re: #84 HappyWarrior

Yeah, I cannot stand them. They’re the kind of people who do not hesitate at all to harass women who get abortions and I have to say even when I was at my most pro life, I would have never even thought of doing something that cruel.

I went to a training on pro-Israel advocacy some weeks ago, and the man teaching it had some interesting things to say about reaching out to people whose minds you could change, rather than fighting endless duels with unreachable counter-activists.

I understand the desire to simply batter on the people who say things that upset you, to try to shame them, make them change their minds, make them look bad. But that’s not useful, it’s merely emotionally satisfying.

I think that in the abortion debate, we need to keep that in mind as well. It’s more important to move toward goals than to maul one another.

The desire to maul, though, is very, very strong.