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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have no problems with emotional decisions. I have a problem that they inconsistent. If you really really think that there should be more babies and abortion was murder you should also support massive infusions of government cash to protect those babies. Which they never do.

I agree that you heard them say that but just because someone is talking doesn't mean they are being truthful. Again, I was on the other side of this issue and I remember what I believed. My parents had 5 kids, I have 11 cousins. I have always known that raising kids was difficult and the government should provide help.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree that you heard them say that but just because someone is talking doesn’t mean they are being truthful.

That could be said about anyone at any time about anything. To me that's just hand waving away somebody else's opinion so you don't have to deal with it, and it's not valid.

I can tell you I have some personal friends who are conservatives (as well those are liberal minded), and I've heard the same kind of comments from them as I described here, and I believe what they're saying. Would be strangely weird for all my conservative friends to be coordination lying on something that doesn't really require lying.

You know, you could go and ask them yourself, instead of just assuming that they're lying and manipulating. Homo-sapiens are never that straightforward.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am sorry your friends hate women

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I am sorry your friends hate women

Well they're not close friends, and yeah it pisses me off no end as well. I never understood that logic and belief system.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree that you heard them say that but just because someone is talking doesn’t mean they are being truthful.

Just a clarification, it was many people saying that over multiple decades in multiple instances on multiple media.

I personally have multiple friends who are conservative, from different families.

I point that out just to make the point that I don't think they all were being untruthful, and IMO I think they all (or vast majority of) were being truthful to their belief system.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are people telling the truth if there are a lot of them? Are people telling the truth if they say the same thing a decade apart in time? Or are people telling the truth about what they believe when they show a consistent resoned opinion that has all the basic objections to it understood?

I know people who make solid arguments for and against gun control and they all have a well thought out set of reasons and can usually deal with standard objections. I don't see this at all with the forced birth crowd.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are people telling the truth if there are a lot of them?

The odds are that some of them at least are.

And my personal impressions after speaking to them over the decades on the issue is that most if not all of them are being truthful, to their belief system.

Don't mean to be argumentative with you on this one, but I can't buy into your assertion of that they're all lying, that 0% of them are being truthful. It's not what I've seen.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I didn’t ask you odds.

"Never tell me the odds."