>> From: "Mina Kumar" <wejazzjune at hotmail.com>
>>
>> I sometimes wonder if certain people choose their leftist politics simply
>> because they enjoy dissenting from more popular convictions, and when
>> they acquire a circle of like-minded people, they find themselves put upon to
>> dissent again, no matter how it contradicts their own previous
>> statements, because agreement is too much like conformity.
>
> Bingo.
>
a valuable point, i would agree. but is there anything wrong or valuless with that stance? i see value in someone (pretty assured to be in the minority) playing the contrarian, keeping alternative theses, even weaker ones, alive (jks might detect the pkf influence in this view).
--ravi