WinDis Polls - 1: Abortion

[Joe Republic]

What a ridiculous poll.  This is far from a black-and-white issue.

[Joe Republic]

What a ridiculous poll.  This is far from a black-and-white issue.

Not really. You either support abortion on request or you don't.

Or you simply don't care.  How should I vote in this poll?

[Joe Republic]

Therefore, your poorly crafted poll doesn't encompass the full range of opinions (or lack thereof).

Besides, you're deliberately reducing an extremely complicated spectrum of possible opinions to a dichotomy of two extremes.  Just like the ludicrous FF/HP polls, political discourse is always more complicated than black-or-white, and it's intellectually deficient to argue otherwise.

[Joe Republic]

'Fence-sitting' implies an interest in the views of either side.  I sit on no fences.

If you genuinely cannot see any middle ground here, then there's really not much point in your discussing political issues at all.

Let's just say that I doubt anybody would hire 'WinDis Polls' in the future, if its administrator doesn't have much of an understanding of the topic they'd be polling.  Well, maybe Fox News might.

[Joe Republic]

Half a dozen people have posted in this thread to adopt one of the two given positions; mainly simpletons who probably have no idea what "nuance" means.

Anyway, the point is that your poll is very poorly crafted.  But I guess it serves political simpletons well.  Rational and intelligent folk can wait for a higher quality discussion on this difficult issue.

[Joe Republic]

So, in other words, if people choose to affiliate with one side of the debate or another, they're simpletons?

If people choose to see a mostly gray debate in only black or white, or are simply unable to see the gray, then of course they are simpletons.

[Joe Republic]

I'm not a simpleton and I didn't give a black or white answer, Joe.

Exactly.

[Joe Republic]

Well his username is "true liberty", so I'm guessing pro-life.

You never give up, do you? 

[Joe Republic]

Jeez, you guys.  Look, if you don't like abortions, then don't get one.

[Joe Republic]

Sorry, but you can't force your beliefs on others.

Ah, so you're opposed to the banning of abortion now?

[Joe Republic]

Sorry, but you can't force your beliefs on others.

Ah, so you're opposed to the banning of abortion now?

No, as I just said, you can't force your beliefs on others.

Exactly.  Therefore, in your view, people should be able to do whatever they want, with no exceptions.  Like kill people, for example.