Once in a while someone completely but honestly disagrees with me on matters of basic principle. When that happens I become really fascinated with how we, both human beings, came to such opposite convictions. What was his background, his experiences? How did we get here?
I'll be honest, this curiosity and the search that follows it have never seen me change my own convictions. But they always give me a deeper understanding for how deeply we are shaped by our experiences. We are all of the same essence, despite our selfish, self-centered egos.
Not everyone engages btw. Some people really hate it when in response to a statement, I ask about them, their backgrounds, etc. They'd rather debate ideas than question how we got by our ideas. That's fine, but to me people are more interesting and more essential than their ideas
I suppose there's this - we don't always come to the right conclusions based upon our experiences, but our experiences are always valid. Problems happen when our egos wish to cancel other people's experiences, or treat only ours and not theirs as valid at all.
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