General process of deliberation
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The general processes of deliberation try to describe the process that all deliberations go through.
All deliberation starts with people with mutual interests. At the beginning of the deliberation, it is likely the members will have more MONs than SONs.
When the members will try to decide upon a preferable solution to their mutual interest, they will probably have conflicting views, understandings, solutions, etc.