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I could title this, 1 sure way to know you’re winning a debate, but that may not necessarily be true.

Eventually, if you argue a hot enough topic long enough and well enough, your opposer will eventually have had… enough!

There are so many logical fallacies people use in debates without knowing it, but the really bad ones seem to present themsevles in the death throws of an argument.
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I’ve been privy to several good topical debates lately (without provocation I might add) and most of them really pointed out how people ‘hear’ a debate.

Have you ever started arguing with someone only to find 10 minutes later that you were arguing points on two different topics all together? Someone has to give the ‘Oh, I thought you were talking about (personal topic in mind here), not (other person’s personal topic)’.

So, much to the chagrin of two avid debaters, there has, in fact, been no debate at all. I think this happens even when two or more persons do agree they are arguing on the same topic.

Arguing on the same topic is counter-productive to arguing on the same point.
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I went out with some friends this weekend for the usual round of drinks and talk and pool games. One of them is from South Dakota and she told us this story about her dad going to this building demolition in ‘downtown’ Sioux Falls.

I laughed at the notion of a city that small having a downtown, but she said they had 2 or 3 buildings with more than 3 stories. Sure enough, I’m perusing digg.com and come across this video of the building demolition.

How crappy with the concept of explosion do you have to be to fudge this one up?

Rating: 4/5 stars – the plot line leads to an excellent sense of laughter, but I would have been happier with total destruction including large Hollywood fireballs.

Enjoy!