'intolerance of ambiguity' was: RE: [thechat] Mumbai bomb blasts

[Erika Meyer]

>>  You kill?  On purpose?  You die.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/134264_will10.html

I may be hungry, but at least I can enjoy stuff like this.

"...A study funded by the US government has concluded that 
conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses 
rooted in 'fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of 
ambiguity.'

...

'This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the 
familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions and to impose simplistic 
cliches and stereotypes'".

American editorials on this report are pretty much choking in their 
own bile, but actually, the authors give the Bush administration a 
way out... it's not that Bush *lied* about Iraq's WMD, it's just that 
he "needed closure."

Perhaps we are simply are a nation of people who "need closure."

Though I'm just not sure that killing (legally or otherwise)
really brings closure...

It just doesn't seem to me to work that way.
Perhaps that's why they don't call me a conservative.

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