Debate

Rules
The purpose of a debate is hardly to convince. Just remember how hard it is to change your own mind and you will realize how hard it is to change someone else's. A debate is about: 1) Understanding someone else's framework about a topic, 2) Challenging your own framework and test their consistency 3) Create spaces in others to let them proceed new information.

We talk ideas not persons
You should not leat a belief that defines an entire person. If you do not defend people with opposite viewpoints from time to time, people will be right to call you a hater. Each situation is individual and context should be applied every time. Just because someone disagrees with you in the past, does not mean they will always be wrong, neither should you rejoice when they go through hardship. You must be able to highlight flaws and defend what is right.

It gives you more credibility when you denounce and when you defend. It is about the ideas, never the persons.