A comment on "civilized" discourse.
For a country that prides itself as "developing" and "progressive", I find it quite odd that the way we fellow countrymen talk to each other, the way we express our opinions and offer our differences - in other words, civil discourse - reflects neither development nor progress in any way whatsoever. Our conversations these days tend to go one of many different ways: We don't always ask the right questions - we beat around the bush too much. When the right questions do get asked, we usually give the wrong answers. Our truths are either relative or invented - there is no objective Truth anymore. To that effect, our truths are now based on how we feel. There's no effort anymore to think things through and analyze, either to try and understand it or to come up with a single argument against whatever it is we disagree with. Instead, we dismiss it entirely on the basis that "It hurt my feelings," or "I was offended," or "I di...