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We probably get more
aggressive when we look less likely to win an argument. When no one listens,
when everyone ignores us, we get angry. It’s a last resort, when we sense we’ve
already lost the argument. By not getting angry, we can take time to
plan a strategy, and a strategist will bide their time. They won’t weigh in but
take the longer way around. No arms flailing, no agitated voice, just a show of
being available and accessible.
If we are made to feel unpopular,
it’s uncomfortable, but better to communicate what we want to say.
Vegans would be better off
making positive judgements about people whenever they can, as if we are
observers, watching our society growing up, albeit very slowly. It’s a long way
from the business of cutting people down.
We’re seed planters (in more
ways than one). After all, the world is dying for the want of positive
encouragement, so surely, we should be encouraging good intentions and praising
moderate achievements. We do it all the time with kids over their maths
homework so why not with fellow adults over their ethical development?
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