No, not at all. I was just trying to set expectations appropriately. Some people’s idea of debate involves mostly trying to score points with some sort of imagined audience, and very little real dialogue occurs. We expect people to present their views and explain them and to defend their opinions. We just hope they do so in the interest of expanding common ground between people and possibly learning something not in the interest of “winning” or making other people look foolish.
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