Deborah Mower's first public piece, about civil engagement. Mower tried all of the techniques of constructive engagement with her neighbor, who hates her dog. Instead of talking it out, they went to a lawyer, who issued a cease a desist letter. What is the lesson? theconversation.com/civility-req...
Civility requires the willingness to engage – a dispute with a neighbor revealed how much motivation mattersAn ethicist who studies disagreement and civility assumed she could handle a neighborly dispute – until the neighbor refused to even interact with her.theconversation.com