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| (...) And I for one have got a lot out of these (and other) threads. Debate isn't about stating your opinion & defending it to the death. It's about working out what your opinion is, based on as much information as you can get from *anywhere*. (...)   (24 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate) 
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|  |  | Re: Children and Violence 
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| (...) This IS a great question, and I have trouble putting my finger on the difference too. Actually I'm not terribly familiar with many video games at all, so most of what I have heard is secondhand (and I prefer to keep it that way). My impression (...)   (24 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate) 
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| (...) Nothing (short of raising a number of kids in Skinner boxes) can *experimentally* answer this, would be my suspicion. Otherwise too many factors muddy whether it's a cause or not...    (24 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate) 
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| (...) Don't worry--if you were a postmodernist I'd've called for your censure long ago! (...) Exactly! Dave! FUT OT.F    (24 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate) 
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| (...) This is especially interesting to me because they're part of the same intellectual "line." Plato was a student of Socrates, and Aristotle a student of Plato. They differed on that and many other points, but the idea behind both of their (...)   (24 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate) 
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