How do you decide what to believe? Like for example abortion..I am against it but I can go on the internet and Google 100 good arguments for abortion...but you can Google the opposite too....so....??
Or like with politics..I can Google or look up 100s of valid reasons why Trump is bad..boo....or good...yay!! So how to decide which side to pick?
Maybe its a really dumb question..hopefully someone knows what I mean..
Politics, at least as far as casting votes is concerned, is more complex because you're choosing between entire packages rather than taking a stance on individual issues. Putting your X in the box beside a candidate could mean anything from agreeing with every single aspect of what that candidate stands for, to disagreeing with much of what the individual believes but supporting enough of the party line to support them, to hating almost everything about them but hating the other side even more.
For other issues, to the extent I care about them at all, I try to look at an argument from both sides and then form an opinion. There are also two levels of opinion, namely whether I think something is appropriate and if not whether I believe others should be prevented from doing it.
It always used to be said that if a conservative didn't like something he just didn't do it, but if a liberal didn't like something he didn't want anyone else doing it either. But then two dudes wanted to marry each other and the conservative howling started as if the world was about to end. Hence it's perfectly possible to find something that I disagree with but don't believe needs to be specifically prohibited.
To give an example, something like gay marriage is something I have no interest in doing - I'm just not into guys like that. I can look to Scripture and find it fairly easy to make a case against it. But then if two men want to marry each other it doesn't make any difference to me or to my life, and they might not accept Scripture as having any relevance at all. So in that regard it's not something I have any desire to do but I don't see a reason why others should be prevented from doing it. I do, however, believe that the freedom of religious ministers must be equally respected if they choose not to bless a union they consider to violate their religious beliefs.
Often I like to try to defend both sides of an argument to see which one survives best. Sometimes that leads into some thorny perspectives but seems to be a good way to figure if I'm on the right side of something. As a rule I don't believe things should be banned unless they involve a clearly identifiable victim. So, for example, rape and murder are banned because at least one party to the event was non-consenting and therefore a victim. On the other hand I don't believe the government has any business regulating, or even trying to regulate, what consenting adults do in private. The fact I might find an activity distasteful doesn't mean that others who consider it acceptable shouldn't be allowed to do it in private.
