Clarity Does Not Necessarily Emerge Through Prolonged Debate
Don’t waste time on that. There is a better and more professional way to exchange different ideas.
Not long ago, I watched a YouTube video and heard this famous host say, “I no longer agree on debate leading to clarity. Nowadays, instead, it is more likely to lead to an exchange of hateful words. I am a strong advocate of free speech. In my opinion, the best way is to allow two parties to express their different views and leave others to decide. No direct inter-communication or debate between the two”.
I wholeheartedly agree. This article shows my experience in Test Automation and nearly three years of tech blogging.
Table of Contents:
· Debates are often Pointless
· Social Media Altered our Mindset towards Change
· The feedback received from my writing
· I welcome disagreement with the substance
Debates are often Pointless
In the 90s, many debate teams at Universities studied US Presidential debates. In recent years, I seldom watched election debates (Australian ones or US Presidential ones). Why? There seemed never substantial outcomes. Every party claimed “winning”.
I list one frequent debate topic in my country: Australia’s housing crisis has reached a new high. This is absurd, given Australia has plenty of land and not many people.
I clearly remember that “the housing affordability program” is one of the key agendas in Kevin Rudd’s 2007 campaign, i.e. the situation was pretty bad already before 2007. After he won the election, very little has been done.
“The 2023 Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey has been released and, once again, it ranks Australia as having one of the most expensive housing markets in the world.” — source
In other words, the problem deepened after sixteen years of debates in parliament and 5 or 6 government changes. The opposition has been criticising the government on this all along, but nothing changed when it won the election. There are no excuses, given that Tokyo Metropolitan n has more people than Australia.
There are more examples, such as countless debates on “High-Speed Railway” and “Subway for Brisbane” for over two decades, but nothing fruitful. By 2032, my city (Brisbane) will be the only Olympic-hosting city in modern times that does not have a subway! Though, there would be a bus system named like the subway, “Metro”. This is not joking.
Why?
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