The following is a guide to help you learn about DEBATING


*************DEFENDING***********************

While defending with various mindsets, and if you are debating with Marsu, you will discover that you can learn the methods of your debater by noticing within yourself your methods of retort.


Mindset: ANALITICAL

Attacked With: Pettifoggery


The logic of this argument is sound and you find yourself conceding to all the points raised.


Attacked With: Pontification


With great glee, you rip apart his arguments with brilliant logic, transforming the entire discourse into an example of absurdity.



Attacked With: Passion

With absolutely no readily available facts upon which to analyze the argument, you can only frown and shake your head in frustration, conceding this emotional outburst to Marsu.



Mindset:  CAUTIOUS

Attacked With: Pettifoggery


You can only blink in astonishment at his mindboggling logic.


Attacked With: Pontification


The argument is so preposterous and so full of holes that you don't know where to begin to dissect it, and before you realize it your silence has been taken for concession.


Attacked With: Passion


As temperaments cool, you quietly but firmly expose the argument as nothing more than a baseless form of emotional blackmail.




Mindset: PEDANTIC


Attacked With: Pettifoggery

You laugh in his face and counter every point raised with facts of arcane trivia that deflates the entire dissertation.





Attacked With: Pontification

While you have a hunch that his argument is baseless, it is so general and broad that you are left spluttering in confusion.



Attacked With: Passion



The tempestuous argument overwhelms your careful preparation, leaving you shocked to the point where you find yourself capitulating to the emotional demands made in the argument.'


One who states his arguments with Passion will always do the following:

(name) passionately presents (his|her) case, fervently arguing (his|her) points with emotional appeals

One who states his arguments with Pontification will always do the following:


(name) argues with sweeping authority, buttressing (his|her) broad claims with
dogmatic assumptions and justifications.

One who states his arguments with Pettifoggery will always do the following:

(name) unscrupulously quibbles about the smallest points in (his|her) argument,
bringing up esoteric minutiae to support (his|her) radical theories.




*************************ATTACKING***************

If Thier mind set it ANALYTICAL


and your debate with Pettifoggery


Marsu agrees with the logic and concedes all your points.



and you debate with Pontification


With great glee, Marsu rips apart your arguments with brilliant logic, transforming your entire discourse into an example of absurdity.



and you debate with Passion

Marsu frowns at you and shakes his head, but concedes the
argument to you.




CAUTIOUS

and you debate with Pettifoggery

Marsu can only blink in astonishment at your astounding logic.






and your debate with Pontification



Your argument leaves Marsu staring at you in stupefaction, and his continued silence must obviously be taken for concession.



and you debate with Passion


After a dramatic pause, Marsu exposes your argument as
nothing more than a baseless form of emotional blackmail.


PEDANTIC


and you debate with Pettifoggery

Marsu laughs in your face and counters every point you raise with facts of arcane trivia that deflates your entire dissertation.



and you debate with Pontification


Marsu splutters in confusion, unable to refute your argument.




and you debate with Passion

Marsu is so overwhelmed that he eagerly capitulates to the
emotional demands made in your argument.