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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Quotes 233. The quote today is by Socrates.

  • Remember the Greek philosopher. We did a couple others by him, but not for a while. But

  • if you like this one, you should try to go back and check a few others that we

  • did by him or that I did by him. Anyway, Let's look at today's quote. The quote

  • today is when the debate is over. When it's finished. "When the debate is over,

  • slander becomes the tool of the loser. " So the loser will say terrible things of

  • the person they're debating with. They'll probably go ...what we say here is like

  • they'll be name-calling or maybe they'll make up things. This is this does happen

  • a lot. I have seen this happen quite often. So let's, let's continue here. There

  • is a lot of truth to this quote. When people are having a debate and one of

  • the debaters realizes his points or you know his ideas do not stand up to the

  • opposition. To the ones that he's trying to be to debate against, often he or she

  • will resort to name-calling. So he will just thought calling them dirty names or

  • say terrible things about them and basically they are slandering them but

  • you know they mmm they don't know what else to do and they don't really want to

  • admit that you know perhaps that they've lost the argument or they lost

  • the debate. All right. So let's continue here. Many will not want to admit their

  • ideas are not right. Yes. Definitely. Thus they resort to name-calling to

  • release their anger. To get their anger out. All right. Let's continue. If they

  • still believe they are right , they should do research more to prove their points

  • more skillfully. Yeah. So you know, if you're not saying that you actually have

  • to you know completely change your mind. If you still think you're right , you know, look up more information. Try to make sure that you're, you're .... All right try to

  • come up with better ideas of how to counter if you are debating somebody

  • on this. So I mean that's one option that you could do. If they are poor debaters,

  • now some people are just not good at debating. Probably you should avoid

  • debates if you're not good at debating. But uh then perhaps they should simply

  • say ...they should emply simply end the debate by saying " let's agree to disagree. "

  • So sometimes you might find it in there and you just don't want to listen

  • to their points, and you know, maybe you don't want to go on anymore.

  • This is much better than you know, going to slander and do name-calling. So this

  • is the second option that somebody could do if you find yourself in this position.

  • Of course , if they discover new information, there is no shame to

  • reconsider or rethink a point of view. You know, many smart educated people have

  • done this. Many people throughout their lives will realize that hey maybe I was

  • on the wrong side of this debate. Maybe let me rethink this. Maybe, maybe that

  • other side has a good point. You know, Maybe, maybe I wasn't completely right . So

  • it's there's nothing wrong with doing this. There's nothing wrong with switching sides.

  • If you realize that you know, perhaps what you had thought before is maybe not

  • correct. Maybe you didn't have all the information. So the last thing they

  • should do is resort to slander. So don't do that. Try to avoid that or name

  • calling or name-calling is a type of slander basically. Just saying terrible

  • things about them. Okay, name-calling it simply shows they have run out of

  • ideas. So once you get into name-calling you know, and it just seems stupid. It seems

  • childish. It seems immature, and in turn that they really have lost the debate. Okay

  • and it gives the appearance of a sore loser. A bad loser. Or somebody who's

  • immature. So try to avoid that at all cost. Like I said you usually think you

  • got three options. Research more so you can debate better . Or just simply say you

  • know let's to .disagree. And you know , try to not have

  • not continued with this debate anymore. Or . possibly again you know, maybe , maybe

  • change your mind if ithat feels like the right thing to do. Anyway, I hope you

  • got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Quotes 233. The quote today is by Socrates.

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