President Obama made a great speech with many messages in Oslo when receiving his Nobel Peace Prize. The part below stood out as a lesson to everyone if viewed in the context of your personal life.
‘I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation.
I also know that sanctions without outreach – condemnation without discussion – can carry forward only a crippling status quo….’
I can think of a lot situations where it sounds a bit naive but it can feel good to take the moral high ground. We’ll see.