There is a section of Answers From Silence on the topic of intolerance. It says that all viewpoints are limited in some way.
Every day you hear about people who can’t understand or relate to others who have a conflicting viewpoint.
Perhaps as a result, most public discourse now consists of taking a position and defending it against another person’s position.
This is might work if only there weren’t an essential flaw in taking a position. Any position can be challenged and undermined by contradictory information.
The world constantly changes. New information is always arriving. Holding a position might require that you ignore new information.
Also, holding a “good” position in opposition to another person’s “bad” position only makes you into their reflection.
As Answers From Silence says, “The only ‘right’ thing is the whole thing.”
Perhaps people want to hold to a changeless viewpoint because at some level they sense that there does exist a realm of changelessness and they want to exist there.
In that case, what they really want is enlightenment.
Establish yourself in the realm of changelessness, and you will inherit a viewpoint that originates from an experience of timelessness and unboundedness.
Except that it isn’t exactly like a viewpoint. It is more like an actual view. Like one you might see from a mountaintop.
In this analogy, opposing viewpoints would be like an argument between two mountain climbers who are trying to predict what it will look like when they reach the top of the mountain.
Only arriving there answers the question.
And then silence reigns.
—JC