Convictions (and Roommate NEEDED)

My life has been fine if not a bit mundane. But I’m enjoying the lack of drama and commotion. So there’s nothing new and interesting really. So we’ll promptly proceed to political drivel after these messages.

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I was a sideline observe on an argument between two coworkers at work today over Iraq and terrorism and that whole rigamarole.

I of course am still anti-war, nothing new there.

What Amazed me was the conviction of both people arguing. They were both sure that they were right; that their position was true. Logically of course it is impossible for two opposing positions to be true.

Okay while I honestly I’m overstating their faith in their positions, but they both were quite sure they were correct.

I never am honestly sure I’m right or what I’ve determined is the truth. Sometimes, well a lot of the times I see this as a flaw, a weakness. But honestly, its a strength, a lack of dogmatism (i.e. no position is held strongly enough that I cannot give it up.)

I think this is the major flaw I see with Bush. He is a man of conviction, there is no doubt in his mind that he is right. This is not just my opinion but one that I borrowed from a respected philosophy professor of mine who is a Bush supporter.

The question is should a man who had been opposed by his peers consistently be allowed to wield one of the most powerful militaries on the planet? (no)

Usually peer pressure is thought of as negative. But it it isn’t. There is positive AND negative peer pressure.

Okay but should we trust a man who cannot think he could be wrong?

Honestly someone who is so convicted in a company would be fired. If you had a harebrained idea unsupported by all your peers, your vice presidents, etc who thought it wouldn’t work. He’d be thrown out by the Board of Directors or shareholders. Unfortunately in this case he’s scared all of us or at least enough of us into not speaking our minds so we’ve already left America. So I doubt its worth defending this America, perhaps there is another one that we can create and once again be free. But I doubt it will happen with Bush in office.