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Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

3 Approaches To Arguing w/ Family During The Holidays

Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

Nick Freitas

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

4.4743 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

What holiday would be complete without a knock-down down, drag-out fight over politics?

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0:00.0

Well, ladies and gentlemen, the holidays are among us.

0:06.2

And we all know what this means.

0:07.7

It means in some cases, family will be traveling to us.

0:11.2

And in other cases, we will be traveling to family.

0:14.7

And inevitably, inevitably, in most cases, there is going to be somebody within that family sphere that is probably a little bit disappointed with the last election results, right?

0:27.0

Maybe you got a lot of family members disappointed with the last election results.

0:30.7

And you're probably wondering, okay, is this going to be a good time where we catch up and we're able to talk about things for which we have common agreement,

0:39.7

maybe talking about family stuff or sports or music or whatever else?

0:43.5

Or is it going to degrade the nothing but an intellectual battle about whether or not Trump is a dictator

0:50.8

or whether or not all the land in America was stolen or whether or not the first Thanksgiving is nothing more than a celebration of eventual genocide by white European

0:59.9

settlers. Well, here today on making the argument, we're going to go ahead and go through some of the

1:04.8

most common questions to include the questions you sent us that you want us to answer as well

1:09.4

as questions that we get in the chat.

1:11.6

We decided we wanted to offer you maybe a couple different approaches on this, right?

1:16.6

I tend to prefer something of a question and answer, a reductive out of certain sort of debate,

1:22.6

where instead of just immediately addressing someone's statement, I usually ask them, why do you believe that?

1:28.4

Well, if that, then what about this, all the way to the point where hopefully they've

1:31.8

arrived at the conclusion that, oh, maybe that statement wasn't accurate or maybe that

1:35.7

position wasn't accurate, or maybe I learned something new and determine that what I thought

1:39.8

is not actually true, right?

1:42.9

Let's be fair in our reasoning. Or will you prefer more of a Christian

1:47.4

Heinz approach where he will literally bury you under a mountain of data, an inductive argument

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