Debate: You can't say anything "of substance" on this board

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I would say we frequently debate issues of substance including those that are charged.

As an example, @Babale’s thread in the wake of several prior mass shootings and concurrent with several very heated Gun threads:

What are Rights for? Where do they come from? Including 2nd Amendment

Inspired by a conversation from a pit thread. I don’t think that our disagreement is about gun rights at all. I think our disagreement is about something much more fundamental, something I hope to get at in this thread, by asking: what are rights for? In another thread, you said this: I don’t completely disagree with your statement here, but I think it is adjacent to the root disagreement. Rights (like rites, money, nation-states, religions, governments, families, ideologies, etc) are huma…

I do wonder what the OP of the cited thread considers “of substance” although I fully grant this place has a more classic, adversarial debate style.