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Red Brains vs. Blue Brains?
eLoco writes "From the NYTimes (reg. req.): The Political Brain -- "Why do Republicans and Democrats differ so emphatically? Perhaps it's all in the head." Researchers from UCLA have seem to have found that liberals have, on average, a more active amygdala than conservatives. According to the article, studies of stroke victims "have persuasively shown that the amygdala plays a key role in the creation of emotions like fear or empathy." So is this scientific "proof" that liberals tend to be more compassionate but also more cowardly? [DISCLAIMER: this is not a troll; I am a liberal]. Regardless, this seems to have implications for more than just politics. Favorite quote: "Perhaps we form political affiliations by semiconsciously detecting commonalities with other people, commonalities that ultimately reflect a shared pattern of brain function.""
That's funny... I rarely make that distinction.
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So are we going to start using a Party sorting CAT scanner? [please not slitherin... please not slitherin...]
And maybe liberals are caused by inhaling too much pollution. :-)
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Well, the article summary interested me, so I conducted my own unbiased, completely unfunded research on this issue.
Within a matter of seconds, I found that people who agree with me on political issues are rather brainy. On the other hand, I found that people who disagree with me on political issues are extremely braindead.
This, indeed, is good new for libertarians everywhere.
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
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I'm glad I live in Canada then, where we aren't so deathly afraid of one hole in the body over the other that we'd change our country's founding document to try to keep the "bad scary people" away.
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A friend of mine didn't realize he was gay until he'd already slept with several men
See, that right there is a dead giveaway.
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This is an interesting Catch 22 for moderation as it appears the GNAA posts might actually be *on topic* for once!
I never thought I'd see this day.
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And maybe Conservatives spend so much time around bullshit that they don't notice the smell when it comes from their party.
You only use 2% of your DNA
The really shocking news is we now have scientific proof that the US/UK two-party democracy is the only right system for mankind.
More refined distinctions between schools of thought in the multi-party systems in continental Europe are unnecessary and confusing to our brains.
We don't need environmentalists, socialists, communists, social democrats, social liberals, social christians, conservative liberals, christian conservatives, constitutional christians, conservative nationalists, national socialists etc. Just "blue" and "red" will do fine. There is no such thing as a "green" brain, and nazis do not exist. They are just "blue" and "red". Or vice versa.
Is anything anyone's fault or decision anymore? Damn I remember when people were fat, drunk, gay, disruptive and Communist of their own volition. Now everything is a malady, issue and disease.
Clearly your amygdala isn't as active as mine, or you would have said, "spherically challenged, libationally oriented, sexually curious, placidly impaired, or democratically impeded"
"Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment."
I completely agree. President bush for example is quite the thinker. And if you have been lucky to hear his speaches -- well they are nothing but irrefutable logic.
And you are right that conservatives use more logical arguments. To prove this I will sum up every single argument conservatives have used in the past four years:
"how dare you question the president, you must hate America"
You see there is nothing emotional about this. It is all pure logic.
I think of Republicans as blue-bloods and Democrats as leftist reds.
A couple elections ago TV networks started using the opposite convention in their maps and the colors stuck. Now people use these map colors as a metaphore for national sentiment.
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I'm not sure why I'm conservative. Maybe something to do with the way I was brought up?
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