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If you can remove the participants who "want to be right" and keep the participants "who want to solve the problem" you might be able to have a more productive
by greenail 5y ago
If you can remove the participants who "want to be right" and keep the participants "who want to solve the problem" you might be able to have a more productive discussion of difficult issues. The "assume good intensions" mantra also would seem to help as a starting point.
This is also somewhat the root of representative government. Not many have the time or talent to really deeply understand these difficult issues and this is why we elect folks to do this for us. Imagine how much chaos would exist in a government where it is a true democracy and everyone's 2" deep opinion counts.
- mkr-hn 5y agoThat falls apart when most of the representatives are lawyers who don't know anything except how to play the system against itself.
- greenail 5y agoWe may have to accept there isn't a perfect solution, only compromises and the lesser of evils. The good news is that we can look at attempts to solve this problem and evaluate the results. If we evaluate representative government in terms of absolute human progress it is hard to argue there is a better system. A small tweak in the US we could all get behind is term limits for congress.