Instigator / Pro
4
1252
rating
378
debates
39.95%
won
Topic
#5873

Child spankers should be punished in most cases

Status
Finished

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

Winner & statistics
Winner
4
0

After 4 votes and with 4 points ahead, the winner is...

Best.Korea
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
1
Time for argument
One week
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One month
Point system
Winner selection
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
0
1500
rating
1
debates
0.0%
won
Description

Child spankers are people who spank children.

Round 1
Pro
#1
The premises here are simple.

P1. If spanking harms children in most cases, then child spankers should be punished in most cases.
P2. Spanking harms children in most cases.
C. Child spankers should be punished in most cases
(C = Topic)


P1 

P1 is very much a moral truism. Those who harm children should be punished in some way to discourage the harming of children.
The punishment doesnt have to be severe, but just enough to reduce the practice.
Harming children harms all future generations, thus harms the truth which they would discover, as well as it harms great number of people. Future generations are in much greater number than current generations.

P2.

Very much all scientific research tells that spanking is either harmful, or in some cases just without any positive effects. This information is easily available on google.
Spanking produces pain, thus it harms children by tautology, since pain is harm.
Since it has no positive effects, and even countries like Sweden proved that spanking can be reduced and banned legally, while banning and reducing of spanking hasnt shown any negative effects, the only conclusion left is that spanking is harmful for children.

Since P1 and P2 are proven beyond reasonable doubt, the conclusion  (topic) logically follows:

C. Child spankers should be punished in most cases.


Con
#2
Forfeited