Open Question: What is the purpose of dialogue?

• People generally only change their minds when in conversation with someone that loves them. How many conversations are we having with people we love?
• Maybe the point of conversation is to change our own minds. If we aren’t coming from that place, are we in dialogue at all?
• Trying to change other people’s mind is often a futile exercise. If true, then why bother having any dialogue at all?

Related: Agree to Disagree or Fight, Really Reading Means Being Open To Change, Arguing for a Different Reality, Celebrating Our Differences, and others.