First, the name of this post represents the detriment of the blogsphere contents.  Soon, this media will become what Chats are:  A place where no intelligent or interesting arguments are developed, but only writings of shallow, full of hatred and revenge nature.  God, please save me from the blindness that exist in my country and is fueled by the government and the guerillas.

When we talk about politics or religion we get into difficult territories.  These two subjects are closely related to the most deep beliefs of each human being, and when they are placed in front of different ones, some people might assimilate the positive, other just ignore it, and others try to destroy it.

For me the others' opinions allows us to get a different insight and test our thoughts.  We are not always right, and a new opinion might give us a broader image of the situation.  This view is not always truthful because when we listen to an opinion we are receiving subjective information, that we must analyze in depth.

The blogs have become in true opinion forums, radical and moderated, but now we are making them the newest arena in the politics battle, where the personal opinions of a few, are becoming the rock in the show for those that can not withstand diverging positions.

The human being is irrational and because of that, capable of making mistakes.  Ask the people to separate their feelings from their beliefs is impossible, and because of that, we will continue seeing opinion blogs being shut down by the intolerance.  The first step for the construction of a true democracy is accept the different points of view and not allow that the basic instincts clouds our analysis capabilities.  We must to encourage the possibility that different views can coexist, even thought they might be uncomfortable.

This is the main reason to not support Mr. AUV.  He and his advisors dislike diverging positions, and make believe the population that an attack to he or his government is an attack to the country, inducing resentment in the people that does not give Mr. Uribe an human nature, but an immaculate, sin and error free.

At the same time, the "left" wing governments are not sugar coated.  For example, our eastern neighbor where openly opposite communication media are shut down.  (I must say that not a single socialist government has been open to opposition.  Few examples are China, the USSR and Cuba where government censorship is carried out).

We must remember that our biggest asset, our freedom, is threatened by both sides of the political spectrum.  Some in this case would consider a third radical pole: the anarchy.  But I don't think that the ignorant masses are capable of self government...  If with our limited civil liberties the crime is king, what could we expect of a government free society?

When are we going to withstand diverging opinions? Perhaps never...

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