Well, I had a brilliant answer here, but the ER finished with me and discharged me. Of course, when I turned my phone back on, it was all gone, but when doctors finish, you git while the gitten’s good.
So, @canidmajor, friend, you mention balance.
That is a thought many people get caught up on. That is why there are still so many places in this country that can’t blend Italian, Chinese, Greeks, Poles into a single happy community.
Everybody says why can’t “they” be more like us.
There is more than one them. There are many thems.
There are not Christians and atheists. There are Jews and Muslim, and kool-aid clubs, and, well I have other lists coming up.
There are not men and women, there are male, female, born female identifies as male, and that list goes on longer too.
Black people might think that they are the only ones who have, “there goes the neighborhood” said about them, but farmers say it about cityfolk when they escape to the country, and Asians about…, oh I do have a lot of lists going on here.
My point is, we can’t achieve balance, because there are so very many points of division, and even each point of division has many subdivisions.
I wish @dxs were here to help me, because I’m awful at math, and I’m trying to discuss what I think might be infinite division.
The only ONLY way to heal ourselves, is to realize that all of us are a complex collection of living cells, and even if I don’t like you, or what you are, or what you say… I must not allow my feelings to cloud my understanding that you are human (even if some of us are not democrats). Humans should not hate and harm because of differences. That doesn’t mean I should invite people I don’t like to my home, only that I shouldn’t harm them or prevent their “pursuit of happiness”.
I think I said it better the first time.