Friday, June 22, 2018

Never oppose “the person”...ever...ever... but do do useful discussion


It does not pay off ever to oppose another person for his/her opinion (or believed ignorance).  Where are you on the spectrum toward kind, ethics based, rational thinking from cruel opposition?

From the article “Polarized poll: People See Worst In Each Other”, USA Today:

“In the poll, people were asked to tell us why the other side feels the way it does.

What we found: a major disconnect and a mutual tendcy to assume the worst.

That included a volley of insults hurled both directions.  Republican describe Trump’s opponents as lazy, narrow-minded and mired in the status quo; Democrats describe his supporters as racist and stupid.”

Both sides have something in their culture about treating other people kindly and compassionately, yet they fall to the naturally evolved, but primitive, impulse to not think but to immediately label the threatening strange other tribe as “enemies” (in some way).

If we but thought it out clearly and reconciled this with our values, we would conclude the “make wrong” and all that goes with it is just a negative force creating no good and, usually, causing some harm or loss (at least of forward momentum).

I would suggest that people only know what they know, based on what their exposed to mostly, and that they are not “to blame” for knowing no better.

However, one’s life totally shifts when one stops ALL opposition to other people and instead embraces the way of being of cooperation and seeking to find the most good.  And it is the ideas that we should discuss and resolve to create the very best - and never is anybody “wrong” for what they believe.  What one side believes is strictly subject to verification and in order to do that verification of facts is neede but never is it useful to “evilize” the other side.

The only conversation, if you are in the tribe of “what works best”, is to engage in progressive conversation, which are those designed to create better decisions and better results in the world.

And, of course, that means not encouraging or engaging in any such oppositional, “make wrong”, emotional vilification of others.

Where are you on this spectrum?

On the site:  No Negative Conversations.  And, perhaps, The Righteous Unthinking Mind Vs. The Thinking Mind - And The Effect Of Harmful Ignorance.

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