Tell me, if someone were to say to you that abortion is not a huge and controversial issue, would you waste time trying to convince the guy that he was wrong?
Ok, I am going to re-word this to make crystal clear what I meant here.
Tell me, if someone were to say to you that 1 + 1 does not equal 2, would you waste time trying to convince the guy that he was wrong?
I don’t even know how to respond to this. 1+1=2 is an empirical fact. “Immigration is a problem” and “abortion is a problem” are not empirical facts, they’re opinions.
Aaaactually, you cannot
oroveprove that 1+1=2. It is an axiom. And 1+1 isn’t always 2, in binary it’s 10.I don’t know how to respond to this either, or what an axiom is.
If I have one of a thing, and I take another one of that thing and put them together, I now have two of that thing. 1+1=2.
I think I’m starting to understand how Warbler feels sometimes because I don’t understand what the fuck binary has to do with anything either.
An axiom is a definition that is used to build mathematics. You cannot (formally) prove it, so you just have to accept it. And choosing to accept or reject certain axioms can lead to very different versions of mathematics.
But nothing of that has anything to do with politics.