When I was in Junior High I joined up for Debate class, which I'm quite certain is no longer a curricular option these days no more so than the Latin class I took in High School. No wonder we have such an overwhelmingly majority idiot populace these days. It won't happen, but I think a class in debating should be mandatory. Here's why. Given a topic, any topic, and being assigned to argue one way or the other forces you to explore both sides of whatever the argument. You have to. First and foremost to defend whichever your appointed position on the issue, but also to consider the other side of the bone you're picking with your opponent in order to be able to rebut whatever point he or she might contest. I have no problem with anyone who might dissent with me about any issue, I don't ... as long as they can justify the why of their thinking even if I disagree. Most often that usually doesn't happen, though. Just because they truly can't explain the why of the...