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I don't know about you, but my life is too short to associate with troglodytes. Especially when there are so many amazing open-minded, open-hearted weirdos out

I don't know about you, but my life is too short to associate with troglodytes. Especially when there are so many amazing open-minded, open-hearted weirdos out there I can spend my days with.

alt227 2y ago
No I dont consider myself so important that I am above interacting with anybody, nor do I think my opinions are better or more correct than anybody elses. I think even if you were to spend your life just getting to know and educating 1 bigotted person so much so that they change they views just a little, that would be a life well spent.
- standardUser 2y ago
  > nor do I think my opinions are better or more correct than anybody elses. Well, you should. If you don't, you should work on formulating more correct opinions that you believe in and can defend.
  - alt227 2y ago
    > Well, you should Thanks for telling me what to do! > you should work on formulating more correct opinions that you believe in and can defend. No thanks, Im happy being open minded and willing to have good debates which can change either sides opinion. If you are not open to having your mind changed, you can not call yourself open minded. Lets not let this devolve any further into a spat about opinion. Im not telling you yours is wrong, you can stop trying to tell me mine is now.
- OkayPhysicist 2y ago
  Why are the bigoted people so important that it's worth wasting a perfectly good life appealing to them? Fuck em. Progress happens when a new idea achieves enough cultural cache that the expressing the backwards view becomes a fringe belief, worthy of ostracization. 30 years ago, gay marriage was a contentious issue. Today, it's sociopolitical suicide to oppose it. Before that it was women entering the workforce, or desegregation.
  - alt227 2y ago
    Because if everybody had the same attitude as that, this world would be a horrible place to exist. History judges people on how they treat the people they disagree with.
- deleted 2y ago
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I don't know about you, but my life is too short to associate with troglodytes. Especially when there are so many amazing open-minded, open-hearted weirdos out there I can spend my days with.

alt227 2y ago

No I dont consider myself so important that I am above interacting with anybody, nor do I think my opinions are better or more correct than anybody elses. I think even if you were to spend your life just getting to know and educating 1 bigotted person so much so that they change they views just a little, that would be a life well spent.

standardUser 2y ago
> nor do I think my opinions are better or more correct than anybody elses. Well, you should. If you don't, you should work on formulating more correct opinions that you believe in and can defend.
- alt227 2y ago
  > Well, you should Thanks for telling me what to do! > you should work on formulating more correct opinions that you believe in and can defend. No thanks, Im happy being open minded and willing to have good debates which can change either sides opinion. If you are not open to having your mind changed, you can not call yourself open minded. Lets not let this devolve any further into a spat about opinion. Im not telling you yours is wrong, you can stop trying to tell me mine is now.
OkayPhysicist 2y ago
Why are the bigoted people so important that it's worth wasting a perfectly good life appealing to them? Fuck em. Progress happens when a new idea achieves enough cultural cache that the expressing the backwards view becomes a fringe belief, worthy of ostracization. 30 years ago, gay marriage was a contentious issue. Today, it's sociopolitical suicide to oppose it. Before that it was women entering the workforce, or desegregation.
- alt227 2y ago
  Because if everybody had the same attitude as that, this world would be a horrible place to exist. History judges people on how they treat the people they disagree with.
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