Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)You’ve done something I consider wrong. Your actions aren’t criminal but I still find them reprehensible. I tell you that what you’ve done is wrong, but you ignore me and you keep doing it. I cannot accept this and I feel I must distance myself from you. You are bad and I am not. You are not like me at all.
You are someone I cannot work with. You are someone I can only fight. You are my enemy, and the best I can hope for is to defeat you and bring an end to your wrongdoing. I will work with others who are like me and who agree with me that you must be stopped. Together we will form a group to oppose you and anyone like you. For you are not like us. You are outside of what is included in us.
But you will not allow me or my group to impose our will on you. You will also form a group of like-minded people to oppose us and stand for what you believe to be right and just. Now the lines of battle are drawn and conflict is guaranteed.
What is Disagreement? – Part IV
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
