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17 ELITE Vol.1 No.23 September 2020 |

A Race to The Detriment of

the truth

An article written by: Assile Mostafa

By this, I don’t only mean radicalism as a conc ept but
This month’s article is about a topic that
troubles me and which I’ve been overthinking also the fact that everyone feels the need tha t the y
must adopt a sharp and strict position regardi ng issue s,
lately. And with the emergence of a number of
instead of being willing to accept the trut h rega rdl ess
Issues and social causes recently, accompanied
of who says or who finds it. The problematic I am
by people openly expressing their opinions and
posing is: Is having a strict or unbiased poi nt of vi ew
points of view about these issues for the first
necessary or correct? Is accepting and tol erating
time in such huge numbers, this question
other’s opinions and perspectives a sign of a weak
seemed urgent; it needed to be both put under
personality, a lack of understanding of the issue and
the spot and discussed. During the emergence
even a preference for pacifism? Shouldn t it be a sign
of these previously mentioned controversial
of maturity?
issues, we focused on the reaction of people
Let's see ... why am I asking this question? It’s
towards these issues, since it wasn’t usual in
because I was simply one of those people who are
Egypt for people to express their point of
views and opinions honestly and freely, biased towards a certain ideology, unwavering and

arguing and discussing them which is certainly determined about having an opinion on every
gladdening because it proves that people are
issue, whatever is its nature, be it political,
finally more aware and conscious of their
humanitarian, religious, even regarding movies,
societal problems and them concerned with
series and other topics ... as if I was keen to
getting them resolved. However unfortunately,
always have a voice that’s heard, I wanted to
these comments or discussions between people
prove through these strong opinions that I am
rarely lead to a resolution or a logical
aware of these issues, that I fully understand
reasoning regarding these issues or problems.
them... And indeed I was receiving this from
In fact, we witness an obvious division of
people, I felt that my strong opinions, whether
opinions composing two separate groups, those
people liked them or not, were making an impact,
“with” and those “against”, as if there were no
and making me feel Strong, and able to influence
Nourhan Osama, Youstina Ebeid, Maries unbiased Hesham, Nouran Hossam, Mostafa Sayyed, Reem
Adel,
Nadeen
as
a
such
thing
middle
an
or
ground
I
me.
around
“you’d
myself
tell
would
those
Omran , Zeina Tarek, Hana Henien, Hania Bahaa, Yassmine Gamal Hussein, Salma Bayoumi, Mariam Sultan,
opinion. Is it impossible to have a neutral and
Doss,
Rana
Ossama,
Mirna
Assem,
Assile
Nada Hosny, Jozeph George , Farah Ezz Eldin, Aliyaa convince people if you are determined and fanatic
Mostafa,
logical opinion that’s not offending a particular
Farah Islam, Zeina Arafa.
group of people? of your thoughts”.
| Vol.1 No.23 September 2020 |