The Sunday debate

Sunday is debate time at least it is if you watch BBC1. The Andrew Marr show draws together Political Leaders, Spokes People on a whole range of subjects, Columnists and Agitators they all get a platform. Another very different platform is provided on the program that follows The Big Questions a program that is held in different cities each week, before an audience of local people with a smattering of so called experts,  to air opinion on largely moral and ethical questions that affect our way of life now in the 21st Century. I find this particular program riveting in that deeply held beliefs are contested by others of equally deeply held belief and in listening one can soak up the flavour of these impassioned life style commitments weighing each point and helping one to form ones own, hopefully balanced, opinion. The value or otherwise of monogamy in marriage. Whether greed is a vital component to success. Should women have babies after 40. Is the weight of immigration pushing us as a nation into rebellion. These were today's crop and whist I would have had an opinion on any one of them, listening to the debate brought fresh knowledge and help in understanding someone who previously I would say, "were talking out of the back of their head". 
Its a wonderfully rich world if we can rid ourselves of prejudice and maybe the only way to do so is to get out, at least mentally and mix with all sorts of people. We would be surprised at what we have in common.