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That's a strength. I didn't know about the Plasma argument and it looks like a good one.

Someone is yet to post a good refutation to it there.

The weakness is in allowing those who disagree to throw a tantrum, be impolite, use curse words, and attack other participants, such as this post:

"What the fuck has this to do with global warming?? electric currents and your shitty plasma have nothing to do with this, literally 99% of your spam quotes are irrelevant quotes"

When it's obvious from the "spam" arguments posted that the Earth sits within a system that is 99% plasma.

The problem with this system is that you will get many participants Skissor (author of the above-quoted pearl) asking for arguments to be censored or removed. This is the major problem that forums everywhere have yet to solve - when enough of the majority deem the minority's point of view as "trolling" as asks that it be censored, there is no real debate.



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