Quote Originally Posted by Dreamer View Post
Straight from Wikipedia: In politics, polarization (or polarization) is the process by which the public opinion divides and goes to the extremes. It can also refer to when the extreme factions of a political party gain dominance in a party. In either case moderate voices often lose power and influence as a consequence.

This is pretty much what he meant. Polarization is often used to refer to a split (like the poles), in general usage it really only means the positions are at extreme ends of the spectrum. The reset of his comment puts into into context that he didn't mean just two groups, pro-penalty and anti-penalty. The two of you should just leave each other alone and focus more on debate points, rather than each other.


Fact is that actually polarized opinions are the rarest between the ones expressed in that thread.

As far as the link for the google translation goes...thank you for providing it, but I've tried using in the past (and I tried that link as well), but it's nearly unusable. I'm not surprised - I can't imagine that a direct latin-based to non-latin-based language translation is ever going to work well without human intervention to decipher context.
You're very free to use the tools you prefer. I provided a 100% unbiased alternative that I find quite usable, especially to grasp the general meaning of what's said. You should definitely be able to tell if someone's opinion on a subject is negative or positive 99% of the times.
I'm quite sure the level of precision and detail attainable is still better than a short, extremely condensed summary of several pages with hundreds of different opinions. But again, you're free to take or drop it It's a tool, the more tools the better.