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Aside from everything else mentioned, some people just naturally have strong opinions on all kinds of stuff. Whether their strong opinions are justified is another thing, but people with well-reasoned opinions only holding them weakly due to a lack of confidence is not exactly good either. In the specific case of the Scottish Independence Referendum, I can understand why you might not have a strong opinion on it. The referendum wasn't just about a single policy issue, it was about several, and how much confidence you had in independence actually resulting in meaningful change. Even if you strongly believed in the justness of one of the proposed views of what an independent Scotland could be, if you believed remaining part of the Uk would be about as (un)likely to create a similar sort of society then there really wouldn't be much reason to get all excited. Nessus posted:You also have to look at your own ethical and moral beliefs. For instance I feel that the complete legal equality of sexes, races, religions and sexual identities is a very valuable and important thing, and would be worth doing even if (somehow) there was demonstration of economic harms that come from it (there is not, to my knowledge, any such, but I mean as a hypothetical.) I do agree though that this is not a reason to oppose social equality. It's not exactly fair to to condemn one half of the population to a few specific jobs for lower pay, just to reduce some other metric, especially one that is a far more strongly affected by other poo poo.
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Craptacular! posted:That said, "strong" political positions are ultimately flawed, since you should at least be willing to consider a situation that could cause you to change your beliefs. If you can't think of when you're ever going to be wrong, you're a blowhard with a pet issue, not unlike the pundits that contribute nothing to debate.
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