Why do I need to show up in real life? It's a lot easier to go back and forth in a debate/discussion online, where we can refer to our facts and figures, and cite a myriad of sources, and can't interrupt each other. Real life debates SUCK. Like, have you ever seen a creationist debate a scientist? It's insane. The creationist will just say a couple of things like, "But of course there's no evidence for evolution" or "the odds I evolved are like the odds a Boeing jet assembled itself". Of course, these claims are so outrageously senseless that the scientist has to focus not to choke and have an aneurysm, but having to go into all the wordy detail just to diffuse a single stupid comment in a scientific manner, can be distracting without having the ability to carefully plan out the sequence of your counter-arguments, and edit yourself. So I think online debates are far better, and I believe the Center for Range voting has enough evidence in just a few pages to pretty much destroy IRV. I've linked to much of it here in this forum. If anyone has any _cogent_, thought-out counter-arguments to offer, I'd love to hear them. But the argument from incredulity grows tiresome.
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Re: I'm a geek
Date: 2007-01-24 03:39 am (UTC)Regards,
Clay