Raphael Chayim Rosen on Fair For All

[Raphael Chayim Rosen]

This piece and two recent others 1) https://moreincommon.substack.com/p/what-we-get-wrong-about-each-other-527?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=907975&post_id=159864158&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=38qf13&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 2) -rural?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=239058&post_id=159932651&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=38qf13&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email do one thing in common that I appreciate: celebrate the dignity of each individual. The More in common piece highlights that the more we associate people with things we don’t like, the more unfairly we will judge them. This FAIR piece speaking out against state-based discrimination shows how the desire to correct historical wrongs with broad strokes leads individuals to be explicitly discriminated against because of “immutable characteristics.” And in the How to Win friends piece shows simply and clearly why labeling people as stupid or angry will alienate those people. Instead, showing up, knocking on their door and caring about what they care about engenders good will and trust. The truth captured well in these pieces seems obvious to me: we all hate being talked down to ourselves. We all hate when someone assumes they know what we believe. And we enjoy when someone says “What’s on your mind? Why? How are you feeling about it?” Yet the internet and real world is littered with people denigrating strangers. Because our desire to remake the world in our own moral image – with political sanctimony – is poison. The counter action is a powerful antidote: go treat everyone with dignity and as an individua.