As people who aim to be peaceful, here’s a mental mechanism that I think we need to be conscious of:
Wow! I disagree with this person on this issue!
to
Wow! This person is a useless idiot!
Strongly disagreeing but still being respectful…
Very hard but still worth aspiring to, don’t you think?
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