It wasn't entirely you, but you gave me a push towards completing this particular thought.
I'm going to kick things off by mentioning that some of my experience doesn't seem to corroborate that - from both ends.In my case, I've lost friends by pushing, and/or we've grown apart from disappointment. And they've also lost me by being too difficult from their end. I don't call that harm, though. I call that learning
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To clarify the ending paragraph - what I meant was that I hoped not to stop interacting with you altogether. That is, not that I didn't feel like I existed when I was around you, but that I didn't want my sense of existing in general not to be around you. I certainly am difficult, there's no question about that, but it'll have to be up to you to determine whether or not I'm too difficult, as far as you're concerned.
I can't always tell when your response pertains to the first issue we clashed on, or to the second one - which affects my interpretation of it, as they're different enough to cast you and I in opposite positions as part of it based on which it is, as far as I can tell. I do think of a world beyond myself, every day, precisely because I can't help the problems in my life being a part of it - including those we disagree about. I certainly do consider myself political, and I regard morality as absolutely vital - it's what I consider morality to be which leads me to conclusions which differ from yours
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All that makes sense. I'm speaking in generalities about why I take the positions I do; although I don't like to reduce things to labels, I'd guess that there's a lot of overlap in terms of views between a self identified anarchosocialist and myself
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I'm going to kick things off by mentioning that some of my experience doesn't seem to corroborate that - from both ends.In my case, I've lost friends by pushing, and/or we've grown apart from disappointment. And they've also lost me by being too difficult from their end. I don't call that harm, though. I call that learning ( ... )
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I can't always tell when your response pertains to the first issue we clashed on, or to the second one - which affects my interpretation of it, as they're different enough to cast you and I in opposite positions as part of it based on which it is, as far as I can tell. I do think of a world beyond myself, every day, precisely because I can't help the problems in my life being a part of it - including those we disagree about. I certainly do consider myself political, and I regard morality as absolutely vital - it's what I consider morality to be which leads me to conclusions which differ from yours ( ... )
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