I think some people want to have enemies

I participate in a website called Quara.com. It’s a site where you can ask and answer questions. Any question on your mind. There’s often some really great questions that people pose. And other times, well, let’s just say they are leading questions where the person asking the question isn’t really interested in the answer.

I avoid the second type of questions — they usually lead nowhere good. But throw a really good question out there and I’ll bite. And read the other answers too — I’m interested to learn from other folks.

In the last week I took a shot at a question that I thought was a good question — it asked people to share their experience of changing from one way of thinking to another about politics. The folks who offered answers gave wonderful insight and were vulnerable. It didn’t matter if someone was sharing what caused them to go from conservative to liberal or from liberal to conservative. Folks were laying themselves out and sharing. It was great to see.

But not everyone thought that. There was one person who decided to attack folks. This individual decided that anyone who didn’t agree with them 100% was an enemy. I had some interaction with this individual. He decided to label me and belittle me. I didn’t take the bait though. I gave him the benefit of the doubt. He persisted in his attack. One of the things I told him was that I refused to see him as an enemy.

I don’t know what happened to him in the past that he decided to take people’s…