>I seems to me that we are not very good at disagreeing. You see this come up over and over. The basis is this notion that disagreement is a form of war and that winning is what matters. War makes things so easy because they are black and white: if we don’t kill them they’ll kill us. Not a lot of reason to debate in such a context. However, most disagreement is not war and to treat it as such turns potential allies into enemies and cripples the healthy process of intellectual debate.