Your Only Allegiance Is to Yourself

It feels natural to hate everything about a person once you hate that person. Doesn't matter how many arguments they make. Doesn't matter how true those arguments are. Doesn't matter their track record. If we dislike someone, our first instinct is to contradict them. To oppose them. That's simply how our brains are wired. They don't prefer truth, they prefer comfort. This raises a question I love to ask everyone: if you hate someone with all your might but they've made an excellent point, would you agree with them? Let's twist the knife further: they've discovered a flaw in you and given you the most precise feedback on how to fix it. Would you accept it? The split-second pause people face before lying through their teeth tells you everything you need to know. There's no such thing as perfect objectivity. Our minds cannot be truly objective or rational. It's all theoretical. We can only be as rational as our reasoning allows. Some people reason better than others, but that doesn't…