Today in the New York Times Frank Bruni wrote that both sides in the recent debt ceiling fiasco were at fault for being true believers. I objected with this comment:
You are making a more sophisticated version of the standard - and wrong - comment that both Democrats and Republicans were equally at fault for the debt ceiling crisis, or that there is equally valid pro and con evidence for evolution. This is like the barber shop converrsation that there isn't a dime's worth of difference between them so throw all the bums out. But there is vast difference between conservatives who refuse to negotiate at all because of a pledge, not to the United States but to a belief, and who fail to recognize that low taxes and uninforced regulations under Bush did not lead to growth and jobs. And for evoution, global warming, the age of the Earth, and stem cells there is vast scientific evidence - meaning there is a process to challenge and test hypothesizes - that far outweighs the 100% religion-based arguments of deniers. Please recognize that there can be profound differences in the quality of arguments and don't imply that all are equal and their proponents are equally rational.
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