Exclusivity

We love exclusivity.

Read that again, and notice I didn't say, "We love exclusively." I said, "We love exclusivity." We love to have explicit and specific explanations for why things happen and how things occur. We love to have _the_ answer.

Whether it be choosing a career or proving science vs religion, we must know which it is. In many cases proving which it is becomes proving that we are right, and soon we have division between the people. One side convinced they must be right, the other just as convinced.

Exclusivity fits a lot of circumstances like discussing the existence of God. But we overuse it and it is at the point where exclusivity has poisoned many topics where it doesn't need to exist and in reality is holding our understanding back.