As messed up as not believing in the merits of discourse and the exchange of ideas?
Debate is a spectrum. There's debating whether to get vanilla or chocolate, and there's debating whether we must commit genocide.
To absolutely worship debate to the point that you will let it convince you of genocide is truly horrible, in every sense. It has nothing to do with debate in general, especially not productive debate. At that point you've lost all reason and are purely being fanatical about how intellectual you are perceived.
I argue ITT because we don't argue straight sociopathy/psychopathy (usually) here like in other topics and around the internet. I would never seriously debate someone who supports genocide, which is why 100% of my posts against Vlado, MWC, etc are shit posts for the sake of passing readers. I value discussion of real disagreements, and the rhetoric practice it involves, even if I know it won't really convince anyone. But I do also see people being convinced ITT so it's all good.
And yet to get back to the original point, is it your stance that no nazi, etc. has ever had a moment of awakening leading to a fundamental change in their beliefs? ---
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