Comment by Isamu
8 years ago
I've always hated debate because of that and could never understand why it was valued. It is always about winning and never about getting to the bottom of what could be the truth.
8 years ago
I've always hated debate because of that and could never understand why it was valued. It is always about winning and never about getting to the bottom of what could be the truth.
That's a great point.
Even the very word discussion comes from late Middle English (in the sense ‘dispel, disperse’, also ‘examine by argument’): from Latin discuss- ‘dashed to pieces’, later ‘investigated’, from the verb discutere, from dis- ‘apart’ + quatere ‘shake’.
We generally don't do a very good job of talking about things in way that brings those things, or us each other, closer together.
Unfortunately, I find this to be a similar case with office/workplace politics pretty often as well.