Assuming friendly discourse teases out issues?

If you smell bullshit, you don't get anywhere complimenting their aftershave. If the object of the exercise is to debate, influence and see different views, where in the name of all that is holy (Clapton generally speaking) is the need to end the debate with consensus?

In the final analysis, this isn't, as I noted elsewhere, a sitcom from your neck of the woods. We don't need to end it with a moral whilst all nodding in agreement. It's ok to disagree. It's not really a problem to pull someone up for being beyond decency by blunt methods. Anything less and you ain't getting anywhere....

Doesn't affect the music.