I agree that while framing your message in a certain way for your audience can be helpful, compromising it and conceding incorrect points can only be harmful. You don't need to fly into your local community center like a wrecking ball with "Stalin did nothing wrong", but you shouldn't agree with the western view of Stalin just to keep the peace in debates.
There's ways to argue over these things that frame it so people are more receptive, and that's what should be done, without compromising your principles.
It depends. Some people simply do not consider things like we do. The approach you describe is correct for some situations. There are others where it is not. Where people are emotially motivated a forceful argument is better than a well reasoned one. Since most people didn't reason themselves into their current ideology it would be silly to try to reason them out of it.
I agree that while framing your message in a certain way for your audience can be helpful, compromising it and conceding incorrect points can only be harmful. You don't need to fly into your local community center like a wrecking ball with "Stalin did nothing wrong", but you shouldn't agree with the western view of Stalin just to keep the peace in debates.
There's ways to argue over these things that frame it so people are more receptive, and that's what should be done, without compromising your principles.
It depends. Some people simply do not consider things like we do. The approach you describe is correct for some situations. There are others where it is not. Where people are emotially motivated a forceful argument is better than a well reasoned one. Since most people didn't reason themselves into their current ideology it would be silly to try to reason them out of it.