The most unnerving change with the gradual fading of my partisan tendencies is that I now love almost everyone, fundamentally, as individuals.
This causes a lot of embarassment, including realizing I no longer hate people I have been very committed to hating fr the longest time.
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Even if I think you're a complete idiot*, chances are I still think you're OK and just some shade of misguided.
It takes a much more exacting standard for me to ascribe malice, although some people still work hard to meet it...
* Much like myself.
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As with most transformations, it doesn't have any obvious genesis, save that certain beliefs stopped making sense to me.
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In a sense, it's an attenuated version of my dating habits writ large, so now I am at least a little bit suspicious of it.
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One of the central problems with loving people through their flaws is how often they refuse to do themselves the same favor.
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