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The HBS hosts do NOT agree to disagree!

\xa0On the first day of co-host's Leigh's classes, she\xa0 warns her students against (what she calls) \u201clazy relativism.\u201d The example she gives is of a conversation in which two people have been at odds for a while, they suspect that they are not going to come to an agreement on the matter at hand, and so one of them says: \u201cyeah, agree to disagree\u201d or \u201ceverybody has different opinions on this\u201d or, worst of all, \u201cwhat\u2019s true for you is true for you, and what\u2019s true for me is true for me.\u201d

That last iteration, in particular, is an expression of the kind of\xa0 \u201clazy relativism\u201d we're discussing in this episode.

When people repeat this dictum of \u201cwhat\u2019s true for you is true for you, and what\u2019s true for me is true for me,\u201d might it be that what they\u2019re really meaning to communicate is \u201cthis is a hard conversation that has come to an impasse, I don\u2019t want to argue with you about it anymore, but I also don\u2019t want to offend you by appearing disrespectful\u201d?

Today, we're talking about why lazy relativism seems to be the go-to disposition for so many when encountering a disagreement, what exactly is \u201clazy\u201d about it, and whether or not there are non-lazy forms of relativism.

Full episode notes available at this link:
https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/lazy-relativism

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