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Originally Posted by photon
Most things are far too complex to do any justice to in a debate which is limited by short attention spans, easily subverted with rhetoric, and too dependant on the skill of the debater rather than the actual subject matter.
Heck discussion forums are superior to a verbal debate.
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What a cop-out. Intellectuals have publicly debated every matter under the sun, from evolution to the big bang theory.
And the issues we're talking about aren't obscure matters like the behaviour of quarks. Institutionalising racial and gender identities in education, politics, and law is a fundamental change to those institutions. The absence of public debate on this fundamental change is fuelling powerful resentment. If the people championing these changes want to win public support, they need to step onto some kind of public stage and engage with their critics. If they don't, the backlash will be really ugly. The image I keep coming back to is the rattle-brained models in Zoolander having a gasoline fight.
Oh, and it seems most scientists disagree about the value of debate.
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/02/1...nd-technology/