When confronted with ideas or situations, we must strive to avoid guilt by association with preconceived prejudices. We must assess ideas on their own merits and avoid tarring them with the same brush when it’s not appropriate. Otherwise we reduce complex issues to pantomime farce, and people with all their nuances to two-dimensional heroes or villains. If nothing else, this might be the impetus to be kinder to each other in a world with multitudinous people and divergent views.
