Sure, this is obvious isn't it?

And I'm certain that if you are able to keep up with this attempt of guide, you are the type of person who agrees to disagree. But talking with people around the world doesn not require just that, if you want to take a philosophical approach that is. Just listening won't do in this type of excersise, what you need is to understand and analyze where that disagreement is coming from.

Let's think about a discussion you are having with Mr.X, he says that male and female have antural differences, and those include the gender role submissive-dominant that appear around the world. He objects that it happens in nature, it happens in every culture and so it must be natural, and that ergo there is very little to discuss about that.

As the cultured person you are, you know that there is more to see than just a study of gorilas and the general cultures of the world. You are informed that there are tribes in New Guinea, who are away from the influence of all the others, who exhibit a clear rupture to this "law", showing that the gender roles have biological bases, yet are forged and raised in culture. So you know he's not only falacious but also misinformed.

After an adult conversation you reach to a point where you both agree to disagree. Is that right? It might be for him, but you are not quiet there yet. You have to think, and to go trough his arguments to notice if there is a personal reason to take that stand or is it just the environment that made him have such a belief. Why? Because your job as an unauthorized philosopher does not end at understanding nature and mechanics of the world in an objective point of view, but also to see what others believe and why is that so, so to understand where is the common knowledge comming from.

And it is not only to understand the roots of the information or opinion, it is also to follow the train of thought to figure out how people think the way they do in order to enrich your trains of thought and wisdom. Because you have to remember, there is truth, which is what can be extracted by empirical evidence along with reasonable arguments. And then there is truth, which is what the majority thinks. And you should know by now that the proportion to the existent truths and truths are simply not fair for the wise. Adapt

by I'm the penguin