9/3 Blog

            The amount of times that I used the term “agree to disagree” is almost an every day thing. Never did I really stop and think about the full terms of what it means exactly and what it takes to achieve disagreeing with the one who agrees on a topic. I always used this saying in a sense to just get the argument over, which hardly ever works and now I know why.

             To achieve the stand of agreeing to disagree as stasis takes steps, time, even experimenting as the books example on abortion showed us. The steps include having the right disagreeing argument. ARCS explains that to rebuttal against someone who believes in abortion you need to have arguments back that disagree along the same reasoning as the one who agrees. Just in opposite form. Even when stasis as surfaced there is always much more work to be done than just finding an argument. From growing up in America with abortion as one of the heaviest subjects politically, and privately with people, I can relate to some of these arguments having been in them myself. After the fact of disagreeing there are always questions to be asked.

            There are right and wrong ways to ask a question considering the stand someone has against another on the topic at hand. When I think back to my times on arguing with family or friends, even classmates, I either did this all out of order or hot headily just went to the conclusion of actually saying I agree to disagree after shorting taking a stand. To achieve stasis that would be considered a big fail. For the abortion topic the public usually brings up their stands and arguments and always eventually disagree but never agree on disagreeing. According to the ARCS book “The argument assumes further that deciding to have an abortion is a private, not public, matter.” When questions evolved the possible search for the answers needs to spread as well, adding more to the question. The reason why most of my arguments that I have referred to most likely never went anywhere was because of their worth. The questions at hand along side the argument itself were not as important. With an issue such as abortion the bringing certain arguments and questions to back up the stasis have been thought out for many decades.

            There is always going to be one argument that leads into another argument that causes this topic to hardly see a result. Yet the act rhetor’s take to make a stasis starts with all these basic things. Whether or not the argument will end as a victor in your hands, there is a start form to achieve stasis.