It's good to note too that in a lot of the situations where your characters argue you are rewarded with a free ability point depending on which side of the argument each character takes. Mostly these are social points but the fish thief and lighthouse cowards dialogues give wizard focus points (water earth fire air) which is actually pretty huge so it's more the sides of the argument that you pick that's important.
I really doubt that's going to stay that way, given Swen's comments I linked above.
