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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 4769685" data-attributes="member: 2525">Well, I didn't say that.  I said I think for some people they have pre-judged it and feel it is their duty to refute anything that runs contrary to their pre-judgement.  That's nothing close to "WOTC has done anything wrong", nor is it an accusation of hate for anything.Are you saying there are not a number of people here who have prejudged it?  Are you saying there are not a number of people here who do not appear likely to be willing to consider evidence to the contrary of the pre-judgement?I don't know if it will sell better.  I'm not taking sides on that issue...the evidence will either show better sales, not show it, or more likely there will be no evidence.All I am saying is that I think it's unproductive to prejudge the issue so much that there would be no evidence possible to convince a person otherwise.  That attitude I think is what inflames edition wars worse than anything else - telling people you have judged the issue, and nothing can budge your judgment even if the facts turn out to be different than your assumptions.How can we hope to discuss issues if people go in with a closed mind and are not even willing to consider contrary evidence? And how can we even begin to deal with that problem if, every time someone mentions the problem (like I did) they get chastised for "inflaming the edition wars"? Like pretending it's not an issue will make the edition wars better?</blockquote>

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