PPLE
01-31-2007, 01:21 PM
You have corrected me.
I have corrected you.
Maybe corrected it not the right word, but you get my point.
Neither of us bitched and screamed and spun and defended in response to those comments from one another.
That is what discourse should be like.
When it is that way, people come to understand one another better. It happened again for me this morning on PI.
The kerfluffles, as you put, occur when there is a lack of humility in such matters.
They happen when there are attempts made to steer the conversation, accidentally or otherwise, by interjection of false claims, red herrings, incorrect analogies, and all of those kinds of things arise when humility in being shown otherwise is less than sufficient.
There is constructive dialogue and deliberation, and there are the destructive sorts.
It's important that we think, write, and act constructively, imo.
I have corrected you.
Maybe corrected it not the right word, but you get my point.
Neither of us bitched and screamed and spun and defended in response to those comments from one another.
That is what discourse should be like.
When it is that way, people come to understand one another better. It happened again for me this morning on PI.
The kerfluffles, as you put, occur when there is a lack of humility in such matters.
They happen when there are attempts made to steer the conversation, accidentally or otherwise, by interjection of false claims, red herrings, incorrect analogies, and all of those kinds of things arise when humility in being shown otherwise is less than sufficient.
There is constructive dialogue and deliberation, and there are the destructive sorts.
It's important that we think, write, and act constructively, imo.