# Debate: You can't say anything "of substance" on this board **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debate-you-cant-say-anything-of-substance-on-this-board/979312 "2023-02-04T19:35:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debate-you-cant-say-anything-of-substance-on-this-board/979312/6 "2023-02-04T20:05:12Z")
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](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-rights-for-where-do-they-come-from-including-2nd-amendment/965192): > > 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debate-you-cant-say-anything-of-substance-on-this-board/979312)._