Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles 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.
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