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More than that, how can anyone form a reasonable disagreement when they have not considered the other person's position? You can't.  Whenever I run into these types of people I just start to ask them (there are a number of ways to do this) to articulate what my positions are.  If they cannot successfully do that then how is it they know they formed the right opinion? As an example, a neighbor of mine in Orange County brought up the point of how bad it was that President Bush did not sign the Rome Statute of the International Court.  I asked him if he knew why the President did not do this.  He said he did not know but "Probably because..." At that point, I saw his failing whether I knew about this Statute or not.  However, I did know a little about the issue and suggested that what if I told him (a libertarian) that the reason the President nor the one before him would sign it because it restricted basic, fundamental rights we cherish as Americans (E.g., right to a trial...
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