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This article is about competitive debate, which is no more for learning about the world than bicycle racing is for transportation. Aside from maintaining a calm
by Zak 3y ago
This article is about competitive debate, which is no more for learning about the world than bicycle racing is for transportation. Aside from maintaining a calm attitude, those points are irrelevant to the goal of winning the competition.
- vacuity 3y agoI'm pretty sure parent recognizes that and is criticizing competitive debate as "debate".
- graeme 3y agoThe difference is you actually move from point A to point B in a bicycle race, and retain the skills of doing so in non-race conditions.
- ang_cire 3y agoIf you don't think you learn that from competitive debate, you don't know many debaters. One of the biggest skills it teaches is argument-analysis, and you'd better believe that sticks around outside the debate round.
- graeme 3y agoDid you mean to reply to the person above me? My point was that is you are biking no matter how distorted it is from real world cycling you still train in movement. Whereas if debate gets corrupted you don’t necessarily learn wider skills. Whereas you would if the debate remains convincing to people who aren’t debate judges.