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True story. Then again, I still pick topics carefully. Talking about politics isn't bad in itself, but there are situations when it's nicer to relax and forget about it for a while.
Do we need a bit of controversy in our conversations? Sure we do. But do we need it all the time? Nope.
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I personally have no problem to talk about politics at the dinner table and be relaxed. Maybe it's because politics was an usual topic at the dinner table in my youth
Most people can't resonably talk about politics while being relaxed because it's an taboo topic for them. Because poltics is "evil".
It isn't. A lot of people are just unable to talk about it because they have issue with the topic itself.
Having personal issues with topics is a personal problem. That was also the reason why a lot of people were against the world affairs forum at the start.
The goal should be to become comfortable with topics. People who having really explored their own opinion have problems with not being serious all the time while discussing a topic.
They don't get jokes or other puns at positions that can make a conversation fun because they want to be
serious about the topic.
That's the problem with unpolitic people who haven't really explored their own opinions.
To explore your own opinions on the other hand you have to have lot of conversations about them with other people (some of them at dinnertables).