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Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear
Pentagram writes "Researchers writing in Science report that the political orientation of test subjects who have strong views is linked to how easy they are to startle. They found that subjects who were more fearful were more likely to have right wing views, such as being in favor of capital punishment and higher defense budgets. The researchers suggest that this psychological difference is why it is so difficult to change people's minds in political arguments."
Do you think there is a correlation also to the fact that TV shows and Video Games desensitize people to real-world violence? Do right wingers play and watch less violence than left wingers? Thus ... the right-wingers have not been desensitized and have more to fear and the left wingers have been desentized and fear nothing?
Talk about fear of competing ideas, you Libs need a mirror. Variations of this story appear here and on every libtard site every few weeks now, claiming conservative ideas are the result of mental defect. Because if you can keep that idea formly in yer heads you can justify the childish antics you guys normally do when exposed to a different set of ideas, shout it down. Because if the other side is mentally ill there isn't a reason to even allow them to speak.
To a liberal, 'diversity' is defined as all colors, gender identities and faiths all thinking exactly alike. Because the one thing liberalism can't tolerate is reasoned debate since the whole system is based on emotion.
No, I don't think liberalism is a mental illness in return. I think it is evil. You guys have free will, you chose the wrong side. Of course you convince yourselves that notions like good and evil are outdated because few will admit to serving evil so you solve that problem by handwaving the whole question away.
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This is sure to be a well reasoned discussion.
The reason right wingers startle more easily is because they know their view of the world is a very selfish one and that makes them feel guilty. They go around expecting that eventually someone's going to jump out and call them on it so they're always on the defensive.
There, that's a good start.
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Actually what mostly scares me is Republicans.
I read Usenet for the articles.
Liberal, OTOH, cherish the prospect of being raped?
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Call it what you want.
My observations are that conservatives are exclusive, driven by fear of loss while liberals are driven by inclusiveness and inconspicuous charity. But this entire thread is a crap magnet.
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The system works just fine.
I'm definitely of the opinion that conservatives are mentally stunted, (can't tell their W's from their M's), but that's okay. The world is set up to teach us all the lessons we need in order to grow. The lesson in this case is why following fear and mentally stunted leaders is disastrous. Souls learn only through repeated pains, so you dump a ton of souls on the planet and let them do their thing. To try to control the less advanced souls through drugs and behavior modification slows down the process; you can only truly learn from mistakes and applied experiences. Let the retards run free and bang into stuff. We all have to go through the process; we've all been retarded. Heck even at the highest forms achievable on this plane, the best of us are barely functional.
But in my personal life, I try to keep the conservatives at a distance. They can lead their fear-filled, mentally challenged, inflexible viewpoints and the associated disasters they call 'lives' without my active participation! It's far too draining to spend time around that bunch of dysfunctional stiffs; "Love Jesus while killing them A-rabs and punishing the poor!" What a travesty of incompatible thinking processes; being in a roomful of conservatives is like experiencing a head-on train collision everybody is pretending not to see.
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And let's not forget about living in fear of marring the environment. In a few years, you will not be able to manufacture (and by extension, purchase) a regular old light bulb. Which side of the political spectrum was responsible for that?
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