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Old 03-23-2009, 09:37 AM   #22
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That's kind of an interesting comment, actually. Do you mean that the internet may actually polarize debate, much as it does on message boards, where people hide behind their anonymity and abandon any effort at civil discourse and instead spend their time flaming people who feel differently from them?

You may be right--but if you are, we're all screwed--aren't we?
Kind of a tangent, but there is a really good point in here.

Has the internet caused us to have more extreme opinions, and therefore defend them so vehemently against others?

Is this the reason civil discourse has fallen by the wayside?
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