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In reply to the discussion: FCC Proposes Groundbreaking Free Public Wi-Fi Throughout United States; Mobile Companies Protest [View all]Fedaykin
(118 posts)Your opinion is THE most valuable thing you have to offer here. It's more about being 'right' then it is about actually having a useful conversation about a possible controversial issue. It's easier to be snide and cynical then it is to present cogent arguments under the rationale of having a civil discussion. There's no possibility that you'll investigate who put out the documentary and what the argument is, no chance whatever that you might even have a look at the film company who produced the film to see what awards might have been won. It's too inconvenient, easier to be derogatory and opinionated. Thanks but no thanks for your opinions!
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will.
-Mark Twain, "Consistency" speech and essay
"Oh, dear, we are all like that. Each of us knows it all, and knows he knows it all--the rest, to a man, are fools and deluded..." "...Yet this sarcastic fact does not humble the arrogance nor diminish the know-it-all bulk of a single verdict-maker of the lot, by so much as a shade. Mind is plainly an ass, but it will be many ages before it finds it out, no doubt. Why do we respect the opinions of any man or any microbe that ever lived? I swear don't know. Why do I respect my own? Well--that is different.
- Mark Twain, "Three Thousand Years among the Microbes"
"It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
-MARK TWAIN, "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson"
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