The goal is to be able to handle multiple viewpoints from outside sources and then critically develop your own view given that information and your own experience. I have found the whole discussion of what is factual extremely interesting because there is the event and then there are multiple views of the event. Watch Kurosawa's Rashomon for that dynamic. I'm not perfect and my own personal experience tends toward the left-of-center, but I try to read a lot of different things that poke holes in my arguments and if I find them convincing, I often sand down the edges of my views.
I think the big problem now is that most commentators (on both sides) look at a segment of a problem or issue and not the entire problem or issue. When one concentrates solely on the negative or positive of a segment of a problem or issue without gauging the entire context, it distorts the entire decision-making process.
Of course, I grew up on a farm and sooner or later the pragmatic reigns in that world (as it should in most realms). Debating about how to haul the hay doesn't get the hay in the barn.
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Originally Posted by Forever Fredi
