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No, winning is good but losing is also useful - we ought to permanently eliminate from the corpus any argument that fails. Even if it wouldn't fail against a blockhead without the intellectual muscle to finesse a counter.
Losing is a lot more informative if we build on what we learned last time, don't you think?
If you permanently eliminate from the gene pool any genes that aren't currently working efficiently, your ability to evolve is limited.