{"id":10945,"date":"2011-02-10T14:54:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/10\/irreconcilable-differences\/"},"modified":"2011-02-10T14:54:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T14:54:42","slug":"irreconcilable-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/10\/irreconcilable-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Irreconcilable Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Accept that there are differences among people that are nonnegotiable and irreconcilable.&#0160; We are <em>not <\/em>all the same at bottom.&#0160; We do <em>not<\/em> all want&#0160;the same things.&#0160; We are <em>not<\/em> equal physically or intellectually or morally or spiritually.&#0160; For example, bellicosity is as it were hard-wired into some.&#0160; They like fighting and marauding, raping and pillaging.&#0160; Don&#39;t make the mistake of projecting into others your attitudes and values.&#0160; That is a characteristic and lethal error of pacifists and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Do you value peace and reconciliation?&#0160; Do you aspire to live and let live?&#0160; Well, <em>jihadis<\/em> don&#39;t.&#0160; Are you kind and forgiving to the woman caught in adultery?&#0160; Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/pewglobal.org\/search\/stoning+egypt\" target=\"_self\">a majority of Egyptians <\/a>want the adulteress stoned to death.&#0160; Do you admire those who are reasonable and conciliatory?&#0160; Do you take such traits to be evidence of strength?&#0160; Well, a majority in the Middle East do not.&#0160; They takes such traits as evidence of weakness.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accept that there are differences among people that are nonnegotiable and irreconcilable.&#0160; We are not all the same at bottom.&#0160; We do not all want&#0160;the same things.&#0160; We are not equal physically or intellectually or morally or spiritually.&#0160; For example, bellicosity is as it were hard-wired into some.&#0160; They like fighting and marauding, raping and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/10\/irreconcilable-differences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Irreconcilable Differences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}