Michael Murphy
1 min readJan 24, 2020

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I take it from your Medium profile that you are not really here to engage in conversation but rather to deliver the message that liberals are to blame for all the ills of the world and that they as a group refuse to consider what you deem to be perfect evidence supporting such a hyper-partisan opinion.

That doesn’t seem like such a good starting point for giving others the “gift of doubt” as explained in How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide — by Peter Boghossian.

The most important thing I learned from Mr. Boghassion is that, indeed, in order to change minds, one must also be willing to have one’s own mind changed as well.

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Michael Murphy

SGI Buddhist, Loves Irish and Latin American Literature, is a History buff, and lives at a year-round cool 2500 meter (8300ft) altitude in Southern Colombia.