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This article is basically about something i keep seeing around the debate spot or on other debate forums and it is, in my opinion the rudest and most insulting thing you can do in debate

no I am not talking about swearing

no I am not talking about denying the existence of someone's believes

no I am not even talking about flashing your opponent to distract them

I am talking about the one line comment

some of you may be slightly confused as to why I get so annoyed by this so let me clear things up

I have no issue with people bringing up a new point that they have just summed up in a short space, I...

I was going to call them the "Ten Commandments" but felt someone might be offended by that (either a religious person thinking I'm blasphemous or a secularist thinking I'm showing a bias towards religion. Lose, lose, you see). Also, I couldn't come up with ten rules.

So instead, observe the Golden Rules of the Debate Spot.

1) RESPECT your fellow debaters. They believe what they do for a reason just like you do. As opposed to simply trying to explain why they're wrong, explain your point of view and LISTEN to theirs. If you find you simply just cannot understand their views, or that they will...