I simply cannot go back to the beginning and explain what is meant by the liberal principle of not discriminating against people by gender, race or sexuality and why it doesn't mean giving men access to abortion & women screening for testicular cancer.
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I should just ignore it but people scratching that itch which makes them do pointmissing pedantry set off an itch in me. I have an inability to endure loose ends so I will follow them down those rabbit holes trying to tie them up & get them to see why their exception isn't one.
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For my own peace of mind. Might be OCD brain. If there is something which does not work in my logical reasoning, it must either be made to work or the reasoning changed to accommodate it coz it's a genuine problem. It can't just sit there being disorderly & not fitting in.
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Because my OCD was always obsessive rather than compulsive. I think the equivalent of this for someone like my father whose OCD was compulsive would be someone coming in and making his flannels and towels unsymmetrical. He couldn't ignore that either. Must. Restore. Order.
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My father channelled his OCD through numbers and systems which satisfied his need for order and made him a very successful businessman. I feel the need to tidy up disorderly verbal/ideological reasoning systems. Set it all out, see how it functions & show the problems with it.
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My daughter seems to do both, bless her. Has the knack for coding and is frankly incredulous and impatient with anyone who doesn't see how it works. This is interspersed with sarcastically dismantling any bad arguments she comes across in her daily life.
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Interestingly, while I was diagnosed with OCD, my father & daughter both suspected by doctors of having Asperger's. We don't know coz neither give a fuck & refuse testing. Either way, 3 generations of us now intent on bringing order & clarity to shit whether you like it or not.
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I do think a lot of whether you are likely to have a brain which requires things to work logically in demonstrable steps or whether you are fulfilled by ambiguous & fluffy allusive thinking with loose connections comes down to personality type. Which is discouraging.
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It means we can't teach the fluffy thinkers to find logical reasoning and evidence-based epistemology satisfying and they cannot teach us to value spiritual/affective/mythical/metaphysical notions of truth. We just have to glare at each other and mutter darkly.
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We should see this in terms of complementarity. They can teach us not to over-analyze & quantify everything in sight till we kill all joy and poetry, and we can teach them to land from time to time from their mental levitation and use logic and reason.
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I'm not sure that's the divide. Empirical thinkers can still enjoy poetry etc. We just don't claim they represent truth. My background is in English literature.
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1/ You are right. And mysticism is not good place to start either. I know Catholics who are probably the sharpest people I have met, and I've also met lots of fluffy atheists. I even would say the second category outnumbers the first one by far.
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2/ It might be a cultural issue. If your society values logic, you get people who will dare not express emotions or will be cautious about that. Ditto for feelings. If that's valued, predisposed people will dare not think, because what gets them social acceptance is fluff.
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