03-13-2011, 05:43 AM
(03-13-2011, 01:41 AM)yossarian Wrote: There's lots of room for disagreement between people, while still accepting and loving.
The real key is not to avoid debate, just avoid making debate about people or egos or proving yourself right. Virtuous debate is a search for the truth, a desire to test ideas, to discuss. This is a great thing if you don't let the ego get involved.
The trick is making sure you don't identify with your position. Anytime you start putting "winning the debate" as a goal over finding the truth I think you're going wrong. (I don't think it's STS though)
Agreed brother. Just to be clear, that was the emphasis behind making the 'proving yourself correct and another incorrect' statement in the original post, along with identifying, truthfully, where the emotions arise from after an impulse to post.
Open discussion is indeed a wonderful means to learn, test one's own boundaries and expand upon views.