
Civility or Devility
"I tell it like it is!" I've heard a lot of people use this statement. And I really don't like it. No, you don't "tell it like it is." You tell it like your own opinion. You tell it like you think it is. You tell it like you see it. But you are not omniscient - all-knowing - so you can't tell it like it is. And that's telling it like I see it. The ability to just talk about issues of disagreement seems totally lost nowadays. People can't seem to disagree agreeably. I