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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (7424)12/19/2005 6:46:22 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 541957
 
I think honest, open, even heated difference of opinion can be better than a strained, false, pretend civility, esp if the heated difference is not the norm, and allowing it opens up new ideas, and if the debate, even if heated, is about the issues more thant it is about the debate opponents.

However there is little need in today's political or media culture to enforce a pretend civility, in fact what you sometimes get is hostility that is exagerated past the point of the actual difference of opinion. Considering that I think a serious effort at a greater degree of civility would be a good thing.

Tim
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