When Politeness Dances with Stupidity, Misinformation, & Ignorance

An excerpt from How Kindness & Civility Fails With Some People

There are people I love and feel loved by with whom my efforts at kindness and civility are useless. I try to argue respectfully but that is always a losing effort. Logic, facts, and truth cannot penetrate their beliefs or touch their certainty, regardless of how wrong they are. Silence in the face of their ridiculous statements they interpret as agreement with them, their sureness in themselves makes it impossible for them to believe that any sane person could disagree.