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Originally Posted by ArtleyWilkins
It seems some personal introspection by many of us is needed. How honest is each person with him/herself about how loaded and underhanded their own rhetoric is when describing others? Often the people claiming ill-treatment use that same treatment they claim to be victim of on the very people they have a gripe with. What is the old saying? Physician heal thyself. We can't fix how others treat us if we don't take those steps first in our treatment of others, but that means we cannot turn a blind eye to ourselves.
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But, some of us can't introspect more. Or have "parts" or emotions that are cut off, or unconscious, and so not available to viewing with rational introspection.
I think that part of healing, or health to begin with, shows in an ability tolerate opposing views. But -- as we have seen, some folks are still so wounded and hurt that different viewpoints are personally triggering to them. They can't know who might do something like that, and thus put them on their personal ignore list. So -- they can either risk being hurt in their unhealed, wounded places again, or else they have to stay away from discussions that, I think, they have a lot to contribute to.
It may help to remember another old saying "Hurting people hurt people", too. Even if they are physicians, they may not be able to heal themselves. Very hard to do brain surgery on yourself, for instance.