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In reply to the discussion: Al Gore: Edward Snowden's 'Important Service' [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)to express their convictions and feelings.
We need to understand that we all become frustrated when we discuss things, when we argue (in the intellectual sense of the word).
That's what is so great about DU. That frustration we feel when we can't explain our ideas well enough to persuade someone else that we are right, that is the frustration of learning, of developing a clearer understanding of our own ideas. We learn so much from that frustration.
We have to just view the insults, etc. as growing pains, the growing pains of the intellect. It's good for us all.
Don't mean to scold. Just hope my remarks are helpful to you. My father was an award-winning debater. I learned to love argument. I know a lot of people who have difficulty with conflict of any kind and hate argument.
Loving argument in the way I do is actually good for a marriage. If what you love is not the argument itself and the exchange of ideas that takes place best through argument, but rather what you (general you, not you personally) love is winning. Winning is wonderful if you are in a courtroom or on a debating team. But the point of argument is gaining new insights, new understanding, not winning.
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to express myself on this point.