For complex issues initial vote of a participant seldom if ever corresponds
to his rational, thought over and well documented opinion. He starts by
expressing gut reactions and some bandwagon cliches. He may vote for a war,
motivated by patriotic gut reactions and hawkish propaganda. 
One of the most important functions of structured Debate is to show the 
implications of such a vote; death and suffering of populations and ruin
of involved countries including one's own. Gut reaction confronted with
reason, cliches confronted with reliable information may and hopefully will 
result in changing the vote, thus building up consensus.

CHILDREN
bottom-up inferencing

PARENTS
consensus building 
postulates, definitions and principles
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