Matt Craven

Your comment pissed me off. :) - Mattb4rd

Lindsey, and education helps you to decide what to do with those feelings. - Kate Foy

It's not the opposing viewpoint that pisses me off. It's the accompanying attitude that if I were only smarter, I'd agree with them. - Bill Miranda

I think some people are narrow-minded, not so much that they disagree with my views, but that they refuse to even look at the whole picture, but stick to the narrow view of the particular issue that they have. - Ian May

Exactly, Ian. Some people have on blinders, they seem to be reading their opinions from a script and become upset if you introduce anything not already in the script. - ♫ Rahsheen™

If I were only smarter I wouldn't get into arguments on friendfeed. - Alex Scoble CISSP

I'm with Bill. That condescending attitude, plus a lack of desire on their part to understand my viewpoint as well is what pisses me off.What really makes a person narrow-minded is only seeking out opinions that agree with their world view. If you make a point to never hear opposing viewpoints, you're just getting narrower by the minute. - SusanVillasLewis

It only pisses me off when the opposing point of view has no basis in what they're saying - only raising issues to create problems - Les Zaldor

Plenty of "opposing viewpoints" are wrong. - Marina Martin

"What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told -- and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion." -- Ian Malcolm as quoted by Michael Crichton in "The Lost World" - Dave Roth

Well, this is a gross generalization. If someone says women shouldn't be allowed to vote or black people are only 3/5ths of a person then I'm pissed off because *that* person is bigoted and narrowminded. I'll be irked if someone presents an opposing point of view without engaging in dialog or providing any logic or reasoning. I will be pissed if your opposing point of view is laced with the idea that I'm too stupid to understand it. - AJ Kohn

I read from a selection of various news sources. from all sides of the political spectrum, and around the world. I seldom watch TV news, as I find it largely soundbites without substance, and commercials for different color pills every 6-7 minutes too distracting in any case. I like to feel I can read political articles from authors that I don't agree with. Even then it's easy to only pick out the points you do find palatable and ignore the rest as it suits you. - Ian May

Well, this rules out 90% of the American public - 52% of which elected our next president, just saying... - Robert Worstell

Sorry Aaron, but some points of view are so reprehensible, so morally wrong that a regular Joe citizen has no choice but to be offended. If someone bloviates on how Obama is a muslim or the holocaust never happened or as AJ said that some people are beneath animals, I'm not bigoted nor narrowminded in pointing out to that person that they are a blithering idiot. - Alex Scoble CISSP

I mean if someone comes around and says "I think it's good for people to kill and eat other people," you are saying I'm a bigot if I don't respect that person's views? Hogwashsauce. - Alex Scoble CISSP

distilling your initial statement: "if it pisses you off ... you are bigoted and narrowminded." not helpful, really. - MikeAmundsen

I think it's an ironic statement. You call people "bigoted and narrowminded" and expect them to not get pissed off? I think that everyone has certain core-beliefs and different degrees of maturity. Before entering an argument, you always have to make sure who you're talking too and whether it even makes sense to start that conversation. - Vincent van Wylick

Vincent- I fully expected people to challenge my statement. People who got pissed off at my statement prove my point. Of course, obviously, there are exceptions, but many exceptions even listed here really aren't exceptions, but a demonstration of narrow-minded views that presume that their opinion is the only one that is morally correct. End of the day, dialogue is what is important - even more so, in some cases, than being "right". - Aaron Brazell

I don't think the comments in this thread prove your point. In many ways, your post could be viewed as trolling. - Lindsey

Yeah, but I don't care, Lindsey. I've been called a troll a lot recently, btu the reality is that too many people are not actually thinking for themselves. If I'm a troll, so be it. - Aaron Brazell

But you're generalizing in your initial post and generalizing again in your reply. You don't think anger is a perfectly acceptable response to an opposing viewpoint? I admit to being annoyed all the time when I debate, but I choose to respond diplomatically. Does that still make me narrowminded? Doesn't the fact that I choose to debate it show that I am at least slightly open to your point of view? - Lindsey

Sometimes there is no black and white, right or wrong, but simply different solutions to the original issue. In that case, it can be construed that a person is narrow minded if they refuse to see the other, equally viable, solution. - Ian May

Emotional != bigoted and narrowminded, Aaron. :) - Mona N.

lol@Mona - Shey

Doesn't the fact that you don't care what others think of this post also show how narrowminded you're being? Hmmm . . . interesting train of thought here. Can you be apathetic and still be openminded? - Lindsey

Lindsay - that's a little judgmental, no? - Mona N.

No it's not. I'm speculating . . . trying to see where this goes. It's called thinking. I haven't decided one way or another how I see it. - Lindsey

Thinking, baiting... You say tomato, I say to-mah-to... - Mark VandenBerg

Actually Mark, I'm not baiting. I'm genuinely working this out in my head. It spurred a train of thought which I'd like to explore. I rarely have ulterior motives. I'm not subtle enough for that - Lindsey

Fair enough. I'll recind my snark. - Mark VandenBerg

People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? - Far

I think the political environment we just departed from is a great example. Democrat says one thing. Becuase he's a Democrat, Republican won't even listen and will in fact try to tear down. Vica versa, mix and match. - Aaron Brazell