The idea is great, being open your ideas being challenged in public, and being able to argue for them. But in practice, that's not how it goes. Whoever talks faster, and is more skilled with "debating" has a clear advantage, regardless of whether they actually believe in their ideas or not. Regardless of whether their ideas are good. As long as you can present them as being such, you can have the upper hand.
I didn't know a thing about Charlie Kirk before he got shot. But you have a similar example in the streamer Destiny. He does the same thing, primarily does online "debates", but he's also visited a few colleges. But in the end, it's literally his job, it's his life mission to do this, he knows his subject well, he knows the tricks of the trade, he has great control of his emotions, all of which give him a huge advantage over anyone else. If you pit him and some random college student up against him, the student will almost certainly look worse by the end.
The same can happen even with people more educated than him.
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The idea is great, being open your ideas being challenged in public, and being able to argue for them. But in practice, that's not how it goes. Whoever talks faster, and is more skilled with "debating" has a clear advantage, regardless of whether they actually believe in their ideas or not. Regardless of whether their ideas are good. As long as you can present them as being such, you can have the upper hand.
I didn't know a thing about Charlie Kirk before he got shot. But you have a similar example in the streamer Destiny. He does the same thing, primarily does online "debates", but he's also visited a few colleges. But in the end, it's literally his job, it's his life mission to do this, he knows his subject well, he knows the tricks of the trade, he has great control of his emotions, all of which give him a huge advantage over anyone else. If you pit him and some random college student up against him, the student will almost certainly look worse by the end.
The same can happen even with people more educated than him.
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