Fighting Words

Our society is establishing a disturbing trend in which we try to silence the arguments that we do not agree with. Being exposed to various points of view can serve as a useful tool to either modify or solidify the views that we already hold. Without exposure to counterarguments, there is no personal growth. Our society yells at each other too much and doesn’t listen enough. We are too often spoon fed what we are supposed to think by others and many of us have lost the ability to even defend our own points of view. We have become intellectually lazy. It has become much easier in our technological age to simply turn someone “off” rather than refute opposing points on their merit alone.