At some point before I redid my website with a MovableType blog I was hoping to have some sort of discussion theme to the site, because as many of you know, I like to debate things, however mundane or serious they might be. One reason I never got it started is that to have a good discussion you need a decent number of people for a variety of opinions and a good knowledge base, but more importantly you need people willing to put in the time to write a good argument. I think it takes more effort to write an argument, because you have time to review your argument and make it more consistent, coherent, and ordered than you would if you had a discussion in person. If you don't take that time, then your argument seems sloppy.
So where am I going with this? I'm going to try to start a new category for discussion of things. Not really for open debate, but just for information. I'll go out and try to find some info on both sides of issue and post it. Hopefully I'll learn something I don't know and you will too.
So my next post will be about the electoral college...
Posted by ramk at September 14, 2004 01:00 AM