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No one is the villain in their own narrative. Approach people with a good faith belief that everyone want's the world to be a better place. They may be misgui
by JackFr 6y ago
No one is the villain in their own narrative.
Approach people with a good faith belief that everyone want's the world to be a better place. They may be misguided, manipulated or misinformed, but they want a better world and a better life just like you do. And if your especially gifted with an open mind, accept that informed, intelligent, people of good will can look at the same facts and reach different conclusions about policy.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoamen to this, if there's anything that's present across the political spectrum: hubris and joylessness
- Steltek 6y agoWe could only be so lucky if they looked at facts instead of dismissing them as some new elaborate hoax, concocted just in time on Facebook.
- jmcqk6 6y agoThis is what my approach is, but I've found that it's very difficult to find people who disagree with me, but do so in good faith, and who are just as willing to be skeptical of their own beliefs as they are of mine, and I am of mine. I know from my personal growth that I've been wrong often in my beliefs about what is true in the world, and so I must account for that. I'm always prepared to change my mind when faced with contradictory facts. Unfortunately this is not a very common mindset. We are slaves to ideology and ego.
- brudgers 6y agoI'm sometimes a villain. I try to avoid it. I try to accept and acknowledge it when I am. Hard as it is, I have even apologized for what I have done to people who did not expect, let alone demand, an apology. There are people who don't act in good faith. People who will harm those who love them because those who love them deserve it. Thinking about it as agreeing to disagree is a categorical error. This is orthogonal to familial obligations one might observe. It is healthy to recognize that difference. To recognize that observance does not require assuming good will. By not making one's self vulnerable in the way that such an assumption makes one vulnerable. There are times for "my colleagues on the other side of the aisle." And there times to accept that some people are harmful to one's well being.
- mcphage 6y ago> but they want a better world and a better life just like you do Who they want that better world and better life for differs, though. Who they include, and who they exclude, matters, and how do you communicate around that difference?