Things you wish you could say

[EverythingDucks]

Useful strategy for debating if that's the only goal. Not so much for exchanging knowledge.
However it is useful for sharpening your skills and examining defects in your argument. Good time to reexamine your beliefs and adjust or strengthen them.
As Willie Keeler said and MacAuthur practiced, "Hit them where they ain't."

That very true.
I always try to pay attention to where I went wrong, why, and how I can improve. And what the reason for arguing is. It's much easier to get your point across when both you and the person you are arguing with knows what the reason is and understands it.
Whether that be to 1, share knowledge and help come up with the best solution for an issue, or 2, if you're both trying to convince others that your solution is better or that your issue if of greater importance, or 3, if you're just arguing to convince each other of something even though neither people are willing to change their minds. (These are just a few situations). This is important so that neither reason 1 or 2 turns into 3, which is just pointless arguing. But in the case of 3, the best thing to happen is that you both understand that you probably won't change each others minds, but that you can both come to and understanding and see the issue from a different perspective, even if you know that still don't change your mind. Only then can you really gain anything from reason 3. Then you can both learn that it's okay to have different opinions and still get along and work together to help each other and everyone else understand all the sides to and argument to better inform ourselves.

I think I want to join a debate club or something in college, which is why I try to make sense of arguments and debates. Hopefully what I'm saying makes sense and isn't just a bunch of nonsense.

 

[R2elk]

Weather that be to

Orally, this is fine. Written this is horrible to use weather in place of whether.

 

[EverythingDucks]

Orally, this is fine. Written this is horrible to use weather in place of whether.

I missed that

 

[R2elk]

I missed that

Campfire rose

 

[Isadora]

Both can cause harmful results.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

That very true.
I always try to pay attention to where I went wrong, why, and how I can improve. And what the reason for arguing is. It's much easier to get your point across when both you and the person you are arguing with knows what the reason is and understands it.

I suspect another reason is to convince the audience of an alternative viewpoint. (Or, just to stir things up.)
It is also crucial to hear opposing view points. (It's SO comfortable to stay in your information bubble.) If for no other reason than to hear the other sides argument.

 

[R2elk]

I wasn't.

 

[Isadora]

I wasn't.

I could tell

 

[Hayden Goseek]

I think I want to join a debate club or something in college, which is why I try to make sense of arguments and debates. Hopefully what I'm saying makes sense and isn't just a bunch of nonsense.

I hope you get to. A little 'pre-homework'. Read up on logic and fallacies.

 

[sweaterthebroodyrooster]

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"You leaving hurt me more than you can ever know, but it was also the best thing you ever could have done for me."

"You have no idea how much damage you have done."

"No, I really can't trust you and you should know why."

"Please don't bring that up again I don't feel like crying"

"Thank you so much. You can never know how much you have meant to me. You have always been there for me, Even when we saw each other maybe four times a year, and even after rumors started flying and you were banned from writing me. You are still the only person I have been able to fully trust, and the only person that knows why, and the only person that knows all my issues and why how they happened."

"Do you see it too?"

" Us growing apart is hurting so much more than I thought it would."