Emotion is playing too large a role in much of the health care debate. Ezra Klein, a rising liberal intellectual star, resorts to the level of ignorant hysteria when discussing Senator Joseph Lieberman's recent filibuster move. Klein writes:
Lieberman seems primarily motivated by torturing liberals. That is to say, he seems willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score.
Michael Cannon promptly takes Klein to task for these comments.
We all feel passionate about what we believe in. It's why Rob and I spend a fair amount of our spare time working on this blog. But though essential as the fuel that drives us to make the world a better place, emotion often clouds our better judgement. In this case it resulted in vitriolic, unwarrented slander and an egregious display of confirmation bias.
This debate is an important and necessary one. But there is no need to call those on the other side murderers simply because they disagree.
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