Place our dispute on a continuum, it becomes a matter of degree. Let's talk. Frame our dispute as a dichotomy, it becomes a matter of identity. Let's go to war.
-- Philip E. Tetlock
#Wisdom #Quotes #PhilipETetlock #Agreement #Disagreement #Politics
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
comics.lucentinian.com/5928
#DailyJokes #VisitNow #Jokes #AIJokes #NewsJokes
#usa #israel #palestine : #gaza / #truce / #hamas / #hostages / #negotiations / #disagreement
„As details emerged about talks between Mr Adam Boehler, the US envoy for hostages, and a top Hamas representative, Israeli leaders quietly expressed their displeasure, saying Hamas is a terrorist organisation whose words can’t be trusted or taken at face value. (…)
“We’re not an agent of Israel. We have specific interests at play,” he noted on CNN.“
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
comics.lucentinian.com/4628
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New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
A #Prescription for #Disagreement
comics.lucentinian.com/2296
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In his article "Gods", John Wisdom takes a very interesting approach to thinking about how people make cases in disputes about whether or not god(s) exist. Here's a Sadler's Lectures podcast episode examining that!
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/john-wisdom-gods-sources-of-questions-about-gods
#Podcast #Wisdom #Philosophy #Religion #Reasoning #Disagreement #Analysis
This #election is really about one big #disagreement
#VicePresident #KamalaHarris and ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump and their #supporters are #battling over the #future of #American #culture and #values.
— It's about the Light (Harris) and the Dark (Trump). Harris will take us forward to a brighter future, Trump on the other hand will take us all straight to hell.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/30/harris-trump-culture-values-debate/
On Disagreement:
From discomfort that can lead to shortcuts to challenges that may yield transformations.
Express yourself! #Soccer #chiefs #reassure #gay #players after #star #reveals #pink #hair #plea.
As #Brazil prepares for the #CopaAmerica, a #disagreement over #hair #dye has led a rare #federation #statement #referencing #male #footballers who are #LGBTQ.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Brazil #Entertainment #Sports #Soccer #Representation #Culture
Hypothetically, you are going to an event with a fixed start time.
You are required to arrive at the event location between 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m.
The journey from your home will take between 30 and 50 minutes, depending on traffic.
What time do you leave home?
How do we work together?
A post exploring facilitation and cooperation in diverse coalitions through the work of adrienne maree brown, the People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit’s Principles of Working Together, and the Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing: https://fromtherostra.com/2024/05/14/the-principles-of-working-together/
Disagreements that don’t deal with conflicting assumptions:
“Generative AI is a tool that is useful for X, so we should use it for X; now let’s talk about the best ways to do that!”
But! Not everyone agrees that AI is useful for X.
Instead of exploring that disagreement, though, the conversation focuses on anything else—often in ways that make productive engagement more difficult:
“If you don’t believe in using AI for X, then you don’t care about X.”
Felix Adler, Founding Address, Society for Ethical Culture, 1876:
Freely do I own to this purpose of reconciliation, and candidly do I confess that it is my dearest object to exalt the present movement above the strife of contending sects and parties, and at once to occupy that common ground where we may all meet, believers and unbelievers, for purposes in themselves lofty and unquestioned by any.
The influence of Kant and transcendentalism on Adler open him to the idea of “purposes…unquestioned by any,” a proposition of which I am far less sanguine. While common ground can be expansive, there will always be areas that are questioned by some.
As Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca caution in The New Rhetoric, even those ideas that we believe to be true “may have their detractors who are not necessarily stupid or dishonest.” At the same time, it is difficult to separate harmful strife of contention from the healthy disagreements of deliberation.
Fortunately, Adler’s practical program works whether or not lofty purposes are unquestioned: continual engagement with each other, even through our differences and disagreements, as we work to define and then build for ourselves and each other a common good as best we can in this world.
And there is always his aspiration to keep in mind, even as we know we will fail in consistently achieving it, to “act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.”
Forget about accountability for a moment.
In toxic organizations, there’s almost no substantive engagement by leaders with viewpoints that disagree with their own.
Those leaders cannot be wrong; they can only be wronged.
And one quick way to “wrong” them is to ask where and how they engage with difference.
A type of discussion that generates more smoke than light: oversimplified critiques that the opposition makes oversimplified arguments.
Oversimplification is common in discussions, usually on multiple sides (and unlikely to go away any time soon).
If better and more nuanced arguments are out there, which you feel aren’t getting enough attention, then those arguments can be fairly summarized and amplified.
A quotation from Ginsburg, Ruth Bader:
«
Dissents speak to a future age. It’s not simply to say, “My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.” But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/ginsburg-ruth-bader/63893/
This may come off as snarky, but I’m 100% serious: the idea of angry arguments implies the existence of happy arguments.
Disagreements are so often unpleasant because they are so often unfair.
"With Gentle Affect - Surviving Trauma"
Written with gentle affect and love for all:
Words can be a powerful thing. Sometimes we may say something unintentionally that can open the wounds of another. The range of emotion conjured, may sometimes be manifest in response. Sometimes it's an acquired instinct.
In a world that has become so full of hate, there are many that have survived great trauma. Words that may seem innocent, can be like thrusting the sharpest of double-edged swords, slashing open the heart's healing scars. Sometimes, if one pokes the hive, the bee is likely to sting out of instinctual self-preservation. It's important to be mindful of others we encounter. Only they may know know the shadows that haunt within them.
Being an advocate is not an easy task. You're basically telling people what they may do is not right but, without advocacy, where does #change lie? Taking the brunt and standing firm for others that may not have the strength? If one day it may help to prevent others with invisible disabilities from being subjected, how can I remain silent.
With that said, the last time I checked, I'm human too. I have a brain, a heart and everything. I also don't harbor bitterness or resentment... It messes up the atmosphere inside.[]
"If one breaks one's leg, they may have trouble walking, patience and understanding is key. The same is true for the brain": @OutOfExile_IDR
Today's installment was going to be about the brain and spelling. There's link to an interesting article below. I always welcome kind correction and thoughtful constructive feedback.
Don't Foster misconceptions.
What goes wrong in the brain when someone can't spell: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160202185457.htm
Image by German Artist "finemayer".
Buy finemayer a cup?:
https://pixabay.com/users/finemayer-1749939/
#Sensitivity #disability #TBI #InvisibleDisabilities #trauma #pain C-#PTSD #ActuallyAutisic #DisabilitySolidarity #equality
#accommodation #understanding
#disagreement #PeaceMaking
#communication #resolution #peace #consideration #coexist #healing #MentalHealth #patience
(Migrated reboot originally posted Dec 15, 2022)
