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49 Post author: ThePrussian 26 February 2015 10:36AM

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Comment author: ThePrussian 28 February 2015 06:05:59PM 2 points [-]

You don't... but others do. Dinesh D'Souza has written a book detailing the "root causes" argument, but with a twist - the quotations and other evidence he amasses are from a socially conservative perspective. That is, he makes exactly the same, fully backed up "root causes" argument, but differs on the root causes in question.

Again, I am trying to make the point that what you find obvious isn't at all what others find obvious. People change radically across time and space.