RT @MichaelDavSmith@twitter.com
One of the best teachers I had in high school was a debate teacher who made us prepare both the pro and con sides and we didn't find out which side we were taking until a coin toss at the start of the debate. If you don't know both sides of an argument, you don't know the issue.
@wjmaggos "Ninety-nine in a hundred of what are called educated men are in this condition; even of those who can argue fluently for their opinions. Their conclusion may be true, but it might be false for anything they know: they have never thrown themselves into the mental position of those who think differently from them, and considered what such persons may have to say; and consequently they do not, in any proper sense of the word, know the doctrine which they themselves profess." - John Stewart Mills
I happen to be reading the section of On Liberty discussing freedom of speech
@valleyforge
Such a fantastic book.