Our own Stephen J brings this point by the late Canadian blogger Kathy Shaidle, of blessed memory, to our attention. She write about the people who used to screech about 9/11 being an inside job:
I wonder if the nuts even believe what they are saying. Because if something like 9/11 happened in Canada, and I believed with all my heart that, say, Stephen Harper was involved, I don’t think I could still live here. I’m not sure I could stop myself from running screaming to another country. How can you believe that your President killed 2,000 people, and in between bitching about this, just carry on buying your vente latte and so forth?
His comment:
That said, it occurs to me in hindsight I should be less judgmental of this reaction, because there are things I believe to be true with all my heart that don’t have as much of an impact on my behaviour as they should. Remove the plank in my own eye first, and all that.
My comment:
I have such a plank of my own.
At one time, I was neither pro-abortion nor anti-abortion.
Condemn me now if you will, but such was my honest opinion at one time. Abortion was an issue, the only issue known to me, logic could not solve. Neither side, given its axioms, proposes a self contradiction in any argument I heard: one side said humanity was a property that developed in the womb, like brain development, and the other said humanity was a property that exists categorically, like membership in one’s species.
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