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Originally Posted by alansmithee
I'm gonna go against the prevailing opinion and say that I think this was a horrible idea. How can you have a discussion board if only 2 people are allowed to discuss issues per thread? One of the things that is interesting about discussion boards is that it does allow many differing views to be shown on a particular issue. This can lead to more conflict and/or noise, but it also allows for interaction, which debates don't. I think if this became the trend, it would lead to less people visiting the politics board (I know I have no interest in it personally). If civility needs to be added, that's fine, but not at the expense of free interchange of ideas.
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Well, thanks for ridiculing Elphaba's creative idea, as well as her and my hard work in creating this thread. If you had read my original post, you would know that, from the very beginning, the intention was to have Elphaba and I write our point-conterpoint-point-counterpoint and then to open the floor for discussion as usual. We wanted to have both points of view represented in the opening of the thread, as is not the case in the typical thread one would find here.
Furthermore, what is not interactive about debates, especially if the "audience" is allowed to respond afterwards? This was a well-constructed dialogue between two disagreeing parties, not an interaction-deviod monologue, so I have trouble sympathizing with you here. If you really are so concerned about the lack of interaction, why don't you start us of with your thoughts on the issue of partial birth abortion?
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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