Yadda wrote on Mar 20
th, 2021 at 9:07pm:
Weren't there some classes in your university years, where someone taught you the value of engaging in reasoned debate,
and of critical [logical] thinking ?
A quote, speaking to the blind and fundamental [extremist] error, of those who worship, within the temple of Political Correctness [who are unwilling to allow open enquiry or transparency]....
"If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error." - J.S. Mill - English philosopher - on people who try to silence opinions with which they disagree
Open debate allows ...those engaged in it,
1/
to formulate arguments,
2/ and to then be prepared to
publicly defend those arguments with logic and reason, in open public debate.
If the argument(s) are weak and without merit, everyone there [who observes the arguments presented in the debate], will come to that conclusion.
IMO, those who are unwilling to allow open enquiry and open debate [on an issue],
always do so because
they are always seeking to hide some guilty malevolence [which open debate would expose - to condemnation or ridicule].
i.e.
Such people
have a personal motive, for wanting to deny and disallow
the transparency of open debate.