Chat rooms could be great communication tools, but currently they are so lame.

Reasons to agree:

1. The problem with chat rooms is that they make you start over, with every discussion you have.
2. Ever time you have a discussion with a new person, you have to start at ground zero, as though now one had ever argued that issue before. This sucks.
3. People have been arguing about things for thousands of years. Why do we always have to start at ground zero, when we meet someone and want to discuss issues?
4. If you want to speak to someone in a chat room about an issue, you will probably just find high school kids talking about Brittany Spears.

The problem with chat rooms is that they make you start over, with every discussion you have.

Reasons to agree:

1. Any advances you make in understanding will be lost when you turn of the chat window.
2. What would happen to science if scientist followed this method? What if every scientific record was written in a format that could not be re-traced or examined for those of other generations? What if scientist wrote everything in sand? Well that is what happens when you have an argument in a chat room.