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Wednesday, July 27th 2022 - Respecting Opinions
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A discord I'm on -- it's filled with old friends from Prodigy and the
only discord server I talk on -- descended into madness today. The
server owner is a hardcore Liberartian, and he's also a COVID denier.
Not outright denial, he doesn't believe its fake, but he downplays
the severity and claims its all a drug marketing scam. So, in other
words, an idiot.
The thing is I've known the guy for 25 years. So I'm stuck with an
unenviable choice of holding back my kneejerk anger and accepting
his opinion, or giving in and exploding and telling him just how
fucking stupid we all think he is. Well, someone beat me to the
punch and took the choice away from me. Which is fine, but I now
fear the implosion of our little community.
Nobody is listening to each other. Regardless of what position you
take on any given subject, listening and finding common ground is
imperitave to the process of communication. But it's little more
than a shouting match, and one between (normally) level-headed
individuals at that. So it has me questioning the validity of the
old adage that "everyones opinion is to be valued".
What if it's a stupid fucking opinion?
I don't know. This phlog entry is little more than a rant. I'm not
making any kind of point here because I'm just spinning in my
frustration over the probably death of our community. It's
unfortunate, and I'm absolutely exhausted with COVID and politics
taking things away from me.
