Editing Dialogue (section)

===Moral dialogues===
Moral dialogues are social processes which allow societies or communities to form new shared moral understandings. Moral dialogues have the capacity to modify the moral positions of a sufficient number of people to generate widespread approval for actions and policies that previously had little support or were considered morally inappropriate by many. Communitarian philosopher [[Amitai Etzioni]] has developed an analytical framework which—modelling historical examples—outlines the reoccurring components of moral dialogues. Elements of moral dialogues include: establishing a moral baseline; sociological dialogue starters which initiate the process of developing new shared moral understandings; the linking of multiple groups' discussions in the form of "megalogues"; distinguishing the distinct attributes of the moral dialogue (apart from rational deliberations or culture wars); dramatisation to call widespread attention to the issue at hand; and, closure through the establishment of a new shared moral understanding.<ref>{{Cite book|isbn=978-3-319-69623-2|language=en|last1=Etzioni|first1=Amitai|title = Happiness is the Wrong Metric|volume=11|pages=65–86|year=2017|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-69623-2_4|series=Library of Public Policy and Public Administration|chapter=Moral Dialogues}}</ref> Moral dialogues allow people of a given community to determine what is morally acceptable to a majority of people within the community.