User:Tuckerscreator/A Discourse On Debate

People disagree. It’s a fact of life. Everyone always has every decision they make pre-reconciled in their own head. But their peers don’t always see it that way. And then comes the arguing.

When two forces collide, they vent in different ways. When the earth’s plates collide in their shifting routes, they budge and scrape and cause and earthquake. When the US clashed clashed, divided over slavery, it erupted in disaster so great that there were Senators killing each other in public. When Cain and Abel disagreed over the sanctity of their sacrifices, they had a falling out and we got the first murder.

People will always disagree. But people don’t have to stay in disagreement. There are logical reasons for why things are, someone is always more right than the other, and the smart ones have a way of proving it.

The great blessing of all humanity is the ability to communicate, to say something to someone and they know what you’re talking about. Debate is that power, to show the person the logic in something, and in turn gain a deeper understanding of both parties in question. Humans are social beings. And we do love to talk.

But too often, debaters are not reasonable. Everywhere, in the government, on the Internet, and even down at home, debate is merely an excuse to vent and lash out, to impose one’s view whenever they want, and reasons no better than: “I’M RIGHT, YOU’RE WRONG, AND THERE’S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!”

Here on this wiki, we’ve seen all of that. We seen disagreement and anger, as we reveal a bit of ourselves to the world and feel insulted when it is critiqued. The speed of the Internet intoxicates us and we become monsters of fire, flaming higher and higher but not burning anything, getting nowhere, sinking, melting, and going out.

Like flaming? I disagree. Let me tell you exactly why you’re wrong! (Politely, I implore you.)