“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”
(Mahatma Gandhi)
It is important to understand that if we do not agree or have differing views then it is healthy, and it is so in two ways. Firstly, we are expressing freedom by adherence to personal logic. Secondly, we are able to brainstorm our collective skills to analyze the best answer to the issue by showing that the delusions we hold do not assign a common denominator for progress. If we never have argumentative dialogue then, in a sense, we are also living a lie or choosing to run from constructive criticism because we only want that fairytale world in which everyone conforms to our worldview.
Gandhi shows us a new way of dealing with conflict and subsequent resolutions. The only requirement is having an open mind in order to release the rigid constraints forming our traditional beliefs and analyze discussions with objective logic instead of through biased delusions. Hearing a new viewpoint can only ever be constructive because it either affirms the stance or provides logical reasoning to question the beliefs and delusions leading to that stance. The acknowledgment of the constructive nature of new ideas depends greatly on the force of delusions.
When we are fanatic in our observation and mindset, we cannot respectfully engage in dialogue. Violence is one way of resorting to a fanatic mindset. Another dangerous form is avoiding and denying dialogue pertaining to the issue. If we can love then we can strive to, at least, understand others’ perspectives and include those views in our methodology instead of tolerating them until we must, one day, retaliate against them violently.
