Debate

We should take care to avoid overreliance on judgments based on conceptions of what should be. The ideal conception is a beauty to behold, but quickly becomes ugly when you attempt to place it onto reality, as it bends and contorts a reality that is far more complex than the simpler static ideal picture.

We have to be patient with people. In trying times, this seems to be an annoying suggestion, but I think a good one. No one has a perfect store of information. No one is a permanent fixture. People do in fact gain information, and they do in fact change as the world changes. If we issue judgment, it constrains our view of the judged and causes them to react to the constraint itself. Judgments and attacks insulate the recipient and shut them off to the world, alienate them, and further couple them with their initial causes, however misled those causes are. 

Sometimes this is for the better, sometimes not. It has become increasingly important to attack the foundations of an ideology that has grown malevolent and is guiding us towards ruin. However on an individual level, ideology becomes wrapped up with one's own ego, and thus one's projection into the social world. Ideology is not changed through force, but through learning and compassion. Maybe the best avenue is to patiently argue what you believe in, for as long as you believe in it, and keep up the pressure.