A gentler, better way to change minds
I find it odd that people seek to change minds to be honest.<p>For some reason I&#x27;m a hard-core libertarian so I kind of hate my own core values. I&#x27;d even go so far as to acknowledge that my ideal world would be close to hell for most people. I don&#x27;t want to be this way. I just seem to have a preference for it.<p>I realised several years ago that if I ever got my own way it would make the world objectively a worse place for the average person to live and therefore I have an ethical duty to vote against my own self interest and instead try to vote for what I believe is in the interest of the collective good.<p>I think a lot of political division we see today just stems of a lack of empathy and understanding. Instead of trying to find ways we can compromise and share this Earth together we seek to force our own values on to others. And this seems to be true at all levels of society, from Twitter debates about trans rights, to democracy vs autocracy debates at the level of nation states.<p>Plus I think most disagreements we have can generally be solved with more localism and secessionism. Here in the UK for example I don&#x27;t know why I don&#x27;t just let Muslim communities practise Sharia law if they wish and allow communities who dislike immigration set their own rules on who is and isn&#x27;t allowed to live there. But like I say, I know people disagree with me on these things.