I liked this post. One thing I’d like to add is that you encourage rationality, in yourself and others, when you don’t make disagreements adversarial.
If you want to know what a non-adversarial disagreement looks like, check out Bloggingheads. It’s two bloggers, every day or so, having a discussion about current issues, and they never rant—they always maintain friendly collegiality. I’ve always admired that.
I liked this post. One thing I’d like to add is that you encourage rationality, in yourself and others, when you don’t make disagreements adversarial.
If you want to know what a non-adversarial disagreement looks like, check out Bloggingheads. It’s two bloggers, every day or so, having a discussion about current issues, and they never rant—they always maintain friendly collegiality. I’ve always admired that.
Did you see Ann Althouse going off on Garance Franke-Ruta?