I only get bored when there's nobody halfway lucid (or if they are lucid, halfway honest) to debate with.
I like the mental exercise that addressing various arguments provides, and I've certainly learned a great deal over the years, (about debate, and factual stuff too) and changed my views on a number of issues as well.
In the beginning, I did get rather intense about the debates, but I really don't anymore. that's ultimately better, I think, since it makes me more effective.
Arguing against opponents helps me to test and challenge my own positions on various subjects to see if I should continue to hold them or if I should refine or replace them.
I also like to think I'm doing my small part to combat ignorance, irrationality, anti-science and anti-intellectualism.
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I don't know.... Lately I've been really disinterested in arguing over the same points for the millionth time.
Well, you
do lose every debate, Juggs. I have always marveled at how much of a glutton for punishment you seem to be.
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