Instigator / Con

Wylted

1387

rating

debates

22.06%

won

Topic

#560

Abortion is unethical

Status

Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics

Better arguments

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After 3 votes and with 11 points ahead, the winner is...

Alec

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Publication date: 02.26.2019 02:44AM
Last updated date: 03.12.2019 10:14PM
Type: Standard
Number of rounds: 1
Time for argument: Two days
Max argument characters: 750
Voting period: Two weeks
Point system: Multiple criterions
Voting system: Open

Contender / Pro

Alec

1596

rating

debates

63.1%

won

Description

Definitions:
Abortion: 1 : the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abortion

Round 1

Wylted

02.26.2019 09:32PM

Con

Babies are bad. Therefore we have a moral obligation to murder them.

Alec

02.26.2019 10:14PM

Pro

Abortion is unethical because of the scientific proof that confirms that a fetus is a human being. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/pro-life-pro-science/549308/, which is a left leaning site, confirms this. A fetus has all the necessary chromosomes to be alive and they meet all the necessary criteria to be alive. Moreover, if a woman does not want a kid for whatever reason, she can set the kid up for adoption or use the 5 filter process to find someone willing to take care of the child.

I would like to show a few pictures of an abortion to show how unethical it is:

https://me.me/i/this-is-a-human-fetus-at-12-weeks-still-think-15728751

https://www.abortionno.org/abortion-photos/

I am out of characters.

Alec

02.26.2019 12:34PM

#12

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@Wylted

Good luck in this endeavor.

Wylted

02.26.2019 03:22AM

#11

I am creating an artificial intelligence which is self learning to master various popular debate topics, starting with abortion.

Alec

02.26.2019 03:20AM

#10

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@Wylted

???

Wylted

02.26.2019 03:14AM

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@Alec

This is an experiment and my position does not matter, o ly my ability to grow tge AI's brain

Alec

02.26.2019 03:08AM

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@Wylted

con is the pro choice side.

Wylted

02.26.2019 02:57AM

I intend to be con

Wylted

02.26.2019 02:56AM

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@Alec

I am collecting arguments to recycle later. This is a form of having an artificial intelligence learn debating. Information in the debate and in the voting will be used to make the AI more effective at winning arguments. I am creating a site to expose the brains of the AI soon for anybody interested.

RationalMadman

02.26.2019 02:54AM

Ethical: relating to beliefs about what is morally right and wrong.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ethical

Alec

02.26.2019 02:53AM

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@Wylted

You should delete this debate before someone accepts it.

Alec

02.26.2019 02:51AM

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@Wylted

Do you mean to be pro for this debate?

Wylted

02.26.2019 02:49AM

My argument will brobably use about 100 characters of that limit

RationalMadman

02.26.2019 02:47AM

750 chars

RationalMadman

02.28.2019 08:52PM

Criterion

Con

Tie

Pro

Points

Better arguments

3 point(s)

Better sources

2 point(s)

Better legibility

1 point(s)

Better conduct

1 point(s)

Reason:

Pro uses sources to visually and factually back his points up on the fetus being human and the abortion being graphic-evidence-based immoral. Con baselessly asserts that babies are bad and that, therefore, abortion is immoral but this lacks one thing:

A Foetus, especially in all nations that have legalised abortion, is not a 'baby' for the first two trimesters. Pro doesn't respond to this or bring it up but because this is inherently important to the topic and something all voters are, by default, going to consider it is a flaw in Con's argument as no voter is plausibly going to read 'baby' and go 'foetus' in their brain if they are actually educated on the topic.

PsychometricBrain

02.27.2019 09:45PM

Criterion

Con

Tie

Pro

Points

Better arguments

3 point(s)

Better sources

2 point(s)

Better legibility

1 point(s)

Better conduct

1 point(s)

Reason:

Con asserted that babies are bad without backing up this assertion and then concluded that we therefore ought to kill them which does not seem to follow from the afformentioned premise. While I disagree with Alec's views, he presented an argument that foetuses are humans, backed this up with evidence, and concluded that therefore abortions are immoral as they end the life of a human which seems valid to me. Therefore, arguments to Pro

Ramshutu

02.27.2019 05:46PM

Criterion

Con

Tie

Pro

Points

Better arguments

3 point(s)

Better sources

2 point(s)

Better legibility

1 point(s)

Better conduct

1 point(s)

Reason:

Clearly a troll argument from con, that I do not believe I am obliged to accept. Short number of characters and rounds makes this hard to judge, but this goes to pro as con does not appear to have even tried