I was going to write about politics You know, with all the craziness happening in the States and how people are polarizing and dividing people into red or blue. I could write about the problem of identity politics, or how the reds or blues are right/wrong…..and by the look of things, that would give me things to write for the next decade.

So, no, I’m going to write about something else…. but it is related.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No matter how honourable we think we are, if we are not careful, we can easily become the monster we try to overcome. It doesn’t even matter if we are dealing with politics or theology. No matter how right we think we are, when we step outside of how we are to behave, we become no difference with whom we are trying to judge. At that point, whether they are right or wrong is inconsequential.