I don't disagree

Maybe I don't agree, but I don't disagree

A while ago, I wrote a post, “I don’t agree to disagree.”

I’ve decided not only to “not agree to disagree”, but to not disagree in the first place.

Does that mean I agree with your silly-ass idea? Not necessarily. I’d have to hear it, first. But let’s imagine that it’s as stupid as I am imagining your idea might be.

Why disagree?

You seem to think your idea makes sense. I don’t see it. But that doesn’t mean I’m right. And, importantly, it doesn’t mean you are wrong.

Everyone is doing their best. And if your idea is the best you’ve got, and mine is the best that I’ve got, who can say whose idea is better?

“I can,” says the God I don’t believe in. That might be just a literary device, and not something that I even don’t believe in, according to some people I know.

I don’t disagree.

Disagreement puts ideas in opposition.

It's not necessary, and so I’m not doing it anymore.

“I see things differently,” is not disagreement. It’s offering another way of seeing.

“But you must think your way is better,” a reader might ask, and probably did.

“Nope,” I would answer. “It seems better, but seeming and being are not the same. Whether it IS better or not, is beyond my pay grade. Not my jurisdiction.”

“Correct,” says the God no one believes in. “It’s My jurisdiction. Assuming that I exist at all.”

TL;DR

I’m writing this to remind my present self of an idea that I find valuable, and to help my future self.

Don’t disagree.

Agree differently.