(September 21, 2010 at 12:13 am)padraic Wrote:Quote: How can we hack the ignorant to make them do the right thing?
Using the royal we? I really,truly, could not care less about the personal beliefs of others ,their non intrusive behaviour or the likelihood that their areas of profound ignorance may be different from mine.
Unfortunately if enough people hold ignorant beliefs, it can and soon does become intrusive.
As gargantuan says the people like the Tea party movement are an ignorant bunch of idiots, but together, in enough numbers, they can and will have a wider effect on the world. It's scary really.
They helped this nutter get into some position of power.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11378369
"Relatively little is known about the 41-year-old former political lobbyist's views on specific policies or her agenda if elected, but she is pro-gun, anti-abortion, and has said there was more evidence to support the idea of creationism than Darwin's theory of evolution.
She opposes regulating greenhouse gas emissions and has called President Obama "anti-American".
Ms O'Donnell, who is unmarried and has no children, is a vocal proponent of abstinence before marriage. "
