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 Have you ever made an argument... (9)

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Have you ever made an argument...

that you knew how to refute, either discovered during the course of the arguement or known beforehand, but didn't bother to help out your opponent by bringing it up? Perhaps you just wanted to see if and how they would discover it or you just didn't repect them enough.

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2 points

Most of the time I wait for a bit then reveal it to them. When I am trying to justify my libertarianism to my conservative family, I do not. But that's only because I am an undercover atheist (hence the ambiguous username and anonymous email address, I might want to run for office one day and I can't have it coming out that make decisions based on evidence) and have to ground every argument with them in the bible.

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This is just the kind of "Disingenious atheism" Sam Harris promotes. Don't you think we have enough "less than forthright" politicians?

Would you rather...

a rational person pretending to be irrational to get elected then "evolving" on the crazy issues once they got into office

or ...

an irrational person getting elected and being irrational once in office

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that happens a lot of times with me. if i think the argument against mine is stronger, i change sides. but i usually get both arguments for and against when i read the topic. i tend to go with whichever i think has better substance.

I play both sides of the coin, so... yes. Good debates are where there are good points on both sides. The it just boils down to preference. ;)

Most people hold contradictory opinions. These can be identified by debating different topics using similar concepts.

Here's an example near the end:

http://www.createdebate.com/debate/show/ Makes makessomethingarightandanotherthinga_priviledge

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Yep. Either I'm too lazy or I have disagreed so much in the past with that person I don't feel like helping them on that subject.