Debate: Does it Proof you are a fool, or just a smart-***?

[Shushersbedamned]

It's no fun debating with someone I know to be wrong or who has no capacity to consider my arguments.

A fool argues with a fool.

 

[james blunt]

I see you too, like me, are a logician on the internet!

Also in real life

 

[Mock Turtle]

There are no rules

Duh! Did he expect me to do his work?

 

[Shushersbedamned]

Duh! Did he expect me to do his work?

Probably expected you to explain yourself

 

[Mock Turtle]

It's no fun debating with someone I know to be wrong or who has no capacity to consider my arguments.

A fool argues with a fool.

It's an even greater fool that doesn't understand their own limits.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Probably expected you to explain yourself

Why should I get into pointless discussions - like this one.

 

[bobhikes]

Debate: Does it Proof you are a fool, or just a smart-a.s.s?

I get a crush if ego get a crash

If other is right, debating him proofs I am a fool
If other is wrong, him debating proofs he's a fool

For me debate's prove nothing but when good provides information for me, entertains me and inspires me to act in the real world. When bad takes up my time.

 

[Shushersbedamned]

It's an even greater fool that doesn't understand their own limits.

It's not my limits that concern me when in an argument with a fool. The fool's foolishness has no limits. There's no point trying to reach it and find where the idiocy stops.

You, however, are nothing like a fool. You're just a genuine troll.

 

[Mock Turtle]

It's not my limits that concern me when in an argument with a fool. The fool's foolishness has no limits. There's no point trying to reach it and find where the idiocy stops.

You, however, are nothing like a fool. You're just a genuine troll.

Oh I am - been in plenty of caves too. What are you? Don't answer that unless you want to incriminate yourself.

 

[stvdv]

You're not a fool for being proved wrong. Everyone is wrong now and then. It's childish to expect otherwise for yourself. You're a fool when you're proved wrong but refuse to see it.

I agree completely, if your point was to agree with me.

 

[savagewind]

Debate: Does it Proof you are a fool, or just a smart-a.s.s?

I get a crush if ego get a crash

If other is right, debating him proofs I am a fool
If other is wrong, him debating proofs he's a fool

I am pretty sure that there is no winning or losing here, except there is losing if you are removed, but then again, that might be winning because this place is awful addictive and I am sure there are better ways to be occupated. That is my opinion.

 

[blü 2]

Debate: Does it Proof you are a fool, or just a smart-a.s.s?

I get a crush if ego get a crash

If other is right, debating him proofs I am a fool
If other is wrong, him debating proofs he's a fool

It was Bobby Fisher who famously said of his chess opponents, "I like to feel his ego crack."

But personally that's not my aim.

 

[stvdv]

Debate: Does it Proof you are a fool, or just a smart-a.s.s?

I get a crush if ego get a crash

If other is right, debating him proofs I am a fool
If other is wrong, him debating proofs he's a fool

I don't agree with the title:
To me Debate means you put yourself in a vulnerable position, and are willing to be proven wrong, so you are willing to admit you are wrong. Meaning you are humble. I call this courageous.

Actually one who debates puts himself in the position where he can learn something. That it is the opposite of a fool. A fool doesn't want/dare to take the risk to debate and lose. So he might end up staying a fool.

So the Post should be:
Debate: This proofs you are smart and courageous

If other is right, debating him proofs I am a fool
Not necessarily true. If I do it to improve my debating skills it's kind of smart. Especially if you proof him wrong. Then you are very smart. But even smarter telling him afterwards the truth, else we have one extra fool on earth.

But normally I would say the best debate is if both are convinced that they are right.
If both think they are wrong then of course a debate would seem kind of silly. Unless like above it's to exersize debating skills.

 

[stvdv]

It was Bobby Fisher who famously said of his chess opponents, "I like to feel his ego crack."
But personally that's not my aim.

Personally my aim is to crack my own ego. To take other ego's along is bonus.

Bobby Fisher can be seen as a guru. The guru is known to do his utmost best to crack the diciple's ego.
[Unless for Bobby Fisher the emphasis was more on him "like" then on "crack their ego's"]

Many people in the west are agains guru's. Probably because they cherish their ego's too much

 

[sealchan]

In truth a debate has the power to teach ...if not those who debate then those who witness that debate.

The only time a debate might change a debate is when that person becomes vulnerable enough to share their subjective biases/bases of belief. When this happens too often it is not recognized and an opportunity for another to kindly acknowledge and respect that admission is missed. Instead the person is accused of being brainwashed or unintelligent.

 

[Shushersbedamned]

In truth a debate has the power to teach ...if not those who debate then those who witness that debate.

The only time a debate might change a debate is when that person becomes vulnerable enough to share their subjective biases/bases of belief. When this happens too often it is not recognized and an opportunity for another to kindly acknowledge and respect that admission is missed. Instead the person is accused of being brainwashed or unintelligent.

I give little value for personal confessions in a debate. It's boring and usually more or less misses the object.

 

[Mock Turtle]

I give little value for personal confessions in a debate. It's boring and usually more or less misses the object.

Which is?

 

[sealchan]

I give little value for personal confessions in a debate. It's boring and usually more or less misses the object.

You are perhaps an objectivist who sees truth as only that which is true regardless of whether any given person believes it or not. But what about all the other truth?

 

[Shushersbedamned]

But what about all the other truth?

**** that I'd know.

 

[Srivijaya]

I get a crush if ego get a crash

When I was younger, my ego always got the crash after the crush.