When you can predict that beliefs won’t update towards convergence, you’re predicting a mutual lack of respect and a mutual lack of effort to figure out whose lack of respect is misplaced.
Are you saying that the interlocutors should instead change to attempting to resolve their lack of mutual respect?
Whether it’s worth working to resolve any disagreement over appropriate levels of respect is going to depend on the context, but certainly below a certain threshold object level discourse becomes predictably futile. And certainly high levels of respect are *really nice*, and allow for much more efficient communication because people are actually taking each other seriously and engaging with each other’s perspective.
There’s definitely important caveats, but I generally agree with the idea that mutual respect and the ability to sort out disagreements about the appropriate level of respect are worth deliberately cultivating. Certainly if I am in a disagreement that I’d like to actually resolve and I’m not being taken as seriously as I think I ought to be, I’m going to seek to understand why, and see if I can’t pass their “ideological test” on the matter.
Are you saying that the interlocutors should instead change to attempting to resolve their lack of mutual respect?
Whether it’s worth working to resolve any disagreement over appropriate levels of respect is going to depend on the context, but certainly below a certain threshold object level discourse becomes predictably futile. And certainly high levels of respect are *really nice*, and allow for much more efficient communication because people are actually taking each other seriously and engaging with each other’s perspective.
There’s definitely important caveats, but I generally agree with the idea that mutual respect and the ability to sort out disagreements about the appropriate level of respect are worth deliberately cultivating. Certainly if I am in a disagreement that I’d like to actually resolve and I’m not being taken as seriously as I think I ought to be, I’m going to seek to understand why, and see if I can’t pass their “ideological test” on the matter.