You make a really important point here. As you say it's in that warlike mindset where empathy is hardest to find. And we truly treat those with different perspectives to us as if we're at war lately. I think we've all noticed how the same people preaching kindness can justify the most incredible cruelty and abuse when it's directed at "t…
You make a really important point here. As you say it's in that warlike mindset where empathy is hardest to find. And we truly treat those with different perspectives to us as if we're at war lately. I think we've all noticed how the same people preaching kindness can justify the most incredible cruelty and abuse when it's directed at "the other side."
Sadly, at leats online, some people haven't learned, as you have, to turn off the hate.
Someone sent the link I'll put at the bottom to me, and it was a wakeup call about being able to turn off hate. The vile woman with hate on her face spitting in her political opposite's face flashed me back to the warm welcome home Vietnam veterans received from activists like her.
At this point in my life, I can understand their protest, but I have never really gotten past the emotional response I have toward people like her. I'm wildly in favor of abortion if she will abort her every pregnancy and remove herself from the gene pool. I don't say that proudly, I'm ashamed that I haven't gotten past it after all these years. But it illustrates how hate filled activists make things worse. My thoughts on this have nothing to do with my thoughts on the causes of the two groups, that is irrelevant.
You make a really important point here. As you say it's in that warlike mindset where empathy is hardest to find. And we truly treat those with different perspectives to us as if we're at war lately. I think we've all noticed how the same people preaching kindness can justify the most incredible cruelty and abuse when it's directed at "the other side."
Sadly, at leats online, some people haven't learned, as you have, to turn off the hate.
Someone sent the link I'll put at the bottom to me, and it was a wakeup call about being able to turn off hate. The vile woman with hate on her face spitting in her political opposite's face flashed me back to the warm welcome home Vietnam veterans received from activists like her.
At this point in my life, I can understand their protest, but I have never really gotten past the emotional response I have toward people like her. I'm wildly in favor of abortion if she will abort her every pregnancy and remove herself from the gene pool. I don't say that proudly, I'm ashamed that I haven't gotten past it after all these years. But it illustrates how hate filled activists make things worse. My thoughts on this have nothing to do with my thoughts on the causes of the two groups, that is irrelevant.
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