Retire Free For All Forum?

I like the idea of a "short-lived" topic area for unregistered posters. It seems to me that those who wish to remain unregistered can vent their opinions there and if they choose, ignore all reasoned discourse, while possibly sparking an interesting topic that registered posters can persue in the forum of their interest.I think the unmoderated but registered FFA should stay. While I sometimes lean toward agreeing that the FFA forum be moderated more closely, especially with the likes of certain posters, I think it can be a valuable insight into differing viewpoints, cultures and mentality's which would otherwise go unnoticed by many of us. Though I am particularly saddened by those who refuse to broaden their minds and think rationally, I agree with John stuart Mill, who argued that silencing an opinion is "a particular evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in "its collision with error." If we only know our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that; it becomes stale, soon learned by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.I am reminded of forums in which valuable discourse transpired between people holding similar viewpoints on evolution but differed on definitions. These were brought about while debating with posters who held widely disparate viewpoints. It would be hoped that someone is learning something. Though this forum is not a democracy I think it would be a disservice for posters with "unique perspectives" to be banished to some far off field because their opinions differed. Many may hold them as being "wrong" or "misguided" but even science has room for them. They strengthen our knowledge of the world we live in, and increase our understanding of the cultures that surround us.If permitted to express and listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. Hugo Black is an example of a person who, when young, was a memebr of the Ku Klux Klan, who later went on to become a Supreme Court justice and was one of the leaders in the historic Supreme Court decisions, partly based on the 14th amendment, that affirmed the civil rights of all americans. It was said that when he was young he dressed in white robes and scared black people, when he got older he dressed in black robes and scared white people. Well, enough rambling.