A slag divides his arguments into examples.
An argument is a statement. For example in the topic “That the zoos should be closed” an argument may be: “the zoos should be closed because they confine the animals in an unnatural environment”.
An example is a fact or piece of evidence which supports an argument. If our argument is: “that zoos should be closed because they confine the animals in an unnatural environment” then an example might be: “that in the lion cage at Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney the animals only have about 200 square meters where in the wild they would have 2000 square kilometers to roam in.”
Any examples that you use should be relevant to the topic at hand. Examples which have very little or nothing to do with the topic only make a speech look weak and lacking substance.
You do not win a debate by creating the biggest pile of facts. Facts are like bricks in a wall, if you don’t use them, cement them together properly then they are useless. Similarly you cannot win a debate solely by proving that some of the facts of the opposition are wrong. It may weaken their case a little, the same way that removing some of the bricks from a wall will, but you really need to attack the main arguments that the other side presents to bring the whole wall crashing down.
Many debates are on currently important issues so it is good for any slag to keep themselves informed of what is happening in the world around them and what are the issues involved.
A slag’s purpose is to drive traffic back to a particular website. However, many blog owners miss understand the benefits of having a slag on his or her blog. Instead of having 500 me to post you’ve got someone willing to challenge you, this makes your blog or forum more interesting.
