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Debating 101 (with Mehdi Hasan)

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Why Ad Hominem Arguments Work

I have never said anything other than what I believe. Aristotle told us 2,000 years ago that there's three ways you win an argument with the emotional appeal, pathos, with your own personal credibility ethos. Your credibility matters hugely when you're trying to convince someone. You should be upping your own credibility and expertise and diminishing your opponents. It's malpractice not to do that if you are trying to win an argument. And we are now, sir, 20 minutes into this interview, which you said was for 15. I've got a timer going off in my ear. So he started saying that Times op-ed interviews got to go. So I've got the camera.

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