I think there are a lot of issues that aren’t necessarily clear cut and obvious that someone is always right, and even under the leftist umbrella, you can run into conflict and disagreement. There can often be conflict between long-term and short-term goals for example, or between utilitarian and virtue ethic frameworks.
And beyond that, we’re all human here, so we can have emotional attachments to our positions which can impede reflection as well.
So while you’re right, acting in good faith means we should do our best to accept that we might be wrong, it also means we should try to have the grace to accept that others may not be immediately capable of the same.
I think genuine curiosity can go a long way, if that’s the case, and that means accepting the possibility that they may know something that you do not.
If you can genuinely understand their beliefs down to their roots, then maybe you can help them to see where they’re contradictory.
I understand but when I call them out for being the thing they claim to detest they double down which only serves to prove my point.
Good faith. Good faith requires reflection. If you can’t scrutinize your own behavior you can’t act in good faith.
I think there are a lot of issues that aren’t necessarily clear cut and obvious that someone is always right, and even under the leftist umbrella, you can run into conflict and disagreement. There can often be conflict between long-term and short-term goals for example, or between utilitarian and virtue ethic frameworks.
And beyond that, we’re all human here, so we can have emotional attachments to our positions which can impede reflection as well.
So while you’re right, acting in good faith means we should do our best to accept that we might be wrong, it also means we should try to have the grace to accept that others may not be immediately capable of the same.
We grow gardens by planting seeds.
I’m only conflicted because I want to plant seeds along side them but they’re placing them in tainted earth.
I think genuine curiosity can go a long way, if that’s the case, and that means accepting the possibility that they may know something that you do not.
If you can genuinely understand their beliefs down to their roots, then maybe you can help them to see where they’re contradictory.
I would love to engage but, sorry, I’m banned.
When they do come at me it’s only with rotten double think and blaze out, fustrated, that I won’t succumb.
Gardening metaphors can only take us so far, I guess. I wish you the best, and hope that you don’t get discouraged, and can keep an open mind. (:
Thanks for the cha t=)