It sounds like your org has tolerance for expression. Understand it is just people expressing themselves (surprise, people like to express themselves). Understa

It sounds like your org has tolerance for expression. Understand it is just people expressing themselves (surprise, people like to express themselves). Understand that it’s possible it is the only form of intellectual expression they have in their life (or possibly ever had). It isn’t necessarily people trying to ‘get their way’. You can test this hypothesis by bringing up a mild controversial topic that won’t get anyone fired. State your opinion, and if you see the same pattern of everyone chiming in, voila, you now know it’s just a bunch of people that like talking to each other. There are worse problems in life believe it or not.