[eDebate] my Richmond updated judge philosophy -- please read

[Asha Cherian]

If questioning your own assumptions doesn't negate self-righteousness,
nothing does.

I don't want to be struck by anyone at this tournament.  And there are
many teams who shouldn't strike me.  The likelihood is I'll end up
judging the rounds I would have judged before anyway (the Binghamton
versus Towson rounds).  And I'll decide these fairly, as I would have
according to my pre-Richmond judge philosophy: the flow.





Asha

On 10/12/07, Paul Strait <paulstrait at hotmail.com> wrote:

>

>  To be fair, I was actually trying to be 'offensive,' not 'defensive.'

> Perhaps I should have explicitly stated my belief that I thought you are

> committing theft and do not deserve to be compensated if you are universally

> struck.

>

> Asha makes some good points though -- when dealing with a hostile audience,

> it is a rhetorically defensible strategy to simply choose to be a hostile

> audience back, rather than trying to communicate your ideas in a way that

> might be persuasive to them.  That is obviously the way good dialog works.

> In real life, if someone doesn't like the way you are stating your point of

> view, under no circumstances should true students of human communication try

> to state their point of view in a different way; it is clearly better to

> simply refuse to listen to them back, to teach them the error of their ways.

>

>

> >Before I try to defend why this binary is bad, in my rounds at Richmond I'm

> going to role-play why this binary is good.

>

> Seriously, a little less self-righteousness please.

>

> Everyone should keep in mind that although this is a game, we should at

> least pretend that there is some connection to teaching young adults the

> strategies for thinking through life decisions and persuasively conveying

> the reasons behind those decisions to others, whether they are predisposed

> to agree or not.

>

>

> L. Paul Strait

>

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-- 
Asha