http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/10/23/are-conservatives-less-open/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:22:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/10/23/are-conservatives-less-open/comment-page-1/#comment-57578 kerwin_brown Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:51:57 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2006/10/23/are-conservatives-less-open/#comment-57578 The first question is what does "open" mean. I find fanatics exist is every group. I also find individuals whose beliefs are based on reason. The first is not open to new ideas while the second may well be open to new ideas but rejects them because they are unsound or invalid to his or her basic tenets. Of course we could go deeper and question how reasonable those basic tenets are. Then there are the people who are like the waves of the sea pushed this way and that by whatever popular idea is present. Are they open or just wishy washy. The first question is what does “open” mean. I find fanatics exist is every group. I also find individuals whose beliefs are based on reason. The first is not open to new ideas while the second may well be open to new ideas but rejects them because they are unsound or invalid to his or her basic tenets. Of course we could go deeper and question how reasonable those basic tenets are. Then there are the people who are like the waves of the sea pushed this way and that by whatever popular idea is present. Are they open or just wishy washy.

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