Every time a person, is hurt, through argument, both people have lost the argument.
That is my stand point.
I think, through argument, we get to learn or know more about the person (or a specific object) we are arguing with.
the point of an argument is not to win it, but to learn something.
What would be the point of winning an argument, if your argument was wrong, and the other person failed to make you understand that?
the more you win an argument that is not true, the worse off you will be, because you will have proof that leads to what is not true, and you begin to believe in your argument, and belief in that, is worse than a bad idea.
an argument has no value, if nothing has been learnt.
q.e.d
second that.
Mokhonoana
Sep 2008
hahaha, recently went on this course, and the dude presenting said something so true of human beings and that is that we are obsesseed with being right.
Its a simple observation. We want to be right because what it ultimately means to be right, is that the other person is wrong. And we are therefore better...cleverer etc. etc.
Very few people realise that there is value in each and everyone of us. And that we stand to gain more if we stopped to listen...instead of arguing. When we argue, we often don't even open ourselves up to ther other person's perspective...and never hear their wisdom
Oct 2008