As a principle, yes, but incorrectly applied. I do love rhetoric. You see, it is a very good way to win an argument by making a wise statment that analgious to your situation, but cannot be directly applied when taken out of the abstract context and placed into the debate scenario. Let's call sh*t sh*t here.Will O'B wrote:Very wise.mukade wrote:Being critical of your own faults is the toughest thing in the world.dapple wrote:
Being critical is easy. Stating and standing up for what you believe in is harder and riskier and takes more courage.
Being ignorant of them is the easiest.
Mukade
Will O'Ban
It is not difficult at all to critisize authority figures, or external problems (I should know, I've done my share). Being ignorant of their faults quite easy as well (which I've probably also done). Being Critical of your personal being is more difficult.
Of course, standing up for what you actually believe in is the most difficult of all of the above things to do. I've done this, but not as often as I aught. It's really rather shameful.
Mukade's comment, while true in principle, really has nothing to do with dapple's priciple, which is eaqually true.
Of course, both parties are just spewing squishy ideas to gain credibility for agendas that are not related to the heart of the issue.
Some people like the way America works and some people don't. I don't, but it probably has nothing to do with either of the above issues, but rather is a result of my personal experiences and biases. Let's not fool ourselves into thinking we made up our own minds. That's stupid (with the exception that some opinions result more directly from selfishness, in which case we can take full credit for them).
Now that I've gotten that out of my system, I thought of one more thing to make America a better place:
If people would stop whining about it, and start trying to make a difference.
I'm done with all you political geniuses now, back to building flutes.