Note on Removed Content: Learning From my Mistakes Without the Fanfare

I sometimes remove content from this blog if I think it is either wrong, insensitive or too controversial to accomplish what it's intended to accomplish.

I'm smart and mature enough to be capable of changing my mind without making a public fuss about it or trying to explain or defend my motives for writing to the entire world. Sometimes I might make a short public apology for the really bad posts, but that's about it.

Additionally, this blog needs to maintain a unifying message and theme. If it merely points out all the specific ways that everyone on every side is right and wrong about all these different things, it won't be able to be the blog I want it to be. The most important and essential messages and themes would be lost in translation for many readers.

 

I feel like I can do better than that. I can get people to understand their common ground and common humanity without getting lost fighting over the various ways in which each side sacrifices different aspects of moral goodness.

If you find one of my posts harmful, offensive or ignorant, it probably will be taken down at some point eventually—even if it's the sort of post which you wouldn't normally expect someone to change their mind about.

Please do not assume such a post is representative of the rest of this blog or of my political or cultural allegiances. 

There's always more to learn and more room to grow. That's what life's all about after all. I'm still learning and growing and always will be, so please be patient with me. Thanks!

P.S. To be clear, I consider myself an ally to every political and ideological faction of humankind. My worldviews and philosophy may look like a Rorschach blot to those who don't quite understand that they're looking at.

Everyone has valid concerns and values. It's their methods of satisfying those values and their expectations of how the world works that are sometimes wrong, but in different ways. We all have different weaknesses and different blind spots.