Nearly everyone has experienced division. We personally learn the effects of such even in high school. When a classmate on a random day decides on a whim to negatively regard a fellow student, he or she might gossip about a person, and try to poison the well , for example, in making such a person seem unappealing or unreputable in whatever issue is being discussed. Poisoning the well is the idea that before person B even gets a chance to examine certain information on his or her own, person A seeks to distort person B’s understanding by pointing out things that might either be true or false in order for person B to immediately have the perspective that person A has. For instance, I have recently been called an anti-Mormon , which is a textbook example of poisoning the well. What this does is when a Mormon calls another person anti-Mormon, he is using this derogatory label to warn other Mormo...
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