Did you ever notice that some people can't help but bring up hot-button issues in general conversations? You try to keep a discussion on an even keel, then someone weighs in with a response in which any discussion that you try to have around the point is deemed wrong. I don't mind constructive criticism at all in the course of debate, but when some of these absolutist ideas are given, there's like this black hole that opens up, not letting any light escape.
Why are some ideas deemed to be irrevocably untouchable? Let me put this another way. What can you learn, or what benefit can you derive, from being so intransigent you don't allow yourself to grow? What are you afraid of?
Is there anywhere online where a person can have a respectable discourse, or am I out of luck here? Or to ask another way, is the atmosphere for conversation so poisoned I should just hide my words and ideas away, to await an age where they might be spoken again?
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