Meghan McCain, daughter of former presidential candidate John McCain, was on campus Monday evening. She spoke about standing up for one's beliefs and being a progressive Republican, which often puts her in opposition to some traditional Republican viewpoints.
But regardless of your opinions on the McCain family or its political and social views, we can use it as an example. Meghan McCain has publicly disagreed with much of the Republican party on key social issues. Yet those discrepancies don't ruin the family.
It doesn't matter what your views are on any topic. Nobody's views are identical across the board with someone else's. Disagreement should not displace civility. You'd have a hard time finding a friend or even a family member who you completely agree with on hot button political and social issues. Political debate should not get so heated as to compromise relationships with family, friends or coworkers.
The ability to discuss issues in a civilized manner despite any level of disagreement is one of the things that makes us real people. Moving out of mom and dad's basement is one thing, displaying a certain level of maturity and wisdom is another.
No matter how ridiculous your counterpart's argument may seem upon first hearing it, dismissing it won't do any good for anyone. It may end up being the ridiculous ramblings of a crazy person. But chances are it will offer something of use. It could contain a point you haven't thought about, it could help you improve your argument or it could even change your argument. If we don't know the opposing sides of an argument, we can't truly understand our own.
We need to embrace differences of opinion. We always will have to deal with at least one opposing viewpoint, and that isn't a bad thing. Sometimes it isn't necessarily a good thing, but imagine how boring and awful life would be with no conflict of opinions. As it is with any story in a book or on TV, life needs conflict to be interesting and fulfilling. But we also need to learn from it for it to serve its purpose.
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