Intelligent Debate is Needed for National Resolve - OpsLens

Oh yeah, this happens to me all the time. I disagree with someone then suddenly I'm and idiot puppet who doesn't know what they are talking about. I have to actively remind myself to try not to attack people based on their views. I fail sometimes when I let my emotions dictate what I say instead of logic, but overall, I think I do a good job of it.

The problem is people cannot handle any sort of question to their own little ideological bubble, and they have no room to compromise.

Now let me tell a short story. My daughter is involved in speech/debate in high school, she's quite good at it. Well one day her teacher gave the class an assignment, write a two page speech on something you are VERY passionate about, it was due the next day. They needed to include reasons why they were passionate about it and what brought them to their conclusion. The next day the kids brought their essays in and turned them in. The teacher didn't grade them, instead she gave them back and told them that the assignment wasn't done. She told them, now for the other part of your assignment. You will now write a 5 page paper debating the OPPOSITE of what you wrote about. She gave them 2 weeks to write the paper. It needed to include everything the original paper included, facts, reasons why they felt that way and so on.

I was very impressed with the assignment even if my daughter wasn't. She hated the fact she had to argue for something that flew right in the face of what she believed. I told her she better take it seriously and put thought into it. In the end I think and she agreed that it gave her a better perspective of the overall issue and made her question some of what she thought. She still believed what she believed but it did give her a better understanding of the issue overall.

This is what we need to do as a society. No, not debate against your idea, but try to look at it from the other side. You'd be surprised at what you will learn, and maybe just maybe it wll give you a better perspective.

I agree wholeheartedly with his statement. If we only take the view of those for gun control then we are overlooking the main problem. Heck look at the guy in Texas, he did not use a gun to hurt people he used a bomb. In most cases of school shootings the shooter was an outcast with emotional issues that were never addressed by adults, his peers or the faculty. As far as these school walk outs, half those kids are just doing it for the fun of it. A few are really concerned about actual issues, but all are pawns being used by the gun control advocates.

CPT Jack Durish: Captain, I Absolutely concur with you: We need- Communications, Love, Trust and Transparency-among many other tenets-in this world.