Keith Olbermann on प्रॉप 8

This लेख is basically about something i keep seeing around the वाद-विवाद spot या on other वाद-विवाद मंचों and it is, in my opinion the rudest and most insulting thing आप can do in debate

no I am not talking about swearing

no I am not talking about denying the existence of someone's believes

no I am not even talking about flashing your opponent to distract them

I am talking about the one line comment

some of आप may be slightly confused as to why I get so annoyed द्वारा this so let me clear things up

I have no issue with people bringing up a new point that they have just summed up in a short space, I...

I was going to call them the "Ten Commandments" but felt someone might be offended द्वारा that (either a religious person thinking I'm blasphemous या a secularist thinking I'm दिखा रहा है a bias towards religion. Lose, lose, आप see). Also, I couldn't come up with ten rules.

So instead, observe the Golden Rules of the वाद-विवाद Spot.

1) RESPECT your fellow debaters. They believe what they do for a reason just like आप do. As opposed to simply trying to explain why they're wrong, explain your point of view and LISTEN to theirs. If आप find आप simply just cannot understand their views, या that they will...

This is a वाद-विवाद seed, and was last edited on 8 April 2008.

As a प्रशंसक of debate, I've often railed at the absence of actual वाद-विवाद in the वाद-विवाद spot. Therefore I present a सवाल for debate:

Are mechanical pencils या wooden pencils better?

Cinders has done a marvelous job of initiating a number of formal limited debates, so I propose a different type of वाद-विवाद format for this one. For this, the Great Pencil Debate, the following वाद-विवाद attributes will apply:

Non-judged

Open-ended

Participatory

Moderated

What these mean:

Non-judged is a वाद-विवाद format wherein there are no judges...

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I live in Joplin,...

In वाद-विवाद clash is when the two arguments that the opposing sides have दिया have to do with each other. For example if आप wanted to legalize cocaine and I make the argument that legalizing cocaine would lead to increased crimes and आप responded to me द्वारा saying that it would actually decrease crimes then we have clash, and the thing about clash it allows us to both present try to present better evidence. The thing about evidence is that it is based on facts so one side is going to have better facts and we can all acknowledge there facts and change our minds. But if आप कहा that legalizing...