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I find Fact to be a relative observation in most cases, though there are some observations which become irrefutable through consensus. The very act of discussion, or debate if you will creates the consensus within society/populations. Certain pieces of reality become devisive within this process of collaberative elimination of imagined truth, as in: the earth is spherical, not flat.
Issues arise when a member of this discussion fails to accept what seems obvious to the majority....even though this might be reality to the individual in question. Thus the dissenter is viewed as an imbecile, and ridiculed for percieved ignorance. The right and wrong of this is actually irrellevant, and Arts argument for Ego comes into play, if only because human nature will always jump on the chance to seem superior.
Debate and discussion are siblings...sometimes identical twins, and the line we artificially draw between them is more a measure of our own ego, than the discussion itself. All discussion can be debate, and debate discussion....it is entirely dependant on how we all Feel...about who we are talking too.
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