> I strongly disagree with you, we never have disagreements on this list.
There is nothing wrong with disagreement. I always get the impression (at least in the US) that there is... I study to become a political scientist and most of us in my department came to the conclusion that high schools fail to teach this to students. You are a good student as long as you don't argue/fight and continue to act like good sheep. Besides we don't wantot push such trauma on our students. For example every one of the reviewd High School civics text books we reviewd failed to say: "No - democracy is not this pretty thing and yes, it involves debate compromise, otherwise it would be called an authocracy, or dictatorship fo all of you students who don't like big words". When you ask Americans the most supported branch of government is the one that meets behind closed doors and the one that is the least democratic (Supreme Court). But everybody hates congress because all they can do is argue. Maybe the roots of this come from primary education? Debate, disagreement is good. But when it is like a debate for Congress on... if we should change the cafeteria's food names from "French fries/toast" to "Freedom...", that pisses me off. People... Keep debating as long as you stay on topic... Go off into areas that are not relevant (like I did in this post :)) and people will get pissed off... L
