{"id":1913702,"date":"2023-04-12T12:57:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T16:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-tips-for-exposing-the-lefts-lack-of-logic-in-political-debates\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T13:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T17:04:05","slug":"3-tips-for-exposing-the-lefts-lack-of-logic-in-political-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-tips-for-exposing-the-lefts-lack-of-logic-in-political-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Tips For Exposing The Left\u2019s Lack Of Logic In Political Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F3-tips-for-exposing-the-lefts-lack-of-logic-in-political-debates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1913702&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>The left often presents arguments that lack logic, such as claiming that banning puberty blockers and hormones for transgender-identifying minors will directly cause suicide, or that restricting abortion is an attack on human rights. But as conservatives, it&#8217;s important to use effective argumentation to refute these claims and communicate truth in a constructive manner. Here are three principles to follow, based on ethicist Matthew Petrusek&#8217;s upcoming book &#8220;Evangelization and Ideology: How to Understand and Respond to the Political Culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Know Their Arguments Better Than They Do<\/h2>\n<p>Sympathetically understand your opponent&#8217;s position by repeating their argument back to them in your own words. For instance, trans-activists claim that curbing transgender interventions for children will cause kids to commit suicide, but there is currently no scientific evidence to support this claim. It&#8217;s important to force your opponent to make an actual argument rather than an emotive assertion.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Demand People Define Their Terms<\/h2>\n<p>Before delving into debate, make sure that you and your opponent are using the same definitions. It&#8217;s impossible to have a productive argument when different camps define words differently. For instance, with regards to abortion, ask what they mean by &#8220;human rights&#8221; and push them to defend these ambiguous terms.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Find the Underlying Philosophical Principles<\/h2>\n<p>Isolate and break down arguments to identify the underlying philosophical principle, as this often exposes faulty premises. For example, the claim that &#8220;only scientific knowledge is meaningful knowledge&#8221; is based on the error of scientism, which cannot be verified using scientific method and thus is question-begging. Similarly, the claim that &#8220;all that matters are the practical things&#8221; is based on the error of pragmatism and can&#8217;t be empirically tested.<\/p>\n<p>By following these three principles, conservatives can engage in productive and effective arguments. Recovering our rhetorical skills and argumentative traditions will enable us to communicate truth, persuading the open-minded that our views are based on reason, rather than emotive and illogical premises.<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-243d6afefe88669540124af228aa2566 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-243d6afefe88669540124af228aa2566\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">   Casey Chalk is a senior contributor at The Federalist and an editor and columnist at The New Oxford Review. He has a bachelor\u2019s in history and master\u2019s in teaching from the University of Virginia and a master\u2019s in theology from Christendom College. He is the author of The Persecuted: True Stories of Courageous Christians Living Their Faith in Muslim Lands.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0 \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve heard them a thousand times. Banning interventions such as puberty blockers and hormones for transgender-identifying minors will be a \u201cdirect cause\u201d of suicide. Restrictions on abortion are a direct attack on human rights. And rejecting the curriculum of the Advanced Placement African American Studies course is \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cwhite supremacist.\u201d All of these arguments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":658,"featured_media":1913703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[15571,9908,7557,4084,17312,3753,8464],"class_list":["post-1913702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-debates","tag-exposing","tag-lack","tag-lefts","tag-logic","tag-political","tag-tips"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}