Hi! I’m new here but i’ve been lurking around the lemmyworld for a while and as a big advocate of freedom of speech
All i see anymore are people being divided and blaming each other for not acting right but without being willing to change how they act at all. And it breeds so much fear and anamosity that the changes they fight against eventually come about just so one side can spite the other.
Like, people are never going to agree on things and its pretty much always been that way so why don’t we learn to agree to disagree.
Someone once said a great deal is one where both parties walk away feeling like they’ve pulled one over on the other, and a good deal is where both parties walk away feeling like they’ve been had.
Sometimes compromise isnt’ pretty but the way I see it today is that the compromise step has been skipped entirely, so now people are having their rights taken away without getting anything in return where as they could have been making a deal
for instance: the left just lost the right to abortion, which I agree sucks, but the right is just taking that without any reprocussions. It might be too late now but I’ve always said that if there are certain rights we don’t want other people to have its only right to give up a right of your own as a compromise
maybe if we’d compromised before, the left could have worked with the right and made a deal saying somehting like, the left will give up the right to abortion, if the right will give up their guns!
It hits both sides where it hurts, but also no matter what way you look at it both sides are saving lives.
idk just some food for thought :)
i hear what you’re saying and I don’t think you’re following my logic here: if there are no abortion clinics, you don’t need your guns to prevent them from popping up(even though thats a silly reason for guns). And the pro gun argument i hear all the time is that even if you take the guns away from the good people , the criminals are still gonna get their guns. its the same with abortions! theyll still go to canada or vermont or something but the babies that dont get aborted wont end up getting shot either.
Maybe we could take it further and say just no assault rifles and no late term abortions? I just think more kids in school is a good thing and if babies are born and they dont get shot, that’s a win in my book
and i get what youre saying about
because the same can be said about the right. trans is as much a culture as “being a southerner” or ‘gun culture’ and the right is trying to erase that culture. it’s just another place where we gotta talk to each other and noot just assume checkmate right away