Skipper_Sr

As someone who is extremely new to debate, PLEASEEEE!!!!!! 

When I get interested in something I practice it until I can beat people, then once I lose I practice more, this is how improvement works (at least for my autistic ahh), this approach may work in chess, but not in debate as you require other participants. 

I want to use this site to practice debate, however everyone on it is HIGHLY experienced and I don't want to go into a debate to get steamrolled by a national champ who has done this for 9 years. I can't practice IRL as my debate club is off right now, and I can't practice on here since I don't have enough experience.(I have quite literally done 0 debates so far as the club is still being set up)

This is just me complaining as I don't know how to get into this, but I would kill for this to be more accessible for new users-maybe a tutorial, somewhere where you can analyse other's debates to learn, or rated matches so that I can face someone of a similar skill level.

i.imgflip.com/strh6.jpg Please sir, may I have some ways to practice while inexperienced  

Art is dying day by day and we can only watch.

Especially pop. Pop sucks

Not true. As in I agree they matter but faith is there without works.

Satan and the demons have firm faith in God being real and all powerful. So, works mattering is different to that.

Luther strongly supported sola fide btw.

For the definition of insult I was using it wouldn't work but for some irrelevant and other definition of insult than yes but it's usually going to be followed by an "ing" or "Ed" in those contexts. 

Name-calling is one way to insult someone 

In this context it is the only way. I think you are claiming because the word has multiple definitions that all the definitions are intended for it despite context. 

I am a native English speaker BTW and I am telling you that context is important for knowing which definition of a term is used and when you look in dictionaries it is not too uncommon to see multiple definitions for each word, may times even meaning wildly different things. 

Like even can mean 2 4 6 etc. 

But it can also mean "same amount"

So I thought you were saying that if we can insults than it involves banning things that are insulting. What are you saying?

I am insulted by you questioning me. 

You see how someone can feel insulted despite the definition of insult in this context meaning name calling?

Further more an insult if we really want to nail it down santically is a derogatory term directed at somebody, where the term lacks any premise accompanying the statement.

Insults can be subject to a person feelings.

Insults do not only originate from verbal abuse

You are confusing two different terms that are spelled the same way with similar meanings. I am not sure why you are being obtuse but do you propose banning all things that could make a person feel "insulted" ? 

So you don't think someone can be insulted by receiving a slap on the face?

Sure he can feel insulted but the slap is not in and of itself an insult. He would have to call him a name when he slapped for it to be considered an insult. 

You can feel insulted if somebody isn't responding to you or if they blocked you, but we aren't going to seek to ban all things that are insulting as that would be retarded. The only aim is to ban insults. 

Ban insults not what is insulting. 

@Adaptable

Looks like my Meow God has defeated your God <3

https://youtu.be/mtSZ4wp_zwE?si=dkUgkNANZj4BYffE

Insult means a word directed towards a person meant to offend. So know attacking somebody would not be an insult it would be a physical attack and those are banned here but don't fall under the definition 

Wouldn't you agree that the rich looked down on the poor somewhere in the world in the 15th century?

Okay probably. Looking down on somebody isn't an insult. You may want to look at the definition 

I don't think you understand the mindset of the slave, which did exist in the 15th century. I don't think u know how slaves feel if you say no one was insulted centuries ago 

You don't either. You were never a slave in the 15th century. I do know many slaves voluntarily died protecting their masters or commited suicide out of grief when a long time master died

I do know many slaves voluntarily died protecting their masters or commited suicide out of grief when a long time master died

Do good works matter?

What makes them different

I do wonder if the reason debate sites/servers are filled with degeneracy is because God wants debating to end.

This is a disguised callout thread baiting others to do the callouts

Wow, way to welcome returning users.

Micro principles would be things like social views political views concerning social issues for example the culture war, also small policy decisions would count as well the macro positions would be on freedom or justice with freedom being slightly more important than justice. Survival and health would be micro principles as would economics

An insult is objectively disrespectful. Racial slurs are disrespectful. Racial slurs are insults 

Did you watch the George Carlin bit I linked to yet? Because this doesn't sound like a good revuttal

That's pretty much correct . Nobody was offended on behalf of their group in the 15th century

Who cares? Are you white people? I am not I do happen to be a white person though. 

Aren't you a Christian anyway. Are you identifying with your white brothers or do you feel an identity with your Christian brothers?

I think more than liberals get offended by being called insults 

An insult would be if somebody walked up and called me a stupid cracker. Now if somebody said "white people are stupid crackers" that would not be an insult. 

Just liberals occasionally finding a way to get offended.

We see occasionally how a term for a state-of-being becomes derogatory. 

Look at “dumb” “lame” “retard” 

Yeah it's called the euphemism wheel. Just liberals occasionally finding a way to get offended. George Carlin had a great but about this. https://youtu.be/mUvdXxhLPa8?si=ky4Pg8kszBMAYzTv

You always want to look at macro principle not micro principles when judging the morality of people. Freedom for example would be the most important attribute so how well somebody supports that even at the cost of their macro principles is how they should be judged and we always want to get our macro principles right

It wasn't slave traders who called them negro which means black. Libtards decided that because. Southerners are bad at saying negro and it sounds more like nigger that it is randomly a slur

No chance anyone remembers how to spell Skep's full DDO name. Don't think I ever bothered to know how to pronounce it, which is the issue.

Maybe you could eat some more chocolate or something to stimulate brain flow? 

My diet is mostly chocolate and milk. I avoid meat, vegetables and grains.

It was the slave traders who first called black people "negro" which then evolved to a derogatory term in light of their perceived inferiority of intelligence and social status. 

Black people adopted the n-word from the white rednecks 

Well now that’s a real humdinger! It isn’t your job to police Black language any more than it’s their job to police ours. It’s true that I would have a whale of a time trying to find an appropriate way to use that word but it ain’t my word you see? We each got our own way of talkin and that type of diversity is just swell as far as I’m concerned. This site is already on the fritz enough as it is! 

In Trumps America we have an obligation now more than ever to be better allies. I wish this website had signatures because right now mine would say #JusticeForLeshWanda 

My mental age is 13, I just act like a 3 year old.

Most of my 16 year old students don't have a clue what a race or race-hate is. But they have no problems saying nigger all day long....

It's absolutely not racist, it's TRIBAL, which is why people of all dna and skin shades say it, to be in the nigger tribe.