- Martin Luther King - I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be
- Mother Theresa - The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of the family to small
- We give too much voice to the most divisive amongst us
- Book titles reflect this - Pinheads and patriots; Arguing with idiots
- Negative otherizing morphs into violent extremism
- Counteracting otherizing A strategy: Take the other to lunch
- Agree on some ground rules - ahead of time
- Be conversational, don't persuade, interrupt, be curious, listen, be real, don't try to change the other side, acknowledge that it's a first step
- What issues concern you, what have you always wanted to ask someone from the other side
- Two people dropping the pretence of being know it alls
- Two people practicing ubuntu
"Here's a novel idea to save the planet: Remove the main cause of its woes - homo sapiens. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT - pronounced "vehement") proposes the phasing out the human race. "When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth's biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, and evolve (if they believe in evolution)," offers the movement's website. But 'it's going to take all of us going'." See www.vhemt.org SOURCE: Email invite. I thought I was the only one who thought like this. Everyone I know thanks the universe that I didn't study microbiology. I would have developed a human-specific killer virus. WE are the vermin.
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