Difficult people

Some people are just so into their minds. I'm talking about people that says how they won't change their mind, people that just won't bulge in the face of contradicting reason. They are at best, dominant.

Society somehow encourages these people because society seems to hold a certain awe for them. Girls may like dominant boys more and therefore perpetuate certain traits as families raise their children through the values of its parents.

Leadership is another problem. Arguably, having qualities of leadership is very desirable because it does put a person above his or her peers and this is I think, what most enshrining the value of leadership is seeking. Since leadership is strongly associated with strong characters, people get another incentive to want to appear hard, a dominant trait.

Which further makes it harder, because society holds dominance in such a high pedastral, that dominance is seen to obviously be more desirable compared to characters in between the extremes of dominance and its opposite. Just look at women today, they just want to do what men does. They see certain positions and jobs traditionally hold by men to be more desirable, at least in comparison to tending to the family.

What bugs me are personalities so dominant, it inconveniences others around. People that demand for things to be done according to their ways are probably most familiar to us. And people who just won't consider the other side of the story similarly is so. Its more extreme side involves people who even exclaims their unwillingness to be persuaded by opposition reasoning.

But dominant people are not antisocial by definition. I would say that dominant people seek to be infallible, treating the accommodation of ideas other than his or her own as a sign of weakness. Since dominant persons do not desire to appear weak, they actively seek to be infallible and unaccommodating to different ideas.

Which is exactly why dominant leaders are a danger to society. Due to their lack of willingness towards opposing views. Leaders should after all consider all perspectives before picking what seems to be the best choice. If they get too consumed with themselves, some voices will be shut out, which is bad since decisions will be taken in a relatively uninformed manner. Society however, loves them. People don't usually vote competence nor wisdom or intellect, they vote for personalities they have faith in. And personalities they have faith in so happens to be tough personalities.

And then they complain how their politicians are dumb and how they hate difficult people.