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For myself, I am against replaying modules.
To my knowledge, Paizo has never billed Pathfinder Society as a living campaign - rather they refer to it as an organized play opportunity. This being so, I believe Pathfinder Society nontheless exudes a 'living' feel and I believe replaying modules would take away from that. As a veteran of Living Greyhawk and Living Arcanis I believe Pathfinder Society has the potential to meet and even exceed the high level of roleplaying excellence presented by these two systems in the past. If we are allowed to replay modules I feel that this will encourage the mod writers to include less roleplaying and more hack and slash to facilitate repeated playings. Personally, this is not the road I wish them to travel down.
I realize that replaying adventures could be helpful when introducing the game to new players or when starting up new characters. However, I believe veterans of the game look for an experience that requires canniness and finesse in order to succeed and I do not think that kind of module could be replayed and still produce the same sense of achievement and accomplishment. It's like using Microsoft Picture It! vs. Photoshop for photo editing. Picture It! is great when you're first getting started, but when you know what you're doing and want a satisfying result, you use Photoshop. Replaying might satisfy new players, but don't we need to satisfy the experienced gamers too?
Given my argument, if Paizo does decide to allow replaying, I have one suggestion/plea. Make high-level play non-replayable. At that point you won't have any new players, no new characters, just experienced players and people. Just a thought.