That's what some people think today. So it's not important to agree   just to be tolerant of different viewpoints. Then everything will be just fine   right?

But some of our viewpoints conflict with each other. If my "truth" is that I need a good night's sleep, but the guy upstairs has a "truth" that allows him to play loud music until dawn-whose truth gets priority?

Or if my truth says that people should be at least civil to one another, but a classmate's truth gives her reason to call me names, how do we resolve this?

The trouble with real truth is that, it's there. It stares us in the face even when we defy it, even we stomp our feet and want to make up something else.

But what if you know the truth   but are too afraid to stand up for it? Because you get intimidated by the "everybody knows" cycle.

You know   everybody knows that you can't have fun without drinking, and everybody knows that condoms are the answer for relationships. And everybody knows that young people are going to have sex no matter what. And everybody knows that to even question homosexuality makes you a hateful person. And, everybody knows that a woman has a right to control her own body...

Right? So there does seem to be an official "truth," after allÖ

Problem is, it doesn't feel true.

(Refugees from Truthophobia click here.)