I do agree, and I think relation to information and authority are forged in real world, where sometimes, the bottom line is based on might makes right.
Unfortunately kids are often right, but parents have higher agency.
The same goes for teachers.
So is it really that surprising we are a world of adults who aim to have higher agency than the other person?
We have been taught that authority stems mostly from force, not smarts.
By agency I mean you overpower the person, but not cooperate.
A general does not have to be paradoxically smarter than ordinary soldier in order to be a good general.
Someone running a business does not have to be smarter than the guy who does the work for the person running the business.
However we are taught otherwise.
Is the President the intelligence hub of the world? Hardly? Then why bother right?
The other problems are that debates with adversarial people may not be fun or good ethic, but they do supply people with hard to knock out arguments.
Or to quote some guy “Anger does not solve anything, but it does provide good arguments.”
Second line of though would be even more important.
Two people can be both wrong and right at the same time.
Two people can be both wrong.
Two people can be both right.
Sometimes a debate might end like two swordsmen who impale each other.
I also think that many good debates should be done at least twice at different times.
As long as something is that important, the idea of doing the same debate twice gives both parties time to digest information.
We know from psychology that brains integrate and digest information over time periods, where the mind is inactive. This makes the brain able to filter the effect of outside input and thus your mind can sort things without being disturbed. Like in sleep.
I do agree, and I think relation to information and authority are forged in real world, where sometimes, the bottom line is based on might makes right.
Unfortunately kids are often right, but parents have higher agency.
The same goes for teachers.
So is it really that surprising we are a world of adults who aim to have higher agency than the other person?
We have been taught that authority stems mostly from force, not smarts.
By agency I mean you overpower the person, but not cooperate.
A general does not have to be paradoxically smarter than ordinary soldier in order to be a good general.
Someone running a business does not have to be smarter than the guy who does the work for the person running the business.
However we are taught otherwise.
Is the President the intelligence hub of the world? Hardly? Then why bother right?
The other problems are that debates with adversarial people may not be fun or good ethic, but they do supply people with hard to knock out arguments.
Or to quote some guy “Anger does not solve anything, but it does provide good arguments.”
Second line of though would be even more important.
Two people can be both wrong and right at the same time.
Two people can be both wrong.
Two people can be both right.
Sometimes a debate might end like two swordsmen who impale each other.
I also think that many good debates should be done at least twice at different times.
As long as something is that important, the idea of doing the same debate twice gives both parties time to digest information.
We know from psychology that brains integrate and digest information over time periods, where the mind is inactive. This makes the brain able to filter the effect of outside input and thus your mind can sort things without being disturbed. Like in sleep.
However usually that is not goal of debate.