PrepTest 52, Section 3, Question 10
Samuel: Because communication via computer is usually conducted privately and anonymously between people who would otherwise interact in person, it contributes to the dissolution, not the creation, of lasting communal bonds.
Samuel: Because communication via computer is usually conducted privately and anonymously between people who would otherwise interact in person, it contributes to the dissolution, not the creation, of lasting communal bonds.
Tova: You assume that communication via computer replaces more intimate forms of communication and interaction, when more often it replaces asocial or even antisocial behavior.
Samuel: Because communication via computer is usually conducted privately and anonymously between people who would otherwise interact in person, it contributes to the dissolution, not the creation, of lasting communal bonds.
Tova: You assume that communication via computer replaces more intimate forms of communication and interaction, when more often it replaces asocial or even antisocial behavior.
Samuel: Because communication via computer is usually conducted privately and anonymously between people who would otherwise interact in person, it contributes to the dissolution, not the creation, of lasting communal bonds.
On the basis of their statements, Samuel and Tova are committed to disagreeing about which one of the following?
A general trend of modern life is to dissolve the social bonds that formerly connected people.
All purely private behavior contributes to the dissolution of social bonds.
Face-to-face communication is more likely to contribute to the creation of social bonds than is anonymous communication.
It is desirable that new social bonds be created to replace the ones that have dissolved.
If people were not communicating via computer, they would most likely be engaged in activities that create stronger social bonds.
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