(July 3, 2009 at 4:21 am)Arcanus Wrote: Just a question. Are debates restricted to two protagonists? What about debates where there is one protagonist and one antagonist? Consider an hypothetical debate, "God is necessary for morality": could not Smith argue in favour with Jones arguing against? Smith's introductory post would describe why God is necessary for morality, while Jones' would describe why he is not. Then Smith would rebut the material in Jones' introductory post, Jones would rebut Smith's... and on goes the debate.
Personally, I think that this scenario is the most preferable, otherwise these kind of debates will simply turn into a slanging match with everyone giving their opinion.
However, after a reasonable period of debate has elapsed it might be nice to open the debate to questions from others, or the audience if you will. But making sure that the those who ask questions limit their enquiries to those two main debaters and don't start debating each other.
Did you have a topic in mind?
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