Reminds me of why I was so happy to leave school debate and focus on math and computers where arguments were productive;, and how sad when I realized how relevant school debate nonsense was to actual political and legal reality (about the same time I realized that I should drop out of law school because I cared too much about finding logical answers to questions)
(His post and my post are intelligible to people who spent a few years of their lives on a very specialized academic sport. I'm going to elide explaining all the jargon here.)