The point of debates it not to convince your interlocutor. Not a single debate in history has ended in the other side changing their position.
The point is to convince the audience, and if you think no audience would consider the notion of a flat Earth possible, you underestimate human stupidity.
Everything should be up for debate, otherwise ideas become -- as John Stuart Mill called them: dead dogma.
The point is to convince the audience, and if you think no audience would consider the notion of a flat Earth possible, you underestimate human stupidity.
Everything should be up for debate, otherwise ideas become -- as John Stuart Mill called them: dead dogma.