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Alexander Johannesen:

> But is it still a blessing if they can't see other points of views?

No.

> Is it a blessing if they say "no, you're wrong; design is all about
> cheesecake!" 

It's called democracy of the open markets. :-)
This is how we iron out things: POVs get debated. No discussion, no
learning.

> It can often become quite fruitless.

Not if you can't learn from it, not if you can't ignore the posts you don't
care about.  It's not very complicated.
 
>> If you don't agree with them it's incumbent upon you to examine and criticize
>> their approach/answers.
> 
> But isn't that the problem in a nutshell?

No, it's the solution.

> I know some people on this list who I know would have a lot of clever stuff to
> say on given subjects, but they don't for some reason.

We can't worry about imaginary things. No discussion, no learning.

> Some times I think they're smarter for it, but some times I wished they'd
> piped up! 

That's not achieved by limiting discussion/debate/POVs.

> We got to stop this madness before it end us all!

This is usually how dictatorships get started. :-)

Ziya
Nullius in Verba