Literally one of the most important essays could read, if you want to have a *productive* disagreements about anything, on X or anywhere else, is @paulg’s “How to Disagree”.
It describes a pyramid. Everyone should be aware of it.
At the bottom are things like name-calling, insults and ad hominem arguments. Slightly higher, but not a whole lot better is “tone policing”
At the top is “refutuation” and even better “refutation of the central point.”
That’s what disagreements should be.
Because life is short, I block people (e.g the Theo dude who is going around whining about being blocked) who can’t get past the lower levels.
In contrast, people who disagree with me on matters of intellectual substance with real arguments (@emollick, @peterwildeford, @flowersslop, etc) are super welcome!
If you get blocked me and wonder why, study the chart.
If you hate me and never want to see me again, that’s fine too, but I still recommend you study the chart.
(Credit: chart itself is by @bigthink, adapted from Graham’s essay)