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Differences are Not Comparisons

I have spent the last few weeks visiting family in Kansas.  It is a bit of a different pace of life down there than New York City's midtown area.  Not bad, not better - just different.  It leads me to the point of this post - two things are not better or worse than the other one because they are different.

Two people can view the world differently.  Does not mean one person is better than another.  Nor more accurate.  Nor less accurate.  Nor more optimistic.  Nor more pessimistic.  And if we were able to measure it, I bet the most accurate view would be somewhere in between.  If we were able to measure it...

What about people.  Two people are inherently different.  If they seem the same, then we are not asking the right questions or acknowledging the uniqueness of each individual.  We should cherish what makes us unique, honor that what makes your fellow person standout.  Value differences.  We often need all types of people to be successful as a society.

Whether it is voting for Trump or either side of the war in Gaza, I keep seeing people say I unfriended this person on social media, as if to somehow state publicly that this other person does not have the right to exist in your sphere, or at least doesn't have the right to have and share their opinion.  

When I see people post stuff like that, it makes me think the poster does not have any faith or belief in their convictions. They are not able to withstand someone with different points of view.  So they must eliminate anyone that causes them to think, to possibly expand the way their views and their world.

I also think it shows that they are extremely arrogant in their closemindedness.  They cannot fathom the possibility that they are wrong.  This is complimentary, not contradictory, to the previous paragraph.  If I truly believe in something, I believe it in my heart and under scrutiny not because I may be absolutely right but because I may indeed be wrong.  That probability that I am wrong is greatly outweighed by my faith and belief.  

Just my throughs - difference should not lead to comparisons.  Then again, I may be wrong...

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