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The analogy to 'respectful debate and dialogue' on the physical side is literature on sports/athletics I guess, which is also rich.
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Plato? All of the Socratic dialogues are about identifying postulations or contentions based on bad logic, with the dialogues whittling down why the arguments are poor. That's, y'know, kinda the value of the humanities. :-)
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Nope. Not what I'm talking about. That's more like sports, not active conflict. And no, that's decidedly not the value of the humanities, anymore than soccer training is military training.
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Rhetoric ain’t it All military and police training is fighting dirty. Only competition martial arts have honor/fairness as ethos.
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