Treating someone with compassion and dignity is not the same thing as believing what they believe, and philosophies that equate these two are real toxic.
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this also makes it impossible to be compassionate since you can't force your beliefs to change
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There are places in between!
Like if someone came from a culture where they believed in corporal punishment of children one can stop short of compassion and dignity and merely give the bare basic coutesies to and give less than dignity but hold back from face to face disdain?
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You can even fully learn their beliefs and model what the world looks like from their perspective without adopting the view for yourself!
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"you must believe what I believe" is a sure route to suffering and violence
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It’s also common courtesy to not assume what someone believes. Ideologies that do that are just as destructive.
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99% of modern pop-political philosophy is rampant with this style of thinking.
“Person A is not to be trusted, which means their opponent, Person B, is clearly a good person.”
Big issue with american’s approach to politics.
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