And so then there's a need to decide what your essential goals are and what will best achieve them.
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But a sole focus on that leads to the abandonment of principles & then there's no possibility of ethically worthwhile outcomes.
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So needs to be a balance in which you have strong principles & good arguments for them but don't always need everyone to be fully on board
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every step of the way. Providing you share the key principles. Being OK with ppl coming at the same thing from a different angle can be hard
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For me, anyway. I always want to explain to people in great detail exactly why they are wrong about something until they get it.
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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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