Agree to disagree: are our lives really in black and white?

Graphic of text of an eye incorporating speech bubbles and words: can you see both sides of an argument? VPEE Student Journalist, Giovanna Cantarin, shares her reflections of attending the first UCL Disagreeing Well event: Disagreeing Well in Higher Education. "But whose side are you on?"  . This is a question we have all heard ourselves asked at least once in our lives, perhaps not very long ago. Given the recent events, many of us will have tried to confront our friends and classmates in search of firm truth- to find common ground on divisive topics. The incomprehensible, in fact, creates an inner conflict with our ancestral need for apparent clarity, for a human sense of belonging, for binary rationality, for a total lack of nuance. And there is nothing wrong with this: seeking comfort in certainty is part of our human nature. Yet, if right and wrong was so clean cut, there would be no discussions, let alone wars.