if I were a rhetorical question, I would look like this

[the_siobhan]

Is it possible for somebody who is pro-life and somebody who is pro-choice to be friends?

Is it simply a matter of difference of opinion? Or is it more than that? Is there an underlying difference in values that makes it impossible to be friends?

What do you think?


What I'm listening to right this second: Stromkern

Comments

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Things "come up" though. It's in the news. A friend talks about it in your hearing. A celebrity comes out on one side or the other.

I used to fundraise for The United Way, an umbrella charity here in Canada. I would talk to people who would flat out say that they won't donate because The United Way funds Planned Parenthood, and they are pro-life.

It doesn't come up every day, but it does come up.

[robert-from-ap.livejournal.com]

If one is not mature enough to avoid certin topics, one will get along with NO ONE.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Is it more mature to avoid subject you disagree on, or to learn how to discuss subjects you disagree on without hating each other as a result?

[robert-from-ap.livejournal.com]

avoid the topic. No one ever changes their mind in the course of a conversation. Many never change their minds at all, since their opinion is based on a differnt set of life expeiriences then your own.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Note that I never said anything about changing their mind in the options I presented.

Although I've recently started following the "don't talk about it" strategy on a completely unrelated subject. So although I'd like to be able to agree to disagree, maybe that's not always possible.

[mathochist.livejournal.com]

Balance. No need to completely avoid the topic, but know when to change the subject.