The Importance of Respecting the Other Person

The way that you talk about argument is not something people learn. You can very much choose who you're going to argue with, and it isn't for all those reasons that you've raised. Even though we argue with ourselves, we run arguments in our own minds most of us all the time. It's much tougher when there's actually somebody in front of you who passionately believes in what they're saying or pressing that argument. And we're not well equipped for this. We don't practice it very often. But I absolutely take your point, Celeste,. that we don't teach this. The quality of arguments that we see on journalistic media, on social media, our politicians as they