Better Arguments

Hey /pol/, I figured this should be here. What books should I read to strengthen my arguments and become a better debater? I know of 9 fallacies, should I learn more in order to pinpoint and defeat the opposing argument?

>>18
Politicians choose their lies based on what they can get away with and warping the truth enables them to get away with more. In the past rulers could claim to be appointed by god but now they have to be more subtle, like smearing political opponents who oppose interventionism as being kooky isolationists as you say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekCByuXIGr8&t=2m40s

>>21
You will find many patterns and logical fallacies and things that crop up in different arguments, like the false dichotomy and also the gaussian function which can represent the price mechanism but also things like the amount of attention the police pay to petty crime, a police force that ignores petty crime will fail to nip bad behavior in the bud, if they take draconian measures against petty crime then they end up wasting their time arresting law abiding citizens for peeing behind a bush while real criminals run rampant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_function

It's good to develop quick easy ways to convey these concepts to people.

>>21
So the gaussian function for the police attitude to petty crime would have their effectiveness at reducing crime on the vertical axis and the amount of time and resources they spend on tackling petty crime on the horizontal axis. Initially as they spend more and more resources tackling petty crime it has a positive effect on crime reduction but eventually it becomes excessive and a waste of resources that could be used elsewhere.