I used to have a friend who was extremely skilled at this technique. He would put together an argument so nonsensical that despite being obviously false, nobody could possibly even begin to know how to start refuting any of it. If you challenged one point, he would use three other false yet logical statements to defend it.
That’s when I would interrupt the person with, “stop, you’ve made your claims, now it is my turn to talk and address each point you made.” And if they refuse to stop, I go with this: “Since you refuse to let me speak, this conversation is over.” And I walk away.
They also don’t like it when I start taking notes on their key points and start calling them out on contradictions.
No. Having a debate requires both parties to actually listen to each other’s arguments/talking points. When one party refuses to listen, it is no longer a debate. By constantly interrupting, they demonstrate they were never there to have a debate/conversation, but were only there to preach.
I used to have a friend who was extremely skilled at this technique. He would put together an argument so nonsensical that despite being obviously false, nobody could possibly even begin to know how to start refuting any of it. If you challenged one point, he would use three other false yet logical statements to defend it.
That’s when I would interrupt the person with, “stop, you’ve made your claims, now it is my turn to talk and address each point you made.” And if they refuse to stop, I go with this: “Since you refuse to let me speak, this conversation is over.” And I walk away.
They also don’t like it when I start taking notes on their key points and start calling them out on contradictions.
But if you walk away, you lose.
No. Having a debate requires both parties to actually listen to each other’s arguments/talking points. When one party refuses to listen, it is no longer a debate. By constantly interrupting, they demonstrate they were never there to have a debate/conversation, but were only there to preach.
Oh no, it was never a debate. It was a game, and he only did it to shut people up.
This tactic is known as a Gish Gallop
I can’t even imagine how this kind of conversation would go in real life.