Below is a list of questions that I often ask myself or wish I had asked others. The questions use “I” or “You” depending on which sounds best to my inner ear. I could ask all these questions of myself (and have) and could ask all these questions of you (and am).
- How does what I want to be the case impact my ability to accept what is the case?
- How does one communicate something that is in between either/or and both/and?
- How can I respect a person I cannot critique or critique a person I cannot respect? (Subquestion: Can a vegan review a steak house?)
- How do you deal with conversations that are uncomfortable and which conversations make you uncomfortable?
- What is the difference between meaning and purpose?
- How important is righteous indignation and would I give it up if that is what it took to change things?
- What does justice require that wisdom does not and what does wisdom require that justice does not?
- How would making the world a better place cause me to be less significant than I am today?
- How do you feel about whatever goals you think the human race ought to set?
- What must each party give up in order to be in relationship?
- When is a person only an avatar for his or her culture and when is a person a unique individual and how do you know when to regard that person as one or the other?
- What if the thing I am right about is irrelevant, impractical, or harmful?
- In what situations would I prefer death to change?
- For what cause would you defy God; and what if that is exactly what God wants you to do? (Subquestion 1: If that is what God wants you to do, how would God communicate that to you? Subquestion 2: What if salvation depends on God seeing who is courageous enough to defy divinity?)
- What is the most valuable thing in your past that you would be willing to never mention again?
- When we limit people by saying that their culture defines them, how do we account for those few in every culture who transcend their cultures? (Subquestion 1: how do we promote transcendence while valuing cultural differences? Subquestion 2: How do we distinguish mistakes from wrongness?)
- What is the difference between education and training?
- How could the truth I hold most dear be proven wrong in a way that I would accept the disproof?
- How do I disqualify people?
- How do our dreams reveal our limitations and is this one reason we are afraid of sharing our dreams?

John Tucker is a thinker dedicated to promoting progressive values even as he is critical of some progressive assumptions.
great questions, looking forward to the book