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Arguing: Yelling vs. Debating.

    What starts arguments?  Resentment for another person?  Differing opinions?  Most of the time it comes from a desire to be "right."  Though it seems that many arguments create more tension between individuals rather than solve their issues, arguing is a necessary and trivial factor of humanity.  In recent times it seems that arguing has been given a highly negative connotation and many people associate that word purely with yelling, screaming, and anger.  However, the purpose of arguing is not to win a screaming contest, it is to share one's opinions with one another and show others your point of view on a subject.  Instead of wasting unnecessary amounts of time by yelling at someone else to prove that we are right, we as a whole need to learn more about how we can get our points across to others by remaining calm, collected, and also listen to our opponents' ideas.


    Arguing, while making many people uncomfortable because it reminds them of anger, is crucial to the progression of our species and for the diversification of one's own ideas through the input of others' ideas.  Somehow, if we can overcome the desire to get angry and start yelling at our opponents rather than listening to their ideas and actually taking time to understand and interpret them, our view on arguing will change.  People won't view arguing as some socially destructive activity and rather see it as a way for us to understand each other better by "walking in each other's shoes."

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  1. AnonymousApril 5, 2021 at 10:02 AM

    Agreed. I feel as though many people think if they raise their voice while arguing with someone, they're right (which obviously isn't true). But, like you said in your post, if people stop raising their voice while arguing with someone, we can accomplish a lot more with the conversation.

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  2. AnonymousApril 5, 2021 at 10:12 AM

    I also touched on the concept of the desire to be right and I think that's really important to this topic. I liked how you brought in the ideas of tone and emotion (the yelling and anger) to your post because I feel like they matter a lot more than we think when it comes to the results/outcome of what may just start as a simple conversation.

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  3. AnonymousApril 12, 2021 at 6:31 PM

    I completely agree with your ideas on what arguing has become seen as something that is overly aggressive and full of yelling, when instead it should focus on healthy debate

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