Wait till we all start power scaling power scalers that power scale power scalers. :smithnie:
As the only one who actually gives a shit about powerscaling powerscalers, I'm obviously God Tier.
but ranking them is weird.
It is, I'm just autistic like that. You guys love me anyway though. 💋
@Bogard changed his mind on the only thing that matters
@Veku
I'm aware, but merely a step above Cracker is not enough. It demonstrates the exact inflexibility I bemoan. Even when he does budge, it's only slightly.
Why are you caring about who changes their mind? If the debater is right, the person will not change their mind just to be flexible or whatever.
Hmm, there are a few reasons:
- On priors it's very unlikely that someone would be correct on all their powerscaling opinions.
- For example many of the people who currently believe Admirals ~ Yonkou previously thought the Yonkou were a level above.
- If you cannot change your mind, then discussion with you is pointless. It's fine not to change your mind if you don't see sufficiently convincing arguments to do so, but if there's nothing in principle that could convince you to change your mind on a topic, then there's no point having a debate with you.
- The purpose of a debate is for the parties to through discourse converge on the correct opinions. Ability to change your mind is necessary for that.
- Often times, in debates I would lay out what exactly my partners would need to do to convince me of the alternate position, or alternatively what exactly I would need to see to be convinced of the alternate position.
- I can be convinced that Mihawk is not a top tier for example. If some of the following happened I would revise down my estimate of Mihawk:
- His bounty was revealed and it was below Weevil's or any other former Shichibukai.
- His bounty was revealed and it was below 1.5 billion.
- He was defeated by the Marine force that came to capture him and there was no admiral on board.
- He lost to an Admiral and was unable to push them to solid high difficulty.
- Zoro's final battle on Wano is against a low high tier character and they push him to at least high difficulty.
- Mihawk reveals that he was trying his hardest to beat Vista.
- Mihawk reveals that his WB slash was his strongest attack.
- Mihawk being a top tier is my strongest held opinion of all the powerscaling takes that are contended, and I can in principle change my mind on it. If there was nothing that would make me believe that Mihawk wasn't a top tier, then debating Mihawk's power level status with me would be pointless.
The above opinions aren't about powerscaling in particular, they are my opinions on debates in general. I take discourse
very seriously, and have exacting standards of my partners. I simply apply my standards for debates in general to powerscaling in particular.