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As You Wish
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"Blessed are the peacemakers, to be sure; but peacemaking is long, hard labor, not a mere declaration."
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"When people cease to be people because they are, to us, merely representatives or mouthpieces of positions we want to eradicate, then we, in our zeal to win, have sacrificed empathy: we have declined the opportunity to understand other people's desires, principles, fears. And that is a great price to pay for supposed 'victory' in debate."
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"We fixate so immovably on this notion of argument as war in part because human beings, generally speaking, are insanely competitive about everything; but also because in many arguments there truly is something to be lost, and most often what's under threat is social affiliation."
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“The problem that arises for us, as opposed to our hunter-gatherer forebears, is the need to distinguish between ‘genuine solidarity’ and participation in an Inner Ring.”
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