From our perspective of hindsight it looks like emotion. From theirs it was an intelligent decision. They all provided hundreds of millions of collective man-hours ‘reasoned discourse’ describing in detail why their choice was correct and ours was wrong.
Where I think we differ is that I believe -liberals- don’t have ‘intelligence’ to begin with. Sure some of them remember to use toilet paper when wiping. But these are people that throw logic to the wind every time a liberal introduces the current truth to their worldview. History begins every morning when they awake and they run from ‘crisis’ to ‘crisis’ all while proclaiming they have the way the truth and the light. And they CANNOT be taught. By us at least.
I agree there is emotion involved. But they have no intelligence to keep it in check. It’s like an ongoing 2 min. hate from 1984 with these ‘people’ (and I use that term in only the broadest sine since they belong in cages, bot amongst rational humanity).
Acting on lizard brain emotion, which is the being of their existence, precludes intelligent thought or action by definition, right?
Now when it comes to OUR side of the fence, we are supposed to know better. We are supposed to be people of reasoned thought. Isn’t that what we claim? It pretty much stands to that ‘reason’ that when you look at documented factual info and instead of acting on it accordingly, flush it and everything you spent a lifetime supporting, believing and claiming to be about, you have devolved to the lizard brain level of a liberal. Because you have not acted with intelligence. You consciously had to make a decision to disregard intelligent thought and ‘react’.
>> Now when it comes to OUR side of the fence, we are supposed to know better
Indeed, we should know better.
Emotion and intelligence are relatively easy traits to describe for most any individual. But deceit is far more complex especially in the realm of politics — championing abortion for example. But why are so many willing to embrace depravity and lie about it?
I occasionally make the point that existence is intrinsically evil; not in a personal way, but as a continuous threat to life. Existence is by nature destructive. But when such destructive behavior is inflicted from within humanity, it is horrific. Why? Likely for instinctual reasons.
Those that are committed to argue for abortion surely have a different set of instinctive priorities. And for better or worse, instincts aren’t negotiable.