Demand Studios Sucks Also Sucks, Enigmatic Jack Doesn't Know What Debate is, Yet Comments on What Makes a Debate

[quote]Originally posted by "EnigmaticJack"

[quote]Originally posted by "thebesig"

[quote]Originally posted by "EnigmaticJack"

Seems that despite claiming a 'victory' in his 'debate' against the masses, the mass debater doesn't want to come back.  [/quote]

Let's make this clear. I don't back down from an online debate. I wouldn't have been debating online since 2003 if I was the type to never come back.  [/quote]

Oh honey. One of these days you'll learn the definition of 'debate' and realize that you're not debating online, you're just arguing.

And you know what they say about arguing on the internet. Special Olympics, retarded, yadda yadda. [/quote]

From Dictionary.com: Debate

Verb:

5. To engage in argument or discussion, as in a legislative or public assembly: When we left, the men were still debating.

9. To argue or discuss (a question, issue, or the like), as in legislative or public assembly: They debated the matter of free will.

Origin: 1250-1300; (v.) Middle English debaten < Old Frence debatre, equivalent to de- de- + batre to beat < Latin battere, earlier battuere; (noun) Middle English debate < Old French, derivative of debatre

Under common law, people posting on a message board, engaging in a thread, are considered an "assembly." People "assemble" or "come together" into a group. In the Demand Studios Sucks Forums, this constitutes posters coming together to discuss or debate.

My definition of debate, both stated and implied, is correct. You need two people to keep a debate going. A debate, quarrel, and argument are interchangeable.

Even if you want to "restrict" this to "arguing," you still need two sides for an argument to continue arguing.

I don't buy the "arguing online" garbage that people throw around. Arguing is human nature. We're going to argue in any communication medium that we have access to.

In fact, there's a reason to why it's called a FORUM.

Back in the ancient times, the forum was a physical part of the town, its plaza. Here, people conducted business, and communicated with each other. This was the center of gravity for a city. You had the administrative offices on one side, buildings of worship on another side, commercial offices on a third side, and government buildings on the 4th side.

In other words, if you wanted to know what was going on, or you wanted general entertainment, you went to the forum to interact with other people. Given the four main presences on the forum, you had arguments. You had speeches. You had gossip.

Bottom line, you had the same thing going on, face to face, that you had on a message board... which contains more than one "forum."

The only "retard" that I see in this argument is someone, with no other fights in him/her, pulling the "retards argue on the Internet" card.