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This is an Open Dialogue,War of Words,you can talk and debate about anything. Check out the forums too! Debate Free World as I call it, lol.


Exploring the Dialogue and Debate(War of Words):

By:Rachel A. Poliner and Jeffrey Benson


Dialogue is collaborative: the sides work together.Debate is a type of fight: two sides oppose each other to prove each other wrong.Dialogue builds a learning relationship between people.Debate builds a competitive relationship between people.Dialogue encourages the participants to identify questions and goals they could share.Debate encourages each side to articulate its own questions and goals.In a dialogue the goals are finding common ideas and new ideas.In a debate the goal is winning with your own ideas.In a dialogue everyone contributes to solving a problem.In a debate one person and viewpoint wins, the other is dismissed.In a dialogue you believe that many solutions might exist, and that different people have parts of the best solutions.In a debate you believe that there is one solution, that you have it, and other solutions are not considered.In a dialogue you are sensitive to each other’s feelings, hopes, and ideas.In a debate you do not care about the feelings, hopes and ideas of others.In a dialogue you contribute your best ideas to be improved upon.In a debate you contribute your ideas and defend them against challenges.In a dialogue you listen to each other to understand and build agreement.In a debate you listen to each other to find flaws and to disagree.In a dialogue you search for the good parts of other peoples’ ideas.In a debate you search for weaknesses in other peoples’ ideas.In a dialogue you may consider new ideas and even change your mind completely.In a debate you do not admit you are considering new ideas and you must not change your mind, or you lose.Dialogue encourages you to evaluate yourself.Debate encourages you to criticize others.Dialogue promotes open-mindedness, including an openness to being wrong.Debate creates a close-minded attitude, a determination to be right.Dialogue encourages you to see all sides of an issue.Debate encourages you to see only two different sides of an issue.Dialogue invites keeping the topic open even after the discussion formally ends.Debate, by creating a winner and a loser, discourages further discussion.


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