Hitchens vs. Hitchens Press Conference (1 of 5)

Brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens debate the Iraq War and religion at an event organized by the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies with the support of the Center for Inquiry and the Interfaith Dialogue Association.

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[r0bbie8arc0de]

I wasn't making any claims regarding my own talents. Your style is hilarious, I'll direct you to Orwell's advice, you certainly need it - 'Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.'

Ad hominem insults, straw men and absurd claims to your own greatness (all the top writers are found commenting on youtube, aren't they?) - not the tools of a master debater, but remove one syllable and you're there.

[gropingwithastoker]

Peter clearly was just so used to being dominated by Christopher that he automatically assumed a role in the back seat, assuming all questions were directed to his brother unless someone addressed him directly. Interesting to hear him basically admit that he deliberately took different positions from his brother to differentiate himself from him. You have to question his commitment to his belief system if he developed it just to be different from big brother.

[Matt Zuriski]

trolooloololol

[santasubsify]

I find it fascinating that i love chris and despise peter, chris is open, intellegent and somewhat playful, peter more abrupt, with slightly passive aggresive sinister body language, plus the fact that hes a biggoted oxygen thief

[alwaysright10000]

You continue to award yourself points without having lifted a finger to earn them.

So far the closest you have come to any specific argument or claim is that my vocabulary suggests it is probable I employ the aid of a dictionary -clearly a backhanded compliment-and that I reply as often as you do -an insipid and curious non sequitur.

I can swat down as many gnats as you care to send; nor does this faintly imply any strenuous exertion on my part.

[alwaysright10000]

*chortle*

This metaphorical steam you fantasize, and the putative consternation it represents, are exactly as real and as epistemically verified as phlogiston gas.

What comes easily to me, indeed entirely without effort, is the puncturing of empty heads that occasionally drift against me like balloons upon a cactus.

Though I have to wonder how difficult you think it ought to be either to become annoyed by, or retort to, internet comments -surely it is no more so than to post them initially.

[KialraOfDeath]

I can almost see the steam boiling out of your ears! You wish to argue for the sake of arguing? Honestly, I can't think much of your intellect - somebody easily angered, armed with a dictionary, cowardice, and an open foot fetish history.

But I'm glad there are still people on the internet to ridicule, so I thank you for the opportunity! The pleasure was all mine.

[alwaysright10000]

Make an actual, specific claim and an argument to support it, as per my challenge, and I assure you, you will see this intellectual trouncing well beyond your heart's content.

"Pretentious" is the first refuge of the lazy and weak minded, and nine times in ten, in its actual usage (rather than its denotation) its referent is, "an unabashed display of erudition, which makes me uncomfortable but for which I lack the erudition to find a more fitting, less threadbare, less readily available word".

[alwaysright10000]

Your first sentence is well shy of coherence, let alone lucidity, and I can only guess at its meaning. Whatever unflattering conclusion you (presumably) wish to follow from the mere fact that I reply to those who reply to me, applies -obviously- absolutely equally to both the former and the latter.

As I said to the previous idiot, the limits of *your* imagination neither delineate reality nor demarcate the boundaries of my intellect, and so outside your head are rhetorically forceless and inert.

[KialraOfDeath]

Come now, you chose to participate in a little youtube chat, not a roleplay. I can only imagine you all stressed out from behind your keyboard, despite your intended appearance.

I'd like to see what you call an 'intellectual trouncing', however... I don't find insults particularly stimulating, nor am I impressed by your vocabulary. Most of it sounds fairly pretentious to me.

[alwaysright10000]

Your case "rests" like a cart strenuously pushed a short distance up a very steep hill and then released.*smirk*

Your options are to walk away or persist and take an intellectual trouncing. There is not third.