The 10 Commandments Of Rational Debate

[babylonsister]

[House of Roberts]

1. It should be the responsibility of every political debate moderator

to require these be adhered to, and call out the offender each time an infraction occurs.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Anybody who posts that ridiculous pic must have rocks in their head.

[Buzz Clik]

3. The DU challenge: In 100 words or less, break all ten commandments in a single argument.

[babylonsister]

4. Hahaha!

I'm sure that's doable!

[emulatorloo]

5. The pros can do it in 25 or less

But may require follow up posts to put words in your mouth.

[Buzz Clik]

6. Are you accusing me of putting words in your mouth?

[emulatorloo]

17. HOW DARE YOU. So you must see nothing wrong with [insert egregious thing here]

[wandy]

8. Frank Luntz could summerise that on a bumper sticker...

Of course you'd end up with this.......
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022903631

[snot]

7. K&R'd!!!

I wish all DU'er's followed these rules.

(And by the way, thanks for the correct usage of "begging the question.&quot

[longship]

9. Technically, "begging the question" is:

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Assuming the truth of the conclusion in the premise. But that's a difficult concept to portray.

Begging the Question

So even this one gets it wrong.

The common colloquial use of "begging the question" is more accurately termed "inviting the question", or some other variant... "Raising the question."

[Donald Ian Rankin]

10. I can boil most of that down to 1: try to work out what the other person thinks. N.T.

[bvar22]

11. The 11th Commandment:

11) Thou shalt NOT just Make Stuff Up,
and use it to attack another member of DU.

[DLnyc]

12. Thank you, great post!

Discussions would be so much more interesting if people tried to work within a rational framework.

Listening to people call each other names is not particularly interesting, and tends to generate annoyance and even hostile emotions.

Listening to people involved in rational debate can be very interesting and even enlightening.

Thank you for listing these points!

[undeterred]

13. And another one

Thou shalt actually read the post first.

[markiv]

14. the list pre-supposes good faith in political debate

which is nearly non-existent

it would ne nice, however

[Make7]

15. Is rational political debate even possible?

'Up with Chris Hayes' discussion on personality and politics

[uppityperson]

16. k&r and bookmark. Great list, thank you.