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Do you listen to both sides of an argument?

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Bieber Fever
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15 years ago
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if you believe one thing would you read the points the opposition raised?

do you listen to what everyone have to say before making a decision?

if something new is discovered that could protentionally prove you are wrong, are you willing to accept it?

Sounds like the reasonable thing to do but not many people can do this.

me personally i try to do my best to listen to both sides, but sometimes on really important issues to me, I may have turned a deaf ear.


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Misnomer
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15 years ago
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If it isn't fact then every side is going to have some bias. I listen to it all before I have my personal choice. Though if I have a theory or a statement that I've made about to be disprove I'll fight tooth and nail to disprove their disproof.

Once my friend told me time was an idea, I support it, but in a lapse of judgement refused it on the spot. We spent hours debating(mostly yelling) over the subject which I knew he was right in a second after I said the opposite. Another time the same friend said that something with 2 in its name can't be a name of a place(brought about while playing civilization 3). I said that there could be, I even renamed my room Tyler's Room 2, he refused to accept. Anyhow I wouldn't budge if I knew I was wrong or right, still to this day I refuse to say he was right with the time issue and still to this day I believe I was right with the name issue.


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15 years ago
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i do listen, but i can't really help it if I'm bias.


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Urabe is not happy
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15 years ago
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No. I am always right.

The other person's opinion is automatically voided by disagreeing with me.


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15 years ago
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I try really hard to, but it only happens when both people are open to both sides of the argument. If either are defensive or lenient it becomes one sided.

I didn't think it was possible until a recent discussion with a classmate. We both had opposing views on the origins of homosexuality (both liberal mind you) but it was an amazing conversation that was an exchange of information where both people were open minded. I think it rarely happens. Only time it has ever happened to me. 😀

if you believe one thing would you read the points the opposition raised?
I always read the points the opposition makes so I can prove them wrong. Maybe... I'm wrong.

do you listen to what everyone have to say before making a decision?
I listen but I don't always follow.

if something new is discovered that could potentially prove you are wrong, are you willing to accept it?
I'm extremely open to new ideas. Although I will be nonchalant about it I will eventually admit to being wrong. Depends on who I'm debating with though as well. If it's an asshole who will gloat I will not apologize unless there is no doubt I'm an idiot.


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15 years ago
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Depends on how they say it.

I hate and will not listen to presumptuous know it all's. If they present their argument in a way that says "I am right and there is no room for other opinions." I'm not gonna agree with them. I love a good argument after all.


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Indifferent
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15 years ago
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I try to and most of the time I succeed since I don't care what the argument is about anyway...
Sometimes I'm a little biased and it makes it hard to listen to one side.
Like people who make up lame excuses/reasoning and stick to them -> I tend to ignore that and they've yet to prove me wrong.


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Sweetly Macabre
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15 years ago
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if you believe one thing would you read the points the opposition raised?
Yes. I want to know what they think; I'm not always totally in the right.

do you listen to what everyone have to say before making a decision?
Yes.
Unless it's an argument we've had before, where my answer will be the same as before.

if something new is discovered that could protentionally prove you are wrong, are you willing to accept it?
Definitely. Why would I argue a mute point?

I love debating and causing intellectual arguments 🤣
Which means that everything they say is important to remember.


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