Thorny Conversations
When was the last time you found the patience or the humility to truly listen to someone who does not share your views? Since the beginning of the practice of rhetoric, it has been a useful, however flawed fallacy, to attack the person instead of hearing out their point of view and once we dismiss
a person, we do not have to listen.
One of the obstacles of having confidence in a true dialogue is time. One of the hardest things to do, I think, is sit in silence, with an opinion opposite to one’s own—because of the silence, it can imply agreement or revulsion.
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