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I haven't been too involved with this OT, but based on another Porsche forum's OT...
For the most part, most of the debates haven't changed my mind on things. There have been a couple minor issues here and there, but those are the exceptions and not the rule.
What has happened more often is that I learn from civil debates (sorry, but when someone is ranting like a child or something, I just tune them out and don't take what they say seriously). Even if I don't agree with the other side, I have found that it helps keep me open-minded to the other side of the argument. It's good to see those shades of gray since we are not in a black and white world.
And that last part is probably the most important thing I get from debates... There have been times in the past where I would come down really hard on something, but now I'll realize where the other side is coming from, and perhaps even though I don't agree with the stance it's not nearly as unreasonable as I first thought it was. Such attitudes also carry through in the rest of my life, remembering that maybe there is a legitimate, rational reason for why that person is doing something that seems to me to be asinine.
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