Cut the red wire....no the blue....damn these French schematics!

This is my brain fart from this morning's shower; I guest this would be a shower fart.
The current administration and even our political process in general have created a new and valuable human attributes; rash decision making with limited information. First rash and uninformed decision making is not a human quality (at least it should not be), it is an individual circumstance. We all do it to some degree; maybe we forgot about a deadline and therefore cannot apply the appropriate time and effort or it just is not in our interest to gather all the detailed information when purchasing that toaster. However, current politics continues to present this situation as valuable personal attributes. How many questions in these early presidential debate revlove around some type of Jack Bauer 24 scenario of terrorism? "Mr. Candidate, what would you do if you had 10 minutes to stop a nuclear bomb detination in and Amarican city and had a prisioner that you knew had the information to stop it?" Hmmm, largely populated city or the rights and life of a dispicable human being as described by the scenario...we end in justifiable torture. Just like the rouge cop who breaks all the rules to catch and kill the serial, mass murdering, baby molesting, cop killing litterer in the movies.
These situations aside, it seems even more entrenched; people I speak to in everyday life demand that you have a position on an issue even though you have little or no knowledge of the subject. I got into an argument about the fact that I would not give an opinion on some far removed issue because I admitted I did not have any amount of pertinent information to do so. "You must have a postition, eveyone has a position." They are proud that they have come to some erroneous conclusion without the aid of information or those "informed elitists." Thoughtful and deliberative,once positive human characteristics, now equal inactive and weak, wishy washy without convictions.