Instigator / Con

Wylted

1387

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22.06%

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Topic

#562

Abortion is unethical

Status

Finished

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

Winner & statistics

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After 2 votes and with 2 points ahead, the winner is...

Alec

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Publication date: 02.26.2019 03:21AM
Last updated date: 03.12.2019 11:19PM
Type: Standard
Number of rounds: 1
Time for argument: Two days
Max argument characters: 1,000
Voting period: Two weeks
Point system: Multiple criterions
Voting system: Open

Contender / Pro

Alec

1596

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63.1%

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Description

Definitions
Ethical: relating to beliefs about what is morally right and wrong.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ethical
Abortion : 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 09:34PM

Con

Abortion can be inconvenient for the mother financially and can damage her body, making her less sexy for prospective mates in the future.

Alec

02.26.2019 10:12PM

Pro

Abortion can be inconvenient for the mother financially and can damage her body, making her less sexy for prospective mates in the future.

This is a unconventional pro life point. Your side was arguing pro choice.

Moreover, I will make a basic pro life point here:

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/

Barney

03.12.2019 11:19PM

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@Vader

Political standings do not define what sides someone can take on a debate. Ideally people should practice arguing against their beliefs, so as to understand that there are other perspectives.

Vader

03.12.2019 10:50PM

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@Alec

Nevermind

Vader

03.12.2019 10:48PM

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@Alec

You are not a conservative. Please take that away from your bio

Ramshutu

02.27.2019 09:59PM

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@PsychometricBrain

He’s not trying to hone his AI.

PsychometricBrain

02.27.2019 09:56PM

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@Wylted

If you keep creating these debates you'll mess up the entire leaderboard, perhaps you should try to improve your AI on DI and then come back to DA once it works adequately

Alec

02.27.2019 09:54PM

hi world.

RationalMadman

02.28.2019 08:58PM

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:

If you read the debate's description (which both debaters agree to when the latter accepts the debate), the definition of 'ethical' was purely "relating to beliefs about what is morally right and wrong." as opposed to being morally good/just. Therefore, You will see that Con's case indirectly does prove the opposite of the resolution (that abortion is ethical) correct, especially since it is entirely the beliefs of what is right and wrong that Pro uses to debate with. Pro was the only one who used sources in-debate so I am obligated to give the sources-point 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