Well, my grandmother is pretty far-right, but she's one of the most sweetest, caring people I've ever met.
Yeah, it's a personal example, but it's one that I choose to believe in.
Yeah, it's a personal example, but it's one that I choose to believe in.
I'm sure it is exhausting to take stances that morally require you to litigate so many things, and litigate each of them as if they were of crucial importance and perfectly obvious to any reasonable person. But there are other ways to approach the inherent unpleasantness of, well, other people.
And I think you've been around long enough to know that I understand quite well how exhausting that can be. And you may recall that I somehow managed to argue for what I believed without thinking the fact that I had to do so was some kind of horrible commentary on humanity, or a good reason to question basic civility, or whatever other special pleading you care to use to imply that your discomfort with other viewpoints is somehow worse or more valid than everyone else's.
Whether a difference is irreconcilable is a separate question from whether it's unconscionable, or whether it needs to be fought continually.
Seeing as how "understanding where people are coming from" is almost the literal definition of empathy, I'm not sure how you'd go about questioning that.
Nobody's asking anyone to be nice to someone who's being crappy to them, if that's what you mean. Though even if someone is being crappy, the context of just what you're insinuating about them probably plays a role. If people hear it suggested that belief X is bigoted or even just ridiculous, yeah, you might get some snippiness from the people who don't think it is. That kinda stuff poisons the well pretty quick.
I don't know how you can say something like this right after defending the idea of taking a "zero sum" posture. You don't see the connection there, or how it demonstrates exactly what I'm saying about degrees of disagreeableness?
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I really just want you all angry and confused the whole time.