If Ayn Rand were still alive, she'd be James Holmes's fiercest supporter.

[RoccoRyg]

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[Democrats_win]

1. Wall Street IS James Holmes--boobby traps and all!

One could make an excellent case that Wall (FRAUD) street IS James Holmes. They are as educated and they've left a trail of death and destruction. Their boobby traps have gone off and left hundreds of millions of people world-wide suffering.

Yet these well-educated thugs are not in jail. That is the ONLY difference.

[patrice]

3. We need to start counting SIMILARITIES as important, and in some cases much MORE so, as differences.

Yes, it is inferential thinking and, therefore, not necessarily valid (or the probability of validity is less than that resulting from deductive thinking), but "not necessarily" does not mean the same thing as absolutely invalid. Inferences about similarities between "different" things could be regarded as hypotheses, the basis for questions in any empirical knowledge system.

We just have this STRONG cultural bias to assume that "Blah, blah has nothing to do with yada, yada". Cognitive errors: everything is separate, discrete, individual; if there are connections they are "insignificant" . . . I'm sure you can think of others, all of which BREAK perceptual patterns.

Divide and conquer at its MOST powerful, because it's inside each person's head.

[Taverner]

2. That harpy LOVED her serial killers