The Difference between

Personal relationships and political ones are mutually-exclusive since they serve diffferent purposes and use opposing methods:

Personal	Political
Occur between exceptional people	Between the typical
based on trust & loyalty	legally-enforceable contracts
share & share alike	give & take
ends in themselves	means to ends
quality	quantity
spontaneous	planned
should discriminate	should not
difficult	easy
being	doing
understanding	knowing
seeing	looking
acceptance	tolerance
listening	hearing
agreement necessary	agreement not necessary
believing is seeing	seeing is believing
individualistic	communitarian
emotional	intellectual
non-mediated	mediated

Politics makes life possible; The Personal makes life worthwhile.

POLITICS: