What Are 3 Reasons Why Opposition Is Indispensable

“Opposition is Indispensable. People will always learn more from those who disagree with them than from those who share their views.” I strongly agree with this statement for three reasons. 1. People who share the same viewpoint are likely to know the same information. 2. The opposition of any debate will likely find information that the other side looked over or didn’t care to think about. 3. The opposition will obviously have different viewpoints than the other side, which will cause the opposition to see specific aspects of an argument that the other side was unaware of. It’s only natural human behavior to have different viewpoints than someone else, even if the viewpoint is only slightly different, and that each person will find evidence
I’ve seen how situations such as this play out first hand. Throughout school I’ve experienced several debates mainly through my social sciences classes. Within these classes the debates are not told through an individual viewpoint. Teachers have students with similar perspectives on a topic collaborate together to form a strong argument. These are the situations when I see how those with similar viewpoints tend to have the same evidence. A specific example of this type of situation would be when my Sociology class was put into groups of three to discuss and answer questions about social stratification. When my group and I agreed on an answer to a question we all had basically the same information to back up our answer. I found that in situations like
I experienced a very powerful example of this in my seventh grade sociology class. In this class the class had an assignment of grouping together into groups of 3 to decide and support their reason of deciding to be a farmer or hunter gatherer back in the primal ages. My group decide to become hunter gatherers. After formatting our argument we went proposed our reasons for being a hunter gatherer to a group of students who choose to be farmers. What we found was that each group had completely different viewpoints that came with very convincing arguments. I learned a lot about the lifestyle of being a primal farmer, and the other group learned a significant amount of information about the hunter gatherer lifestyle and the benefits of it. At the end I learned a massive amount of viewpoints and facts. This is the major reason I agree with the statement, “people will always learn more from those who disagree with them than from those who share their views.” In brief, witnessing the opposing side’s viewpoints and support will grant you access to much more information than those on your side of an