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Dialling down the heat: How to re-learn the art of disagreeing well
By Michael McQueen
September 25 2024Speaking last month from Parliament House at a press conference announcing ASIO had just raised Australia’s terror threat level from ‘possible’ to ‘probable,’ Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pleaded with Australian’s to “lower the temperature of debate.” UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued a similar plea just days later as ideology-fueled violent protests spiraled out of control following the murder of three girls at a dance school in Southport.
While strong emotions around issues that matter are an essential part of what it means to be human, it’s hard not to feel that we have lost the ability to disagree without being disagreeable, or worse.
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