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Good ideas, but I think you're in for trouble in the politics board. You cannot expect someone who is firmly against abortion to understand or respect someone who is for it. You cannot expect someone who is gung-ho for the war in Iraq to have his opinion accepted by someone who is against it. It's simply not going to happen.
I think that if these ideas are strictly enforced, especially on the politics forum, we'll end up with a bad example of a discussion tournament from the high school speech team. Most of the conversation will be spent with platitudes such as "I respect and admire your opinion that X subject is black. Let's try to see how we can make that work with this guy's opinion that it is white." Such discussion is disingenuous because it is inherently false. Republicans do not respect the opinions of a democrat who disagrees with them and vice versa, and you know what? That's ok. Why force people to have to pretend and sugarcoat what they say when that isn't reality? I think you should enforce an underlying respect for the *person* without worrying so much about respect for all of their ideas. Where I come from, we're not so bloody sensitive that we'll go running home crying if someone tells us "sorry, but you're dead wrong here."
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