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As the saying goes "politics and religion". My brother and I recently got into it over the presidential election and religion. I got fairly ugly for a while, but in the end we worked it out. He called me later to say that once he calmed down he really thought about what I was saying, and has changed his mind about the election thought definitely not about the religious part of the conversation. I usually preface these kinds of conversations with something like, "You know I have very stong opinions on this, but I really love to hear and learn about and from people who don't see things the way I do. " I also try to keep it from getting too heated by dropping the "I guess we can just agree to disagree and move on".
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
-Douglas Adams
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