On topics like this, which I have spent countless hours of my life studying in detail, simply because these are the world-changing topics whose truth needs to be really, really understood if one is not to live a lie (and so what better way to spend one’s available time), I regard virtually everyone as having to be managed so that the interaction can go smoothly. I am not an activist in the sense of feeling entrapped by a mission to change anybody in any forum in which they have any excuse to not reflect on what I am saying for the reason I am self-evidently riff-raff. These are big events, but only non-speaking bit-parts to interactions that have their own local politics in which others will likely have defined me, based on what they already think they know about me, long before I ever enter the scene. It is therefore, much, much, much better to engage by listening and generally doing to them what they aimed to do to me, namely manage them as people who, in the fullness of time, will end up expressing strong or objectively extreme opinions that need to be handled as such, than to enter into any kind of discussion at all. - Best regards and thanks to all, Shyaku |
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