Communication Ethics Literacy and Difference

"Communication ethics in an era defined by difference, disagreement, and lack of concurrence requires two pragmatic moves. First, cease using ethics as a weapon; disagreement should not immediately move us into referring to an opponent as unethical."(P 209)  In other words, communication aims to dealing with differences and disagreements, communication ethics guarantees the process of dealing with differences and disagreements to the right direction.  During the process, we should pay attention on being pragmatic and communication ethics literacy.
"Pragmatic" means the need for practical engagement of ideas responsive to a particular historical moment."(P 210) and the definition of communication ethics literacy is "identifies the good in
the interplay of self and Other and the particular historical moment, attending to what is protected and promoted"(P 210).  Based on my personal understanding, pragmatic means that we should be adjustable to the different environments and set up a clear expectation or purpose of the result of dealing with differences and disagreements, or the result of communication.  Communication ethics literacy can be regarded as the tool of maintaining and protecting communication ethics and assist different group of people to reach the expected communication results.
In reality, the most outstanding situation is, we usually make different decisions when we encounter with different people in different situations.  For me, if I realize that I cannot communication my father and figure out things well, we both will choose to pause the communication for a while and wait for a correct time and situation, or sometimes, simply live it alone, based on situations.  The most significant point of view is “How do we live constructively within an era of so many differing
views of the good, a time of acknowledged different goods?”(P 214) as we need to be comprehensive and attempt to understand others, and be pragmatic that sometimes we cannot reach the expected communication goals and keep the communication with communication ethics.