A competitive debater shares her experience on debating over the internet. In particular, touching on the topics of inability to enforce debate rules in order to do actually productive debate, the growing gap between winning a debate vs being factually correct and presents her case against modern way of debating where the primary goal is to win the debate i.e. convince onlookers rather than to find a common ground.

She shows how a public debater, focused on winning, looks from competitive perspective illustrating the case on public appearances of Ben Shapiro. She lists common tactics employed by such debaters in order to “win” the argument.

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