And sometimes, that means putting myself in stressful situations.

Can always use VC but most of us probably agree with each other on a lot of topics.

if you want to do the debate, I'm not going to stop you, but I'm just saying that 1.you should prepare before hand and 2.remember that the debate is about convincing the audience

Probably on most topics.

I don't see the debate being about solely convincing someone else of something

It’s both convincing yourself and others.

I'd much rather go in on an even field, wanting to learn and _'expand my horizons'_

Tbh, I like your attitude a lot, because you are taking the responsibility of learning into your own hands.

That's my main goal tbh

Yeah.

Again, saying and doing are two different things. Human beings are very biased creatures.

its better to go into the debate with a solid understanding than to just appeal to emotions and push logical fallacies.

It can often be quite the hurdle to get over those biases.

IE, the far-left as it is today

They're sort of trying to swallow classic liberalism and claim it as their own

In my opinion, you are only biased so much as you are using your emotions and not using rational thought.

Even without emotion, our biases affect how we think and act.

how

explain.

When you think something for as long as you do, it's hard to just see past that.

Life experiences.

yes

but thats because its tied to emotion

You can be as _'rational'_ as you want to be, but even _'emotionless'_, you still need to watch out

It's shaped how you think

seriously, look into something like Buddhism or Objectivism

Emotion has a lot to do with it yeah, but it's not the sole thing

it will help you to overcome bias

"Excuse me, sir, but do you have a moment to discuss our lord and savior, Buddah?"

thats not what Buddhism is about

>joking

lol]

fair enough

It's a fascinating belief system, though.

I'm not a Buddhist to be clear, but my friend recommended the book of the way to me and I got something out of it

>about to derail the topic slightly

So, uh. These channels. One is breaking news. Another is news. Another is fake news. Technology, I guess? Hate speech, I guess? Shitposting works. It's a strangely-structured server. Very specific channels. I guess the breaking news channel is for discussing more important news, while this is for less important news? And I guess the hate speech channel is about discussing hate speech? Or mocking the blanket-statement that it's become?

I dunno, I guess I'm just a little iffy on the structure as a whole

this server seems fairly anarchic tbh

I thought that too when I joined

Is the hatespeech ironic?

its the room where you do hate speech