Skepticism is great. Given your apparent preference for making declarations of opinion as if they are fact and apparent disinterest in actually engaging people in dialog, I'm content to excuse you from anything you'd like. You can't begin to make any change in the world until you're aware of the actual facts on the ground around you. Life is complex. People are full of contradictions. They rarely fall into simplistic, black and white categories or dichotomies. Deciding that you are the final arbiter of reality and that the world and the people in it must conform to your ideas and preconceptions is folly. It's a folly that is no less common amongst political ideologues than it is amongst religious fundamentalists. That is a fact for which I am quite grateful. That particularly flaw in the way fundamentalists and ideologues engage the world seems to prevent both groups from being effective enough to actually gain the control they seek, regardless of the supposed altruism or libertarianism in their professed creed.
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