fandomhigh | Debating, Friday October 5

Chuck was late again. This was no good, really. His students were really capable of more mischief than he gave them credit. He should be keeping an eye on them.

When he entered the room, he tossed his briefcase down on the desk. As if to make up for lost time, he positively ran to the board, and started doing notes.

“Misleading vividness!” Chuck called. “If a story seems plausible enough, people will believe it. Take this textbook ~~wikipedia~~ example:

Bill: "Police marksmen should use tasers instead of guns when it's safe to do so."
Anne: "Can you imagine what would happen if those darts from the taser went into your eyes, piercing your eyeballs, and then if they sent the high voltage through your eyes and brain! It would probably kill you and be much worse than being shot."

Usually, one story should be enough to combat an idea. When you’ve hard enough practice, you’ll be able to shoot these ideas down with ease. But for right now, you’ll need a few tries. So today, try and make every response a misleading, vivid example. Parry their stories with your stories. If their uncle lost his tooth fishing, and thus decided to leave them alone, then by God, yours lost his arm because he didn’t kill that fish off fast enough.

You guys know the drill by now. Split up into pairs, pick a topic to argue about, and give graphic, misleading examples about why your opponent is wrong. Don’t be afraid to get creative. Remember: if it’s an easy connection to make, you’re not working hard enough. If you’re grasping for straws, fight to solidify that argument, instead. If your opponent seems to have a lot of good reasons why it’s poor, shoot them down. It’ll make it stronger.

Go and argue! What are you waiting for?!” He gave them intimidating looks. “MOVE IT!”

[OCD: ~~Just a minute, guys and gals…~~ Dark and sinister OCD, have at thee!]

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and tell us a horrible story that happened to one of your friends while debating.

No really!

Once my arch nemesis was hit in the face with an enormous water balloon that nearly killed off Earth's population while we were.... "debating".

Once this one girl had to give a dramatic reading of a Sylvia Plath poem and at some point the stress made her go spontaneously deaf. For three days. True story.

Charlie McGee

This one time, ~~at band camp~~, a laser shot out of some guy's mouth an incinerated the girl he was debating with, but that was okay, because someone had a Time Turner and could go back, and they aimed the laser at Britney Spears instead and the world was saved.

T.R. Wexler

This one time this girl with a huge nose and black bat glasses tripped and fell on her way up to the podium to stand off against me at a debate convention.

She lost.

Annette Hargrove.

I've often found that those who try to debate me discover that their heads explode before they even get near the podium.

Willow Rosenberg

This one time a guy tried to convince me that the area I was grabbing in belonged to another gang boss.

I broke his kneecaps.

End of debate.

Mel Fray

So, there was this time that I was debating? And another friend of mine totally pulled out a laser weapon and blasted my opponent. Who was this giant bug.

True story!

Ronan Nolan

Once, when I was debating, the opposition was so desperate to beat me that, when she realized that she had lost, the world ended.

No, really.

Valentine

Take notes, pass a few of your own, be an insolent whelp and question your superior.

Charlie was making origami swans out of the school newspaper, and not really paying too much attention. Homecoming tonight, yay!

While arguing, of course.

"I feel it's very important for people to take excellent care of books," Willow said. "Otherwise the books will read themselves and therefore learn how to rise up and slay us all."

Still need to talk to Chuck? He's here.

Jamie stopped in after class to see Chuck.

"Excuse me, Sir? My name is Jamie Madrox and I'm with the school newspaper. I was wondering if I can do a ~~completely inflammatory and misleading~~ profile on you for next week's issue?"

Chuck puffed himself up a little. This would be his second time featured in the school paper. arrogance did not suit him well.

"Of course you may. Fire away with the questions."

"First question," Jamie said pulling out his notebook. "Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?"

That was massively unexpected. Chuck looked confused, and responded, "Shaft ~~or some Fandom-suitable alternative~~?"

Jamie nodded and made some notes. "Next question, if you had a super power what would it be and how would you use it? Also what alter-ego would create and what would your costume look like?"

I kid thee not. That's actually one of the examples on the Wikipedia article for Misleading Vividness. I commend the person who put that up, and hope that the editors don't find it for a good long time.

*face chomp*

Ugh. Irken face. XP

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