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1. We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own; disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning."
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The speaker's estimation seems to be a natural deduction, but I do deem it hazardous as this estimation is on suspicion of pandering to the favor of egocentrics. Those who hold the speaker's view, in my opinion, are in danger of being compromised.
Some people who are advocating the speaker's view proclaim that it is more harmonious in an ambience with agreements than in an environment with clashed opinions. I do not deny that agreements can create a harmony circumstance, but no evidence indicates that clashed opinions are doomed to lead to a bad environment. So the comparison is unfair.
Other egocentrics may conclude that disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning. Then what are you pursuing, correctness or temporary equipoise? Appearently those who hold that view don't know which is more important. Anyway, disagreement does not perforce arouse stress. It is the decision of the person involved. Apropos of the latter stuff, stress (not disagreement) may lead to reluctance for learning, but that is what a person need to learn to slog away under unfavorable auspices.
After refuting the speaker's opinions, I'm really curious to know how a person would judge the accuracy of a certain thing in the ambience with only agreements because appearently everyone in that place is speaking univocally. Therefore, he/she can only get one answer. How could one answer makes a difference? It is just like finding oil or mineral underground by seismic exploration, in which case you can't get the information of underground velocities with only one certain offset, that is, without all offset information. (The offset is the distance between the shot place and the geophone's place.)
Then we can conclude that agreements don't promise the correctness. Concerning that, there is a famous anecdote indicating this judgement. In Ancient China, an chancellor told the king a story. "When I was wending my way here, I met a man. He said that there was a tiger at the plaza. Do you believe it, your majesty?" The king laughed and said, "How could it be? The plaza is full of people trading." The chancellor went on, "Neither did I. I sneered and went away. But later on a second man came and shouted, 'There is a tiger at the plaza!' Do you believe it, your majesty?" The king thought for a while and said, "I'm going to dither." "That was also my feeling," said the chancellor. "I dithered for a while, but I didn't believe it. So I went away. But a few minutes later another man came and told be there was a tiger at the plaza. What's your opinion now, my king?" The king replied, "I believe it." "So did I," the chancellor smiled, "but later I discovered that there was actually no tiger. So it was a canard." This anecdote insinuates that what many people agree with is not always the fact. But be aware that I'm not alleging that contradicting views ensures correctness. Contradicting views are only providing a larger possiblity to uncover the reality.
Besides, different opinions enable us to look into something in a new perspective which provides an overall panorama for us, which also contributes to the possibility of getting the correct answer and making the right decision. Wu Zetian, the sole female king in Chinese history, perfectly exemplified this point. In her early times she was adept at hearkening to different opinions. During that era the country was booming in every aspect. But in her elder times she became dubious and stubborn, which almost led to the crash of the whole dynasty.
By contrast, people who share our view probably have nothing new to contribute except "confidence." We know thoughts need refreshing,and that is what clashed opinions can do. Conspicously, confidence can't do that.
In sum, we can learn more from contradicting views. and I believe t is the step we should take to convince everybody of it in order to make him/her learn more and accept more clashed ideas. Only in that case would the brainstorm occur and new thought be given birth to. |
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