Oh don’t get me wrong, I’ll wade in with the best of them, as there is some fun in debating the issues. However, I have come to notice, that what passes for debate is more about feelings and personal belief and less and less about what is fact and proved.
Just over a year ago, I read a series of posts on the dangers of an accident involving nuclear sodium reactor. The accident took place some 55 years ago. One poster was worried about one particular isotope of Iodine, saying a large amount was released. All attempts to ascertain how much was dodged, and reading the sourced data turned up wording that is the very definition of vague.
Facts though, made it worse. Pointing out that at least 2500 half lives has taken place and even if it started out at 1000 units, that as of the date we were posting that 1k was cut in half more than 2500 times. Easier to toss a cup of salt in the Pacific and measure the increase in the Atlantic 55 years later. The final response was “I don’t care about the facts or the science, I care about what I believe.” When I see another post buy him or the person whom posted the original, I just keep scrolling.
More recently I have come across others that cannot see that at least some of the reason for the occupation of a federal building in Oregon is due to the illegal actions of the BLM. For some reason A+B doesn’t =C in this case. I was told that in their opinion, I didn’t have the facts. Okay what am I missing? The response was a repeat that I was missing information. I gave up after three attempts. It came to a feeling, a belief that I was wrong and it mattered not one bit that they could not provide any facts. Feeling trumped all known information.
Then we come to Obama’s EAs (Executive Action). A simple debate that I made every attempt to keep to verifiable facts and numbers. It took no time at all to see, once again that feelings and opinion and belief, trumped the FBI reports, trumped the fact that this administration refuses to prosecute gun crimes, and gave his AG a pass on Fast and Furious and the 300 or more murders that came from it. The poster pointedly ignored them and stated “I haven't actually been quoting a lot of numbers. Frankly, I don't think numbers are overly important. Gun safety (not banning) is important for a number of reasons that sort of defy quantification.”
How can one ignore facts and call themselves educated?
But the worst of the worst is Joy Behar. I will give her credit for for saying what 99.9999% of the left believes but doesn’t have the guts to say. “People have to understand, it’s policy. Teddy Kennedy. Remember Chappaquiddick? Am I the oldest person in the room? Chappaquiddick. I mean, a girl drowns and he abandons her and she drowned and women still voted for Teddy Kennedy. Why? Because he voted for women’s rights. That’s why. That’s the bottom line of it in my opinion. I mean, I don’t like either one of them, to tell you the truth, Teddy or Bill. They’re both dogs as far as I’m concerned. But I still will vote for Bill Clinton because he votes in my favor.”
Am I the only one who sees this as dangerous?