Debating for the sake of argument is futile.
That isn't logical.
It's debating for the sake of argument to you, not to me. And it's like that for you because you won't entertain conflicting narratives that threaten your reality.
It's perfectly acceptable to challenge things. You don't need to prescribe to what you are challenging because then you wouldn't be challenging it, would you?
So the idea that I have to only debate something based on the reality I am challenging is like trying to normalize madness. You might not see it but that's your expectation. All debate is debate that agrees with your argument and doesn't challenge it. Madness is acceptable. Sanity is not.
If you fall into entertaining the madness and start giving in to the illogical, irrational and downright dangerous belief systems, you propagate the madness. The madness becomes normalized. If we do this en masse society becomes mad. We end up like we did in medieval times for example where mind contagion spread across the Western world and the end result was something akin to mass psychosis.
As I said earlier, illogical arguments are difficult to counter because of their very nature. People will respond with emotional reactions, which is why you see YouTube videos on people losing their sh*t over political debates on the street. Notice how it can often come away from rational logical and meaningful debate and then becomes about primitive impulsive behaviour. It's usually the ones who are not actually in grounded in how things work who lose their sh*t which creates a cascading effect. Look at SJW's for example. Most of their rhetoric is based on romantic and completely grandiose visions of a world that will never materialize. Their response to challenges are always to parrot a narrative they rely on that isn't conducive and is corrosive to society. But because of how deluded they are they don't see it and if we allow that narrative to become reality, we end up with what we were challenging in the first place. As you can see in society that's things like cancel culture, tearing down statues, inciting riots and huge social unrest, education establishments destroying centuries of progress, it's a type of fascism in a way or communism. But... it's normalized. It's normalized because logic, common sense and reasoning went out of the window and pressure came about to stand down and to give in.
So what you are saying is debate shouldn't happen at all. It's okay to pretend to debate so long as the narrative remains the same.
This leads on to mass hysteria and potentially psychosis in populations who begin to become infected by the mind contagion that propagates the narrative. They do give up and because the external stimulus is so compelling they believe doing so is the right thing to do. This is how we end up in tyranny.
In totalitarian states, this is used deliberately to turn the population into victims and turns the rulers into God-like figures. It's all based on delusions that are propagated by illogical and completely nonsensical beliefs and expectations, along with waves of fear and terror to send them on a rollercoaster of a journey enhancing the chance of them being desperate for a solution. The solution as we all know is complete control but the population will ask for that if it frees them from their suffering. Both rulers and population are deluded and live in a dangerous dynamic. This is why we rid ourselves (or so we believe) of these ideologies. And why we always look to China and North Korea as the barbarians who use this kind of inhumane action on their population.