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Election 2016
Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton
Office of the President (POTUS)
Posted 9 y ago
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SGT (Join to see) - The party platform with which I agree, and the candidate with whose policies I agree.
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I vote my conscience. I don't consider that a logical or emotional voter. I vote with whomever falls in line with my belief system.
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Interesting question. I suspect most people will say logical, we certainly want to believe that about ourselves. However, in my experience most people have a tenious understanding of formal logic or even how to recognize when our inputs and outputs are based or influenced by opinion and bad logic. We have a broad ability for self deception. While I think most people will claim logic, the reality is that the outcomes of their thought process have been contaminated by poor or incorrect inputs and a bad understanding of logic and logic errors. GIGO.
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PO1 Todd Cousins
I can see where you are going with this but you are leaning to much in a white or black world. I believe that if you separate logic and emotion completely you short change yourself. As an example logically it is wrong to risk two lives to save one. So using logic alone firefighters would never enter a fire to save lives. I tend to vote or making most of my decisions based in logic but that logic is influenced with emotion. Hope that made sense.
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SPC Kevin Ford
PO1 Todd Cousins - It makes perfect sense and I completely agree. Where I think logic does come into play is not completely in making value judgements, but instead in being able to understand the world we live in.
There is a lot of information out there, some true, some false, some misleading. More formal logic structures can help us evaluate the reality world is it exists instead of how our ideologies (whatever they may be) want them to be. Until we can do that, it is hard to make any value judgements because they suffer from the same GIGO problems. If we don't look at incoming information logically it is easy for unethical people to manipulate our emotional responses.
There is a lot of information out there, some true, some false, some misleading. More formal logic structures can help us evaluate the reality world is it exists instead of how our ideologies (whatever they may be) want them to be. Until we can do that, it is hard to make any value judgements because they suffer from the same GIGO problems. If we don't look at incoming information logically it is easy for unethical people to manipulate our emotional responses.
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