Defensive

It is an interesting position to be on the defensive. Defending one's ideas that happen to appear on the internet. Is it important to defend one's views against another so clearly against and perhaps even offended by those views?

Perhaps, perhaps not.

Inherently, I am a passive person and thus am not prone to goading and/or aggressive objection. But, it is often the case that I concede points of contention in the interest of not getting involved in an aggressive and perhaps nonsensical argument. When there is a clear non-agreement, as in, the points of debate cannot be agreed upon regardless of the length of the arguments, then the point of debate is moot.

Now, I encourage and welcome thoughts and ideas about different viewpoints and am interested in seeing what others have to say about different issues. But getting into an argument or what I call a "pissing contest" is against what I believe a positive discourse involves.

In any event, my main goal is to express my opinions about what I believe, rightly or wrongly, and give reasons and sources to why I believe what I believe. It is not my interest to create a debate society or to have continuing ongoing dialog about why my beliefs are wrong.

I do encourage people expressing their beliefs and their reasons and sources for why they believe what they believe. I am against, however, discounting each others beliefs.

It is the differences between people that should be celebrated and not the persuasion of others to our own views that is important.

So I will refrain from expressing negative beliefs about other's beliefs while, in turn, express my own beliefs without resorting to persuasion.

Hopefully that will lead to a less bitter blog. :)