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How Emotional Are Political Positions?

How Emotional Are Political Positions?

  • 10 (all the way)

    Votes: 5 21.7%

  • 9

    Votes: 5 21.7%

  • 8

    Votes: 7 30.4%

  • 7

    Votes: 4 17.4%

  • 6

    Votes: 1 4.3%

  • 5

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 4

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 3

    Votes: 1 4.3%

  • 2

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 1 (hardly)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    23
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On a scale of 1-10, how emotional do you believe people's political positions are?
 
Right off hand, I'd say 11.
 
It'd be nice if the OP could elaborate on what exactly he means by political positions being "emotional."
 
It depends on the individual's ability to reason and project his views into the future and see the natural ends of his desires. Generally, I'd say that most people vote with more emotional and idealistic tendencies than rational and intellectual ones.
 
for most their positions are probably emotional and it stems from environment rather than thought.

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I think it mostly depends on the person and even then depends on the specific issue as well.
 
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For 80-90% of the population, it's entirely emotional. Those of us who believe in facts and logic, still have core values which are based on emotion. I voted for 9.
 
for some, it's nearly all emotion and slogans.

for the rest of us, it's logic, emotion, and slogans.

not sure how that breaks down, but logic isn't on the winning side.
 
it may depend on one's educational background and view of life...
 
lizzie said:
It depends on the individual's ability to reason and project his views into the future and see the natural ends of his desires. Generally, I'd say that most people vote with more emotional and idealistic tendencies than rational and intellectual ones.
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I liked your post, but you used a loaded word, one that people often get emotional about. So be careful.
 
mpg said:
For 80-90% of the population, it's entirely emotional. Those of us who believe in facts and logic, still have core values which are based on emotion. I voted for 9.
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I think that there are more real engineers, scientists and the ilk than you think, we might make up, umm, your right 80-90%.
 
I think most, therefore Ivoted 8. Most people don't tbink about their politics any more than they do about their religion.
 
Cephus said:
I think most, therefore Ivoted 8. Most people don't tbink about their politics any more than they do about their religion.
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or their religions may form their political tendencies
 
OhIsee.Then said:
I liked your post, but you used a loaded word, one that people often get emotional about. So be careful.
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I say what I think, and call things the way I see them. If someone finds that offensive, then they are the one who's worried about it, not I.
 
lizzie said:
I say what I think, and call things the way I see them. If someone finds that offensive, then they are the one who's worried about it, not I.
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I'm sorry, it was a poor attempt at mixing humor with reality.
The word in your post that many people respond negatively to is intellectual.
 
I get hints at how emotional people's social welfare views are when they resort to appeals to pity and think they've cornered me. "So what do you want to happen to all the poor little whatchamacallits, should they just go DIE?!?!" they always end up asking. That is an extremely emotional core to one's political views.

Some conservative types had emotional arguments going full swing when Bush and Co. were blasting the terrorism and war horns. Objections met with "they die for your freedom and you spit on their graves" BS.

It's not just one side or the other. Tends to depend whose party has a president in the oval office. Whoever's defending their ****ty corrupt president ends up resorting to the emotional, and whoever's attacking tends to be more rational. Put another way, there are few rational defenses for these clowns. To defend the corruption you have to reach for more desperate arguments.
 
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OhIsee.Then said:
I'm sorry, it was a poor attempt at mixing humor with reality.
The word in your post that many people respond negatively to is intellectual.
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Oh well, some people are just going to be unhappy not matter what you say. :mrgreen:
 
People's political views are just like religion. They are believers. Think about it! If their parents are Republican, the kids are. Same for Dems. It's all beliefs and logic and reason can be go to hell.
 
digsbe said:
I think it mostly depends on the person and even then depends on the specific issue as well.
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Exactly.

Abortion can be nothing but emotional . . . but capital punishment might come as a purely logical-consideration. (A - B = C thought process to arrive at said conclusion) . . . and so on.
 
lizzie said:
It depends on the individual's ability to reason and project his views into the future and see the natural ends of his desires. Generally, I'd say that most people vote with more emotional and idealistic tendencies than rational and intellectual ones.
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Idealism isn't necessarily a bad thing. May in fact be rational. I would hope that people have some ideals.
 
radcen said:
Idealism isn't necessarily a bad thing. May in fact be rational. I would hope that people have some ideals.
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Idealism isn't a bad thing when practiced at the personal level. I do believe it's a mistake when it comes to deciding on national leaders, because idealism is based in desires and wants, and not on objectivity and actual limitations.
 
Cephus said:
I think most, therefore Ivoted 8. Most people don't tbink about their politics any more than they do about their religion.
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I consider my self an 8 since I feel passionate about those things i espouse tho i can also use reason on that. I voted 9 because there are those who do not use it very much.
 
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