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#3216
YOU CHOOSE A TOPIC
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After 5 votes and with 35 points ahead, the winner is...
DeadFire27
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- 3
- Time for argument
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- Two weeks
- Point system
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Description
Opponent must present a topic and framework in the chat. I will agree with a specific resolution and debate that topic.
ONLY RULE IS NO TROLLISH TOPICS.
Any suggested changes to the debate will be implemented.
Round 1
Thank you janesix for joining this debate.
PRELUDE:
My opponent has apparently not read the description and accepted this debate before I accepted the offer. However, as a good sport, I am willing to debate this to the end. Good luck CON.
THBT: The Mandela Effect is Real
BURDEN OF PROOF:
The burden of proof is always on the person who brings a claim in a dispute. It is often associated with the Latin maxim semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit, a translation of which in this context is: "the necessity of proof always lies with the person who lays charges."[2] In civil suits, for example, the plaintiff bears the burden of proof that the defendant's action or inaction caused injury to the Plaintiff, and the Defendant bears the burden of proving an affirmative defense. Burden of proof (law) - Wikipedia
Seeing as there is proof that the Mandela Effect is real, CON holds the responsibility to prove otherwise.
FRAMEWORK:
Another thing I specified in my description is that the person suggesting the subject must provide a framework, a argument frame, the goal of PRO and CON, and which person is on which side. For the sake of argument, I will fulfill the necessary goal of proving the Mandela Effect is real. I will allow my opponent one more round to provide a framework.
ARGUMENT 1: "Luke, I am your father"
The first thing we have to clear up is, what is the Mandela Effect?
"The Mandela Effect refers to a situation in which a large mass of people believes that an event occurred when it did not." What Is the Mandela Effect? (verywellmind.com)
My opponent has given me a resolution where my only goal is to prove that the Mandela Effect is real.
REAL: actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed. - Oxford Languages
Since there has been an occurrence of the Mandela Effect, with confirmations by a lot of people, it is safe to assume the effect is real. Consider the following syllogism:
P1: Mandela Effect has happened.
P2: Something that happened cannot be fake.
R: The Mandela Effect is real.
P1: THE MANDELA EFFECT HAPPENED.
If you saw Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back, you probably remember Darth Vader uttering the famous line, "Luke, I am your father."You might be surprised to learn, then, that the line was actually, "No, I am your father." Most people have memories of the line being the former rather than the latter.
I myself can relate to this.
P2: SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED CANNOT BE FAKE.
Imagine WWII. We know it happened. We have proof, we have testimonies, and we have artifacts. It happened. So, how could it be fake?
So, the Mandela Effect is real.
Deadfire27
Forfeited
Round 2
My opponent has forfeited a round in a 3 round debate. In an effort to maintain fairness, I will not make any new arguments, and will carry my arguments to the next round. I sincerely hope that my opponent will be here for Round 2.
Forfeited
Round 3
I claim my last win before I leave.
Forfeited
By assuming that the Mandela Effect(as even an arbitrary idea ascending semantics), one must accept that there is a "right" reality and history in the first place, which cannot be proven.
I seem to have made a mistake on the Burden of Proof. It's shared, not on you.
Thanks for Bones on the clarifcation:
"The burden of proof lies on that who makes an assertion, but generally in debates on this cite, it's shared. Looking at your Mandela debate, you should prove why the effect is real, and janesix should rebutt and make their case."
- Bones
Sure, the subject seems simple enough.
Ok sorry, I didn't know that. Do you want to do the debate?
I need to give approval for a subject, but ok...
The Mandela Effect is real.
A shame, truly. There have been a few times I've seen votes and thought "Well. They're just wrong."
Fixed!
I said what you said but lowered it to 3 for example where .9999 becomes an awkward 2.999999 with a seven at the end. Such examples indeed proved it can't possibly be equal to the number that when multiplied by 3 makes 3.0000... however, voters here aren't all intelligent... So yeah
While I presume you're referring to 0.99r = 1, I did present other options as well.
It's not exactly "blind" if you expect people to present their debate resolution before you accept.
Ok... just solidified the fact that I cannot debate you on that topic.
Oh, and also I forgot to add:
When I first read the debate I mentioned, I literally sat down with post-it notes for about an hour trying to figure out what was happening lmao. That's how I figured out the rebuttal that I said in my previous comment.
Yes, I did indeed read through one of the debates from the quality debates section (the beginning arguments at least) and I disagree that it is equal to 1. The one with TNBinc, to be specific.
The mathematical proof that pro provided in said debate involved performing mathematical operations on a number that is infinite in length, and if you've seen the infamous "Proof That 1=2", the critical flaw of which is that you must divide by 0, it is much the same. Your opponent attempts to prove it with the following
x= 0.99r
10x=9.99r
10x=9+0.99r
9x=9
x=1
However, since x is equal to 0.99r, and 9x means you are multiplying it 9 times, what do we see when we multiply 9x9 or 0.99999x9? What we see is that the final digit, no matter how many decimals you add, must be 1. This obviously can't be the case with a number of infinite length, as there cannot meaningfully be an end to it, and thus we see a clear demonstration that the mathematics of real numbers aren't applicable.
Another way of thinking about it is that when you multiply 0.99x9 and get 8.91, you can get the result by multiplying 0.99x10-0.99 . When you multiply by 10, you effectively move the decimal point one number backwards, and all numbers are multiplied by 10 and become 1 denomination (I guess would be the word?) higher (a thousandth becomes a hundredth, a hundredth becomes a tenth, etc...) and in this case we get 9.9. Let's place a zero where the hundredth that's now a tenth used to be and get 9.90. Doing multiplication this way (multiplying by 9 by multiplying by 10 and then subtracting a multiple of 1) shows the problem: the 0.99 should always have one more non-zero number that is a decimal than the 9.9, which is impossible if the 9s continue infinitely for both values.
Also just the common sense approach. 1+0.999r does not equal 2. It doesn't have a value of 1, the number is lower than 1, it is literally a decimal between 0 & 1, and so for practical purposes we can round it, but it's not equal.
Of course, it would seem much of mathematics disagrees with me, but that's how I'd argue it, at least.
You're Con to it beinf equal to 1? I agree and have doscussed it in 2-3, iterations of the debate in my earlier days here (not earliest but close to it). Did you read them?
I know that 0.99r has been done, but the way that I would argue it is completely different than the way it was argued. Performing mathematical operations on inifities is irrational, which was what the proof rested on.
I mentioned unions despite how broad it was just to see your general confidence in the topic. Something like "all workers ought to be unionized" or something like that. I'd be pro in that scenario.
Maybe something like "COVID-19 Vaccines Shouldn't Be Patented" (like how Pfizer-BioNTech own the intellectual property of the vaccine).
You might have to be more specific about the Union's thing. And 0.99999r equals 1 has been done. I've read it, and I don't want to stress too much.
Maybe something about unions? 0.9999r equals 1?