Reply #118: All too often we take sides like two football teams...

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and do our best to solve serious problems in our society by scoring points against the opposing team. We say, "There are no second place winners."

If we could just work together to find common ground we could actually accomplish important things.

Instead of considering ourselves to be opposing sports teams, we would be wiser to consider ourselves as a team of rowers on a boat. If we all find a way to row together we can reach the other shore. If however we fail to find a way to row in unison but instead those one side of the boat refuse to row, we will merely go in circles. If some of us decide to drill holes in the boat rather than to row, we will sink.