To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission to another's opinions and viewpoints.
-- Wayde Goodall
To put it differently, what does it mean when I am unwilling to submit to the possibility that other people's opinions and viewpoints have some validity?
What, in fact, is it that would make me even wish for this not to be true? Does such unwillingness somehow validate my own? After all, how would my viewpoints even be compromised by someone else's?
Why does making such judgments feel so useful? Who even asked me to judge? But, without such submission, I unwittingly do so.
