I'm Right, You're Wrong

When people have taken this stance, you're at a dead end. How do you tell him or her otherwise? How do you make him or her see things from a different perspective? How do you make them apologize for what they do because despite them thinking they're right, what they have done is actually unacceptable behavior under normal circumstances and under what is socially and publicly acceptable and unacceptable behavior?



Should they be left with their ignorance? Should we accept that these people have some kind of social disability? I’m perplexed when faced with such people. They left you wondering whether they really have problem understanding basic social principles or is it because they’ve made a mistake (who doesn’t?), but are too egotistical to admit them.



I’m sure we have faced this too often in our life. We have the know-all minister, the know-all boss, the know-all parents, the know-all teacher, the know-all friend, etc. I guess, it won’t be too difficult to just let them be in their own private world if what they do did not affect us in any way. But what if their decisions affect our life? We then have to fight tooth and nail to make them see what we’re faced with. How it will affect us for the rest of our lives. But then again, some still choose not to fight, not to do anything and accept it as fate.



I think that is the saddest part. And some people will say, if they don’t fight for it, they don’t want it enough. That is of course one way to look at things but some people don’t think they have a choice. Just like an adult elephant conditioned not to break away from a small chain because that chain has been used to tie them when they’re just a little baby elephant.