Ishan Bhabha : How to foster productive and responsible debate

Ishan Bhabha·TED@BCG

How to foster productive and responsible debate

Summary

In the first place, debating has to have the productivity and responsibilities of what you say. In the debate, what you tell is not your complaints or just claims but your great ideas. I think that many people don’t understand it. Now, of course, in the SNS, even in the parliament and congress, we hear heckling and booing often. What’s happening?

The speaker works to create rules to navigate ideological disagreement and controversial speech and to defend his clients from in court or the government.

It needs structures.

1, Like Trump's speech, it’s not good to shut other speech down.

2, Before the speech, recognizing the real harms that can come from certain types of speech and promoting dialogue.

3, To understand that for creativity and human progress, we need disagreement. 

4, It’s easier to speak with someone who agrees with everything you say, but it’s more enlightening and satisfying to speak with someone who doesn’t.

5, Recently, hateful speech leads to deep and lasting wounds and violence happening. The structures where there’s no polarization and no violence have to be created.

6, We have to know other important things that we’re all biased and it’s not bad. Just, we are infected by our family background, our education, our lived experience, and millions of other things. It’s including organizations and laws.

7, And then the temptation, fear of changing, or resentment are born. It will stop debating.

The speaker tells us that even if speech has little to no value at all, open debate is important rather than suppression and more speech can help, so instead of suppression, the fallacy and moral bankruptcy of hateful speech can best be responded to through the righteous power of countervailing good and noble ideas.

I think that there are huge differences between people who learn about the debate for a long time since they were children and people believe that in schools, they should memorize quietly what teachers taught. OMG　

I think that seriously, I have to practice and train my debate skills.