Ragnar_rahl should join Social's tourny

"This does not provide the same level of determination that not committing to a tournament does." If you are using "determination" as "The process of establishing something exactly," then it is, as there are no limits to what the resolution can be if you do a debate yourself (except those placed by you and your opponent), and there are no limits to what the resolution can be if you do a debate in the tournament (except those placed by you and your opponent). Since they have the exact same limits, they have the same level of "determination." If you are using "determination" as "Firmness of purpose," then you just comitted a semantics fallacy (I'd like to call it a polysemy fallacy, but can't find any backing for that). "This does not mean I am always interested in all of those debates. One may want to discuss a given topic at one time and not another, perhaps one's questions are fresh in one's mind from something one has read. And simply because I have flexibility does not mean I ought expend it upon nothing." Of course not, but it does show that there are a wide range of topics that you have found interesting, and so liking there are still a wide range of topics that you find interesting. If there was nothing that you found interesting, by your own tenet of morality (established in your post round 2), you wouldn't be here at all. So it is safe to assume that there are somethings of which you find interesting. "Why should I be aware of it? First demonstrate this statement to be true enough that "aware of it" means something, then show that them holding a debate to a high personal standard right now is more valuable than either keeping the above values I've noted I would give up in the course of the tourney or waiting till the tourney is done (as you've noted, I have 2 debates in the last 4 months. Clearly I'm in no hurry)." You should be aware of it because you have demonstrated to have the logical abilities to be able to figure it out. Obviously there are three options. People hold tournament debates a) below normal debates, b) equal to normal debates, c) above normal debates. a) Anyone that holds tournament debates below those of normal debates would not choose to participate. b) Anyone that holds them as equal would have no reason to participate unless they were the only debate available. As there are about a dozen debates a day on DDO (and many more in other places), they would default to not doing the tournament. c) Anyone that holds the tournament debates above normal debates may do the tournament (pending other factors). Since people are doing the tournament debates, we can assume they fall into group c. As for the "I have 2 debates in the last 4 months. Clearly I'm in no hurry." It is also noted that these 2 debates have been recent debates, which seem to indicate that you may be coming out of your debating fast. Obviously there is no guarentee, but it is merely a sign that you are starting to value debates more and so are actually doing them again. Anyway, I will go ahead and let this debate end, it was most enjoyable to debate an odd issue like this. If anyone else is interested in the tournament, there is still 1 spot open. Thank you.