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> Another fun fact - I am native Czech speaker, and we have two different words for "argument" - "debata" and "hadka", the former implying a civil one, the othe
by dikaiosune 12y ago
> Another fun fact - I am native Czech speaker, and we have two different words for "argument" - "debata" and "hadka", the former implying a civil one, the other one meaning one where people are angry at each other. I am not really sure which meaning the article uses
The problem is that it's the author's responsibility to disambiguate between the possible meanings, and the author of this article makes no such attempt. In fact, it seems like she's conflating the two and implying that they are one and the same -- i.e. that if you competitively evaluate ideas by (calmly or not) debating them, you are automatically engaging in a fight.
- mfisher87 12y agoIf you read the article, the author made a distinction between these using the terms "regulated" and "unregulated."
- dikaiosune 12y agoI don't really see this distinction made clear anywhere in the article -- just analogies drawn to externally-mediated arguments. And to what extent it's made I think it's inaccurate to describe all arguments' violence in terms of a third party's actions. Many arguments without an external mediator are sane, deliberate and productive.