Response paper # 5
Law 21 play sucker to chatch a sucker- seem dumber than your mark
No one likes feeling stupider than the next person. The trick, then, is to make your victim feel smart- and not just smart, but smarter than you are. Once convinced of this, they will never suspect that you may have ulterior motives.
I think this law may help as a debater because you trick your opponent . You make them think they might be winning the debate and believe you are not good a debating. But of course it will just be a trick and try to make the opponent convince themselves that they are better than you but at the end you will have new moves, new ideas to wicken the opponent and make a move towards winning the debate.
Law 41 Avoid stepping into a great man’s shoes
What happens first always appears better and more original than what comes after. If you succeed a great man or have a famous parent, you will have to acomplish double their achievements to outstand them. Do not get lost in their shadow, or stuck in apast not of your own making: establish your own name and identity by changing course. Slay the overbearing father , disparage his legacy, and gain power by shining in your own way.
This law pushes anyone to try to succeed and be better as a person and not look at what others have done because nothing they’ve done will be your key to shine as a person. Each one has to work hard to achieve their own goals and succeed by what you’ve done and not by what others have done. Just how this law ends “ gain power by shinig your own way” each person needs to shine by what they’ve accomplished in life and reseive what they deserve based on their hard work. And a debater this law will help in becoming a better person and working hard to achieve your goal of winning by your own