Has Vgchartz gotten boring?

[Ganoncrotch]

padib said:

The main problem with this forum is that people are not respecting the opinion of others. This is the main foundation of any discourse.

As an individual, even if you don't agree with someone else's point of view, it doesn't mean he or she is wrong. The whole idea of discourse is to share points of view. To bash other people's opinions boils down to having an agenda and being offended when someone has a point of view which brings your agenda backwards. Either that or pure impatience, which is toxic to discourse.

In order to have and enjoy civility and intelligent discourse, it's important to respect others and allow people to be themselves and share their ideas. If intelligent people have controversial points of view and see that all they get is the typical obvious common point of view, there is no purpose for them in discourse other than to be a big brother and hold other peoples' hands.

And not everyone is willing to do that.

This isn't always the case though, if it's an opinion like "I like the Xbox" then that's fine, obviously someone else isn't going to be able to tell that person they are wrong for liking that, if someone was to have the opinion that "the Xbox has the best exclusives" then that is a time when he or she would be wrong, it is perfectly possible for someone to have an opinion which is not correct.

Take it to the extreme in a political thread nature, if someone was of the opinion that BLM was a good movement, there is arguments to be made for that and against that, but say someone comes in there and is of the opinion that White Supremacist groups or the KKK have something to offer... would you still enter that discussion without thinking "well you're wrong mate"

I'm just saying you don't have to respect the opinions or views of someone who posts on here that 1 + 1 = -8