(05-01-2015, 12:07 AM)Edvyn Wrote: what if you pull out each sentence individually and kill them one by one to make your response easier to read/process? like internet debate space invaders? that's basically tackling the entire argument
I mean it makes it easier to look like you're right, however it is still treating every sentence as a separate argument.
It depends if your goal is to wreck someone's argument and look right, or to come to the truth of a matter.
I think If you actually want to try and come to a common truth, then nitpicking every sentence is bad, since you tend to look at each sentence as a puzzle to be defeated and discredited (which is easy on their own) instead of considering the validity of their argument as a whole.