May we please have less name calling and a little more open discussion?
- If I think you are wrong, I will not call you names. I will not say that you are an idiot, or insane, or evil.
- Your logic is probably sound. We start from different core values and first principles. We may have different loyalties. We base our conclusions on a different set of facts.
- I take none of these things as permission to attack you personally or to question your intentions. I won’t. I promise. I ask only for the same.
I hate it that I even felt a need to write this but if you spend any time at all on social media, especially Facebook, you've no doubt seen the steady stream, from both the left and the right, of goofy pictures, statements used out of context, rants with little substance, angry and hateful comments thrown at entire groups of good people because of a different idea about something, and so on, and on, and on. So far, the social media communication revolution has done very little to improve public discourse. It has simply made us more efficient muckrakers, complainers, and name callers. Shame on us!
That's my opinion. If you have a different one, you're wrong. You're not stupid, or insane, or evil. You're just wrong. Let's discuss it.
k only for the same.
