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Originally Posted by Incognitas
Surely every issue should be approached on it's merits not on political ideology This means I can't vote in the poll because it doesn't cover what I think and feel.
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Yes, I agree arguments should be settled on the relevant issues in each case but if you have a meta-narrative through which you understand the world (and all of us do, of one kind or another), then that meta-narrative becomes one of the 'merits' upon which you decide each issue. The ability to debate in a 'moral vacuum' is useful in a forum like this but when you're in the real world, you have to decide on issues based on how you believe those issues fit into the world as you see it. To do it any other way you would have to be a robot, IMHO.
That aside, the poll doesn't ask how moral/political issues
should be decided - it asks, in so many words, whether or not there exists a 'class' of person as a 'bleeding-heart, liberal do-gooder' who reads the Guardian, is determined only to see the 'nice' in other people and finds tough decisions impossible to take, or whether this person doesn't exist at all and is merely a myth invented by the conservative Press as a handy insult for anybody who disagrees with their point of view.
To that extent, you ought to be able to participate in the Poll and say you think yes, they exist, no they don't ... or you don't know/care.