Hi Forumsters,

Please remember, respectful and constructive contribution helps everyone's cause. If we want outcomes, we need to find what can be agreed then try to advance, balance and negotiate.  The last 2 decades have proven sneaky undermining and trying to steal ground isn't going to work as a society.

We're all entitled to our opinion but why will others respect your opinion if you won't truly respect theirs. If there's a conflict between statistical data and highly influenced data, the statistical data takes precedence. EG: A poll of determining if alcohol is good when the poll is conducted walking through your favourite bar.

If you're quoting statistics, please detail the source and be prepared to have it's integrity questioned. If you're offering opinion, declare it as such, offer the opinion foundation. Declared opinion is fine, especially to start topics. Conversation can then continue with integrity.

If you'd rather do the name calling and hate speech thing, ask via the contact form, I can send links to whatever flavour hate speech you want. My research to build this platform has shown just how polar opposite things get. It's also proven beyond doubt that winning battles often loses the war. All that yelling is completely counterproductive, it just shoves everyone further apart as a competition in who has the highest Crisis, Derogatory and Alarmist vocabulary. You might as well watch Trump and Biden's first debate on replay.