It’s because he Gish Gallops, and in a debate, anyone who isn’t privy to that fallacious tactic will interpret that as a powerful dominating argument, but in actuality, it is just a rapid-fire string of questionable claims the debater cant spend time dismantling. Ironically the way to defeat the tactic is to interrupt the speaker, which is a debating no-no generally, but I think it’s warranted to halt a gish gallop.
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hat’s it. It’s a bad faith debate tactic and it’s become the soup de jour of debating. In fact, debating isn’t even debating anymore, it’s “how quickly can I make my audience cast doubt on my opponent by any means necessary.” It’s supposed to be a deep deliberation of ideas to arrive upon a most likely truth.
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