Why aren't more people like this?

This is so refreshing. Everyone on the internet wants Clarence Thomas to resign just because his wife supported an insurrection, but even the liberals disagree. Justice Sotomayor and I disagree on a lot, but not this:

[We have] a very different philosophy of life, but I think we share a common understanding about people and kindness towards them. That's why I can be friends with him and still continue our daily battle over our difference of opinions in cases.

Why's everyone always so entrenched in warfare they cannot appreciate the common understandings of humanity?

There are days I get discouraged, there are moments where I am deeply disappointed,” she said. “Every time I do that, I lick my wounds for a while, sometimes I cry, and then I say: ‘Let’s fight.’