Consensus by US Founders Amid Great Turmoil & LDS Church Leaders on Consensus
Channel: EmpireOfHeaven
Date: 2012-02-16

Some people are afraid of strong discussion and opinion.  The mistake strong opinions and the sharing of such as combative and contentious.  Civility must be nurtured, but people should be able to speak their mind and sort through their strong opinions, with others of strong opinion.  There is no harm in this, it is a critical and necessary process.  People of substance, of culture, of education can do so and bring forth marvelous results and become unified---though it is hard to achieve, admittedly.  Fortunately, the US Founders achieved some Concensus, but they botched things on the slavery issue that later obviously caused problems.