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Is it appropriate to demand proof and facts on Debate Politics?
From my observation 100% of posters on Debate Politics are anonymous. This is also the internet where words can be typed in any order to say anything imaginable. Concrete evidence can rarely be presented via the internet. I also think this is a place to express your opinion on interesting and non-interesting topics. Can't a person base their opinion upon a lie? Just because their opinion is based upon a lie this doesn't make their opinion any less valid. After all, it's an opinion. An opinion doesn't really hold much weight anyways. Sure occasionally an opinion can change someone's mind but that doesn't make it authoritative.
What do you guys think? Are proof and facts necessary when presenting your opinion?
Define proof. Proof in mathmatics maybe, but the rest is a matter of quality. I am really not sure there is any proof we all exist.
Is it appropriate to demand proof and facts on Debate Politics?
From my observation 100% of posters on Debate Politics are anonymous. This is also the internet where words can be typed in any order to say anything imaginable. Concrete evidence can rarely be presented via the internet. I also think this is a place to express your opinion on interesting and non-interesting topics. Can't a person base their opinion upon a lie? Just because their opinion is based upon a lie this doesn't make their opinion any less valid. After all, it's an opinion. An opinion doesn't really hold much weight anyways. Sure occasionally an opinion can change someone's mind but that doesn't make it authoritative.
What do you guys think? Are proof and facts necessary when presenting your opinion?
Is it appropriate to demand proof and facts on Debate Politics?
From my observation 100% of posters on Debate Politics are anonymous. This is also the internet where words can be typed in any order to say anything imaginable. Concrete evidence can rarely be presented via the internet. I also think this is a place to express your opinion on interesting and non-interesting topics. Can't a person base their opinion upon a lie? Just because their opinion is based upon a lie this doesn't make their opinion any less valid. After all, it's an opinion. An opinion doesn't really hold much weight anyways. Sure occasionally an opinion can change someone's mind but that doesn't make it authoritative.
What do you guys think? Are proof and facts necessary when presenting your opinion?
Define proof. Proof in mathmatics maybe, but the rest is a matter of quality. I am really not sure there is any proof we all exist.
Is it appropriate to demand proof and facts on Debate Politics?
From my observation 100% of posters on Debate Politics are anonymous. This is also the internet where words can be typed in any order to say anything imaginable. Concrete evidence can rarely be presented via the internet. I also think this is a place to express your opinion on interesting and non-interesting topics. Can't a person base their opinion upon a lie? Just because their opinion is based upon a lie this doesn't make their opinion any less valid. After all, it's an opinion. An opinion doesn't really hold much weight anyways. Sure occasionally an opinion can change someone's mind but that doesn't make it authoritative.
What do you guys think? Are proof and facts necessary when presenting your opinion?
Is it appropriate to demand proof and facts on Debate Politics?
From my observation 100% of posters on Debate Politics are anonymous. This is also the internet where words can be typed in any order to say anything imaginable. Concrete evidence can rarely be presented via the internet. I also think this is a place to express your opinion on interesting and non-interesting topics. Can't a person base their opinion upon a lie? Just because their opinion is based upon a lie this doesn't make their opinion any less valid. After all, it's an opinion. An opinion doesn't really hold much weight anyways. Sure occasionally an opinion can change someone's mind but that doesn't make it authoritative.
What do you guys think? Are proof and facts necessary when presenting your opinion?
I think it's reasonable to support your opinion with some rationality and logic, or basis in historical written evidence. But that's about the extent to which you have on an online forum of providing empirical facts.
Oh no, some people expect peer reviewed papers.
My favorite is the statement, "prove it". Makes me want to reach thru the screen and choke someone. :lol:
Demanding proof seems to be a diversionary tactic in my experience. Pretty much all facts can be googled in seconds if you doubt a claim and can not easily find the proof it is acceptable to ask but that seems to rarely be the case
There are some who do that and they raise the bar higher and higher no matter what you offer up.
I think proof is a bad choice. Supporting your argument or opinion is a better choice of words. Having supporting data for your argument, particularly if it is stated in a difinitive manner, is a near necessity. Othewise it is an unfounded opinion.
OTOH, statements from a single source intended to support your argument is suspicious, and IMO supports nothing.
There are some who do that and they raise the bar higher and higher no matter what you offer up.
Demanding proof seems to be a diversionary tactic in my experience. Pretty much all facts can be googled in seconds if you doubt a claim and can not easily find the proof it is acceptable to ask but that seems to rarely be the case
My favorite is the statement, "prove it". Makes me want to reach thru the screen and choke someone. :lol:
In my experience, when someone starts asking for proof that is so easily available, that person is not really interested and only trying to be a nuisance.
Define proof. Proof in mathmatics maybe, but the rest is a matter of quality. I am really not sure there is any proof we all exist.
Sometimes people try to pressure proof for a logic argument, just to derail/hack a thread.
And a problem with the internet is you can provide "proof" that pigs fly....
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Have you voted in this poll? I only see two 'no' votes.
Have you voted in this poll? I only see two 'no' votes.
Have you voted in this poll? I only see two 'no' votes.
Have you voted in this poll? I only see two 'no' votes.
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