How to debate/argue FB style - guaranteed to win!
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This example from a recent topic demonstrates the methodology. Guaranteed to win all arguments or your money back. :-D FB's Assertion: Did you know mankind has created more species than he has directly wiped out? Poster's Response: Really? Please provide the evidence... FB's Reply: How many species of plant and animal has man created through selective breeding in the last 10000 years? Followed by further assertions with no supporting evidence. Ignore any salient comments in subsequent posts. Argument won - QED.
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
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This example from a recent topic demonstrates the methodology. Guaranteed to win all arguments or your money back. :-D FB's Assertion: Did you know mankind has created more species than he has directly wiped out? Poster's Response: Really? Please provide the evidence... FB's Reply: How many species of plant and animal has man created through selective breeding in the last 10000 years? Followed by further assertions with no supporting evidence. Ignore any salient comments in subsequent posts. Argument won - QED.
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wrote:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says god, "For proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "Ah," says man, "But the Babelfish is dead proof that you exist, and so therefore you don't. QED." "I hadn't considered that," god replies, and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "That was easy!" says man, who goes on to prove that black is white and gets killed at the next zebra crossing.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels) -
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wrote:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says god, "For proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "Ah," says man, "But the Babelfish is dead proof that you exist, and so therefore you don't. QED." "I hadn't considered that," god replies, and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "That was easy!" says man, who goes on to prove that black is white and gets killed at the next zebra crossing.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Ian Shlasko wrote:
promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
Reminds me of the talking bomb in Dark Star - don't know why. :)
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wrote:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says god, "For proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "Ah," says man, "But the Babelfish is dead proof that you exist, and so therefore you don't. QED." "I hadn't considered that," god replies, and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "That was easy!" says man, who goes on to prove that black is white and gets killed at the next zebra crossing.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)If only logic and reason were what arguments were based on. :laugh:
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
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This example from a recent topic demonstrates the methodology. Guaranteed to win all arguments or your money back. :-D FB's Assertion: Did you know mankind has created more species than he has directly wiped out? Poster's Response: Really? Please provide the evidence... FB's Reply: How many species of plant and animal has man created through selective breeding in the last 10000 years? Followed by further assertions with no supporting evidence. Ignore any salient comments in subsequent posts. Argument won - QED.
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
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So, lets start with YOU telling us how nany species man has directly wiped out?
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
Another example of the methodology at work. :laugh: You jump in with a question that is actually irrelevant to the point I'm making. Look at the (lack of) logic the method illustrates. And, to reiterate a point I've made before, you consistently make claims that you fail to support. BTW I've made no claims at all about the number of species either created or destroyed by man. I haven't the faintest idea of either number but I'm sure you are going to point me at some respected research that will give reasonable estimates. After all you are the one making the claims about such numbers not me. A few names of man-made species would not go amiss either. :-D
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
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This example from a recent topic demonstrates the methodology. Guaranteed to win all arguments or your money back. :-D FB's Assertion: Did you know mankind has created more species than he has directly wiped out? Poster's Response: Really? Please provide the evidence... FB's Reply: How many species of plant and animal has man created through selective breeding in the last 10000 years? Followed by further assertions with no supporting evidence. Ignore any salient comments in subsequent posts. Argument won - QED.
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.