Desire to impose your own idea of what's important on others is a) refined assholery b) definition of politics c) why I never liked Clinton
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It's even more respectable to listen to people when they say something is important as (1) hyperbole isn't evil, and (2) empathy.
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Empathy has gone from cognitive capacity to cargo cult. "Importance" is annoying due to what is emphasized, not how much
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/1 I think it's often better to hear "This is important [to me and/or the people that are similar to me]" and not be so dismissive that
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for people above age 18, I need to hear that [to me] part explicitly. Otherwise default assumed subtext is [nothinf else can be]
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Yeah, I get that. I know they're not thinking in this way. There are plenty of people with myopic views. Accept their one perspective.
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oh I do, but I feel zero guilt about manipulating them in that case :)

