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Arguing satisfies an urge in people to be affirmed in their beliefs/opinions. It also challenges what we believe and allows us to introduce ourselves to new ideas and test our convictions. Many philosophies include the belief that knowledge is advanced when ideas and the counters of those ideas go into conflict, and a new idea emerges somewhere in between. Thesis vs Antithesis yields deeper truth. I think this may have been an idea from Hegel, but I'm not sure.
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