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[–]passionflounder 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Tolerating open dialog among differing points of view in my mind furnishes opportunities for all sides to learn something. That doesn't mean any one side is going to be able to bludgeon its own world view into others.

The problem with so-called "discourse" is that we're being conditioned to see our own respective world view as the only one supported by logic and fact. That's probably why so many attack when their efforts to persuade fail.

Sites tend to foster this contentious type of dialog- favoring certain schools of thought/ideologies and disallowing others.

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That doesn't mean any one side is going to be able to bludgeon its own world view into others.

Which is why saidit doesn't have downvotes, so groupthink can't censor outside opinions via downvotes. A subtle, but important, difference from most other sites.