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Politics, Art, Religion - part 2
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· Politics, Art, Religion - part 1
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 2
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 3
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 4
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 5
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 6
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 7
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 8
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But it should avoid the tone of argument. While serious, it must remain courteous and pleasant. It ought not to sound as if it were a contest for victory, but a fair exchange for better understanding. As the danger in gossip is detraction, in discussion it is acrimony and passion. While talking ideas you should constantly remind yourself to be good-natured about it and to make it easy for the other to remain good-natured, too. When it becomes otherwise, it defeats its purpose. People meet and talk, first, to go away better friends than ever; secondly, to understand each other better and to develop respect for each other's viewpoints; and thirdly, possibly to revise these viewpoints and to adjust them mutually so as to bring them more in line with the real truth of things. Conversation, particularly on the discussion level, is the method of spreading truth through friendship. Whenever a person's manner of discussion jeopardizes this friendly feeling, then he is promoting his ego but not advancing the truth.
Naturally, when a person defends ideas that may involve his whole purpose of existence, it is not always easy for him to stay good-natured. As someone has wittily remarked, "Of course there are two sides to every question, if we really are not interested in either of them" {Daily News, Greensboro, N. C, quoted from Reader's Digest, Jan., 1950). If one is keenly interested, dispassionateness is very, very difficult. It is the result both of will and of discipline. But unless one have it, one has no right to get into a discussion.
This does not mean that you must keep smiling. At important points your mien and manner may be quite serious, and your voice may convey considerable feeling and intensity. But at the end of a tense paragraph, you must be able to relax, and perhaps almost to smile, so that everyone feels that there was nothing personal in the intensity, only a love of the truth. An important technique is to keep your voice low. The hotter the discussion gets, the more others tend to raise their voice, the more you should keep yours gentle and low. A low voice can show more intensity than a loud one, but a loud one more easily sounds ill-tempered or angry. Since it is your responsibility not only to stay good-natured yourself but to help others remain so, you will inject a lighter note, a compliment, or even a pun, when things get too serious. As a last resort, you may even say, "I wonder whether we cannot approach this in a more calm manner."
As in all conversation but even more so in discussion is it important not to interrupt others, while at the same time to accept interruptions patiently and good-naturedly one's self. It is also important to frame one's points within the limits of paragraphs, one paragraph at a time. A person must manage to let others state their case, no matter how much his whole nature feels that the truth is being crucified. This requires great character and will power — and a continuing determination not to make one's will prevail at the cost of amiability.
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