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My experience has been this is a recipe for becoming an admirably open, yet unlikable person. I'm actually in the process of heading in the other direction. In
by jeremyt 14y ago
My experience has been this is a recipe for becoming an admirably open, yet unlikable person.
I'm actually in the process of heading in the other direction. In fact, I think that I recently lost a budding friendship because of a heated political discussion.
- the_cat_kittles 14y agoSorry to hear that, but its been my experience that a friendship that gets tripped up by relatively superficial differences like that is probably not a strong friendship to begin with. I am not old, but the older I get, the less I feel like religion and politics are relevant to a person's personality. At the risk of trivializing them too much, I almost think of them as a team allegiance like rooting for the Packers vs the Steelers... While there are consequences for what people believe, in terms of a friendship, these things really don't matter to me.
- jeremyt 14y agoWell, in my defense I did say it was a "budding friendship". However, I literally have never had a positive experience discussing religion or politics, except with people with whom I already agree. I have a personal rule to never do so, and I've even attempted to apply that to the Internet and failed on several occasions. Yet, I regret having tried in each case.
- blendergasket 14y agoI actually made a pretty good friend out of it.