my point was that winning or losing (aka. defeating an opponent) are not relevant for having a good debate. YOU show ME how exactly the quoting of lesswrong was irrelvant.
Yes, I didn't think you'd be able to see the difference yourself.
"
They [arguments] are no longer instruments of the truth", as soon as you argue to defeat an opponent" has no relevance because I never said I was arguing to defeat an opponent. It just happens that the truth is on my side, hence you lose. The difference is the same as the difference between rationality and rationalization.
Former good, latter badagain, you avoid the actual point by taking some word out of context (=nitpick). the word is ad hominem, and I did NOT accuse you of using it. you made that up.
* my actual point, which you avoided entirely.
** you speak of evidence, and where is yours?
No, I'm not avoiding any actual points. You're simply claiming something that isn't true.
The burden of proof is on you to prove that I "
say A and you repeat it until your opponent loses any motivation to point out how B, C and D are also valuable thought." Otherwise there is simply nothing I can say to that except "no, I don't." Which is pointless, hence I ignored it. I don't even know where I'm supposedly doing this unless you point it out.
My evidence for
what? I haven't claimed you're nitpicking or using two-valued logic...
And alright, you didn't say I used ad hominem, but generally when people talk about things they don't bring up
completely irrelevant matters, so I assumed your "avoiding ad hominem" was criticism at my arguing.
you're full of shit, and of course I am pulling out of this pointless endeavour. you probably laugh your ass off at how easy you can pull this conversation out of the important issues. congratz bro, you win the pile-of-rubble-price of successfully hijacking a conversation on syria. your loved ones would be so proud of you.
Of course you're pulling out, because I
call you on your bullshit. Not easy to debate when bullshit is all your argument's based on and your mean opponent just keeps calling you on it, eh?
As for my
loved ones being proud, this wasn't a particularly difficult debate to win, so I doubt it.
