Assume for the moment that all things are true.
All sides of an argument are true. Everyone is right. All things have a right to be just as they are, unconditionally. And to change in accordance with their own determination of time and need.
If all things are true, then what are we fighting over? If we allow people to be as they are, to do as they wish, to believe what they wish, to change their lives as they wish, there is no need to fight over anything. When did "different" equate with "wrong"?
I don't see my cats tusseling because one of them is orange and white and the other is solid black. I don't even see them tusseling because one is short-haired and the other long-haired. They only wrestle when they're bored and they want me to let them out. They're convinced they're right to want to go out, even when there's a dog loose outside. They are right, but they don't see the dog outside. I do. But my side of the discussion is right too, that I see the dog and they don't and I know what will happen if they go out. So one picks a fight with the other because he's bored and frustrated. See, even if I'm right I'm the one telling him he's wrong, and so he's a little torqued off about that because he knows he's right to want to go outside. So by fighting with the other one he's accomplishing one goal at least -- he's not bored anymore and I'm paying attention to him.
Funny how people will pick a fight just because they're bored and want attention.
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