Use the following strategies to ensure dominance in debate club and/or with an unsuspecting significant other.
• Appeal to ignorance: if it isn’t proven, it’s false. “Did you SEE me bogart the last of the jamocha almond fudge? No? Well, there you go.”
• Ad hominem: Discrediting an argument by discrediting the person making it. “I am right because you suck.”
• Affirming the consequent: If x, then y. Y, therefore x. “When you’re wrong you get defensive. Oooh, oooh, you’re getting defensive. You’re wrong! I win!”
• Argument to logic: If an argument offered is false, then the entire claim is false. “Actually, that’s not my spoon in the sink! Thus am I exonerated!”
• Loaded question: Any answer validates an assumption. “Why must you always persecute me unjustly?”