Yes...There is an actual Snowflake Handbook.

[Jude]

From Jude's Link:

'Dialogue is collaborative: two or more sides work together towards common understanding.
Debate is oppositional: two sides oppose each other and attempt to prove each other wrong.'

'In dialogue, the goal is to find common ground.
In debate, the goal is to win.'

'In dialogue, one listens to the other side(s) in order to understand, find meaning and find
agreement.
In debate, one listens to the other side in order to find flaws and to counter its arguments.'

From Dictionary.Cambridge.org

'...A serious discussion of a subject in which many people take part:'
SOURCE:

From Oxforddictionaries.com

'A formal discussion on a particular matter in a public meeting or legislative assembly,
in which opposing arguments are put forward and which usually ends with a vote.'
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Do you see the differences...?
The particular University is laying in parameters to test their indoctrination.
A debate can be a forum where two different views can find common ground to solve a
problem.

In this manual, it states it's a combative situation where one's personal views are defended
at the the hopeful cost of destroying the others.
One aspires to construct, the other demands destruction.

These odious places of learning are creating 'dumb-downs'... persons who are unable to
detach their emotions from their opinions due to the fear of being out of a group.
The tutors and official bodies are deliberately proselytiseing these youngsters to think in
one manner and nurturing a mode that doesn't include the nuance of individualism.

It's brainwashing for zombies.

Nice catch on that point. I haven't delved fully yet and no doubt there are many subtle nuances like your point.

But damn...some of it is just creepy.

Jude