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BBC News - Viewpoint: Could one man have shortened the Vietnam War?
What I invite you to do is, click on the link and CAREFULLY read the piece about Kellen.
Katzenellenbogen (His full, Jewish name) was a man without bias, or at least the ability to see through bias and form opinions and ideas based on reality.
According to what I see in the article, it seems he was ignored because the people in power held strong biases and based all their ideas on the course of the Vietnam war on those biased, flawed ideas.
This thread has nothing to do with the Vietnam war as such but a lot to do with your ability to reason and ignore your own biases in order to come up with a reasonable argument based on what is actually there; not what you'd like to be there or how you think it really is because you want it to be like that.
The question is - can you?
I believe I have that ability but I see very few posters on forums who argue without extreme bias.
Would forums (Internet and parliaments) be better places if we didn't argue on party lines or base policy on what we think is best for us or our interest group?
would the world be a better place and would governments do a better job?
If so, why do we always seem to base everything on political/religious/social bent rather than do what is best?
What I invite you to do is, click on the link and CAREFULLY read the piece about Kellen.
Katzenellenbogen (His full, Jewish name) was a man without bias, or at least the ability to see through bias and form opinions and ideas based on reality.
According to what I see in the article, it seems he was ignored because the people in power held strong biases and based all their ideas on the course of the Vietnam war on those biased, flawed ideas.
This thread has nothing to do with the Vietnam war as such but a lot to do with your ability to reason and ignore your own biases in order to come up with a reasonable argument based on what is actually there; not what you'd like to be there or how you think it really is because you want it to be like that.
The question is - can you?
I believe I have that ability but I see very few posters on forums who argue without extreme bias.
Would forums (Internet and parliaments) be better places if we didn't argue on party lines or base policy on what we think is best for us or our interest group?
would the world be a better place and would governments do a better job?
If so, why do we always seem to base everything on political/religious/social bent rather than do what is best?