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Originally Posted by rhadin
To my way of thinking, the immaturity is in being so closed minded that one never finds out about the person's character. It would be pretty hard to know whether Ron Paul's politics are right or wrong if all you measured it by was Ron Paul's politics.
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If someone takes a public stance in favor of, say, drowning kittens, and I, for whatever reason, happen to be passionately against drowning kittens, would it be immature of me to choose not to patronize that someone? What else do I need to know about him?
But, on a related tack, I agree with you that I will probably have a more informed and considered opinion on my kitten-drowning stance if I'm willing read stuff, even fiction, that presents, or reflects, a world-view with a different kitten-drowning stance than my own.
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