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RE: Powerful People Can Maintain Relationship While Disagreeing
This is a tough topic - I know because I've spent years talking to university students about controversies in ethics. Not everything worth talking about is easy or comfortable.
It's difficult. Bubbles are attractive to most people. Learning to disagree respectfully is hard, not least because it involves respecting each other as people. I know it's possible though: I've been to conferences with philosophers who have dedicated their lives to supporting opposite ideas, watched them debate each other during the day, then go and have a beer together that night.
The truth is that sometimes - often - we have a lot in common with the people we disagree with.
theres a dynamic at play too where often times peoples experiences are traumatic in nature adding an element of intense emotions to their perspective that needs to be taken into consideration when dialoguing tense topics...at the end of the day friendship has to be baseline -
thanks for commenting