Reply #10: of course you are right [View All]

[m berst]

It is so destructive to play this game of elimination. Rather than looking for the good in people, ideas, and opinions, and working with that, we look for any flaw or weakness and use that as a basis for dismissing and eliminating people, ideas, and opinions from any consideration. The only possible outcome of this is that each person will be a party onto themselves with one member, or else only the biggest bully will ever be able to build a consensus.

on edit - I would like to suggest to people that confronting the threat of tyranny is more than a matter of merely taking certain political positions. The way in which these positions are expressed is also important. A general climate of destructive bullying, taunting and character assassination is essential for tyranny to succeed, regardless of what cause the bullying is supposedly supporting.