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| Topic | Differing opinions should never prevent friendships. |
| AlisLandale 12/25/19 9:12:54 PM #38: | OctilIery posted... It's easy. I don't bring up politics neither does he. Given, the average person that believes that will bring it up quick, but stranger things happen. Politics are not personality and do not determine personality and shouldn't be treated as such. Youre falling for a red herring here, which undermines your argument. Politics are not a personality, no. But your values are. And those values are what shape your politics. Values are not so easily compartmentalized. They are the foundation for a persons decisions and actions. And a person with repugnant values will often show themselves repugnant in other ways. Its one thing to maintain a surface level relationship with those people, because not every conflict of values needs to be fought. But its another to insist that friendships with those people are somehow intrinsically valuable and worth maintaining. If you are capable of being friends with, hypothetically, a white supremacist, then more power to ya. But most people have nothing to gain by doing so, and lose nothing by avoiding them. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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