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Thread #76702 Message #1365381
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
27-Dec-04 - 05:45 PM
Thread Name: Birmingham play closed by mob
Subject: RE: Birmingham play closed by mob
"In any conflict situation a bias in favour of one side has to mean a bias against the other side."
"Just because one side is in the wrong doesn't mean the other side is in the right."
I may well be inconsistent sometimes, but I can't see any contradiction whatsoever between those two sentences of mine, Wolfgang.
"Bias" in relation to some conflict means having a predisposition towards one side and against the other. Thinking that both sides are wrong, in some ways (and perhaps right in some other ways) does not imply any such predisposition.
Of course, it would in fact be quite possible to think that both sides in a conflict are wrong in some ways, and still have a bias in one direction or the other, just as it would be possible to come to an unbiassed conclusion that one side is on balance more or less right or wrong than the other.