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i'm not sure forums are really the most productive place for arguments like that, even tho people engage in them online for a variety of reasons (not least of all, simple boredom). Yea sometimes you might learn a thing or two, but at what cost? We can learn much more from, well, reading books.
On a similar vein, someone said in the news recently that democracy (and I suppose it applies to internet democracy on forums) enables people to gain as much knowledge as they want -- or remain as ignorant as they want. On the forums, the outcome is often constrained by who has happened to show up to fight that day. At least in the real world you can go out and find your own audience.
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