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Originally Posted by Richey79
Thought-provoking thread.
It's not very helpful to simply refuse to play as soon as your views are challenged, even if some forum members do use somewhat 'vigorous' language when debating issues.
Makes a change to see a forum where some political discussion is allowed by the mods.
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There is a "proper" Political & Region debating Forum in the group of forums at the bottom of the main page .... If that's your 'thing'..... You have to "opt-in" |
Strongly held opinions tend to result in strongly worded
statements of those opinions. The P&R forum exists to be a home for such discussions, and it's "opt in" with the presumption that you understand what you are getting into and can tolerate the "strongly worded".
It's also a place where topics that devolve into that sort of argument get shunted, Because the rest of the MobileRead participants probably aren't interested in being forced to watch the hard code debaters go at it hammer and tongs.
Some political discussion is inevitable in a topic like this. As long as it stays civil and retains elementary courtesy and respect for holders of dissenting opinions, it doesn't get banished to the P&R forum.
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Dennis