No but a biased one.
In an article I read this morning -----
Benjamin Franklin was perhaps the pinnacle of this mindset. At the Constitutional Convention, Franklin said, “I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects … It is therefore that the older I grow the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment.” In his autobiography, Franklin advised readers never to use the words “certainly” or “undoubtedly” when stating our beliefs. Instead say “I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken.”
Franklin liked to tell a short parable. He said there was a “French lady, who, in a little dispute with her sister said: ‘I don’t know how it happens, sister, but I meet with nobody but myself that is always in the right.’”
Franklin’s point was that we are all that French lady. We all believe we have a monopoly on the truth. I know I feel that way most of the time. But I fight that inclination. I try to remind myself: What are the odds that I, one of 8 billion humans on earth, happen to be that singular person who has discovered the correct take on politics, literature, the environment, religion and all other topics? Probably two to one. Maybe even three to one.
It's tough to change your mind about things - but to be fair about an issue, you have to take a page from our Founders, who did it often. Because like scientists, the answer is fluid and science is not dogma.
Hemi is not totally unreasonable as he is able to discuss reasonably on subjects not as charged as politics - unlike others, who can somehow bring TRUMP into a discussion on food, gardening or home improvement.
This is fascinating to watch because Hemi has proven over and over that he's nothing more than a flamethrowing troll, and yet he makes one lucid point and all of a sudden he's freaking Ghandi.
Becky and I are discussing this in the Religion forum right now.