Last week I
talked about thought provoking discussions. I think, now more than nearly any
time in history, that it’s important to realize that our problems are not black
and white. There are no easy and all-encompassing solutions, nor is one side of
the argument definitively right and the other definitively wrong despite the
yelling by radicals and politicians.
Only when
we can acknowledge and understand other viewpoints have some validity can we
work on accommodating them, or at least persuading them to something different
through logic and reason instead of simply insisting on our own rightness
against the wrongness of our opponents.
Black and
white makes for excellent film, but even those films realized that the shadows
and shades of grey are infinitely engaging.