05-11-2024, 01:17 PM
(05-11-2024, 12:24 PM)masonbengals fan Wrote: My reluctance comes from not wanting to get into a war of words/opinions on a subject that self admittedly I know only what I have read & see every day on the TV. Obviously a long and hard history with no simple solutions. This thread is at 33 pages and still no solid real answers but mostly just back & forth bickering between regular posters. I have little interest in that. Although I fall victim (My own fault) to the back and forth myself at times.
I have a bit more positive view of what is going on here and hope you'll continue to at least follow.
People can learn a lot through "back and forth"--provided discussants avoid personal attacks, respect evidence and logical consistency,
and view discussion as a means of exploration. Even if some don't do that, enough do to make following discussion worth while.
So discussion open to cross-examination is a way of "testing" one's own knowledge and advancing it. That's important to me.
I learn far more about random voters' actual attitudes and knowledge from sites like this than I can get from opinion polls.
Also people post links to stuff I'd never have found on my own. So I see a lot of value here, a good supplement to other sources.