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To: AmericanVictory
Is honest debating, done out of conviction, “trolling?”

Your perfesser tells you what your view to be and where to post to qualify for grade. that redefines "honest".

88 posted on 09/24/2009 10:25:31 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's ACORN" - pace Auric Goldfinger)
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To: Oztrich Boy

When you train to learn to debate, a skill sadly long neglected in American universities but still alive at Oxford and Cambridge, you are trained to debate those who oppose your position. It takes little skill to convince those who already believe as you do of your point of view. The same is ture specifically when you train to be on a debate team. It seems to me, with all due respect, that your reasoning is not sound.


111 posted on 09/24/2009 11:37:52 AM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: Oztrich Boy

When you train to learn to debate, a skill sadly long neglected in American universities but still alive at Oxford and Cambridge, you are trained to debate those who oppose your position. It takes little skill to convince those who already believe as you do of your point of view. The same is ture specifically when you train to be on a debate team. It seems to me, with all due respect, that your reasoning is not sound.


112 posted on 09/24/2009 11:38:21 AM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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