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I would argue that one of the most effective steps you can take in a situation like that is to establish pluralistic institutions where people get to know each
by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
I would argue that one of the most effective steps you can take in a situation like that is to establish pluralistic institutions where people get to know each other in person, as fellow human beings.
- richie_adler 3y agoAnd I would argue that where religious motivations are involved, reason and empathy utterly fail. Dogma trumps all.
- Ralfp 3y agoWhat does this change? 100 years ago people were writing angry letters to the American newspapers about women suffrage being an obvious sign of mental disease spreading in the society. You think people writing those letters were isolated from women and didn't know them?
- 0xDEAFBEAD 3y agoI actually think it is quite possible that the people writing those letters, for the most part, didn't have any healthy relationships with women. Or healthy relationships with suffragettes, at least.