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In reply to the discussion: Would you end a friendship with someone who planned to vote third party? [View all]LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)For me and mine, judging a person's character (all things being equal) on his political beliefs, his religion, his philosophies, his economic views or status, et al, is an absurd waste of my time.
I'd feel I'd done a great disservice to him, and an even greater disservice to myself if I ruled out a relationship solely on the basis of one of these wholly imaginary and divisive constructs which appear no where but our own imaginations. These constructs are, for many, many people, but a very small indicator of who we are are individuals.
I'd just as soon rule out a friendship because someone is a Muslim, a Pyrrhonian Skeptic, a Distributive Capitalist, or a Monarchist-- each one being but a part and parcel of the individual, rather than a label en toto.