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Many valid perspectives have been voiced here. I happen to come down on the side of leaving line spacing in control of the person rather than the computer. In a world with Oreo cookies, everyone can afford the energy required to hit enter twice between a paragraph. Yet in a world with traffic jams no one should have to deal with the added frustration of trying to get rid of an unwanted blank line on a title page, for example. But if these arguments don't do it, then here's another one. A precedence should only be broken for a great reason, not a mediocre one. The enter key "began" with a default function of inserting a single space line feed and should have stayed that way in my opinion. In an extreme example, imagine the ciaos if green had been swapped with red in traffic signals upon the discovery that humans see green better than red.