07-19-2017, 09:35 AM
(07-19-2017, 09:10 AM)Au165 Wrote: Well the other side of that coin is there are some things in life you don't need to experience to have an opinion on them. Not really relevant to this thread and reading an article, but not sure I like going down the road of must have touched, scene, smelled to have an opinion on it.
Fair point. I agree, I don't need to taste a Spam, cat shit, and sardine sandwich to know I won't like it.
However, I also am humble enough to admit that I'm not going to dismiss the arguments of a Harvard or Yale professor without examining them just because I disagree (or agree) with them. There is the old line from Sagan about the problem with America being that it promotes the belief that one person's ignorance is just as good as another person's intelligence. I try not to exemplify that.
So, if a subject matter expert (SME) who clearly is more learned than I am says something, I try to listen and consider their expertise and argument before making a judgment on whether it makes sense or not. And, by the way, I never said I thought the SME from Yale who claims it is inevitable Trump will try a coup was correct. But, I did read his remarks on the matter and found them thought provoking.
Someone once said it is easier to judge than to think, which is why so many judge, or something like that. Again, I found the article thought provoking. I also found the question of if a coup transpired whether Americans would support it to be an interesting one, hence the poll question.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
