bobdon000 Anonymous

Lame opinion, lame arguements.
Of course your health, family, job are all important concerns. But so is "community".

Enough with the ego-centric feelings (hows my job, hows my health, hows my family). How about alittle more concern for the quality of life within our communities.

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sisterhazel Anonymous

Thanks, Blue Shoe Mike, that is a great presentation!

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J_Mortimer Anonymous

I think the implication that "everyone is biased" (and therefore one throws intent of self checking for bias out of the window) is counter productive. It leads to quite the opposite of what is intended in journalism or any sort of free exchange of information.

This argument is usually made by those who do not have strong evidence or a strong position behind them. It is often a type of red herring to attack the motivations of the speaker and thus to distract others from the weaknesses of the attacker's position and away from the actual subject matter.

Look at the comments here and the aforementioned comments about the Carrollton mayor signing that climate agreement. Those attacking the position of the speaker with claims of "bias" tend to avoid direct discussion of the actual subject matter at hand.

If a position is stated and it is wrong either through a failure of logic or failure of "facts", it is best revealed through showing those failures and not through pointing out alleged deficiencies of the source of the material.

It is often true that people are biased because they happen to be correct. It is often true that entire institutions are "biased" because evidence supports them. Physicists and historians are good examples. We don't go around stating that scientists are "biased by atomic theories of matter" and that historians are "biased about the biographical claims" of this or that Roman emperor. We accept that if those people are wrong, they are wrong because of evidential or logical errors not because of so called bias.

J

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J_Mortimer Anonymous

Jim,

If you read my statement more closely you might notice that it doesn't necessarily address you directly. In fact, you might even come to the conclusion that it doesn't disagree with what you've just written, (or then again maybe you won't...)

:-)

J

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