Originally Posted by Soulflower

I really appreciate this thoughtful post. I actually agree with everything in this post.

However, I still do not see anything wrong with discussing these issues over the internet or just in passing. (This is not directed towards you) but a lot of times in these discussions people always say "What are you going to do about it?" out of defense because they don't want to talk about the topic or they do not think the topic is that important.

Its an issue that needs intelligent discussions on how it can be fixed and productive people actively fixing it.

You can't just be productive about fixing a problem without talking about the problem and how it can be fixed.