People are complex.

A person should be…

responsible, but still have fun…

patient, but still motivated to take action…

rational, but still empathetic…

Humanity, and more likely any sort of intelligence implies that someone can hold multiple conflicting rules, nearly all of which are conditional on the others. Anything less is a robot carrying out routine tasks. As a result, it’s no wonder we have so much conflict about how the work should be done, who should be in charge, how much things should cost, what’s good and what’s bad. Everything is interpretive.

The rules are so complex and so conditional, it’s not like anyone even understands entirely why they make the decisions they do themselves. Perhaps it’s time to adopt gray thinking, and not the black-and-white stuff we’re so used to. Perhaps that person you disagree with is under the wrong conditions for them to think as you do. Perhaps you can’t change that, and it’s okay.