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Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear
Fair point by Illuminaughty
...if anything is needed to turn the state around it is the ability to listen to the other side and not be bigoted. The left and right are both becoming more prone to tune out anything that they feel doesn't line up with their preconceived notions. (And social media and internet news is making it even worse by allowing information flows that support the right/left feedback loop)
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You aren't going to reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
There has always been a contingent of the population that is not interested in engaging in thoughtful discussion and debate.
There are posters in this thread who embody this, who routinely fail to even read contradictory information let alone respond to it.
It would be nice if the moderation team would use a bit of common sense when looking at a posters post history to determine if they are an honest broker or not, but they seem to favour looser moderation over more constructive discussion, so it's up to the individual posters to show some reason of their own and stop screaming into the wind.