There's the key, "knowing" you're right. How does one know that? Being convinced of one's own infallible knowledge is the first step to intellectual tyranny. " I am right, therefore, if you disagree with me you are wrong. ". Now we have a situation where two people, both knowing they are right, disagree. Can they both be right or is one of them wrong or are they BOTH wrong? Those two will never know the answer, because, since they are both convinced of their infallible knowledge, they will never pursue any avenue of research. This renders BOTH of them ineffective and irrelevant to everyone else.

The person who comes to the point where they say " I know everything I need to know ", has now become indifferent to knowledge. Their participation will now only be to tell everyone else what is true and what to do about it. Their information has really become irrelevant and useless. They will not discuss anything with you, they don't have to, they KNOW and if you do not immediately agree with them, they will become angry.

People who become angry when disagreed with, do NOT do so from a sense of strength and conviction. They become angry because, deep down, they realize that they might NOT be right and that scares them. Passion in defending one's position is usually generated by the hope that one is right, meaning, there is fear that one is not. The person who realizes that they may not be right will discuss opposing views in the search for a more accurate and complete t***h. Having an open mind does not mean that the mind is empty, it means the mind has room to grow and become more successful. Success does not come from having all the necessary knowledge, it comes from having the capacity to learn and one can only learn - by having an open mind.

The worst person to try and survive with is the one who believes that they know all they need to know. They'll get you k**led.

There may a better word than about being right. That makes it sound boastful.

Maybe put it this way: I am comfortable in that more often that not I do the right thing.

I say that I am comfortable with others. I feel that I am able to have people feel comfortable around me.

I am saying that I live my life towards others that I would like to see others live their life's towards me. Towards isn't the best word.

Do onto others as you would have them do onto you.

I look for the good in others more so that seeing the bad.

Knowing when you are right comes from feed back from others. And if you can keep that from going to your head.

The point of that I am trying to say I think is:

When people are comfortable with each other things are right.

I think for the most part a person is do & say things that keep them self at ease. Then if you look for the good in others that lets others feel more at ease with you

Then the more times & with more people you are at ease with the better things in your day to day living go.

There is no way that any any one can stop this happening.
People are hard wired to get along & always look to be excepted.

Meet some one that don't seem to buy into this. & only looks for the bad in others is to (deflect the h**e so to speak) & not spread h**e back. If you practice dealing with people like this I am sure that you can find ways to disarm them by saying something positive to them.

I think that would be dialing back the clock somewhat. It sure seems to be attack first, think second, around the place. I've seen a lot of examples here, where a part of a sentence gains a negative reaction, because they did not read the whole sentence or paragraph and so missed the context.

If I said " black people suck at portraying white people " I would expect some bad feedback only on the "black people suck" part of the sentence. Maybe I'm wrong. We'll see won't we?

I think that would be dialing back the clock somewhat. It sure seems to be attack first, think second, around the place. I've seen a lot of examples here, where a part of a sentence gains a negative reaction, because they did not read the whole sentence or paragraph and so missed the context.

If I said " black people suck at portraying white people " I would expect some bad feedback only on the "black people suck" part of the sentence. Maybe I'm wrong. We'll see won't we?