Being an arrogant elitist is the worst personality

Pro’s resolution sets him up to commit a logical fallacy since he would have to arrogantly claim omniscience to support it. In his opening round Pro opens by antagonizing any potential opponent by threatening to forfeit the debate, which would somehow humiliate Con as Pro flees from the debate. Many ‘arrogant elitists’ are likely Myers-Briggs personality type INTJ which make up 1-3% of males[1]. Since they are thoughtful and isolated they may not have well developed communication skills and are often alienated from others so they may project a false arrogance (I think arrogance is usually a sign of insecurity). Pro is openly hostile to this isolated minority group and supports a common misconception that they are “the worst.” He is openly bigoted towards arrogant elitists refusing even to have a debate with one. It’s left to me to step in and represent this at risk minority group since they were obviously frightened by Pro’s threats: Logic Much? Your resolution is itself a logical fallacy, an argument from ignorance, [2] since a claim like this is a claim of omniscience. For your resolution to be true you would have to be aware of every possible personality and verify that arrogant elitists are the worst. You are not aware of a personality type that is worse so you assume that it is the worst personality type in the entire world, which is clearly not true. Your only statement in round one is a threat against those most qualified to answer your debate. Was your Internet broken while you developed your well-crafted position? You have listed two personality traits then claimed that this is the worst possible personality. A quick Google search gave me a top ten style list of bad personality traits. Sure enough, arrogant is at the top but conceited does not come up till number six [5]. I won’t argue that this list is accurate but let’s take an arrogant elitist and add another trait from the list. Lets say an arrogant elitist who is also remarkably lazy, dependent, temperamental and unreliable. This would obviously be a worse personality than one that is only an arrogant elitist with no other markedly negative traits. Are there any mental disorders you want to threaten? You failed to consider several disorders that can produce personalities that are far worse. Autism for instance often leaves the disabled completely unable to communicate [3]. Psychopaths have no empathy [4] and unfortunately the disorder can manifest as, “a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of other” Having no personality/ability to communicate at all or tending to repeatedly violate the rights of others are arguably worse traits. They may not teach basic History in community college You may not be aware of obscure historical figures like Hitler or Nero. They have a few personality quirks that are worse like homicidal mania and narcissism and both committed a massive slaughter of their citizens. They were also arrogant elitists though so yeah… they were really bad. - I hope Pro takes my point. Opening by antagonizing your audience by making threats and wild assertions that you can’t possibly prove does not set you up for a good discussion. There are clearly worse personality types. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org... [4] http://en.wikipedia.org... [5] http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk...