tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10829781.post115920112124533090..comments2023-07-05T11:26:53.498+01:00Comments on A Big Stick and a Small Carrot: Implausible DeniabilityGarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188217045700587288noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10829781.post-1159209988676074652006-09-25T19:46:00.000+01:002006-09-25T19:46:00.000+01:00"How can any rational human being hold those two o..."How can any rational human being hold those two obviously contradictory views at the same time?"<BR/><BR/>The answer's in your post. He isn't rational, so it's not about facts and analysis, it's about views held "very, very strongly indeed".<BR/><BR/>As for contradictory views, people do it all the time. Simultaneously believing in an afterlife, heaven and so on AND reincarnation, for example. It only matters when people in a position of power start acting on their weird beliefs. <BR/><BR/>Tony, in particular, seems to suffer from the delusion that <B>thinking</B> things are a particular way will actually make them that way. <BR/><BR/>To recycle an old phrase, it's not what he doesn't know that's scary - it's what he knows for sure that just ain't so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com