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Probably your first step is learning that when people disagree, it's not that "they've missed the point". It's that they got the point, but they don't think you're right. That's the first step to learning to cope.

I understand that you are saying people can set whatever priorities they want in life. I agree that people are, for the most part, free to do that. That doesn't mean that some priorities are not objectively wrongly prioritized. It's not all relative.

Anyone who prioritizes business over family is objectively wrong (and we used to have laws that made that clear, which have, for the most part, been neutered in the last half-century -- a big loss IMO).

Your point is that no one can make value judgments about another person's priorities. I don't agree. People can, should, and do. You are of course factually correct that you can't be physically stopped from having the wrong priorities. That doesn't make them right. Historically, when behaviors appear that manifestly show a mis-prioritization of this type, the behavior is illegitimate and the perpetrator would be punished by the civil authority for the behavior.

Anyway, this thread is already ridiculously deep and quite off-topic. Let's stop it here and agree to disagree.



I am so sorry to see that there are people so much limited in their way of thinking and with how they treat their and the others' lives. Hopefully you will learn your mistakes over next years. I will pray for you. :)

I am afraid that I have to say now that most of the things you have written are objectively wrong. Too bad you don't seem to comprehend that... But it's good that it doesn't really affect me and my life (which I consider pretty happy, by the way :) ).

You could try to go outside and talk to different kinds of people more. Maybe changing multiple occupations wouldn't hurt either. So you could meet and perceive people from different worlds. That usually helps broaden your mind.

Have fun with your objectively wrong life. :)




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