[extropy-chat] Guns

[Dirk Bruere]

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Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] Guns


> 
> > Darin Sunley
> > Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Guns
> >  
> > Any of us who've been around here long enough to remember the 
> > last big gun flamefest have seen all of this rhetoric, on both sides, 
> > before. But there is a new and intriguing element this time around.
> > 
> > The previous flamewar emerged from the standard, familiar dynamics of
> > text-based communications. Lack of face-to-face communication 
> > erodes the standard social cognitive feedback loops that generate
> civil 
> > behavior in most well-socialized adults...
> 
> The participants have been remarkably civil this time
> around.  Perhaps we really can discuss this topic.  {8-]
 

I doubt it.
It's a religious issue that is a matter of faith.

Dirk

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