Argument
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And finally ... make the
argument.
The problem now that's happened is you have ghettoization on the right and you can live entirely in rightworld, so as a result, the quality of
argument
on the right has diminished, because you're not in the other side all the time.
GC: I think that was the constant
argument
from the right, that social media and the internet in general was putting articles towards the top that were not their worldview.
Second, that maybe, if you're right that it's not all about immigrants, it's probably more about technology, if you could win that argument, that de-emphasizes what seems to me the single most divisive territory between Trump supporters and others, which is around the role of the other.
It kind of feels like that second group is winning the
argument
right now.
But my
argument
is that unless we shift our mental models and our mental maps on how we think about the short, it's not going to happen.
But if you accept my argument, it should change not just the way we lead our personal lives, which I wish to put to one side for the moment, but it will change the way we think about major problems of public health and the environment.
I don't remember what this particular
argument
was about, but I remember that as I argued and argued, Okoloma looked at me and said, "You know, you're a feminist."
In everyday life, probably because everyone else is yelling, we are so scared to get into an
argument
that we're willing not to engage at all.
It felt easier to me to attack the person making the
argument
rather than the substance of the ideas themselves.
Professor Juliana Schroeder at UC Berkeley and her colleagues have research that suggests that listening to someone's voice as they make a controversial
argument
is literally humanizing.
Attacking the identity of the person making the
argument
is irrelevant, because they didn't choose it.
And since we can see it in advance and know it's coming, my
argument
is essentially: we might as well get good at it.
But Einstein used an ingenious argument, showing that the behavior of small particles randomly moving around in a liquid, known as Brownian motion, could be precisely predicted by the collisions of millions of invisible atoms.
And I think it explains why partisans on both sides of the aisle keep reaching for this, frankly, antiquated, early modern language of civility precisely when they want to communicate that certain people and certain views are beyond the pale, but they want to save themselves the trouble of actually making an
argument.
But look, if I've learned anything from studying the long history of religious tolerance in the 17th century, it's this: if you're talking about civility as a way to avoid an argument, to isolate yourself in the more agreeable company of the like-minded who already agree with you, if you find yourself never actually speaking to anyone who really, truly, fundamentally disagrees with you, well, you're doing civility wrong.
Often the
argument
against later start times goes something like this: "Why should we delay start times for teenagers?
But that thought is actually an expression of a sort of seductive line of
argument
that's in the air.
There's the persuadability that we're trying right now of reason and thinking and making an argument, but I think you're almost talking about a different kind, a more visceral type of persuadability, of being persuaded without even knowing that you're thinking.
We won the
argument.
Now, our argument, our battle, we thought, was with the organizations that kept saying it's not cost-effective.
But that's a really hard
argument
to make these days, because humans are not popular beings.
Now, the modern twist on this display
argument
is that the peacock is also advertising its health to the peahen.
Their
argument
was twofold: First, the artists we study are no longer living, never recorded their intentions, or are simply unavailable to answer questions about their work.
And so the more I talked to scientists and read peer-reviewed literature and tried to conduct myself the way I'd been taught to conduct myself at Penn State when I was a student, it became very difficult for me to make the
argument
that we weren't at least having some effect.
On the other hand, if the original three connections were all red instead of blue, the same
argument
still works, with all the colors flipped.
We go for the attack and we spot a weakness in someone's
argument.
Now, listen, the historical source of the demonization of black males and white males is highly different, and where you fall on this argument, sadly, tends to be an accident of birth.
And the line of argument, if you ask parents, is, "But car seats are so expensive and complicated, and they have this big tangle of latches, how could they possibly not work better than seatbelts because they are so expensive and complicated?"
And their
argument
is that Jesus never talked about homosexuality.
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