Anyone with some common sense would stay well out of this section unless they A) see it as entertainment and/or B) as a challenge to improve their way of arguing.

I see little tendencies to B being prevalent  

BTW, I had a written argument with my brother today. In my opinion, he is borderline racist, and believe all the massively expanded "truths" fabricated by the right wing press and "nationalists". When somebody scream ""23% in Norway are muslims" they all jump on it as true because it goes with their prejudgments. The fact is that 3% are registered in muslim belief groups and the total is estimated at about 4%. And even the 3% figure is more likely bloated than too small because the belief groups gets financial support based on their size - we've had plenty of Christian groups being caught with substantially bloated figures.

But I digress. The actual point I was heading for was that I told him we'd better stop discussing the topic because 1) we would both just become more convinced our personal opinions are the right ones and 2) we would feel sorry that we have such an ignorant brother that is too blind to see the world for what it is. So I suggested we talk motorcycles instead and stay friends  

The same thing can be said for this forum. The moment we start discussing politics and religion, things become poisonous. Members who now more or less hate each others may have gone along just fine discussing Savage engine tuning  

Thanks, appreciate the compliment!