As a startled Kagan looked on and the entire ballroom audience sat dumbfounded, Siegel, the conference keynote speaker from that morning, asked for a microphone and announced: «I can't let this audience listen to your argument
without hearing the other side.
Not exact matches
These walls, these assertions that
others are «idiots» or sinners
without hope and refusal to
hear what the
other side has to say, are just pathetic.
Eschewing the story's details, they invariably talk about «passing by on the
other side», a reference for those with ears to
hear, a decontextualized general moral exhortation for those
without.
The two stereo speakers provide more than enough volume to be
heard on a conference call, as well as play movies or YouTube clips
without missing a beat, while the four microphones make sure the
other side hears you just as clearly.
So I came up with the idea of a sustained series of short documentaries that would allow me to listen to people's stories
without taking a
side, allow people to share their views on and experiences with shale gas drilling, and that would allow people to
hear other perspectives.
It is the undertaking to decide that question for
others,
without allowing them to
hear what can be said on the contrary
side.
It pushes the rhetoric and arguments to one
side or the
other - by necessity, since the tendency is for each
side to engage in greater and greater bombast until those of us in the middle have a hard time being
heard as neutral
without being cast to one
side or the
other, because all people know is either extreme.
Sometimes, all we want from each
other is someone who will
hear us out
without being judgmental,
without siding with «the enemy», and
without giving us advise based on their own perspective.