The importance of finding a common language to build relationships that offer a diver a population the element of creative choice.

1. That sounds crazy! Why would anyone go out of their way to
undermine their own position by findingflaws in their own argument? Why
would anyone seek to entertain what he or she may consider ignorant and
possibly morallybankrupt? Why wouldanyone give up even an inch when
his or her opponent seeks a mile? Why wouldanyone risk losing the very
momentum and hard-won credibilitymarginalizing his or her own voice?
Absolutely, ridiculous, or is it? Actuallythe question reallyshould be,
"Why wouldn't they?"
Why wouldn’t you? Yes, why wouldn't you want to know why a large
percentage of your community does not agree with you? Why wouldn't you
find out everythingabout every argumentand seek to find every way
possible to agree, or at the very least, understand and find a common
language for longer-termpossibilities? Why wouldn'tyou want to utilize
an informed communication strategyto grasp points of common
consensus to create a network with the much-neededuntappedsocial
capital? Why wouldn’t you seek to open up roadblocks stemming from
misconceptions and mistrust with creative vertical peacekeeping? It is
critical to sustainability.
Why wouldn'tyou seek to use
inclusion to create an environment
of inclusion?
More importantly, why wouldn'tyou
wish to know if the misconceptions
that need to be changed are your
own?
I think you would. There is an importance to challengingour own
point of view. Not only does it allow us to gain critical insight, possibly
reconfirmingour own perspective, it is also an effective means to assess
In a society there must be a
stranger.
If everyone is known then
there is no person that is
able to bring something
new to everybody.

2. possible hurdles that might frustrate sought after outcomes. We can
certainly get in our own way when we fail to understandothers and think
we have all the information neededto informour actions.
I have grown to appreciate the importance of our own commitment to
community and doing life with others in a knowledge-sharing
interdependency --— people we do not yet know, strangers if you will, have
the new information we need from experiences we have not had. None of
us is immune to a proverbial slipon that slope that takes us from
prejudgmentto prejudice. Testingthe surety of our footing is never a bad
idea.
Our efforts to bring others into an inclusive
community are best realized when we are already there
to welcome them and introduce them around.