Disputation Arenas

[Vince Koloski]

Here is a piece from David Brin about the concept of Disputation Arenas. 

As some might say that Ipse Dixit is one such I thought it might be interesting. 

It is a bit long, the article is on the left column of the page. The right column is Brin's self-aggrandizement stuff. An interesting and well thought out piece, though I would dispute some of his marketplace worship.

http://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/disputation.html

Vince

[jack saunders]

Good article, Vince.  I see a lot of opportunistic argument in the political sphere.  Beyond the common grandstanding that is the whole sum and substance of presidential electioneering, I observe distraction argument advanced to substitute for practical problem solving.....like the current local front page uproar over SF’s ban on vaping sales.  The voters demand the board of supervisors get control of crime, traffic congestion and homelessness.  They can’t.  So, like the Cowardly Lion taking out after Toto, the supes growl at Juul as one, “I’ll get you, anyway, PeeWee!”  Solving homelessness would require shockingly aggressive intervention in the housing/real estate markets, something far beyond the political chops of anybody since FDR.  So instead they go after e-cigs.  They didn’t call him the Cowardly Lion for nothing.

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[jack saunders]

Vince — here’s another example of an off-topic issue taking control of a conference, this one on cybersecurity.  Joe Hurd, (R-TX), is an ex-CIA guy, an expert in cybersecurity — both in his spook days and now in Congress.  He was slated to keynote the Black Hat conference, a major confab on technical issues of cybersecurity.  He was yesterday disinvited when conference organizers found he had long voted the Republican party line on abortion.  

So the Disputation question:  Are a speaker’s arguments in one arena invalidated by his incorrect opinions in another?

I wonder if there might be surgeons who might be barred from sharing new techniques because of opinions on unrelated matters?

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