On Friday, 23 March 2018 12:45:46 PM AEDT Mark Trickett via luv-talk wrote:
thoughtful intellectual who happens to sound "Left Wing". It is good to hear someone from the nominal "Right" trying to think, but I wish they would actually think things through. They accuse the "Left" of being ideological, when they are actually so ideological as to make the "Left" look pragmatic
The left side of politics is based on science and the left is mostly pragmatic. There are some people who believe in homeopathy etc on the left, but they are a minority. No-one has time to properly research the science on every issue, so to some extent everyone has to trust experts in most fields other than the one they study. As an aside I reject the idea that "appeal to authority" is always a logical fallacy. Simplified scientific conclusions become ideology. For example cutting down old-growth forests is regarded has been shown to be bad for climate change, bad for the local ecology, and also bad for tourism (so it's usually not good economically). So left wing people are generally against such logging, while left wing parties have a fairly pragmatic approach (cutting down trees that cause danger for people, cutting fire breaks, etc) there are followers who oppose cutting trees in any situation. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/