James Talarico

And like evicting that family because of a mistake or because they missed a bill.

To me, it's not that he's trying to be malicious.

It was that he just had a complete blind spot on what it was like to be a working person.

But there's also people that do they are malicious.

Yes.

I do feel like those people I have found are very loving parents and spouses and even friends.

And to me, that means they haven't broadened that circle of concern.

Uh-huh.

Right?

Because you want to think some of these people are just two-dimensional villains.

I sometimes fall—

Victim to that thinking.

But then I spend time with them.

I'm like, this person is kind and funny and good hearted and treats his wife well and treats his kids well, treats his neighbors, his immediate neighbors.

So my challenge is always like, how do I try to expand that circle a little bit more to where they care just as much about...

a neighbor who lives in a completely different city than the one who's right next door to them in Highland Park or River Oaks or one of these nice neighborhoods, right?

That to me is the challenge, is seeing everyone as your neighbor, not just the people who live right next to you.

And that's the central teaching of my faith and in most of the great faith traditions.

I mean, sometimes we try to pretend that there's all these diverse religions and who knows who's right.

In reality, there is giant ethical overlap between the major world religions.