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(BTDT. And I already know your answer to my return, and so would be glad to discuss in another forum if you'd like.)
I've often wondered about conditioning. How we automatically apply a set of standards to conditions and situations which might not even be relevant. Someone might be rude in the store based upon their own preconceptions and then we respond in kind, and yet the truth of the matter might be that both people are actually speaking about the exact same thing. Or someone might feel they have been cut off in traffic, while the other has been patiently trying to switch lanes for miles. Is it possible that both sides of an opposing situation might be valid and correct? The determining human value lost can often be the ability of perception due to preconceived standards with the ability to just allow a grain of empathy. That mutual solutions are easily achieved when both parties are vested to that end.
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Meanwhile other things are still happening.
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