{"id":2934,"date":"2018-04-05T06:21:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2018-04-05T06:45:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:45:11","slug":"how-to-disagree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/how-to-disagree\/","title":{"rendered":"About the need to disagree better"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How to disagree well: 7 of the best and worst ways to argue<\/h1>\n<p>Paul Graham, Harvard Ph.D programmer and writer, proposed that the web is turning writing into a conversation, with the internet an unprecedented medium of communication. In particular, it allows people to respond to others in comment threads. And when we respond on the web, we tend to disagree. He says this tendency towards disagreement is structurally built into the online experience because in disagreeing, people tend to have much more to say than if they just expressed that they agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, even though it might feel like it, the world is not necessarily getting angrier. But it could if we don\u2019t observe a certain restraint in how we disagree. To disagree better, which will lead to better conversations and happier outcomes, Graham came up with these seven levels of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/disagree.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disagreement hierarchy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arguments-life-discuss-agree.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2935 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arguments-life-discuss-agree.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arguments-life-discuss-agree.jpg 660w, https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arguments-life-discuss-agree-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arguments-life-discuss-agree-376x300.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graham viewed his hierarchy as a way to weed out dishonest arguments or \u201cfake news\u201d in modern parlance. Forceful words are just a \u201cdefining quality of a demagogue\u201d. By understanding the different forms of their disagreement, \u201cwe give critical readers a pin for popping such balloons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/paul-ratner\/how-to-disagree-well-7-of-the-best-and-worst-ways-to-argue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PS: I&#8217;m a sucker for AdHominem : \/ I need to get better at this, I want to debate from the top only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to disagree well: 7 of the best and worst ways to argue Paul Graham, Harvard Ph.D programmer and writer, proposed that the web is turning writing into a conversation, with the internet an unprecedented medium of communication. In particular, it allows people to respond to others in comment threads. And when we respond on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff","tag-about-the-web-and-you-and-me-and-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}