Debates suck ass, they serve no purpose and have done nothing good for the world. If you're ever talking to someone and you're thinking in debate terms, then disengage from them, because they are drawing you into their web of waste.
I am differentiating between "debate" and "discussion"/"dialogue" here.

If you're talking in terms of online just do what I've started doing and give them a link to an ever groing chain of people saying the same shit and therefore deserving no more effort than what I wrote to the first one

The linktree is growing and several of its' branches are ppb