Debate about debates: is debating debatable? Debatably.
 

Since every thread at the moment seems to become about this topic within a few pages anyway, I thought we should just bite the bullet and have a thread about it.

Discuss.

I don't waste my time debating issues we don't have any control over with people who don't have any control over the issues they are debating over.

But you will debate debates, so you must feel that we have some control over debates, or at least the concept of debating itself? :think:

My main area of concern at the moment is pondering which gender debates mostly self-identify as... And also which area of the political compass they find themselves drawn towards. At what point do debates reach this level of self awareness and, to what extent do the debaters involved in each debate influence the overall personality of the inconclusion?

Well we did debate that child migrants not being checked would and could lead to terrorism and it went the usual way "they are REFUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZ, where is the humanity????"

then a fake child migrant killed 12 and maimed a lot more in Berlin

that kind of shut that debate down and we did not hear much debating from that side


Some times reality debates for the win the best....

:smug:

Everything is, or should be debatable. However the reality is that some subjects invoke such strength of feeling in many, on either side of the debate, that things can quickly deteriorate into discord and personal attacks out of frustration over the expression of some opposing views.

Political correctness also hinders the process as people become fixated on what is/is not an acceptable view to express which of course can be viewed as an attempt to dismiss and invalidate perfectly valid opinions.

People rarely really listen to each other and misunderstandings become commonplace.

I have an opinion, it's worth the same as every other poster on here it's worth nothing.

also often you are debating with people still to live their lives and as such are still optimistic and idealistic and have not yet realised certain realities of life that come with experience, responsibility and commitment.

So a sort of debating nihilism, then? People just butting heads for the sake of it... Or maybe for sport? But then, is doing something for sport necessarily worth nothing? From a nihilists perspective, isn't entertainment, whilst still meaningless, in fact worth everything to the individual?

I agree to an extent but not totally. You're saying in pretty concrete terms that "with age comes wisdom" which is false - and demonstrably false in that you can take two people of the same age, at ANY age, and of comparable life experience, and find conflicting opinion. Thereby negating the possibility of some sort of universal accuracy in "wisdom".

You have to be careful about misidentifying entrenched opinion layered in confirmation bias as "knowledge", "experience" or "wisdom". Sometimes it's just the same old crap that was there in a person's earlier years, caked on and dried out into stinky cement.

Considering most debates end in, infractions for insulting someone else's opinion because it's not the same as your opinion on a subject in wich no ones opinion means anything, I say it's like poking yourself in the eye over and over.

:joker:

What side? The side that knows one radicalised individual cannot represent all Muslims/ refugees?
Mind you your 'proof' was a mail article, so forgive me for not bowing to the wisdom of the brownshirts.... their reliability as a reputable media source is debatable

Amen :worship:

I suggest that the opposite to all of the above posts are true, fyt me.

No

what we must do is just check the validity of the "bad ones" and let the "good ones" go through unchecked.

I will alert the authorities on this breakthrough

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This thread is sooo meta. Giving me a little tickle down my spine.

I think we jumped the meta shark already

:think:

Metalodon.

Though that sounds like a Transformer tbh :think:

It would be nice if all this not tarring with the same brush extended as far as Christian priests but hey ho you can't have it all I suppose

I'm disappointed LT hasn't pulled out the mass debate joke, what is the world coming to when you can rely on LT for old favourites :fist:

I did not think I could.. pull it off

TS
up himself?

No Debate
Chuck this on Chat And Games TS

"what extent do the debaters involved in each debate influence the overall personality of the inconclusion?"



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