I think @ActiveMind is saying there’s a lot of social dynamics in debate. I think there would for sure be social dynamics in adversarial debates. They might even be in cooperative debates too.
At first I thought that @ActiveMind said that there’s a lot of trying to win in debates. How are social dynamics and trying to win debates related? I forget that when one is trying to win at the expense of truth-seeking that’s what adversarial debates are about.