The bottom line here is that you all like calling people who disagree with you "idiots."
Being good smart people, you're constructing a series of rationales that justify this behavior. The writer above, for example, essentially is saying, "Idiotarians are people who deliberately chose wrong over right." Naturally such people deserve only scorn. And their behavior would indeed be a perversity if it worked like that, but I have news for you:
It doesn't.
The people you disagree with think they're right. And they may be right. But that isn't important to this crowd; you're sure that you're right and they're idiots and so you call them "idiotarians," taking a smug, and dare I say resentful, satisfaction in your rhetorical bravery.
So here's what you should do: give up this flimsy pseudo-rationalism and go down to your local campus or your lefty bookstore and just shout, "You're all a bunch of god-damn idiots!" Go ahead. Roll in it. When someone asks you why, answer, "Because you're wrong!" If you think, like the guy at the top, that this makes them evil, go ahead and squeeze off a few rounds on 'em.
You know you want it. You do. You really, really do. That's what this is about. And that last guy is right - resentment is at the core of this - the smug bile of a bunch of wannabe supermen (and women) who feel that only the lilliputian minds of their fellow citizens prevent the arrival of The Good, The Just, and The Perfect.
I used to have a friend who would joke, "the world would be a great place if not for all the stupid people." That's the level that this debate operates at - without the joke.
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Listen, cats:
The bottom line here is that you all like calling people who disagree with you "idiots."
Being good smart people, you're constructing a series of rationales that justify this behavior. The writer above, for example, essentially is saying, "Idiotarians are people who deliberately chose wrong over right." Naturally such people deserve only scorn. And their behavior would indeed be a perversity if it worked like that, but I have news for you:
It doesn't.
The people you disagree with think they're right. And they may be right. But that isn't important to this crowd; you're sure that you're right and they're idiots and so you call them "idiotarians," taking a smug, and dare I say resentful, satisfaction in your rhetorical bravery.
So here's what you should do: give up this flimsy pseudo-rationalism and go down to your local campus or your lefty bookstore and just shout, "You're all a bunch of god-damn idiots!" Go ahead. Roll in it. When someone asks you why, answer, "Because you're wrong!" If you think, like the guy at the top, that this makes them evil, go ahead and squeeze off a few rounds on 'em.
You know you want it. You do. You really, really do. That's what this is about. And that last guy is right - resentment is at the core of this - the smug bile of a bunch of wannabe supermen (and women) who feel that only the lilliputian minds of their fellow citizens prevent the arrival of The Good, The Just, and The Perfect.
I used to have a friend who would joke, "the world would be a great place if not for all the stupid people." That's the level that this debate operates at - without the joke.