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Here on the English Wikipedia, and across all Wikimedia projects, we have thousands upon thousands of editors who come from diverse backgrounds. In such a community, conflict and dissent is going to be inevitable. The question before us is whether, despite our differences, we will be able to respect each other as people, even if we do not agree with each other's ideas. For an illustration of—and, indeed, the inspiration for—this principle, one has to look no further than the friendship between Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia.