Discussion Responding Positively to Objections

Responding Positively to Objections
Reflect: Consider what it means to be open minded [rather than dogmatic]. How do you tend to react when people argue against your own strongly held views? Is it the most productive response?
Write: Provide an example of a good argument for a position with which you disagree or share an example of when you have learned from an opposing argument in the past. Explain your initial reaction to encountering evidence for an opposing view, and illustrate how you might lean from the counterargument. Rather than trying to prove it wrong, demonstrate what you might learn from this point of view, and model how you might respond positively, with the shared of goal of learning and discovering truth [rather than being right].
confirmation bias in which we strongly tend to accept information that agrees with our own views. We are accordingly less prone to learn from sources that disagree with us. If our goal is to expand our minds we should have a goal to learn from others. You might comment on the value of approaching arguments with humility and seeking to grow.
lifelong attitude of critical thinking logic and life.