This is an important lesson of debate: It is possible to build a community around, and not despite, disagreements.
Competitive debate has given everyone from Supreme Court justices to CEOs a toolkit for disagreeing betterWhen Ketanji Brown Jackson takes her seat on the Supreme Court, she will be one of four sitting justices who were once on their high school or college debate team. Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Carter debated, as did Toni Morrison and Bruce Springsteen, Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey and former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi.
The rules of competitive debate are simple. Two teams are randomly assigned to argue for and against a proposition—say, that people should not eat meat. Each speaker has equal time, between seven and 12 minutes, to make their arguments before an impartial adjudicator, who awards the debate to the side that has persuaded them. No special equipment is required, though some debaters have strong feelings about the pens they use to take notes.
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