<story><title>How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?</title><url>https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/how-can-we-have-a-proper-debate-when</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JellyBeanThief</author><text>The fundamental problem Dawkins is struggling with is that he is asking for reasoned disagreement on Twitter, which is well-known for a desert of reason. If he truly desires thoughtful discussion, he needs to do it with real people in the real world.&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s so obvious that I begin to wonder if he&amp;#x27;s sincere, or if he&amp;#x27;s just stirring up shit to capture people&amp;#x27;s attention.</text></comment>
<story><title>How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?</title><url>https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/how-can-we-have-a-proper-debate-when</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazydoggers</author><text>Emotionally charged topics shouldn’t be avoided, but we should all strive to have rational and compassionate conversations about such things.&lt;p&gt;I always like to introduce people to this rules of civil conversation during such exchanges.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;therulesofcivilconversation.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;therulesofcivilconversation.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Equally helpful to maintain conversations that are positive is to check out own biases and fallacies:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yourbias.is&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yourbias.is&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yourlogicalfallacyis.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yourlogicalfallacyis.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>