{"id":2753,"date":"2021-01-12T14:41:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T14:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/12\/fruitful-disagreement\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T14:41:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T14:41:34","slug":"fruitful-disagreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/12\/fruitful-disagreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruitful Disagreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">When there is an excess of agreement, discussions in politics and elsewhere are often tiresome and boring: the parties are as if in competition to see who can express the most outrage.&#0160; One is preaching to the preachers. But an excess of agreement is better than a paucity thereof.&#0160; The ideal discussion, however,&#0160; is one in which broad agreement on fundamentals leaves&#0160; room for disagreement on details.&#0160; We are farther from that ideal than we have ever been in these no longer United States.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When there is an excess of agreement, discussions in politics and elsewhere are often tiresome and boring: the parties are as if in competition to see who can express the most outrage.&#0160; One is preaching to the preachers. But an excess of agreement is better than a paucity thereof.&#0160; The ideal discussion, however,&#0160; is one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/12\/fruitful-disagreement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fruitful Disagreement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,251,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-disagreement","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}