20th September 2005, 8:51 PM
Quote:Perhaps instead of appeal to emotion, arguments stemming entirely from logic would be more productive? Perhaps a basic concept or goal both sides agree on, and from there it's all logic and empirical evidence and nothing else. At least then people have to admit when they are wrong and there's some progress...
That would be a fine idea, except for the fact that one of the problems with politics is that with people who disagree as much as we do, finding such basic concepts are just about impossible...