Thanks very much for your thoughts. I'm interested in what you've discussed here. I think we've seen a very good example of it in the news lately, with all the heated rhetoric in the Schiavo case. Terri Schiavo's parents kept insisting that Michael Schiavo wanted to "murder" her; they couldn't seem to grasp that he might actually be acting out his sense of personal ethics. And there were also charges flung around that judges eager to "murder." There was a lot of demonizing going on.
I went to a healing ceremony put on by a liberal group after the last election, and we discussed the wounds in our nation now, the sense that we are bickering so bitterly that we are losing our sense that "the other side" on any public question might actually want good things for our country, too. Like you, I am thinking a lot about these things.
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Date: 2005-04-12 11:46 am (UTC)I went to a healing ceremony put on by a liberal group after the last election, and we discussed the wounds in our nation now, the sense that we are bickering so bitterly that we are losing our sense that "the other side" on any public question might actually want good things for our country, too. Like you, I am thinking a lot about these things.