re: #167 SanFranciscoZionist

That one creeps me out, partly because they can’t explain it, but it clearly means something to their listeners. He’s ‘different’. He doesn’t ‘feel’ like you and me. He didn’t ‘grow up’ like you and me.

This may draw some people closer to them. It alienates the hell out of me.

The next time someone tells me that he is different, I’m going to say “good, we need diversity”.

Diversity in ideas/backgrounds/philosophies/cultures/etc, as genetic diversity does for evolution, provides the marketplace of ideas from which the bad ones are culled and the good ones taken and refined. The last thing we need is for everyone to agree on everything.