I don’t follow the news much, but I can’t help noticing the coverage of the Prime Ministerial elections here in the UK. They have become personal. It didn’t take long at all.
In my view, this is one of the problems with the status quo (which is what I call “the system”). By making issues personal, the weight of the issue is reduced and all sorts of tactics become legitimate. Whilst I can see that the integrity of the proposer of an idea may be something to look at, that doesn’t alter the value of the proposal.
I suspect that making issues personal is a technique for undermining the issue itself and not a reasonable measure to ensure that proposals are valuable.
In my view – as we move forwards towards a different way of being – we have an opportunity and an obligation to keep personalities out of discussions about the issues.
