... So you suspect this of women who argue for keeping abortion medically and legally available. And you believe arguing from emotion cannot be argued.
-- How can you test your assumption in a way that enables freer conversation, unafraid discussion?
While I do feel fear, I do not necessarily speak from fear. I believe I do not choose from fear. I could be mistaken; as I've come to learn in my 40 years than my emotions, values, moral and ethic principles, reason, and experience form an integrated whole -- they cannot be compartmentalized, and nor should they be. This whole just as patchy, uneven, and fraught with things still to learn as everyone else's. I do try to make each argument clear on its own basis, whether it's based on emotions, economic ramifications, social concerns, the ethics of shared and individual responsibility, belief and faith, or other. I attempt to discover inconsistencies in my thought and resolve them as often as I try to discover cross-connections.
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Date: 2008-09-04 06:27 pm (UTC)-- How can you test your assumption in a way that enables freer conversation, unafraid discussion?
-- I thought there were several types of argumentation, and emotion is one. (Pause for a google check... OK, not what I was thinking, but this is kind of interesting: A classical (greek-based) arrangement of argument styles ... an overview of argument pedagogy: disputative/debating and constructivist styles ... and arguments types including emotional arguments with similar logical flows)
Enough digressing.
While I do feel fear, I do not necessarily speak from fear. I believe I do not choose from fear. I could be mistaken; as I've come to learn in my 40 years than my emotions, values, moral and ethic principles, reason, and experience form an integrated whole -- they cannot be compartmentalized, and nor should they be. This whole just as patchy, uneven, and fraught with things still to learn as everyone else's. I do try to make each argument clear on its own basis, whether it's based on emotions, economic ramifications, social concerns, the ethics of shared and individual responsibility, belief and faith, or other. I attempt to discover inconsistencies in my thought and resolve them as often as I try to discover cross-connections.