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In reply to the discussion: Do you agree or disagree with this general statement about where U.S. foreign policy should go? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)When disagreeing with you on an issue, I never choose to treat you like you are beneath me as a human being. My concern has always simply been issues and the merits of the argument. Why do you seem to feel you can't do that? Why do you seem to feel that the only way you can make yourself heard is to be pointlessly harsh on a personal level to people with differing views than yours?
You're not an oppressed person on this board. Nobody here is persecuting you, or trying to tell you not to express your opinions. To my knowledge, nobody here is intentionally disrespecting you in any way at all. All that happens with you here, from what I can see, is that some of those who post on this board disagree with you.
And in real life, were we to meet, I'd probably ask you to join me for coffee to try and work out some reasonable, mutually respectable way to communicate.
Why should we assume that we can't ever change the way we deal with the rest of the world? That we can't ever align, on a basic level, with the majority of the human race?
It's not as though the heads of state and the ceo's and the generals are the only figures who matter, or even that all of them will hang on in power forever.
It's not as though our only way of being relevant in the world is trade deals largely written for the benefit of the 1% and an endless series of military interventions around the globe.
What is so terrible about, in some way, sending the signal to the many, to the billions with nothing and no hope, that we will no longer be party to holding them down?