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highwaystar101 on 10 May 2011
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Allfreedom99 said:
Final-Fan said:

Freedom, I take it from the fact that you have completely dodged answering any of highway's points, in favor of vague "meaning of life"-type rhetoric, that you in fact have no answer to his points, but cannot bear to admit it. 

I won't presume that the same is true of my post; perhaps you just ignored it since I wasn't the one you originally responded to. 

 Do me a favor and answer some of the questions I asked the user,highway. Can you explain to me why murdering someone is wrong if we are all just properties of mathematics and chemical reactions? If in the beginning there was chaos then why do we have gravity?

The point he's getting at is that you can't just ignore parts of the argument if you don't have a valid reply, and then replace them with another unrelated argument. It's not sporting play when debating.

When debating it can become very tiresome and frustrating very quickly for the other side if you ignore their best points.

Personally I don't care, I'm not going to chase you down for a rebuttal. But I do think it is not good form.

(I can admit that at times I do become frustrated with another debater's behaviour. But in these cases I will outright ignore them, not just answer a portion of their points.)

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Also, it is not acceptable to ask someone to answer a rebuttal aimed at someone else. Final-fan may not support the same hypotheses as me. He may even agree with some of your points and not mine. Just because we're on the same side does not mean that it is appropriate for you to request his answers to questions that were addressed to me.

If you wanted your rebuttal to me to represent answers to his points as well, you should have said so.

If final fan wants to answer those questions, then that is his choice.