I agree, but I try to stick to downgrading the comment/argument instead of the people themselves, because I’ve found it to be a pretty ubiquitous line of thought since I started noticing it.
I was listening to an episode of Joe Rogan, and the guest considered himself a conservative.
Discussing the differences between a conservative and a liberal he used an analogy of a fence, where a liberal would want to take it down and a conservative would want to leave it up.
m463|5 years ago
Discussing the differences between a conservative and a liberal he used an analogy of a fence, where a liberal would want to take it down and a conservative would want to leave it up.
It got me thinking if this was true or not.
A little digging and I found this page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
"Although the purpose of this fence is not obvious, there may be valid reasons for its presence."
(I'd like to think I'm in the mindful middle somewhere)