so i kinda expected those. so do you know of any evidence that people’s minds where changed significantly or mostly due to debate/discussion? polls? surveys? ???
If debate / discussion doesn’t actually change people minds then it’s totally safe to let anyone defend whatever nonsense they want, they’re not going to change anyones mind anyway.
Hi! i do (mean to) try to add qualifiers like *mostly* and such to my questioning of whether or not speech/discussion/debate is a great mover of people’s minds; certainly in the ultimate, talk is what changes minds, but its talk among people with emotional investment (eg. caring) among themselves, not some grand forum of the public. i mean, where is the “discussion” in a milo-like event?
and similarly, what motivated me to create an account and comment in the first place is my annoyance at the IDW: I think they are whingers (certainly Harris and Peterson), and their assertion that discussion & debate is what is important and yet they dont do it! it seems to me their get togethers are only amongst themselves; Harris certainly has been touring with Peterson, and a couple of events with Weinsteins, but he has explicitly asserted that Ta-Nehisi Coates, for example, is irredeemable and undebatable.
perhaps unfairly, i saw this posting in this light: the assertion that there used to be some great time in the past when the “Left” was changing minds through some series of grand public discussions/debates, but lamentably the “Left” has changed(?) been taken over(?) and this no longer happens.
If debate / discussion doesn’t actually change people minds then it’s totally safe to let anyone defend whatever nonsense they want, they’re not going to change anyones mind anyway.
Hi! i do (mean to) try to add qualifiers like *mostly* and such to my questioning of whether or not speech/discussion/debate is a great mover of people’s minds; certainly in the ultimate, talk is what changes minds, but its talk among people with emotional investment (eg. caring) among themselves, not some grand forum of the public. i mean, where is the “discussion” in a milo-like event?
and similarly, what motivated me to create an account and comment in the first place is my annoyance at the IDW: I think they are whingers (certainly Harris and Peterson), and their assertion that discussion & debate is what is important and yet they dont do it! it seems to me their get togethers are only amongst themselves; Harris certainly has been touring with Peterson, and a couple of events with Weinsteins, but he has explicitly asserted that Ta-Nehisi Coates, for example, is irredeemable and undebatable.
perhaps unfairly, i saw this posting in this light: the assertion that there used to be some great time in the past when the “Left” was changing minds through some series of grand public discussions/debates, but lamentably the “Left” has changed(?) been taken over(?) and this no longer happens.