This Catholic Life Podcast

Love the point about people proposing solutions to problems that - if you disagree with the solution proposed (in the proposers disregard of other values in conflict) then you don’t share a concern about the problem. Issue 1: problems get packaged up into big mega-problems where there may be agreement on some components but different views on others, yet everyone is supposed to embrace the concern of the entire mega-problem in it’s entirety lest they be labelled as “deniers” Issue 2: solutions to mega-problems are almost always going to run roughshod over the values of a portion of the population since a mega-problem is so big that it necessarily requires massive change and has a correspondingly massive impact. If we looked at component problems - not in isolation but also not as if it’s inextricably linked with the mega problem, we may find that we can put in place smaller solutions to the specific components. Issue 3: Nuance and sensible divide-and-conquer approaches to mega-problems don’t fly well with a media whose bottom line depends on the capacity for sensationalisation and the ability to define good guys and bad guys in a battle between polar, over-simplified perspectives