":
Line-Drawing Fallacy: Insisting that a line must be drawn at some precise point when in fact it is not necessary that such a precise line be drawn.
A 3 year old isn't less of human being because he is 3 years old. A zygote is not less of a human being. A sperm or egg is not a zygote. 2 month old zygote/fetus, is not less of human being simply because of its development.
An acorn is a different life form, so it is not a comparable analogy.
A skin cell is nothing like a zygote, don't compare those either.
Anyway.
This doesn't require a whole lot of logical arithmetic to illustrate that Left Wing and Right wing aren't based on reason.
Pro-choice and anti-capital punishment are two conflicting social stances. It is ok to kill the unborn? But not those who were born and took the lives of others born? Huh?
Its because Left and Right are made up social constructs nailed into your head by the media non-stop. You know the lines, you know the stances, but they are arbitrary and often void of logic. Yet many of you ascribe to a social construct, firmly believing you are following it because it makes perfect sense to you, and that you follow it because you are a rational and free-thinking individual.
A republican example: Strong emphasis on Freedom of belief, yet ascribe a lot of importance to the religious dominion that the candidate belongs to.
Intelligence in this world is bottled necked. It takes one who is a critical thinker to discern reality. Most of you are in denial about it. Calling me a Tin Hat conspiracy theorist makes sleeping at night easier. I don’t believe in anything, unless it has logical merit.
Here is a slight summary of what a lot of threads on this board start off as:
1st poster: “Here is a link and a summary to what my elitist owned socially manipulating news source says about something. I have rarely looked into the matter, but I will argue with anyone who disagrees to what my political construct dictates how I should feel about said news source”
2nd poster: “Oh yea, well my political construct dictates something opposite to your political construct, and my elitist owned socially manipulating news source says something different about the matter!”
Then proceeds a superfluous argument.
What was accomplished? Nothing much.
I don’t wish to bite off more than I can chew with this thread so I’ll make it short for tl;dr people.
Chances are, you believe in a system of politics/economy that you actually know little about. Chances are that you are a parrot for political sources/people. Chances are that your view of the world around you is extremely rigid and not subject to scrutiny, interpretation, or flexibility.
Glory to those who critically think, and never state a claim as preposterous without subjecting it to logical and rational scrutiny.
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Originally Posted by Realpolitik
