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Or your own misconception that we need to build Prisons to lock up people found guilty of Misdemeanors.

Or your own misconception that we need to build Prisons to lock up people found guilty of Misdemeanors.

Possession of a schedule 1 drug is a felony.

I've found over the years the more frequent and more loudly the calls for tolerance, the less there actually is.

I was in high school in the mid 90's. My best friend (to this day) and I had many common interests that brought us together. But ideologically and politically we were about as far apart as two people could be: I was very hard Right, he just as hard Left. Obviously we had a number of heated conversations. Since then we've both come much closer to Center, agreed on many issues we wouldn't have before, and even crossed over in a few areas. But the format was much different back then. We'd argue, debate, then go out trying to figure out the mystery of girls.

Everyone accepted the fact that other people had different view points. You may not like their view, you may know they are wrong, and may not respect their view point, but you respected the fact that they had a view point.

It was also understood that the onus was mainly on yourself to prove that your position was the right position while simultaneously poking holes in the other person's argument. Positions were often staked in the form of: I believe this, for these reasons. I do not agree with your beliefs of ___ for these reasons. You often asked clarifying questions or for examples.

You almost never changed anyone's minds, but you got to know the other person's side of things pretty well.

But the social dialogue started changing. And I think it was after 9/11. Under the Bush era our gov't took advantage of the can of whoopass the Nation wanted to open up in response to 9/11 by passing the Patriot Act. Anyone who opposed or questioned it was deemed as being un-patriotic and that type of social peer pressure was often used to silence people on that topic.

Move forward to President Obama's tenure. We start to see a ramping up of labels such as racist/bigoted/homophobic being used to silence anyone who disagreed or simply questioned what was going on. Same tactic, same desired end, just different words and different topics.

By using simple inflammatory language to stifle dissent, the concept of respecting the fact that someone else has a viewpoint got squeezed out. It is now common place for one person to write a post establishing their position, then their opponent re-writes the meaning and purposefully misrepresents that position.

The concept of trying to understand your opponent's position if nothing else than to counter it effectively has gone out the window.

My soon to be sister in law had her new boyfriend visit a couple weeks ago from the U.K. We were talking about the current state of affairs and he was shocked when I told him that anymore, you can't even agree on the premise of whatever it is you are debating about!

Looking at things as they are, I'm not very confident that if you put a teenage DevilDawg and his best friend together NOW that we'd end up being friends at all.

Well I hope this clears up DC's misconception that you aren't willing to spend billions upon billions of dollars to lock up weed smokers.

I guess we'll just take the money to pay for that from Meals on wheels from our seniors or something far more useful.

Let me try answering this time with my own question... WHAT IS THE CURRENT LAW OF THE LAND?

Then that right there is what I believe. Change it and that will be what I believe. Ignore it and go to jail for breaking the law.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/insight-is-2020/201604/5-signs-you-are-dealing-control-freak

This applies to Vers in this thread.

Impossible to tell without seeing Vers operate a vehicle.

"How do you tell someone they are wrong?

Heck, I've been wrong a lot in my lifetime.


I must be up to 4 or maybe even 5 times being wrong now.

You are WRONG!