Picking your friends by their politics seems like a bad way to maximize personal well being, unless they insist on talking about it all the time. Indeed people who ostracise others because of ideology are often the ones who can’t stop talking about it:
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
—Winston Churchill
Most people compartmentalize quite well and most humans are hypocrites. In the real world people with weird or “evil” ideologies can still make great friends and can be good people. And people with wonderful sounding belief systems can be horrible human begins. Don’t underestimate the utility she may bring you and how much utility you can bring her by continuing the relationship.
Note that if she is into virtue ethics she may view severing your friendship over religion a breach of loyalty, not something she would do, which means you are sort of defecting. (;_;)
Picking your friends by their politics seems like a bad way to maximize personal well being, unless they insist on talking about it all the time. Indeed people who ostracise others because of ideology are often the ones who can’t stop talking about it:
Most people compartmentalize quite well and most humans are hypocrites. In the real world people with weird or “evil” ideologies can still make great friends and can be good people. And people with wonderful sounding belief systems can be horrible human begins. Don’t underestimate the utility she may bring you and how much utility you can bring her by continuing the relationship.
Note that if she is into virtue ethics she may view severing your friendship over religion a breach of loyalty, not something she would do, which means you are sort of defecting. (;_;)
As I say below, she did insist on talking about it too muuch :-).
It would be interesting to discuss the utility of choosing your friends based on politics, but I fear we’d be going too far off topic!
Ah ok, sorry.
Ah ok sorry then.