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Of course No. It'll make you bad too
Debate Score:13
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If you learn a very successful technique from a very bad person, should you use it?


Of course

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No. It'll make you bad too

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2 points

Hello:

Years ago I took a course called EST.. It was taught by a very charismatic and intelligent fellow named Werner Erhard..

Turns out Erhard was a child abuser. Should I discount everything I learned from him?? Many of his devotees did just that..

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Side: Of course
Amarel(5669) Clarified
3 points

Should I discount everything I learned from him?

If something is true, it doesn’t matter who said it. However, if this persons misdeeds could have had an impact on the message, take a look at the message, to see if it is in fact true.

Mind the message over the messenger. That’s how you avoid the ad hominem fallacy.

Side: Of course
2 points

As long as the technique isn't used for something bad, then sure. There are plenty of things that people have said that were very insightful and had a good lessen or message to it, but then we find out that the person did terrible things. I can't say that makes the good things said less relevant, but it does add a grain of salt to the message.

Side: Of course

If you learn a very successful technique from a very bad person, should you use it?

Yes, you should. And, the same goes for the reverse; if a very successful person gives you a very bad technique, you shouldn't use it.

Side: Of course
1 point

Just read about this course on wikipedia

Why not use it? Many bad people have invented good things; its not as if this course taught you how to be a child molester. From what I understood the course was about discipline and being yourselfn where is the wrong in that?

Side: Of course

Sure. There is always something redeeming about a bad guy/girl.

Side: Of course
-1 points

If an evil person taught you how to please your wife in a sex class, please your wife.

Side: Of course
Sarineffu(10) Disputed
2 points

Your wife can no longer be pleased by human dicks. For she has been fucked by a cucumber.

Side: No. It'll make you bad too
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