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> All debate, from Socrates to this part, is bound to be heated and messy by nature. Strongly disagree on that. In an academic environment, I regularly observe
by wrp 4y ago
> All debate, from Socrates to this part, is bound to be heated and messy by nature.
Strongly disagree on that. In an academic environment, I regularly observe and participate in exacting debates that remain cool-headed and civil. Now, the ability to do this takes effort to develop, but incivility in debate is just a mark of laziness and immaturity.
- aerhardt 4y agoI am not in academia so I cannot say, but I have observed plenty of controversy from the outside and have seen other commenters in HN express their disillusionment on academic debate. Regardless I’m not proposing that HN or analogous platforms should be 4chan. It’s good to aspire to orderly and rigorous debate, but I don’t think that hyper-regulation is good either. We humans are messy, and there’s good things about that, too. It’s a matter of degree.