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When a rational argument hits on an emotional argument, it usually ends badly.
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Both increase their volume, the rational side by elaborating their
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arguments in ever greater detail and citing even more rational voices.
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And the emotional side by shouting louder, crying harder or damaging art more badly.
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While, both fail to see that almost no problem worth discussing
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has a 100% rational or even 100% emotional answer to it.
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Part of today's divide in societies stems from an ignorance about
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this duality on either side.
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And so, both try to win the game by playing it according to their
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respective rules which of course means that no one can win as they
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don't even play the same game.
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The irony is that it might not be about winning at all.
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That it's not about who is right, but about how to get it right.
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For this, it helps to ask why the emotional side feels the way
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it does when you're standing on the one side of the argument.
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And why the rational side thinks the way it does when you're
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standing on the other side.
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Here's the crucial bit.
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Someone's got to start with this.
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It could just as well be you, right?
