The art of debating

Yeah, everyone here is a bunch of dicks. Bardock alone is like 5 dicks. You're about 6. Doom is 3 and a half.

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Yeah, everyone here is a bunch of dicks. Bardock alone is like 5 dicks. You're about 6. Doom is 3 and a half.

What the hell...why am I less dicks than AC?

Originally posted by Bardock42
Yes, you did...you did....I am proud of you....but...I can just copy paste what you said in the quote and no one will ever notice.....I won't though....because I understand that it is very important for you to think you have made me look like a fool....

Never heard of foreplay...you are so unromantic....

Maybe I shouldn't of used the word hard.......oh, sorry.

Originally posted by debbiejo
It's not hard is it?? 😂 😛

Maybe I shouldn't of used the word hard.......oh, sorry.

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Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
There is no art of debating unless you're in a sanctioned debate.

The key on THIS forum is to know what you're talking about and have the ability to make and understand points. Hence why most of them go to shit.

-AC

This is true.

Would not the "art" of debating on KMC include conducting oneself in a civilized, respectful manner? This way, debates do not become fecalized via flurries of name-calling and other forms of non-germane self-expression.

Originally posted by The Omega
I love debating…

Why? It's pointless and achieves nothing.

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Why? It's pointless and achieves nothing.

What do you base that on. And what do you recommend instead? Shooting each other?

Originally posted by Bardock42
What do you base that on. And what do you recommend instead? Shooting each other?

I only argue when I have an incentive. On KMC no one ever agrees and it gets no where.

Shooting is a bit extreme. I recommend just waving your gun, or lifting your shirt just enough to show that you're packin' so the puto gets your point. comprende?

It's not pointless, and one could argue whether the point was to achieve anything anyway.

If anything it gives people involved and/or people watching a better understanding of the issue at hand, or the views included.

Many people agree here. Not too sure where you got this "No one ever agrees" part.

-AC

How does some one watching get a better understanding of the issue at hand when you dish out insults and never admit to being wrong?

The people who DON'T agree get no where, and the conversation just stagnates.

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
How does some one watching get a better understanding of the issue at hand when you dish out insults and never admit to being wrong?

The people who DON'T agree get no where, and the conversation just stagnates.

I can't agree that the majority of the GDF debates are just insults....that seems to be a rather silly claim....

Has anyone used the master-debator line yet?

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Originally posted by Quiero Mota
How does some one watching get a better understanding of the issue at hand when you dish out insults and never admit to being wrong?

The people who DON'T agree get no where, and the conversation just stagnates.

What Bardock said, there's a difference between a heated discussion and a flame war.

It only degenerates into a purposeful flame war that is FULL of insults (as opposed to the odd word, which everyone does) when people realise that they can't actually debate.

Eg: Abortion thread. That's when the conversation stagnates, when people are too stupid to understand simple points and keep rehashing it, resultantly- the thread always had to go back to a certain place.

Stupid people are the problem, yes. There, seems to be this "Everyone can debate" logic on KMC. Everyone has the RIGHT to, yes. Whether their contributions will be detrimental to the thread or not relies on their ability to debate properly. Debbiejo always drags things off topic. There's a connection.

-AC

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Why? It's pointless and achieves nothing.

QT hit the nail with that comment....it's only a forum guys. Why make a big huge deal out of it? We have discussions, we might agree or not agree, and we move on....simple. It's just like life we do thing and move on.

AC if you consider stupid people to be the problem. Wouldn't you consider people who think they smart an even bigger problem?

Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
QT hit the nail with that comment....it's only a forum guys. Why make a big huge deal out of it? We have discussions, we might agree or not agree, and we move on....simple. It's just like life we do thing and move on.

AC if you consider stupid people to be the problem. Wouldn't you consider people who think they smart an even bigger problem?

People that only think they are smart are in fact stupid and therefore part of the "stupid people" he referred to.

Originally posted by Bardock42
People that only think they are smart are in fact stupid and therefore part of the "stupid people" he referred to.

Believe me some "stupid people" come from both sides of the fence. Even worse when they have supporters rally around them.

Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
Believe me some "stupid people" come from both sides of the fence. Even worse when they have supporters rally around them.

What...where...what....WHAT?

What fence?

If we are talking about the fence between stupid people and smart people then I can gladly say that stupid people only come from one side of the fence.....

No, not that fence...I'm talking about the fence on both sides of an issue. Come on bardock. But in the end you choose your side. Suit yourself my friend.

Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
No, not that fence...I'm talking about the fence on both sides of an issue. Come on bardock. But in the end you choose your side. Suit yourself my friend.

Yes, but no one is denying that...obviously there are idiots with any kind of opinion (although I'd say that some opinions might have a better share of idiots than others) ...