Hacker News Reader

I think there's a difference between stupid arguments and stupid arguments delivered at 300WPM by highschoolers specially trained over years to breathe in such a way that they can produce and deploy stupid arguments as quickly and efficiently as possible. It's like... littering versus the government selling our highway medians to WM.

Maybe we shouldn't be teaching our kids to do so in sanctioned debate competition.

When did it become socially acceptable to behave in this manner?

everything is political

There is nothing for which everything is X, unless one is making a metaphysical claim (everything is matter).

Ah ha! But not everything is "matter". There exist volume-less particles which do not fit a universal definition of matter.

So indeed, there is nothing for which everything is X.

This is a discussion on high school debate, so please take this comment in that light (with a grain of matter).