Users of the site have customized their communities to promote rational discussion.

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But if you have a disagreement with someone and want to resolve it, the Rational Discussion Flowchart below is a darn good way to proceed.

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He said it was a complex area and called for a "much more rational discussion" and not for those opposed to be dismissed as "old fogeys".

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In this atmosphere of hostility to public schools and teachers, it has become nearly impossible to have a rational discussion among educators, parents, advocates, youth and policy-makers about what should be done.

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Because discussion of the topic quickly becomes emotional rather than rational.

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So does nostalgia: implicit in this discussion is the idea that there was once a golden age of rational, civil political discourse.

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