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Gracious debate requires gracious victory. If you cause someone to stop and seriously reconsider their perspective, don't force their submission by going 'Gotcha' or 'see! You can't answer that!' Changing a mind is hard enough, let's not make it harder by feeling superior.

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It's like, "Oh, I see you did an incredibly difficult and vulnerable thing by displaying uncertainty about your position. I guess now's a good time to JAB at that sore spot!"

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This is my only complaint with that now-infamous

@jordanbpeterson

channel 4 debate. He was super amazing in all the rest of it though.

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Evan Sandhoefner

@EvanSandhoefner

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I don't hold that against him in context. The importance of gracious victory is proportional to the obviousness of the victory. He had scored a pretty clear point, but was otherwise embroiled in a long and unproductive discussion that was not on his terms.

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I don't feel any sense of judgment about it. I think both of us are right.

10:29 AM · Jan 21, 2018