What do you think of this statement, ya'll?

Question

"People only fight when they are threatened. Conservatives use logic for their beliefs whereas liberals use emotion and no facts.Therefore conservatives are intellectually superior so they feel no threat from their liberal spouses. They are like cute pets. You gotta lov'em no matter how wacky they get sometimes."

Answer 1

It does not have to be EITHER/OR, that sounds like an old paradigm of thinking. I usually like to address it as BOTH/AND

Answer 2

What about people who are neither conservatives nor liberals eh? Are they not people? I think that statement is extremely simplistic.

I would imagine whoever said this is a conservative. In the orignal quote replace "Conservative" with "me" or "I" and liberal with "you". What do you get? An egotistic fool.

Answer 3

Bollocks, frankly. You can't generalise either side of the political spectrum that way; they both contain people who can make logical arguments and people who can't.

Whether one side has proportionately more than the other is open for debate, of course.

Answer 4

It's wrong.

About "people only fight when they are threatened":

People can fight for causes that do not directly concern them.

About the whole conservative and liberal thing:

Sometimes I believe that it is the conservatives who are emtional. The liberals use logic to figure out what changes do we need, but conservatives are just too emotionally attached to traditions. But, every scenerio is possible.  

Answer 5

I think its a bunch of bull butter.  I wouldnt know though, my wife is more conservative than me, and I'm pretty dang conservative.

Answer 6

It's not true that people only fight when they are threatened.

It's clearly untrue that conservatives use logic for their beliefs. Many base their beliefs on wishful thinking.

It's a flat-out lie that liberals don't use facts. (And if you think conservatives never use appeal to emotion, I have to wonder what planet you've been living on.)

Conservatives tend to be less intelligent. They are more likely to see the world in very simple terms, and ignore all facts that don't fit that view. (Read this on New Scientist, but then, conservatives are more likely to reject science than are liberals, so you probably don't care.)

If conservatives don't feel threatened, why are there so many screaming conservatives on this site, spewing mindless bile, making up cledarly false "facts" to support their positions?

Oh, right. You prefer living in your fantasy world, rather than reality.

I think whoever came up with that clearly absurd, hateful, mindless bilge is brain-damaged.

Answer 7

I think that is probably one of the dumbest things I have ever seen.  

1) "People only fight when they are threatened. "  Really?  you should probably spend some time on a playground with kids.

2) Because the facts used by liberals are not in line with the conservative attitude does not change the existence of those facts.  

3) the whole liberal spouse thing... who would want to live with someone they did not respect?  

Answer 8

Obviously this person has spent too much time trying to debate with nameless liberals on the Internet. In my experience:

Liberal civilians and conservative public figures: overemotional, non-factual

Conservative civilians and liberal public figures: logical, factual