CAMERON: Try some diplomacy

Steve Cameron, wow! Regarding your Oct. 6 article, Steve, criticism without offering a fair and balanced solution is so very easy. Anyone can do it. It takes no skill whatsoever.

In a new TV series, “The Good Doctor,” this teenaged autistic genius doctor innocently and without malice asked two questions to a sarcastic, arrogant doctor. “Does being arrogant make you a better doctor?” “Does it make you a better person?”

My question is, does arrogant, sarcastic criticism make you a better anything?

Here’s my solution. Diplomacy. Leave out inflammatory rhetoric. “Nobody in pain wants a circus,” and “…before you come leaping out of your chairs…” Sarcasm isn’t talent; diplomacy is. Example: “Is a presidential visit after a disaster helpful?” and “Before you get upset, please hear me out.”

I believe to be well-educated, an intellectual, or simply smart are all a little different and are good attributes, but without wisdom and diplomacy, how effective are they? Wisdom tells you when and how to use them. Wisdom develops diplomacy. Combined, they can bring people together.

I don’t know how well-educated you are or if you are an intellectual, but I do believe you are a smart man, and I assume a smart person would agree, arrogant sarcastic criticism more often just divides us and that we’ve all had enough arrogant sarcastic criticism and divisive partisanship. Most of the wisdom I’ve gained came after my mistakes — but not until I admitted them.

JERRY MARTIN

Post Falls