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The complexity of epidemics   One of easiest ways to wreck a conversation is to reduce a topic to two opposed views or actions between which a choice must be made. One must be for censorship or against it, endorse capitalism or socialism, be liberal or conservative, a friend or enemy of China, and so on. This way of thinking leaves no room for exploration, in which the conversation partners enter with curiosity the world of those from whom they differ, and so are open to qualify their own certainties. It reduces conversation to a debate in which both parties regard their positions as unassailable and use argument as a weapon, not as an exchange. At its worst it argues against opposed positions by vilifying and cancelling their proponents rather than meeting their arguments. Such debates are normally shallow, the attention span is short, and complexity is disrespected.

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