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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7893670" data-attributes="member: 29398">If nothing else, it serves the purpose of discussion and debate.And is also a perfectly valid point of view, reject it as you will.I'm probably coming across as far more absolute than my opinions actually are, in order to make a point, but I see nothing at all wrong with promoting one's own point of view.Yay me? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Yet that's kind of how the OP came across in my view, hence my reply.In any debate, on any topic, there's ultimately only three places a person can be: 1. on one side or another (there can sometimes be more than two sides in the same debate), 2. neutral, or 3. uninvolved and-or unaware the debate exists.People in 1. are quite naturally going to try to convince others in 1. to switch to their side, but they're also going to try to swing people in the 2. and 3. areas over to their particular side or viewpoint both by promoting their own viewpoint and by criticizing the other(s).And yes, as long as the debate continues there's going to be some level of division between the sides.&nbsp; Sometimes that level is utterly trivial, other times it runs deep - maybe too deep - but to try and deny its existence seems, again, idealistic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7893670, member: 29398"] If nothing else, it serves the purpose of discussion and debate. And is also a perfectly valid point of view, reject it as you will. I'm probably coming across as far more absolute than my opinions actually are, in order to make a point, but I see nothing at all wrong with promoting one's own point of view. Yay me? :) Yet that's kind of how the OP came across in my view, hence my reply. In any debate, on any topic, there's ultimately only three places a person can be: 1. on one side or another (there can sometimes be more than two sides in the same debate), 2. neutral, or 3. uninvolved and-or unaware the debate exists. People in 1. are quite naturally going to try to convince others in 1. to switch to their side, but they're also going to try to swing people in the 2. and 3. areas over to their particular side or viewpoint both by promoting their own viewpoint and by criticizing the other(s). And yes, as long as the debate continues there's going to be some level of division between the sides. Sometimes that level is utterly trivial, other times it runs deep - maybe too deep - but to try and deny its existence seems, again, idealistic. [/QUOTE]

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