disagreement
By jb78000
@jb78000 (15139)
August 8, 2009 6:14pm CST
this is really just a disposable addition to the discussion i started below. i'd just been through some old discussions sticking in best responses and one went to someone i've often disagreed with. so was wondering what other mylotters do in that situation. unfortunately it looked like i was asking for advice. eek.
anyway, what do you do when you find you've argued with someone in one place but then find you like what they say in another? in my case i take each discussion as it comes, well unless someone called me names (look in politics if this seems a bit odd). in real life i disagree with some of my friends occasionally...
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@phyrre (2317)
• United States
9 Aug 09
I think exactly the same way you do. Each discussion is a seperate entity, whether I know that person from a previous discussion or not. They could've disagreed with me and fought tooth and nail in one discussion and then given me a darn good answer in another and they would get the best response regardless because they earned it.
Then again, I've given best responses to people that have disagreed with me in discussions before. When I make a discussion, I'm not looking for someone to necessarily agree with me and believe/think exactly the way I do. I ENJOY hearing the different opinions and I encourage them to tell me they don't agree and why. That's what I absolutely love to hear. Of course, it doesn't hurt if they do happen to agree with me, but I won't hold it against them if they don't. xD As long as they say WHY they disagree or go into detail or whatever, I'll give them a best response because it was a good response, even if it wasn't exactly the same way as I thought. :)
In real life I disagree with my friends quite often, but agreeing isn't necessarily what makes them you're friends. There's more important things than having matching opinions on things. I'm a diehard liberal, but one of my best friends is a diehard conservative and we feel very strongly about opposite things. But it's never bothered our friendship. Heck, we were friends for many years before we realized we had such opposing political views, even though we knew we disagreed on certain matters. But he can still argue his side of things better than most other people I know, which is why I respect him so much!
@jb78000 (15139)
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9 Aug 09
absolutely. i don't start discussions hoping simply for reflections of my viewpoint, i'm interested in what others think, including those that have completely different ideas). i argue passionately with some friends but it's not personal, (i.e not a real argument), and there's reasons why we're friends.
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