This is based on observation, not pure conjecture. And I don’t think it’s a new way of looking at things. I just wish more people would realize that they are doing these things and that their judgements are fallible.

4/4

Along with this, some people rely way too much on their own sense of what is right and wrong to judge other people and to try to restrict their behavior.

3/4

Generalization and categorization are useful tools. But they are just tools. They do not represent absolute truth in a world of nuance and imperfection.

2/4

4. Knowledge and Truth
a. Values knowledge.
b. Values truth.

5/5

3. Tolerance
a. Tolerates different opinions.
b. Tolerates different ways of life.

4/5

2. Social Context
a. Has in mind the best interests of everyone.
b. Gives people the benefit of the doubt.

3/5

1. Generalization
a. Avoids sweeping generalizations about people.
b. Avoids identifying people by their political affiliation.

2/5

But you’re not helping. Why is that?

You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help.

Fourth, why is it that some people immediately jumped to the conclusion that the shooter of Charlie Kirk must have been from the left, when statistics suggested it wouldn’t be because those shooters are almost always far right?

Third, why is it that our government reacts more Intensely when a conservative personality speaker is killed than when a member of Congress (a Democrat) is killed?

Second, who celebrates when our military blows up a vessel that is merely suspected of carrying drugs, killing everyone aboard?

First, there’s more to the US population than “left” and “right” and even within those groups there is a diversity of opinions. I see most “left” leaning posts saying things like “no one deserves to be shot.”

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