Things change alot when your main objective is not about convincing other people they are wrong, but just appreciating the ability to participate in a conversat

Things change alot when your main objective is not about convincing other people they are wrong, but just appreciating the ability to participate in a conversation. We all want to influence other people's ideas, but their are severe limits to that. Sometimes simply adding your voice to the conversation is enough of a statement in that it lets everyone know that not everyone agrees, and that there are reasonable alternate takes.