Understanding convictions, your own included

Some questions provoke immediate resistance: one would like to answer both, or refuse to answer. That reaction is information, not a defect of the questionnaire.

Nobody defends a tolerance without limit, and nobody defends its absence. The whole debate bears on where the limit lies and on the authority that sets it.

Finding a different result a few years later is not a sign that one of the two measurements was wrong. Three distinct causes can explain it.

A ballot does not say why it was cast. Three different logics produce the same act, and the electoral system largely determines which dominates.

Owning is not a simple fact, but a set of distinct rights, which the law distributes differently according to the goods. That is where most disagreements lodge.