The competitive form (like debate club) is gish gallop turned up to 11; painful to listen to.
The political form, as in organized debate or “panel” programs is a time-share platform for distributing talking points.
The internet debate is a venue for pendents and logocentrics to play semantics, moderated and scored by partizans.
The good-faith platonic ideal kind of debate doesn’t exist. If people who disagreed could be honest and listen to each other, that’s called conversation. Debate is adversarial like a game, because it is one.
Debate is a pointless waste of time.
The competitive form (like debate club) is gish gallop turned up to 11; painful to listen to.
The political form, as in organized debate or “panel” programs is a time-share platform for distributing talking points.
The internet debate is a venue for pendents and logocentrics to play semantics, moderated and scored by partizans.
The good-faith platonic ideal kind of debate doesn’t exist. If people who disagreed could be honest and listen to each other, that’s called conversation. Debate is adversarial like a game, because it is one.