Which brings to mind a Carnegiesm.  Everybody thinks
they are right.

Now how can you disprove them right if you don't know
what they think?  And if they have new thoughts/angles
to the story, it bears paying attention so that
untruths (truth is subjective) can be dispelled.

--- Eric Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I posted these during the related discussions in
> late January, and I think 
> they remain apropos now.  I don't think anybody need
> fear exposure to ideas 
> with which they disagree, if we believe the truth
> will assert itself in the 
> end.
> 
> "That differences of opinion should arise among men
> on politics, on religion 
> and on every other topic of human inquiry, and that
> these should be freely 
> expressed in a country where all our faculties are
> free, is to be expected. 
> But these valuable privileges are much perverted
> when permitted to disturb 
> the harmony of social intercourse, and to lessen the
> tolerance of 
> opinion." --Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Citizens of
> Washington, 1809.
> 
> "I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy,
> suffering my faith to go no 
> further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see
> the efforts of 
> hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions
> of different hypotheses, 
> truth may be elicited and science advanced in the
> end." --Thomas Jefferson 
> to George P. Hopkins, 1822.
> 
> "In every country where man is free to think and to
> speak, differences of 
> opinion will arise from difference of perception,
> and the imperfection of 
> reason; but these differences when permitted, as in
> this happy country, to 
> purify themselves by free discussion, are but as
> passing clouds 
> overspreading our land transiently and leaving our
> horizon more bright and 
> serene." --Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waring,
> 1801.
> 
> --Eric
> 
> Eric D. M. Johnson
> Proprietor
> The Village Factsmith Historical Research &
> Consulting
> http://www.factsmith.com/
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> 
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