Re: Changing ones mind

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 21:34:15 MST

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    Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
    > Ok, I'm going to bring up a topic and may get thrown
    > back into the dust for doing so but here goes.
    >
    > Can anyone currently subscribed to the ExI list cite
    > an actual example where due to the list discussion they
    > "changed" their mind?

    Yes. I changed my mind a few times since I've been here. There
    were positions I expounded and was called on that on further
    reflection and following leads given here I decided I was either
    mistaken about or my view was not balanced. The latest place
    where I believe my view was not balanced was due to the
    persistence of some folks that I look at what the US has done
    both for the good as well as the bad. After 9/11, I started
    looking for why people in many parts of the world might be that
    angry with the US. What I found shocked and sickened me. I was
    like many here in not being very aware of the dark side. But in
    seeing that I lost sight of some of the good as well.

    Gaining more balance, something that is in progress and not
    completed or likely to be as long as I'm still thinking, does
    not persuade me this war is any more correct. But I was out of
    balance.

    - samantha



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