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Gwaihir's avatar

After my husband made a comment about something being better than something else, my sister-in-law replied “nobody can say anything is better than anything else.” To which my husband replied “So would it be better if I stopped saying that?” To which she replied “Yes” - not being smart enough to notice the self-stultification.

A good way to test her idiotic theory would be to invite her to dinner. We would have prime rib, but serve her cat food. Her belief system would surely crumble into ashes.

If you really listen, you can easily challenge illogical opinion. A couple of examples from our life:

Friend: “Nobody can make a definite statement about anything.”

My husband: “Including the one you just made?”

Friend: “There are too many rules. We should throw out all the rules.”

My husband: “Is that rule number one?”

Karl Popper described the paradox of tolerance as “in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.”

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Josh Blunt's avatar

As Jordan Peterson has said, equality of opportunity is what we must strive for, not equality of outcome. Enjoyed your post!

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