[extropy-chat] Guns

[Spike]

> 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-]

spike