Thursday, May 05, 2011

Only two opinions allowed?

Scott Adams - the creator of Dilbert - has some interesting insight into the debate about torture and the capture of Osama Bin Laden. What if - just if - the capture and killing of OBL was due to information subtracted from terrorist using torture - and we still shouldn't use it?

I wonder if our brains are natural two-bucket processors or if we have been trained that way by our adversarial political system. In the United States, every issue seems to get sorted into two buckets, with Democrats generally favoring one bucket and Republicans generally favoring the other. I wonder if our political system is making citizens dumber by encouraging us to think that there are only two valid opinions for every topic.
The two-bucket mind - by Scott Adams 

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