The assassination of Charlie Kirk one year ago today was first and most importantly a tragedy for his family. It was a tragedy more broadly, too. Ever since, people on the Right, especially young people, have filled social media with the following: “Look, we tried engaging those on the Left in public debates, making arguments, listening to their perspectives, responding. That’s what Charlie Kirk went around college campuses doing, and they killed him for it. We need to fight fire with fire, using the same tactics that the woke progressives use against us.” That is a recipe for disaster. There are always going to be people at both ends of the political spectrum who think that reasons, arguments, and evidence aren’t enough and that we must silence those who disagree with us. Some of them might even resort to violence. When people try to silence you, don’t respond in kind by trying to silence them. People of goodwill, intellectually and morally serious people of every shade of belief, have in common a desire to know the truth and to live by the truth. But ideologues, dogmatists, and fanatics undermine the enterprise of truth seeking by neglecting the central and universal truth of human fallibility. Don't give up on discussion and debate--on trying to learn from people even when disagreeing with them.