Yep. I think about this quite a bit. Whenever I get into arguments or near arguments, or, AFTER these occasions, I think about why I'm mad, and I ask myself how closely what I'm responding to matches what was meant, and usually I've got nothing, or next to nothing.
The most I usually conclude - well, I'm thinking of a particular recent instance where I got into an argument with a classmate who felt, strongly, that "there are no non-violent drug offenders! Their families cover for them! I've watched Intervention!" and thus that these drug offenders should all be incarcerated. I concluded that he had very little idea of what the prison system was actually like, and has some thing he's reacting to about Justice. I don't know what this thing is or why he has it.
The stuff we said on either side about drug offenders and offenses was basically shadowplay.
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Date: 2008-11-21 10:48 pm (UTC)The most I usually conclude - well, I'm thinking of a particular recent instance where I got into an argument with a classmate who felt, strongly, that "there are no non-violent drug offenders! Their families cover for them! I've watched Intervention!" and thus that these drug offenders should all be incarcerated. I concluded that he had very little idea of what the prison system was actually like, and has some thing he's reacting to about Justice. I don't know what this thing is or why he has it.
The stuff we said on either side about drug offenders and offenses was basically shadowplay.