Agree to disagree?

[beetiger]

Prompted by several discussions, on LJ and elsewhere, over the last week or so.

[Poll #288769]

Feel encouraged to discuss in more detail.

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[beowabbit]

I started to try to fill this out, but so few of the questions were simple yes–no questions for me that I gave up.

Interesting categories that I can be friends with, at least under some circumstances:

• has hurt me badly, but has apologized
• has done something highly unethical that does not affect me directly, and appears to feel sorry for the behavior
• disagrees with me on religious issues (probably more than half of my friends are pagan of some flavour, and I’m not any kind of religious. However, it has been a problem with the rare person or so whose model of the world just can’t be mapped onto mine in any way)

Interesting categories that I might not be able to be friends with, depending on the circumstances/degree:

• disagrees with me on political issues
• disagrees with me on social issues (I have no idea how this is different from “political issues”)

For almost all of these, though, I could only answer with more information (i.e., a fairly concrete scenario). In fact, I’m sure I could come up with circumstances where the choices I’ve listed above would come out the other way.

Politics and other moral issues are pretty important to me, though.