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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8704054" data-attributes="member: 6855114">I much prefer to see the good in people. Yes, there are some ugly ones over there. But should we judge a group by its minority of by its majority?And frankly, I much prefer to talk with toxic people than to shut them down. If you do not talk to them, they do not get isolated, but reinforced in their thinking that "they" are right and fall into an echo chamber in which they only get to see what "they" believe is right. And guess what? These echoe chambers get larger as time goes on.If you keep the lines of communication open, it is there that you get the chance to try and change their point of view. You confront them with their own biases and show them that they are not right or at least that what they think is the truth is not what it is. I had friends during the COVID that did not believe in the pandemic. It was all a hoax. Some of them still believe that even today. Others, I successfully opened their eyes. It is not always an auto success to turn people over to be more tolerant and open minded. It is even harder to open their eyes when they do not want to see the truth or when someone prevents you for opening their eyes. Sometimes, being blunt with people is the way to go and at other times, it ain't. But in the end, as long as you can communicate with them, you have a chance to open their mind that something might not be the truth.And here, I do not claim to have the absolute truth. Far from it. But when one see that the other is truly wrong, communicating is the only way to turn the other over, or to get one's own eyes opened. Sometimes, it is oneself who is in the dark.</blockquote>

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