This is one of those nuggets hiding away in an otherwise unrelated piece of news.
Abstraction has a way of masking disagreement: Everybody’s in favor of “liberty,” for some values of “liberty.”
The article, by Julian Sanchez, was observing the trends among political conservatives as they adopt newer technologies to organize and communicate. But that above nugget stuck out to me. It’s good to remember that while we really would like to “just all get along” without much fuss, there are many fundamental disagreements floating around. Handling them is complicated. And what you do with the people who are “wrong” matters, too.