But those are all potentially controversial topics and people can get a bit passionate about things especially if they hold an opinion contrary to whatever is c

But those are all potentially controversial topics and people can get a bit passionate about things especially if they hold an opinion contrary to whatever is considered mainstream. Especially on topics that have massive media focus. But that's healthy isn't it? Especially in a place like this that has a higher than average level of discussion. And really so what if someone is actually a paid shill? If they can hold a reasonable discussion to get their point across and perhaps even enlighten me to something I was ignorant of then I welcome them. In reality I imagine a paid shill would work off of some sort of set of talking points that gets pushed to an entire team but even in this case civil discussion should be able to tear apart what are likely to be fairly weak arguments.