Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Quotes 233. The quote today is by Socrates.
Remember the Greek philosopher. We did a couple others by him, but not for a while. But
if you like this one, you should try to go back and check a few others that we
did by him or that I did by him. Anyway, Let's look at today's quote. The quote
today is when the debate is over. When it's finished. "When the debate is over,
slander becomes the tool of the loser. " So the loser will say terrible things of
the person they're debating with. They'll probably go ...what we say here is like
they'll be name-calling or maybe they'll make up things. This is this does happen
a lot. I have seen this happen quite often. So let's, let's continue here. There
is a lot of truth to this quote. When people are having a debate and one of
the debaters realizes his points or you know his ideas do not stand up to the
opposition. To the ones that he's trying to be to debate against, often he or she
will resort to name-calling. So he will just thought calling them dirty names or
say terrible things about them and basically they are slandering them but
you know they mmm they don't know what else to do and they don't really want to
admit that you know perhaps that they've lost the argument or they lost
the debate. All right. So let's continue here. Many will not want to admit their
ideas are not right. Yes. Definitely. Thus they resort to name-calling to
release their anger. To get their anger out. All right. Let's continue. If they
still believe they are right , they should do research more to prove their points
more skillfully. Yeah. So you know, if you're not saying that you actually have
to you know completely change your mind. If you still think you're right , you know, look up more information. Try to make sure that you're, you're .... All right try to
come up with better ideas of how to counter if you are debating somebody
on this. So I mean that's one option that you could do. If they are poor debaters,
now some people are just not good at debating. Probably you should avoid
debates if you're not good at debating. But uh then perhaps they should simply
say ...they should emply simply end the debate by saying " let's agree to disagree. "
So sometimes you might find it in there and you just don't want to listen
to their points, and you know, maybe you don't want to go on anymore.
This is much better than you know, going to slander and do name-calling. So this
is the second option that somebody could do if you find yourself in this position.
Of course , if they discover new information, there is no shame to
reconsider or rethink a point of view. You know, many smart educated people have
done this. Many people throughout their lives will realize that hey maybe I was
on the wrong side of this debate. Maybe let me rethink this. Maybe, maybe that
other side has a good point. You know, Maybe, maybe I wasn't completely right . So
it's there's nothing wrong with doing this. There's nothing wrong with switching sides.
If you realize that you know, perhaps what you had thought before is maybe not
correct. Maybe you didn't have all the information. So the last thing they
should do is resort to slander. So don't do that. Try to avoid that or name
calling or name-calling is a type of slander basically. Just saying terrible
things about them. Okay, name-calling it simply shows they have run out of
ideas. So once you get into name-calling you know, and it just seems stupid. It seems
childish. It seems immature, and in turn that they really have lost the debate. Okay
and it gives the appearance of a sore loser. A bad loser. Or somebody who's
immature. So try to avoid that at all cost. Like I said you usually think you
got three options. Research more so you can debate better . Or just simply say you
know let's to .disagree. And you know , try to not have
not continued with this debate anymore. Or . possibly again you know, maybe , maybe
change your mind if ithat feels like the right thing to do. Anyway, I hope you
got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.