political alignments as emotional aversions

[Sisyphus]

Your point, as I gather, was that not everything can be based on automatic archetypes, that there's no such thing as a position exclusive to "liberals" or "conservatives," that it's possible to advocate the same thing for vastly different reasons. Also, that partisanship obscures all that, putting everybody into de facto camps and destroying rational debate.

 

...I agree!

[Saryctos]

Your point, as I gather, was that not everything can be based on automatic archetypes, that there's no such thing as a position exclusive to "liberals" or "conservatives," that it's possible to advocate the same thing for vastly different reasons. Also, that partisanship obscures all that, putting everybody into de facto camps and destroying rational debate.

 

...I agree!

 

Perhaps the problem comes when every argument is only broken into 2 sides. There are many reasons to be for or against any 1 issue, why not categorize based on them?

[Pangloss]

I just thought your reply was eloquent not just for what it said, but for what it didn't say.

 

("I am only an egg" is a reference to Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land", indicating respect.)