1 lean away from fiated actions that have never ever never ever occurred. 1 reward debaters who acknowledge the activity's ridiculousness. This activity is probably one of the more surreal activities of my life. I don't mean to trivialize it, but I also don't enjoy it when it becomes dispassionately rote. Fear not making fun of oneself.
History is dead within debate.
Our conceptions of history typically reside in the current news file of Lexis. I enjoy historical based examples to give legitimacy to your arguments. Having this kind of discussion early on, I believe will help you in extracting more out of their arguments. In other words, if you don't take their texts at face value, I'll reward you in kind. I'm baffled by modem debate's conception of uniqueness.