There are two types of conflict: orderly conflict and disorderly conflict. Disorderly conflict occurs in an unruly, chaotic classroom or in a forum where everyone is talking at once. I don’t like this kind of unfocused, meaningless conflict. I do enjoy focused conflict–two boxers fighting it out in a spotlighted ring or the focused conflict when David felled Goliath. The first type of conflict prostitutes the soul of conflict, the second type elevates it to a type of moral order that is essential for life and progress – providing a dramatic stage for the establishment, even creation, of meaning rather than its nihilistic destruction.
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