Discussing controversial topics with those with contrasting views is not useful because very few people change their mind when questioned about their core beliefs.
Write a response to the prompt in which you discuss whether or not you agree or disagree. Be certain to fully develop your position and carefully consider ways in which your position could be challenged.
The prompt states that discussion should not be held with people who have contrasting views on a controversial topic as people rarely tend to change their minds. I strongly disagree with the prompt for the following reasons.
To begin, open debate is the key to development of new ideas and enrichment of already existing ideologies. In order to solve issues of universal importance, on which several contrasting views exist, open debate is the only solution. For instance, take the case of the film Vishwaroopam; the film drew widespread criticism from the muslim comunity of India who wanted the film banned in the country, as the film potrayed muslims as terrorists. However, the filmakers and other actors associated with the film argued that even the main hero of the film was a muslim and they wanted to release the film without anything expurgated. The debate continued for a good amount of time before both sides made concessions, and the film was released with certain indelicate parts censored. The above example shows how open debate and discussion led to the solving of a conundrum, in which two parties had disparate opinions.
Further, certain points of contention by people on certain topics are outright wrong. These individuals, if not shown the right arguments, will live in their ignorance forever. For example, take the case of Flat Earthers - a group of people who believe the Earth is flat. Now the fact that is the Earth is not flat, rather an imperfect sphere (flattened at the poles and bulged at the equator) is well known and a proven scientific fact. A topic such as this should never have any contention. However, people who are speculative about this, should be shown through discussions and lectures the fallacies in their argument in order to enable them to truly understand their mistakes.
Many 'experts' would argue that dealing with an individual or group who have contrasting opinions is a waste of time. To these 'experts' I would like to ask - if one of their children believed that the Earth is flat and them being the 'expert' knows that science says otherwise, will they not try to change their child's view or will they argue that the child as an opposing view and hence stay mute about the topic.
In conclusion I would like to say that open discussion and debate is an extremely important factor when it comes to discussing controversial issues about society. If open debate is ignored, we would live in a society which grows more ignorant with every passing day.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, so, well, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2085.0 2235.4752809 93% => OK
No of words: 425.0 442.535393258 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90588235294 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60597340965 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531764705882 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 640.8 704.065955056 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.9522216911 60.3974514979 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.833333333 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6111111111 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.38888888889 5.21951772744 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.251235704401 0.243740707755 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0786498657157 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0826050075349 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166223052002 0.150359130593 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.103732669335 0.0667264976115 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 100.480337079 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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