Thoughts 10 - Tolerance, Mental Health, Having Fun

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2024-11-17 11:00:05

“Thoughts” are posts about what has been on my mind. Sometimes practical, sometimes not; often just things I read recently. Less thought out than regular posts.

I have not made a “Thoughts” post in 4.5 months so I had a lot of topics in store. I have decided to focus on “soft” topics only this time, so if you are only looking for technical content you can skip this post.

In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like.

We can only live together in that way. And if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

We tend not to do that. We take sides arbitrarily, probably more easily online than offline. We create fractures that make participation in any community more tiring than it should be. Albert Wenger puts it like this:

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