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I agree. I despise that debating is glorified as a skill in society, especially among the youth. The purpose of debating shouldn't be to win, or otherwise convince someone of something. It should be to seek the truth of a given matter.
One person explains why he thinks something is a certain way. His argument is either flawed or it isn't. If it is, someone should expose the flaw using reason, at which point (faced with irrefutable logic), the original claimant should conform his viewpoint to the infallible truth. Ideally, the first person would be privy to the impairments in his own argument before proliferating it, at which point he would preemptively correct it making no debate even necessary. Clubs where a student is assigned a position and required to debate another student (who was equally assigned the opposing view) are an affront to the perfect absolution of truth and what should otherwise be humanity's noble purpose of seeking it.
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wow RK that was profound fortune cookie?
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??? I wasn't bullshitting though. It's just my main complaint about the way people argue so insubstantially, most especially in politics. I would never want to be in public office.
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I'm sure you enjoy your private office though.....
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I thought that this would be a fun thread and I still do. However, it was derailed after the second response because the rules were not followed. *cough*Omen*cough* Please re-read below and stick to the format if you care to participate.
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What, if anything, should Guy Ritchie be entitled to at the dissolution of his marriage to Madonna? 1. For.... 2. Against.... 3. For.... 4. Against....
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I'll start it off.
For: Half! What's good for the gander...
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2: against.....but who cares?
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For: He has become accustomed to a certain standard of living and anything less would now be uncivilized.
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