Why and How?

"The Secret To Winning An Argument Is Ridiculously Simple" by Drake Baer is very interesting. It is a tactic I like to use when in discussion with another. People tend to have this idea that when something sounds right it is, because it makes sense to them in the short term. Yet when asked simple how and why will it work they have to think more critically. By questioning their statement and asking them to explain it will force them to think far more critically than they were. Now they have to lay out everything down to the contradictions and flaws. This is the very reason for arguments, so we can question one another and find issues so we can fix them. 

People need to be questioned, simply because most people can’t see past their own ego. Everyone thinks they are right without even thinking through ideas. If it is even for a good cause a person or group must be questioned. We need to be able to walk through our ideas because if we cannot explain them, how can we expect them to work. I disagree, however, with the how is more important the the why. They are both key components to an argument. If I can’t say why something works, just as how something works, then no real progress is being made.