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Your perspective of seeing people's views from both sides seems egalitarian, sensitive to others' realities. And, sometimes, we need to make changes quickly to avert disaster. But I take issue with the notion that "when small alterations feel insufficient [. . . ,] urgency isn't impatience. It's common sense." Perhaps the focus should be on the "feel," because that subjective stance indicates room for error; indeed, common sense goes out the window when we rush without enough critical thinking. Generally, the urgency is impatience and not common sense. In our attention-seeking society, which rewards the quick fix, we have people who use AI to "create" music--rather than working, practicing to learn to play instruments; we have people who focus their self-worth on how many "likes" they get--rather than living lives that truly deserve accolades; we have people who support political candidates that promise, through lies, immediate results--rather than the voters recognizing that these candidates have histories of criminal activities, lying, not fulfilling promises, and other negative actions and the voters recognizing that productive change usually requires time and patience.

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