Thinking a lot at the moment about the balance between principles & pragmatism and between making good arguments & negotiating.
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But this is the fatal flaw of the ideologue who demands purity & will sabotage their own goals in demanding it.
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It should be enough to say 'I disagree with you on that but let's focus on the problem we both see' in very many cases.
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I once found common ground with an Islamic feminist because we both wanted legal gender equality but had different justifications for this.
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Not that different tho. She said 'Allah is just. Gender inequality is unjust. Therefore it is against the will of God.'
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Once you took the will of God out of the equation, our conception of gender equality & justice was the same.
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Therefore, it was probably best not to get bogged down in an argument about whether God a) exists and b) is a fan of gender equality.
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It's a balance that's much easier to achieve on an individual level and much harder at an organizational or societal level.
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Aaahhhhhh...... this explains everything. The internet is your catnip....:-D
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Yes. This seems to annoy people who choose to find it unhelpful, though. Maybe it's cognitive dissonance, I don't know.
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