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Anybody who has done any amount of debating knows that the 'winner' of any debate is the person who is more prepared and better at the abstract skill of "debati
by dagw 8y ago
Anybody who has done any amount of debating knows that the 'winner' of any debate is the person who is more prepared and better at the abstract skill of "debating", not the person that is 'right' in any meaningful way. As someone who did a fair amount of debating in school I'm confident I would have won/lost every debate I partook in in exactly the same way even if I was debating the other side of the argument.
- belorn 8y agoThat implies that election is not about values or politics, but rather which candidate is more prepared and better at the abstract skill of "debating". There is some major amount of cynicism to that world view, and I prefer to behave as if the world did not exist like that.
- dagw 8y agoFar from it. I believe that values and politics are very important and specifically because of that we have to get away from overvaluing the traditional debate format which does nothing to effectively highlight either.