Greetings Agent Smith and Joesal, just wanted to drop
in and say that I'm really enjoying your back and forth.
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Greetings Agent Smith and Joesal, just wanted to drop
in and say that I'm really enjoying your back and forth.
To have meaningful discussions it takes time, and long form comments, plus a healthy dose of respect in finding the other persons thoughts, and perspective.
The way the internet and comment formation typically occurs, tends to propagate the opposite. Short comments, with much assumed perspectives.
Unfortunately I think you and Graham may have fell into hostility by the briefness of encounter. Grahams message is positive 90% of the times, and maybe a little edgy here and there, but I think he means well. One of his strong values is in defense of the ideals/ideas of voluntaryism.
All of us have 'warts' of some kind, but that should not blur the fact that there is a human within.(with the exception of authoritative socialist, those bastards aren't human at all...ha)
We still have problems, even within the comments of this post. we have repeatedly talked past each other and have several things unresolved, but at least we can discuss these things without ad hominem attacks which takes a lot of conflict out of it.
Constant discernment of anothers perspective often sharpens your views on what are your own.
In this way it is like steel sharpens steel, and one is better defined by each encounter.
This is useful when encountering someone who is in complete opposite of your position, but it is many times harder when their view is very close, as the parsing of differences becomes more detailed and at length.
There is a saying I don't know where it comes from, but it goes something like:
"We are hardest on our own."