Develop some flexibility in your point of view. ***
I was reading some posts by various users in this section, and in many cases people had very extreme, hard opinions based on a certain circumstance, and then extrapolated that out to any other remotely similar circumstance. Sheesh. Use some common sense based on the situation, and you may find that most problems don't have one straight fix, though that's what you would like. You have to think of some situations realistically, in shades of grey, not in black and white.
On the same line of thought, why do many people enjoy classifying themselves as either Republican or Democrat? I know many don't, but why do some vote for straight R. or D. down the ballot, many times without even knowing the candidate that is running? Do you believe that your party is that infallible? Do you even agree with your party on every single issue? In reality every person on the planet is an independent, considering not even all politicians in a party will agree with all the others in the same party. Why even bother trying restrain your views based on your party?
On the other end, why do many people judge others on their said party? Why does someone over the internet that you have never met automatically become a "stubborn conservative" or an "ignorant liberal"? Sure you can disagree with them on some issues, maybe even most, but there is always going to be some middle ground between two sane people. (i.e. murder is wrong) Why are so many people here so quick to judge people based on their given political stance (that as I said is hard to define by anyone) and not on the basis of their arguments?
Example: Jonathan Swift's A Modest Propostal
If someone just came out and said "Eating people is the way to go," there would be a significant portion of the community here that would stop reading right there and proceed to flame Swift. If you actually read the darn thing you might see that though you may still find it appalling, he at least tried to make a valid point and is not an idiot, but mis-guided at most.
Stop judging people by their most likely falsely given titles so quickly.
***Completely and totally jacked from a fortune cookie.
I was reading some posts by various users in this section, and in many cases people had very extreme, hard opinions based on a certain circumstance, and then extrapolated that out to any other remotely similar circumstance. Sheesh. Use some common sense based on the situation, and you may find that most problems don't have one straight fix, though that's what you would like. You have to think of some situations realistically, in shades of grey, not in black and white.
On the same line of thought, why do many people enjoy classifying themselves as either Republican or Democrat? I know many don't, but why do some vote for straight R. or D. down the ballot, many times without even knowing the candidate that is running? Do you believe that your party is that infallible? Do you even agree with your party on every single issue? In reality every person on the planet is an independent, considering not even all politicians in a party will agree with all the others in the same party. Why even bother trying restrain your views based on your party?
On the other end, why do many people judge others on their said party? Why does someone over the internet that you have never met automatically become a "stubborn conservative" or an "ignorant liberal"? Sure you can disagree with them on some issues, maybe even most, but there is always going to be some middle ground between two sane people. (i.e. murder is wrong) Why are so many people here so quick to judge people based on their given political stance (that as I said is hard to define by anyone) and not on the basis of their arguments?
Example: Jonathan Swift's A Modest Propostal
If someone just came out and said "Eating people is the way to go," there would be a significant portion of the community here that would stop reading right there and proceed to flame Swift. If you actually read the darn thing you might see that though you may still find it appalling, he at least tried to make a valid point and is not an idiot, but mis-guided at most.
Stop judging people by their most likely falsely given titles so quickly.
***Completely and totally jacked from a fortune cookie.