Here's an official welcome to EvC Jon Paine with some helpful links.
Glad you decided to add to our diversity. We have a wide variety of forums for your debating pleasure. Obviously I'm a cat person.
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Again, welcome and fruitful debating.
Usually, in a well-conducted debate, speakers are either emotionally uncommitted or can preserve sufficient detachment to maintain a coolly academic approach.-- Encyclopedia Brittanica, on debate