A gentler, better way to change minds
let&#x27;s posit two historical events that every American knows about, which represented pretty fierce disagreement:<p>1. the Civil War and Slavery<p>2. the Holocaust<p>each event featured &quot;sides&quot; that disagreed pretty strongly.   They were life-or-death conflicts involving millions of people.   Do we try to apply these &quot;lets find our shared morals&quot; &#x2F; &quot;present our side with the joy (of a missionary)&quot; practices in these situations?   Probably not.  They were wars.   Kind of the ultimate &quot;disagreement&quot;.<p>If you are open to the view that conflicts happening today are fast approaching the scale &#x2F; seriousness of the above two events, things like, one political party trying to overthrow the US government by force, widespread corruption of the rule of law and police, draconian rules meant to terrorize or imprison whole populations of women and immigrants, destruction of democratic norms, kids living their lives in terror of school schootings, then it&#x27;s hard to take this article seriously.<p>If the above paragraph OTOH sounds ridiculous and one is of the view that things are pretty normal except for a little messiness on this social media thing, then by all means, present your view to that reality  as a gift given with joy.