yet more brain studies and politics

Mott the Hoople said:
Oh please dude...there's this thing called common sense...you should try using it sometime, maybe you'll be able to observe the obvious.

The number one reason why people are conservative is that they are AFRAID of change.
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ahh.... yes, the absurdity of the left is in full bloom above.

Tell you what Mott.... a little experiment. Let's CHANGE to the following:

1) Privatize social security
2) Welfare to be paid by philanthropic private organizations instead of the government
3) Protect the life of the unborn children by providing them basic human rights
4) Eliminate the department of education and let it be dealt with at the state level
5) health care will be paid for by the individual, not the government or corporations. Only those denied coverage will be covered under medicaid.
6) the government is not allowed to over spend revenue
7) Tenure is gone, perform or potentially lose your job to someone who can do better
8) Public unions get pay/benefit increases via referendum only

There.... plenty of 'Change' for you Mott....
 
Damocles said:
1. Courage isn't the measure of fear, it is the willingness to take the risk despite fear.
2. Fear is largely an attribute of imagination, those with greater imagination will find themselves more afraid of things than those with simpler imaginations.
3. Imagination and a new approach to ideas is what creates progress.
4. I'm pretty much willing to accept that I have a greater imagination and stronger courage than liberals, that's probably the reason why I'm willing to take on the risk that comes with less government "help"...

So, Desh, maybe your simplified imagination is something you believe you should be proud of but I disagree.
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The problem with that argument Damo is premise #2. Fear is not "an attribute of imagination" but rather it is an autonomic response to stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.

Thus your argument collapses due to a false premise.
 
Superfreak said:
ahh.... yes, the absurdity of the left is in full bloom above.

Tell you what Mott.... a little experiment. Let's CHANGE to the following:

1) Privatize social security
2) Welfare to be paid by philanthropic private organizations instead of the government
3) Protect the life of the unborn children by providing them basic human rights
4) Eliminate the department of education and let it be dealt with at the state level
5) health care will be paid for by the individual, not the government or corporations. Only those denied coverage will be covered under medicaid.
6) the government is not allowed to over spend revenue
7) Tenure is gone, perform or potentially lose your job to someone who can do better
8) Public unions get pay/benefit increases via referendum only

There.... plenty of 'Change' for you Mott....
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Ok......and why should I be afraid of those changes?
 
Mott the Hoople said:
What's the matter? Can't handle it when science contradicts one of your deeply held beliefs? Fuck man, you should try doing this for a living.
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when science contradicts? Dude, I used to be liberal, then I became conservative, now i'm Libertarian, so how the fuck does that crappy ass so called study become science?
 
Mott the Hoople said:
The problem with that argument Damo is premise #2. Fear is not "an attribute of imagination" but rather it is an autonomic response to stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.

Thus your argument collapses due to a false premise.
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Yet it does not. You are speaking of the fight or flight response, not simple "fear". If one is to be afraid of what is "around the corner" they must have imagination to be able to predict an outcome. The inability to look into the future is not an admirable trait, nor does it bode well when plans start failing as those who are "unafraid" seem incapable of changing course from what is failing.

The attempt to simplify it to one specific type of fear and then pretend that is the only option is a sign of somebody coming up with a premise and "finding" what they want to support it rather than thinking it through.
 
liberals use the 'fear=paranoia' theory to perpetuate the myth that people are powerless to stop bad things from happening. projection of internal psychosis at it's finest.
 
Superfreak said:
ahh.... yes, the absurdity of the left is in full bloom above.

Tell you what Mott.... a little experiment. Let's CHANGE to the following:

1) Privatize social security
2) Welfare to be paid by philanthropic private organizations instead of the government
3) Protect the life of the unborn children by providing them basic human rights
4) Eliminate the department of education and let it be dealt with at the state level
5) health care will be paid for by the individual, not the government or corporations. Only those denied coverage will be covered under medicaid.
6) the government is not allowed to over spend revenue
7) Tenure is gone, perform or potentially lose your job to someone who can do better
8) Public unions get pay/benefit increases via referendum only

There.... plenty of 'Change' for you Mott....
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So the way to prove liberals are not fearful is to embrace right wing corporate ass licking?
 
Bfgrn said:
The Supreme Court has been controlled by conservatives and many of the judicial appointments have been made by Republicans.

Next...
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the supreme court has not ALWAYS been controlled by conservatives. It was a liberal supreme court, as well as many liberal appellate courts, that rewrote the right to bear arms from an Individual right to a so called 'collective' right, meaning that one had to be in a government supported military unit to own a gun. Then a Liberal supreme court agreed that the commerce clause allowed congress to regulate anything a person may own, possess, manufacture, or sell. Now, that doesn't mean I support conservative supreme courts also, because they are just as bad about rewriting the constitution and bill of rights as well.

so next?
 
Bfgrn said:
So the way to prove liberals are not fearful is to embrace right wing corporate ass licking?
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No moron, that was not the point. In fact it was just the opposite. Mott made the claim that conservatives 'fear' change. I thus listed 'Changes' I knew he would disagree with, but wouldn't be 'afraid' of.

The point was that just because Conservatives disagree with changes made by so called 'progressives' it doesn't mean they 'fear change'. It means they disagree with the changes being implemented.

Now, do try and pull your head out of your ass, as I should not have had to explain this to you.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
What's the matter? Can't handle it when science contradicts one of your deeply held beliefs? Fuck man, you should try doing this for a living.
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Science? Scans of the brains of 90 students used to make proclamations about an entire population is science?
 
Damocles said:
Yet it does not. You are speaking of the fight or flight response, not simple "fear". If one is to be afraid of what is "around the corner" they must have imagination to be able to predict an outcome. The inability to look into the future is not an admirable trait, nor does it bode well when plans start failing as those who are "unafraid" seem incapable of changing course from what is failing.

The attempt to simplify it to one specific type of fear and then pretend that is the only option is a sign of somebody coming up with a premise and "finding" what they want to support it rather than thinking it through.
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So are you trying to tell me that fear is not a physiological mediated autonomic response?
 
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