Knowing what we are arguing for...

Lynch et al. make a great comment on page 77: “It takes time to learn about an issue, to learn what you really think about it and how it affects your life and the lives of others” . I really liked this sentence because it highlights the rationale between arguing differently. Arguing differently along with other ones, aims to show the rationale in others beliefs as well as in our owns.
If we visit high schools and even colleges, we would find several students who have strong ideas on politics, religions… but these students, at least most of them, do not really know what made them have those beliefs, what are their reasons. They hear it from families, teachers, friends. As Max said in his post argumenter is socially constructed, and so to argument they are make. Our social world help us to form our concepts, belief systems. And I do not say that it is something bad, the bad part is that while we construct our beliefs, we do not see the bricks we use, where they are coming from, what they are made of. We are in fact totally foreign to the building but believe that it is ours.
Argument as an inquiry not only helps us understand the other ideas but our own. And I believe that the latter is sometimes much more important than the former.