Describe the conditions that must be present for a public forum to exist.
What will be an ideal response?
- Some problem affects people collectively as well as individually.
- Cooperative action is needed to address the problem. Speakers and listeners participate in deciding what to do.
- The decision requires subjective judgment. What should be done is not obvious; there is more than one possible solution, and there is no way for anyone to gather all the information that conceivably might bear on the decision.
- Nevertheless, a decision is required. People stand at a fork in the road, and a choice cannot be avoided.
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