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01 Feb 2015, 11:47 pm

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Some people call psychology an art and some folks call it a science.


I'd call it an art that could be a science, but falls short.



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01 Feb 2015, 11:50 pm

People from any side of the coin love to censor things.

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Left = censoring speech, like "hate speech"
Right = censoring specific things like video games and pornography

They're as bad as each other. (Albeit the examples above can fall on either or even both sides.)



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01 Feb 2015, 11:50 pm

eric76 wrote:
For what it's worth, of people I know on both sides of the main political spectrum and those completely off of the political spectrum, many are very open to new experiences and man are not at all open to new experiences and everything in between.

Some, both left and right, are very single minded and want nothing to distract them from their work. Others, both left and right, are very interested in new experiences.

I don't believe that you can generalize without reliable data.


Well, yes, of course one can, when it comes to human beings, if one has close to a photographic memory, for human interaction, excellent cognitive empathy, and deals with around one hundred thousand human beings who are extremely diverse, over the course of one lifetime.

I for one, need neither psychology or science to understand it, as I come innately equipped AND ENVIRONMENTALLY PRACTICED to understand it.

To rely on science alone, is a narrow view of potential life.

I learn that decades ago....

And I learn it here everyday, even more.

My experience with people is simply IMMENSE. :)

FEW share it, and that is just a statistical FACT.


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01 Feb 2015, 11:51 pm

eric76 wrote:
aghogday wrote:
Some people call psychology an art and some folks call it a science.


I'd call it an art that could be a science, but falls short.


Yes, I agree. :)


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03 Feb 2015, 5:23 am

eric76 wrote:
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Both right and left sometimes want to censor opposing views. Both right and left are sometimes happy for existing views to exist; either they can learn from them, or they can more productively educate through open discussion than through suppression.

In recent years, the right have generally been keener on censorship. See Section 28 as an example. The left's more liberal attitude has seen them win the culture war, and now much of the left is getting complacent and the pendulum is swinging back the other way - see the Oxbridge abortion debate that was shut down in case it made people feel "unsafe".


I see political correctness as often being a form of censorship and that nearly all comes from the left.

Political correctness is mostly just basic good manners. Asking people to be polite and respectful is not censorship.

Campaigning for people to be arrested and imprisoned because of non-threatening Tweets, on the other hand, is unjustified censorship, but that's still a very recent issue. Five years ago, such a thing would be borderline unthinkable.