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**zueqhbyhp** · 07-07-2012, 06:41 PM

I say this cos on one post one dude said capitilism was bad, socialism was bad and democracy was bad
Another dude replied capitalism is good, socialism is good and democracy is good.
Both are correct from their own veiwpoint, so i think it was a useless argument, when all they had to do was define the semantic terms.
There has got to be thousands of other examples of this?
Theres optimum levels of hair splitting and then theres none at all
The middle way, as usual seems to be the perennial answer.

07-07-2012, 06:41 PM	#3
zueqhbyhp Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 453 Senior Member	I say this cos on one post one dude said capitilism was bad, socialism was bad and democracy was bad Another dude replied capitalism is good, socialism is good and democracy is good. Both are correct from their own veiwpoint, so i think it was a useless argument, when all they had to do was define the semantic terms. There has got to be thousands of other examples of this? Theres optimum levels of hair splitting and then theres none at all The middle way, as usual seems to be the perennial answer.
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