A Guide for Debates
In addition to the forum rules, please consider the following:
Attack your opponent’s idea, never your opponent.
Including:
Spelling
Ethnicity
Gender
Home
Job
Grammar
Origin/Location, e.g., Californian, Yankee, Southerner, etc.
Doing anything else is garrunteed to make you look stupid.
If you cannot argue or at least articulate your opponent’s point of view, how can you argue against it?
This link has some good advice:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/argument.html