I see the value of creating space for a prejudice-free environment everywhere I go. But a prejudice-free zone requires self-sacrifice, self-censorship, in relation to not censoring others in the propagation of healthy boundaries. Unfortunately, self-sacrifice is about not being lazy.
Understanding one’s own point of view requires studying those points of view that are detrimental to the well-being of ideas that you may hold dear. Studying ideas that are diametrically opposed to your own ideas is actually studying your own ideas in depth.
Just like no one understands their own point of view unless they understand the opposing point of view, people know little about love unless they give it away without any expectation of return. It is in the giving away of love unconditionally that a person understands the value of receiving love. Unconditional grace is the essence of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. To repress or censor anyone’s speech is to repress your own freedom of speech. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven is related to this unconditional grace. Freedom of choice is a heavenly paradigm.
Many people are far too lazy to explain their own point of view to someone, and are even less industrious about plumbing the depths of someone else’s point of view, particularly if it opposes their own. It is easier to just force people to embrace and obey a law through dictatorship rather than attract them to the spirit of the law that should ethically proceed from every structured institution of philosophical comportment.
When it comes to the truth, historically speaking it appears to be very fluid. Today’s truth, whether scientific or religious, is subject to change to its own peculiar evolutionary processes. 100 years from now will be joking about all the scientific proofs that we’ve held as self-evident. Likewise, I suspect that spirituality has its own metaphorical DNA and that ensuing transmutations will build synaptic bridges within the institutions of faith.
Today’s evidence-based practices are tomorrow’s one-liners in comedy clubs. Due scrutiny of alternative ideas in healthcare is to ask the medical communities to face and stare into the proverbial naturopathic abyss; if their arguments stand the weather of free or less profitable ventures resulting in true wellness, then the greater good will be known by all regardless of whether they live in poverty or are rich.