The Mueller Report thread

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(05-24-2019, 01:59 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: In your recent responses here, I see language such as "people should..." and "I want...". There is nothing wrong with that. Everyone has some amount of judgment and has personal desires. So you want to affect some behavioral changes in other people. While that sounds manipulative when written in that way, it is actually part of the human experience. My wife wants to affect behavioral changes on me all the time.

The need to call out behaviors and attempt to change them is not so much the problem. The methods of doing it can be the problem. If you are trying to educate someone who is dead-set against being educated on a matter, you are sort of doomed to failure before you even start. Especially if you repeatedly use methods to reach people that aren't working. And it really wouldn't matter how correct your facts are or how much good you are trying to accomplish.

There are those who will never change.  I know that.

Still nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade.

I do want to affect change.  I want people to care and be better.  Not just in politics but in their lives and how they treat others.

I know it comes off as pie in the sky thinking but I believe even if you can change one person into a better person it's worth it.

Please don't think that means I think everyone has to be like me!    Jebus no!  I'm awful about LOTS of things!  

But I do want to continue to have conversations even with the obstinate.  I can be as bull-headed as anyone!  But I can also change my opinion if given enough information.  I don't think that's too much to ask for.

And again, this is (hopefully) a once in a lifetime event with Trump.  If we as a nation are so collectively disconnected with what he is and does that he is voted in again then the country deserves the division and the hatred that it will spawn.