Bill O'Reilly and the Potty-Mouthed Eight-Year-Old Girl

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Originally Posted by Professor S

Now that was funny

Typhoid and I are not political parties. I'm not going to disagree with him simply because he is Typhoid. I disagree with many of his ideas and questionable methods in which he supports them, but I don't just disregard anything he says because he is Typhoid.

If we see eye to eye on something, the admission of that is not a sign of weakness, its simply stating the truth. The exchange of ideas is not a debate in which you are competing with arguments. Ideas can be heated and strongly felt, but they are not exclusive or infallible.

The exclusivity and infallibility of ideas is called Idealism, which is a dangerous and intelelctually stagnating mindset.

I don't agree with that...

I know all of this of course. Still, it's nice to read what we all perhaps take for granted in our minds put down into explicit words.