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>In a sentence, we need a public infrastructure in place to care for the mentally ill that currently are forced to live on the streets of our major cities. You

by vba616 3y ago

>In a sentence, we need a public infrastructure in place to care for the mentally ill that currently are forced to live on the streets of our major cities. Your feelings, whatever they are, that lead you to your opinions, political principles, or ethics, are inherently immune to being invalidated by others. However, it makes me nervous to read comments such as yours, because my first reaction is that I can't tell what motivates you. Oftentimes deep feelings come from personal connections. If person A had a loved one who became homeless, and person B spent a week in a mental hospital, then those people might naturally have very different reactions to history or public policy debates. Neither is right or wrong, but either might learn from the other.

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iancmceachern 3y ago
I'm just repeating a commonly held belief, hence the upvotes. It's not as if I came up with this opinion out of thin air. >Your feelings, whatever they are, that lead you to your opinions, political principles, or ethics, are inherently immune to being invalidated by others. You don't know me. You can't possibly know something like this from one comment on the internet. It seems that others have said this to you in the past, and you are just parroting it to me. Best wishes, much love
- vba616 3y ago
  >I'm just repeating a commonly held belief, hence the upvotes That possibility ("a commonly held belief") indeed is the reason I thought it worth engaging. I don't think I can see your upvotes, and discussing voting is against the guidelines. >It's not as if I came up with this opinion out of thin air. It would be unreasonable to assume you did. Yet that doesn't give me a hint where your opinions do come from, which is why I was - and am - asking. >You don't know me. That was the gist of my whole comment. It's unfortunate if the meaning of the whole thing was somehow inverted. >You can't possibly know something like this from one comment on the internet Something like what? You quoted a sentence that tried to communicate, in short, nobody can judge you. My entire comment was a disclaimer or admission that I know nothing about you nor can I judge you, and a solicitation of information. >It seems that others have said this to you in the past, and you are just parroting it to me Every word I wrote was original to me and expressed my thoughts at least for one particular moment. Do you think repeating beliefs that others hold is bad? I don't think it's good or bad in itself. By the repetition of an idea, you make it your own, and there is always a good reason for doing so...but that reason is unique to you and not made clear unless you choose. Asking about your reasons may seem intrusive, like asking if you want to open yourself to bullying from all and sundry, but I strongly believe in this principle: What convinces you of a thing is the best possible argument for convincing other people Constructive dialogue on anything cannot take place without some willingness to treat discussion as more than a tactical game. Not participating in constructive dialogue is everyone's right. The benefit to you, the carrot and not the stick, is that you might one day rightly convince someone, somewhere, in the world of something you believe in. Who knows, you could be the first person to convince anyone of anything on the internet in the last half century.

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iancmceachern 3y ago

I'm just repeating a commonly held belief, hence the upvotes. It's not as if I came up with this opinion out of thin air. >Your feelings, whatever they are, that lead you to your opinions, political principles, or ethics, are inherently immune to being invalidated by others. You don't know me. You can't possibly know something like this from one comment on the internet. It seems that others have said this to you in the past, and you are just parroting it to me. Best wishes, much love

vba616 3y ago
>I'm just repeating a commonly held belief, hence the upvotes That possibility ("a commonly held belief") indeed is the reason I thought it worth engaging. I don't think I can see your upvotes, and discussing voting is against the guidelines. >It's not as if I came up with this opinion out of thin air. It would be unreasonable to assume you did. Yet that doesn't give me a hint where your opinions do come from, which is why I was - and am - asking. >You don't know me. That was the gist of my whole comment. It's unfortunate if the meaning of the whole thing was somehow inverted. >You can't possibly know something like this from one comment on the internet Something like what? You quoted a sentence that tried to communicate, in short, nobody can judge you. My entire comment was a disclaimer or admission that I know nothing about you nor can I judge you, and a solicitation of information. >It seems that others have said this to you in the past, and you are just parroting it to me Every word I wrote was original to me and expressed my thoughts at least for one particular moment. Do you think repeating beliefs that others hold is bad? I don't think it's good or bad in itself. By the repetition of an idea, you make it your own, and there is always a good reason for doing so...but that reason is unique to you and not made clear unless you choose. Asking about your reasons may seem intrusive, like asking if you want to open yourself to bullying from all and sundry, but I strongly believe in this principle: What convinces you of a thing is the best possible argument for convincing other people Constructive dialogue on anything cannot take place without some willingness to treat discussion as more than a tactical game. Not participating in constructive dialogue is everyone's right. The benefit to you, the carrot and not the stick, is that you might one day rightly convince someone, somewhere, in the world of something you believe in. Who knows, you could be the first person to convince anyone of anything on the internet in the last half century.