When everyone is special, don't we end up losing ourselves?

The company has changed beyond recognition in recent years. Not long ago, we dealt with work, family, children's education, healthcare or security. Today, there are more and more debates about identities, genders, pronouns and ever new groups that demand recognition, visibility or special treatment.

The question arises, did we lose our sanity somewhere along the way?

No one can be denied the dignity or the right to live their life according to their own beliefs. This is the basis of a free society. At the same time, however, the freedom of one person ends where the freedom of another begins.

Many people today have no problem with how anyone lives. Rather, they are bothered by the feeling that certain ideologies are more and more aggressively asserting themselves in schools, the media, culture and public space. That personal matters become a political topic, which is presented to everyone as the only correct view of the world.

Anyone who asks is labeled as intolerant. Those who disagree risk a label. And that is perhaps the biggest problem of today.

Democracy does not depend on us all thinking the same thing. It stands for the right to freely discuss even unpleasant topics.

So perhaps we should ask ourselves a simple question: Are today's culture wars helping us solve people's real problems? Or are they just diverting attention from what citizens are really worried about - expensive housing, affordable health care, street safety, the quality of education and the future of our children?

The more we focus on what divides us, the less space is left for what unites us.

And that is exactly what the public debate should be about. Not about who has the loudest banner, but about what kind of society we want to pass on to our children one day