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Topic
#1101

Will more socialization benefit society?

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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6
Better sources
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4
Better legibility
2
2
Better conduct
0
2

After 2 votes and with 12 points ahead, the winner is...

Wylted
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
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Standard
Number of rounds
4
Time for argument
Two days
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
Two weeks
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
14
1387
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34
debates
22.06%
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Description

Pro: Benefit

Con: Harmful

Due to the nature of this topic, I do not have to prove why anything is moral, You have to prove to me why it is immoral. I will be providing a few reasons why more socialization would be moral however the BoP rests mostly on pro. However, before we begin I would like to define Socialism and the Redistribution of wealth.

Socialism: A state at which they redistribute wealth which is used for the collective good.

Redistribution of Wealth: Redistribution of income and redistribution of wealth are respectively the transfer of income and of wealth (including physical property) from some individuals to others by means of a social mechanism.

Tiwaz is banned from participating in this debate due to him continually pulling red herrings, dodging questions and points, and attempting to character assassinate several people.

If he accepts he completely forfeits the debate.

Not sure why this debate was just reported... If there's a specific reason, someone please let me know.

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@Barney

"The rest of this RFD can be found in the comments section due to character limitations."

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@Discipulus_Didicit

Sorry about that. I'm not one of the moderators. I literally did a word search thought your RFD for "sources," and that was the only part featuring that word.

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@Barney

"I highly advise if giving more than argument points, to single out the other areas with headings for quick review (makes it easy for the admin, and easy to double check yourself in case you forget something)."

I did exactly that lmao. The part of my RFD you quoted just now wasn't even part of the section where I explained why I gave con the source point, it was part of the section where I explained why I gave con points for arguments.

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@Ramshutu

Thank you for clarifying so I could understand your reasoning

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@Wylted
@Discipulus_Didicit

As stated in the removal notice, Dis' vote may be recast without refinement if merely by not assigning source points.

I highly advise if giving more than argument points, to single out the other areas with headings for quick review (makes it easy for the admin, and easy to double check yourself in case you forget something). I have taken to ending my debates with hand feeding voters samples of sources (at least if I believe I earned the point)...

For review, what was not enough to award sources:
>Because the U.S. healthcare system is not currently nationalized it is hard to say how much a nationalized system would cost without performing some sort of in-depth study on the topic. This is what I expected to find when pro said he had sources backing up his claim but since this number appears to be simply pulled out of thin this point is to be disregarded.

What was enough (actually overkill... but compare both sides, and name at least one specific source):
>Sources: Con
>So con repeatedly used a specific source which I am highly biased against. While I assumed I would be leaving this tied due to my bias against con, his source execution ended up overwhelming the strength of the bias.
>Both used a ton of sources, pro stabbed himself in the foot by just throwing them at the end of the rounds, which prevents judges from quickly checking details within them while reading the arguments. This becomes even more important when there’s raw numbers within them.
>Con gained some ground by catching pro misrepresenting details from a source. I’d still leave it tied there, but...
>The source on increased deaths in Canada was incredible, particularly how it was quoted within the debate to prove points.
>Also see: https://www.debateart.com/debates/1101/comment_links/15214

It was near impossible to really assess pros sources as there was little relation between the source and where it was used; and a result, some of the claims made appeared unsupported, and poorly referenced. Even if I were to accept all of pros data was supported in sources, there was no knock out blow, or damning data presented that could have damaged cons case: the New Zealand point came close, but as it wasn’t clear to me where this data came from due to poor referencing - I can’t assess that either

Because of this, I have to award sources to con: though to be fair, I probably would have awarded sources on the health outcome sources alone: this was a shining moment of the debate.

What came to mind here when reading pros point - is what if a Sweden was just an awesome country - and it would be more awesome if it full on was capitalist. Con makes that case by linking socials policy to economic freedoms. The whole argument is a bit shaky here for my liking; but in general con is successful in opening a single crack of doubt over the policy in general.

To conclude on this: while I felt pro got the better on key cases; cons argument about death was devastating and never fully resolved by pro, combined with imo con doing better in life expectancy arguments in general basically demolish pros case even were i to award him the win on all other points. Con successfully argues that socialization could potentially make healthcare worse.

In general, pro offers no other case about socialism or socialization in general; so at this point can’t win. Given con wins the only case presented by pro - and himself introduces at least some doubt into the resolution. In my view this is enough to refute the resolution.

Arguments to con,

Conduct: pro started off with insults, and was petulant throughout with comments like “Great a troll who's lost 14 debates, doesn't take debates seriously and believes the world is flat...”, “he/she is intentionally misrepresenting the point”, “By your insane logic with more deregulation equaling....”

I can’t stand this type of behaviour in debates. Being insulting and petulant is for the forums, or private PMs: not in formal debates.

Conduct to cons

Sources:

Con won this mainly on the strength of his sources related to Canada stroke survival, and cancer survival rates which basically undermines pros entire position with hard data.

In terms of cons main case: con argues that the best countries are the ones with most economic freedom. That socialist policies are antithetical to economic freedom. While I can buy the syllogism in general, what I find hard to square with cons points is that there are countries at or higher on cons list of economic freedoms with higher levels of socialization (as pro points out).

Con does not craft a thesis by which he correlates level of socialization against quality of life or economic freedom. That would have been a pretty compelling argument. Instead he appears to point out bad countries and state these are socialist whilst higher countries are not.

Instead con simply appears to try and tie the idea of socialized medicine, or social programs - which is what it appears pro is trying to talk about, with fully socialist countries as if they correlate.

While I can’t accept this on its face - even less so with pro pointing some of this out - it does at least show there so a point at which more socialization is bad; which muddies the resolution a little, as con definitely show there is a limit at which point socialization becomes bad.

Pro gets lost a little on that point; and while he points out the main issues with cons argument; he doesn’t make an argument addressing the line portion of it.

Con followed this up in a way that crystallized a little better. Though implicit, the issue is that socialism in general terms lowers economic freedom - which is bad. With the data con provided it seems the issue he introduces, that some policies benefit some, but not others - and this may lower the overall benefit for everyone, even considering pros rebuttals, is that more socialization could potentially be beneficial, but the broad brush of the resolution is not guaranteed.

Con reiterates his life expectancy argument; excellently pointing out that Americans are much fatter than Germans, and reiterating that they are also much more likely to be victims of violent crime. Con also pointed out that doctors are not trained to give dietary advice, and socialized medicine is not going to fix these issues (nor are there examples where it has)

In terms of deregulation, con largely misses the main thrust of pros point. The issue is undermined that the specific policies not increased socialization are the cause of the costing problems: while cons thesis of why costs are so high may be accurate - he doesn’t account for why more socialized countries have cheaper healthcare. This seems to contradict his point.

Con adds to his point about deaths caused by increased socialization - I’m going to somewhat lump this in with his point about productivity as they are related. Con wraps this point up pretty well here; using his cancer example again, and arguing that while Canada maybe bad - on what basis does pro believe the US would be any better. This is a very good point.

Finally, while con argues that removing causes of higher prices would be more effective than increasing socialization.

Pro rounds up by what seems at this point to be leaping to conclusions. Con pointed out that life expectancy is driven by many competing factors, such as obesity and violent crime: the issue for me, is that pro is simply trying to cast doubt on cons point more than showing in detail how he can correlate healthcare directly to life expectancy.

For nutrition and diet advice; pro largely misses the point I think con was making; that socialized medicine isn’t going to help, given people don’t often follow dietary advice. Intuitively, it rings true - it’s not like people think Big Macs and Cole are healthy.

In terms of affordability; con provides an argument that the issue with affordability was caused by introduction of socialized policy.

Pro argues that deregulation isn’t the answer, and explains that the US is already the most deregulated, pro goes on to argue that issues like obesity already plague countries with socialized medicine, and these countries nonetheless have higher expectancies.

Pro tries to cast doubt on a fairly solid source, by arguing his is also solid, and offering some reasons why cons source may not be accurate or may not apply.

The issue here is that it’s not enough now to throw a bit of doubt on cons point. Pro has to go into more detail here, as cons argument casts doubt on your methodology, by showing how socialized
Medicine can increase deaths in some ways. While I don’t expect a full proof of deaths, I need to see more firm examples than “look at Australia”.

From the cost benefit side, pro does better; pointing out almost all other countries have lower cost healthcare despite being socialized; and that it would make more sense going for systems that work, rather than ones that may not.

The benefit of this argument here, is that pro undermines cons position that the expensive is due to socialization itself: by pointing out other countries don’t have the problem. For this con has to do more to show me that socialization specifically that is the problem rather than the specific policy.

To start off with, my main issues with pros opening is that the resolution is broadly stated; but is opening argument is limited and narrow concerning healthcare.

Frankly there’s so little attempt from pro to talk about the resolution as stated in general, that he does himself no favours here.

I’m going to deal with pros case first, and partly summarize. There are lots of small sub points here, and I won’t address them all, unless I felt that they were compelling enough to move me in one direction or another.

Pro starts off with a fairly good justification of socialized medicine. Pointing out it’s cheaper, universal, that it’s quality could be just as good; pointing out issues in the existing us healthcare systems.

While con accepts some of the potential benefits; con points out there are issues with pro linking life expectancy solely with Healthcare: pointing out issues with obesity also have a part to play and aren’t related to healthcare directly. Cons argument relating to deaths was devestating. Whilst the issue of increased deaths to the uninsured, Con brings up a major potential source of deaths in socialized medicine. This highlights the lack of a big picture view from pro.

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@Wylted

Ragnars vote mentioned formatting, but went into much more details, including referencing the decent quality of your Canada source, and how both sides sources affected the debate . Which is why his vote was acceptable.

I am always reluctant to remove such a large vote when most of its okay; I would have preferred for dis to simply clarify the source point rather than removing the whole thing.

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@Ramshutu

Didn't he give the exact same reasoning as ragnar? Just worded differently for sources. This seems like a stretch

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@Discipulus_Didicit

RfD pt3

"I find it troubling that literally, every single country in the world with socialized medicine has statistically WAY lower healthcare costs than the US does."
While con correctly points out that are multiple other factors which explain this there is also the more important fact that con in round two outlined a comprehensive explanation as to why the current level of socialization in our healthcare system is harmful to the medical market by facilitating the type of price gouging that causes such inflated prices in the first place. Instead of addressing cons explanation pro appears to simply dismiss it out of hand:
"Also, my opponent's healthcare plan isn’t a very good plan and has never worked before."

As before, even if cons arguments are not sound pro has to show us that they are unsound rather than simply declaring it to be so. Instead of responding to cons explanation of how the current price gouging is caused by the current level of socialization in the healthcare system pro opts for a simple comparison of countries on a list with little to no context.
With pro being so clearly on the defensive for the majority of the debate and con having established several syllogisms that support their premise I am giving points for arguments in this debate to con.
The rest of this RFD can be found in the comments section due to character limitations.

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@Discipulus_Didicit

RfD pt2:

The next point for arguments that stands out to me is pros claim that nationalized healthcare systems are inherently more efficient financially than privatized healthcare systems. This claim first appears in pros round one and is reiterated in pros round two however the actual numbers used are different each time. Pro claims to have a source for these statistics but no source is ever actually given. Because the U.S. healthcare system is not currently nationalized it is hard to say how much a nationalized system would cost without performing some sort of in-depth study on the topic. This is what I expected to find when pro said he had sources backing up his claim but since this number appears to be simply pulled out of thin this point is to be disregarded.

The next part of the debate, cons round two and pros round three, repeats the pattern of con presenting a syllogism and pro attempting to counter it. With the exception of the weird little Q&A thing pro did (which I will address in the conduct section of this RFD) pro is primarily on the defensive for the rest of the debate, so the question becomes whether pro successfully counters any of the points made by con.

Regarding this the main points of contention centered around the socialization of healthcare, specifically whether increased healthcare socialization would improve living conditions and whether it would be more financially viable to increase or decrease socialization of healthcare.
In round three pro addresses the affordability point by a simple comparison of the U.S. healthcare costs to more socialized countries:

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@Discipulus_Didicit

RfD PT 1

Arguments: The first major hitch with arguments in this debate came in pros round two when he responded to cons round one syllogism. To quote a portion of pros response
"my opponent [cites] statistics to back this poor hypothesis up which don’t need to be debunked since I already proved the hypothesis to be wrong."

It is not immediately clear to me why pro is under the impression that his short list of bullets has 'debunked cons hypothesis' or even what he means about 'cons hypothesis' in the first place. After several re-reads I am forced to assume that the hypothesis being referred to here is the conclusion in cons round one syllogism and that pro has deemed said syllogism faulty due to a perceived flaw in the second premise (if this is an inaccurate interpretation of pros meaning in the above quote I put the blame on a lack of clarity in communication on pros part). Pros main argument for the rest of the round seems to build upon the idea that cons syllogism is faulty but pro never gives a very clear explanation as to why this is the case. Pro simply states the claim that socialistic policies do not damage economic freedom and implies that any policies restricting economic freedom must by definition be fascist rather than socialist in nature. If it is in fact the case that socialistic policies do not actually damage economic freedom then pro needs to back this up by addressing the points raised by con in round one supporting the idea that they do (the last five or so paragraphs in cons round one is what I am referring to). Even if these points made by con are unsound the fact that pro fails to address them means that in a debate setting they are considered valid by default. As for the fascism segment of pros round two this seems like a classic false dichotomy. Pro, the fact that fascism reduces freedom does nothing to show that socialism does not reduce economic freedom.

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@Discipulus_Didicit

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>Reported Vote: Discipulus_Didicit // Mod action: [Removed]
>Points Awarded: 6 points to con for arguments, sources and conduct.

>Reason for Decision: see above and comment #344

Reason for Mod Action> Arguments and Conduct were deemed sufficient: sources were deemed insufficient. The voter may repost the vote without source point award by referencing the comments.

The voter appears to base his source award primarily on formatting, rather than the overall impact these sources had on the debate.

The voter must
- Explain, on balance, how each debater's sources impact the debate

- directly evaluate at least one source in particular cited in the debate and explain how it either bolstered or weakened the argument it was used to support

- explain how and why one debater's use of sources overall was superior to the other's

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Too lazy to actually articulate my reasoning because at the moment the winner looks to be clear based on scoring, but I believe Wylted won this debate

In case anyone was reading the off topic comments for entertainment, King_8 continued it with an emotional outpouring about it on another debate (https://www.debateart.com/debates/1137/comment_links/15624):

"They apparently think that I have some alt account voting in my favor which simply isn't true. No concrete proof, just assumptions. He's just my friend and he counted Franklin's vote but Ragnar spread lies about me to bsh1. So dont pay attention to any of that. That has nothing to do with me. People just love to push my buttons on here and be problematic because they are unhappy with their selves. So now because of that, I'm being banned. All because of Ragnar. I don't mind though because these bias mods never come to my aid when unfair things that does not go with CoC happens to me. Don't care because I planned on quitting this site. I don't deal with people like this. Sorry for the inappropriate behavior, thanks for the debate."

Congrats Wylted. You probably will win.

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@Barney

I just don't want to be last place among all active debaters. Kind of embarrassing, especially after being top 10 on a debate site where it is much much harder to be top 10. So I decided I will stop being easy to defeat here, It is tough because the voting is so terrible on this site compared to how good it was on DDO for a certain amount of time, and nearly always taking the unpopular position it makes winning harder here than on DDO.

As far as your back and forth with KIng, I think it is a waste of time and your time is better spent elsewhere, but I don't care. I only get alerts on comments when my name is mentioned.

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@Barney

"But he should be gone by now" okay. Everything is coming together now. So apparently you messaged bsh1 and persuaded him with your lies telling him Game was my alt when he isn't. Lmfao but I'm done, yall can think whatever the hell y'all want to think. Its only right for everybody to hop on the King_8 hate train. Good job getting someone banned based off a huge lie. Miserable people will stay miserable. Can't handle me so you gotta get me banned lmao bet. And I am FAR from done. Last comment. You've done me a favor, thanks. I was gonna quit this site anyways.

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@Wylted
@Pinkfreud08

Sorry for that distraction from your debate. I should not have engaged, but he should be gone now...

Wylted:
I fully agree with you on "It is better to not be undefeated as silly as that sounds."

Pink:
I suspect the reason Wylted did so well was your opening comments pissed him off, encouraging him to put in extra effort. It can be a useful tactic against the weak willed, as exemplified by me recently getting someone confused as to which of their alt accounts they posted something...

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@Barney

If someone bumped into me and looked at me wrong I would talk to them at first and see what problem is, and if it escalates, it escalates. You ignored 75% of my last comment. Speaks volumes. I guess your parents did fail you. Don't ever talk about my family.

Who am I denying association? You mean Game lord? And no I'm not asking about being coddled. Just pointing out bias and seeking resolution

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@King_8

Your analogy would work had someone bumped into you or looked at you the wrong way and you responded by punching them in the face. Remember, your retaliation is 7 points worse than the damage done on a 7 point scale. And you say that's how your mother raised you... Someone hurts your precious feelings and you respond with violence.

>"Pink retaliated vote against you in some of your debates, so you know he's full of shit. Yet and still you are taking up for his inexcusable behavior." ... "I complained because of bullsh*t votes people gave me. Not people being 'better voters than me'"
As seen, a user who shares your name who you are now denying association with (the first quote) made the complaint about Pink's superior voting habits not being complained about (reminder, his retaliation was to cast fair votes).

>"I'm not asking to get coddled at all."
See: half your messages in here.

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@Barney

Ah, I understand now. We obviously have two completely different mindsets. Apparently our parents raised us differently. I'm sorry but my mother taught my to stand up for myself and not take shit from other people. This ignorant mindset of "let it go/ignore it" from people is sad. By your logic, if someone gets punched in the face and ignore it and walk away, instead of punching that person right back, or defending themselves, that means that their parents are great role-models lol. For every action there's a reaction. If I get disrespected, I'm reacting. Instead of pointing the blame at the person taking up for what's right, pay attention to the person who initiated the problem in the beginning. Discipline and responsibility has absolutely nothing to do with this. My mother raised me very well. Lol failings? The hell thats supposed to mean? Yikes. You're really upset. You got this misunderstood. I complained because of bullsh*t votes people gave me. Not people being "better voters than me" are you dumb? I'm not asking to get coddled at all. Again, you have this big misconception. All I'm asking for is a resolution. I even messaged all of the mods professionally as an adult about the situation. So now you want to talk about my mother? You're reaching a whole other side you don't want to reach. Trust me. Like I said, obviously we operate completely different, and from your words, I can tell that your parents must be shit role-models and completely failed you in life. And that's the simple truth. You want to keep talking about my mother, then bet. I'll bring yours into this as well. I could understand how you somehow think my mother isn't a great role model and that I've cast the opposite picture of her. It's because we were raised completely differently, as in I don't take bullshit, and you take bullshit. You can think whatever the hell you want of me. You don't know me from a can of paint so the bullshit you say is extremely invalid.

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@King_8

>"I've had plenty role-models in my life besides my mother. I'm also an adult so I'm not some kid. ... Don't ever disrespect me"
Then act like an adult instead an of overgrown brat. Don't whine about how "bias/unfair treatment" as an excuse to commit objectively worse things, then play whataboutism pretending you should have impunity to do whatever you want as if your parents failed to teach you discipline and responsibility for your failings. You complain that other people are not offended by other people being better voters than you. Oh and quit the site because people don't coddle you, but fail to ever leave because you want to complain some more about not getting coddled. ... Need I go on? This is not evidence of your mother being "a great role model," you've cast quite the opposite picture of her.

>"Rap battles don't have to be so formal."
You're right that they don't, but as long as they stay informal they are unmoderated. Solutions to your exact problem have been offered, but instead of using them or moving on, you cast 7point vote bombs in retaliation for 0 point mild nuisances... Another thing you could do is use the built in Judicial decision voting system; moderators will still not be involved, but since they're fake news or whatever you probably would prefer to not have them.

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@Barney

(1/2)

> "Also you desperately need better role-models in your life."
Yikes. First of all bird, you don't know me from a can of paint, so how are you gonna sit your ignorant ass up here and make such a bold statement? Can parents not be role-models? My mother is a great role model to me. Do you have some sort of deep rooted parental issues for you to assume that parents can't be role-models? For your information I've had plenty role-models in my life besides my mother. I'm also an adult so I'm not some kid. I'm also a role-model to others, so yeah. Let that sink in. Don't ever disrespect me.

Rap battles don't have to be so formal. Even if I did make it like that (which I'd never), I doubt people or mods would see it as a normal debate and vote accordingly. I'm also sure that mods would still consider it a troll debate since it's a rap battle, no matter how "formal" it is. I lay out pretty distinctive and concise rules in my battles, particularly the 4 categories and the voting criteria. It's a long and thought out description. I'd say that's enough for it to be taken seriously but unfortunately it isn't. So what you just presented wouldn't work either most likely.

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@Barney

(2/2)

Let me explain this once again because I don't think your brain is grasping anything.

Your initial comment:
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https://www.debateart.com/debates/1049/vote_links/2721 (Link 1) <<<
Just a counter vote bomb. Complaining of this one, makes no zero sense unless the vote bomb countered was from a personal friend or alt account.

https://www.debateart.com/debates/1113/vote_links/2725 (Link 2) <<<
A tied vote. I can agree that it is childish, but it's a no harm done situation.

https://www.debateart.com/debates/1120/vote_links/2711 (Link 3) <<<
A tied vote... And better, King_8's friend or alt account voted in King_8's favor as a counter to it (So good at math! No one's better at math!).
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When I said "So now, GameLord is my alternate account?" it was in response to your last statement (Link 3). I never said responded to your comment in your first statement that said "makes no zero sense unless the vote bomb countered was from a personal friend or alt account". What I responded to in your first statement (Link 1) was about the counter vote bomb. It doesn't have to be a personal friend or alt account for it to be a counter vote lol. I don't even know Gamelord, he just got on this site. I already explained that his counter vote had nothing to do with me and he counter voted Pink because Pink counter voted him.

What you've done was mixed up your own points. You took my comment that was meant for Link 3 and put it with Link 1. Proof of what you said:
>"GameLord is my alternate account?"
Nice strawperson. As seen "no zero sense unless the vote bomb countered was from a personal friend or alt account." Which the trends suggest "personal friend," but still leave the primary possibility of "zero sense."

Hopefully you understand now, Mr. intellectual integrity....keep telling yourself that to make you feel better. You meant what you wrote but it was for the wrong point.

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@King_8

I guess you're not leaving after all. I was not replying because we already said our goodbyes...

To the most important points: No, I meant exactly what I wrote. As someone with intellectual integrity, this is usually the case. ... Also you desperately need better role-models in your life.

As for your problem of wanting troll debates to be judged like real debates: Have you considered making them real debates? It could be along the lines of 'Resolution: King_8 is a better rapper than opponent. R1 and R2 are raps, R3 onward is normative arguments about which raps were superior by the following standards... Note: This is not a troll debate or a rap battle, it is a debate about raping ability.'

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@Barney

(edit)

Unless when you said "As seen "no zero sense unless the vote bomb countered was from a personal friend or alt account." Which the trends suggest "personal friend," but still leave the primary possibility of "zero sense." -- you actually meant that I should complain if Gamelord is my alt. Plus, I only replied to the "tied" thing. What this means is that you assumed twice that he's an alt. But as I said, you can think whatever you want. I'm not here to prove or disprove anything to you. I'm talking about the bias things that has happened. In any case, I was only focused on the comment, "And better, King_8's friend or alt account voted in King_8's favor as a counter to it". I wasn't strawmanning

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@Barney

(1/2)

1. I don't care about this debate, I am talking about my debates.

2. I did complain about the counter vote from Pink. GameLord's vote was just fine, and it went along with my rules in description. He addressed all 4 categories on his RFD. Its just a rap battle with 4 categories required. No one needs to write a full novel as their RFD like on normal debates.

3. I'm not reading sh*t, I'm through with this site. If mods are on my ass every second then they need to be the same way with other people instead of favoritism. Like I said, it's bias.

4. Parents have nothing to do with the bias/unfair treatment comment. Bias exists everywhere, unfairness exists everywhere, even in the work force. It runs deeper, look at racism. Fact of the matter is this is unfair treatment and bias which I've clearly proven. Its not like I threw a temper tantrum and acting like a baby. I'm not seeking pity, I'm seeking a solution. I'm just calling out the facts. I grew up being the only child, I don't have siblings. So I never experienced bias or unfairness, even if I did - that wouldnt even happen because that's not how my mother is. So your parent comment falls flat.

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@Barney

(2/2)

>"As seen "no zero sense unless the vote bomb countered was from a personal friend or alt account." Which the trends suggest "personal friend," but still leave the primary possibility of "zero sense."

5. Your comment above correlated with this link: https://www.debateart.com/debates/1049/vote_links/2721 (Rap battle part 2). I never addressed that comment. I'm replying to your comment that said "And better, King_8's friend or alt account voted in King_8's favor as a counter to it." Link: https://www.debateart.com/debates/1120/vote_links/2711 (Rap battle 6) not "Complaining of this one, makes no zero sense unless the vote bomb countered was from a personal friend or alt account." (Which was for Rap battle 2)

On top of that, when you said "personal friend or alt account" you were referring to Pinkfreud. Not me or Gamelord. Pinkfreud is the one who countervoted on Rap battle part 2. You must have confused yourself in the midst of all of these points.

>"Where are your complaints about his vote bomb in your favor? See vote: https://www.debateart.com/debates/1120/vote_links/2711"

6. Like I said before, that had nothing to do with me. He counter voted Pink because Pink countervoted him. I never asked him to go and counter vote Pink. I didn't even know he was going to do it. And I can't really complain though because the vote ended up in my favor. You may think GameLord is an alt account all you like. I frankly don't give a damn.

7. You just admitted that Pink retaliated vote against you in some of your debates, so you know he's full of shit. Yet and still you are taking up for his inexcusable behavior.

8. You don't need to wish me luck. I'm gucci. Plus I know you're being sarcastic anyways. I'm beyond this. I do bigger and better things.

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@King_8

To repeat myself: "Did you miss ... The lack of any damage done by voting ties? Or the lack of any relevance towards the shit vote in question on this debate?"

>"it should be taken seriously and be at the same standards as other debates"
If you believed this, you would have complained about the vote (https://www.debateart.com/debates/1049/vote_links/2559) for failing to meet the rigorous standards expected of votes on real debates. For starters, it lacked comparative analyse on each of the categories voted, which is one of the basic requirements when voting on real debates.

>"crazy..."
Before you continue on this site, you should really read the following two pages:
1. https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/346
2. https://www.debateart.com/rules

>"bias and unfair treatment."
Do you really expect a line like that to gain you anything from people who aren't your parents? Maybe we'll say 'that poor baby. Everyone stop what you'rte doing, a baby needs pity!' But it's highly unlikely.

>"GameLord is my alternate account?"
Nice strawperson. As seen "no zero sense unless the vote bomb countered was from a personal friend or alt account." Which the trends suggest "personal friend," but still leave the primary possibility of "zero sense."
Where are your complaints about his vote bomb in your favor? See vote: https://www.debateart.com/debates/1120/vote_links/2711
It is a vote which was intended to harm the outcome of the debate, thus creating real damage. That you say it had nothing to do with you, while mimicking your behaviors, does give weight (not conclusive weight) to the third possibility that he's an alt account.

As for Pink's votes... The places to discuss those in depth are where he cast the votes. I will however say of him related to this debate that he retaliated my voting against him by voting on some of my debates (I objectively won those debates, and as an adult that was how he voted).

Good luck where-ever you go.

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@Barney

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>Reported Vote: Ragnar // Mod action: [Not Removed]
>Points Awarded: 6 points to con for arguments sources and conduct.
>Reason for Decision: See vote/comments.
Reason for Mod Action> Arguments are sufficient as per the voting guidelines.

The voter clearly assess the main arguments - and presents an explanation of why each side won (or didn’t), each argument and presents a weighting at the end. The voter also clearly outlines the poor conduct behaviour, and explains why this was worthy of a violation. The voter also compares sources and explains how the different sources impacted the debate appropriately.
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@Barney

(1/2)

Briefly seen your comment initially but didn't really give a f*ck then but I'm addressing it now since people want to see me as the bad guy of course.

Rap battles should not be considered as troll votes. Yes, they aren't actual debates about worldly issues or what have you but nevertheless, if there's two serious opponents engaging in a rap battle, then it should be taken seriously and be at the same standards as other debates. Especially with me being a serious opponent because I work hard in my rap battles. Before I continue, you and other people who are excusing Pink's actions need to stop giving him excuses. Whether it's a moderated vote, or an unmoderated vote, a bullsh*t vote is a bullsh*t vote.

Link 1: Counter vote = invalid. He did this because he has something against me, as he has voted on all three of my debates consecutively with two of the same troll RFD's of "Bite my shiny metal ass" and an inaccurate counter vote. Rap battle part 2 had clear and concise rules that I've laid out in the description. I wouldn't call that a troll debate, I would call it a debate that needs to be respected and it being a moderated debate. Meaning mods should not kiss Pink's a** "Half counter voting" him, but should have deleted his vote instead. Crazy how all of his votes are still on my debates that he published FIRST, yet all three of my retaliated votes on him were deleted in the drop of a dime. (Yes I know they were retaliation but that does not make Pink's votes any better as he has done it through emotion and to get a reaction out of me, not to mention his votes simply do not align with the CoC) Pink never followed my rules in the description. This equates to an insufficient vote, but somehow it's still up because of bias and unfair treatment. So yeah, it does make sense to complain about that vote. As I said, personal emotion along with what I said above.

And of course MS. Pink ignored my last comment to him. My point exactly.

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@Barney

(2/2)

Link 2: "But it's a no harm done situation." Doesn't matter. Do you not see the bigger picture? 1. I doubt he rated all of those fights and added up points at the end and had us tied. 2. His RFD is trollish and insufficient, yet of course it's still up. If he genuinely thought we tied, he would have gave a reasonable RFD that aligned with CoC, but he's nothing but a troll and people support it and suck his d*ck.

Link 3: Using an excuse again just because it's a tied vote. A tied vote but a trollish RFD. Stop making excuses for him. If you want to be real, that rap battle was nowhere near a tie. So now, GameLord is my alternate account? Lmfao. You may think whatever you want, I don't give a sh*t. I'm over the people on this site especially the supposed mods who are a disappointment (excluding Virtuoso, because he's the only one who has common sense). Newsflash, smart guy, the only reason why GameLord countered Pink's vote is because Pink countered his vote on Link 1 - https://www.debateart.com/debates/1049
So that had nothing to do with me even though the vote ended up being in my favor. He only did that because Pink countered his vote when Pink shouldn't have. GameLord gave a fair vote, and I'm not saying that just because he voted for me. It was actually a legit vote that went with my rules in description.

Quitting this site. It was fun while it lasted and I had a good experience but this same cycle will continue and when I check people like I'm doing right now, people will call me crazy and see me as a bad guy, when the other person is the one obviously in the wrong, even with the proof being in the pudding. I knew this was all coming. I predicted it. My votes being deleted while he voted on my debates first with bullsh*t votes and they are still up, potentially ruining my debate stats - excluding the tie votes, but still, it does not matter. All good.

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@Pinkfreud08

Thanks, I did not even realize you were undefeated until you said something. It is better to not be undefeated as silly as that sounds. Being undefeated means you are operating too much in your comfort zone, so congrats on proving that you have earned your record and have been willing to push yourself.

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@Wylted

hmmm, I finally lost a debate that wasn't a concession, congrats took almost 24 debates.

Here is the remainder of my RFD:

Sources: As noted above pro does claim to have sourced at least one statistic which he never did in fact source. There may have been other cases of this that I did not notice due to pros poor formatting of his sources making it difficult to tell which links (and MUCH more importantly what specifically within those links) were meant to support which statements of theirs. At one point pro just posts a link to a news websites homepage. In the future pro I recommend that you do something like what con did by placing the links to your sources closer to the part of your arguments they are meant to support or marking your supported statements with numbers like so (1) and assigning matching numbers to the source that is meant to support it.

Cons source formatting was imperfect as well. It was not always immediately clear just what specifically I was supposed to be looking at within a certain web page linked by con but I was usually able to figure out relatively easily what their intentions were. I feel justified in giving points for sources to con in this debate.

S&G: I recall noticing a few minor spelling and grammar mistakes but nothing significant enough to award points for.

Conduct: Pro clearly deserves to be penalized for conduct in this one. Putting aside the fact that the very first lines in their first round are rude insults directed at con their insistence that con answer a number of irrelevant questions then proceeding to take con answering of those questions outside of the debate and use those answers in the debate really rubbed me the wrong way. Pro, this is not a conversation between you and con. This is a debate. The only things that you should be including in the debate are things to convince the readers that your position is logically justified.

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@Barney

Done!

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@Ramshutu

I made a categorical error on my vote, would you mind deleting it so that I can correct that?

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@Wylted

I fell asleep lol. Sorry.

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@Discipulus_Didicit

Who the hell takes 12 hours to work on an RFD

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@TheRealNihilist

RfD pt4

Quality did have relevant evidence if Pinkfreud08 decided to link it back to quality for it to be relevant.
Economic freedom leads to better outcomes was based on evidence that made assumptions that doesn’t support fundamental things that makes capitalism prosper.

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@TheRealNihilist

RFD PT 3

Wylted core argument is about Economic Freedom leading to higher standard of living

Since this was based on socialization rather just healthcare it is okay for Wylted to speak more generally. What is not okay is the source is used. It had Hong Kong first due to many factors involving property rights, government integrity and judicial effectiveness. The problem of course is that economic freedom is not based on more of those things. It is based on less. Since the economy is more freer due to more capitalism less law and government influence would lead to economic outcomes. Given the source is not really accurate on why capitalism prospers it is a bad source. To be more specific corruption does not make the economy worse instead it would make it better because private businesses can lobby and change laws to improve their profits thus leading to a better economy. For Wylted to improve he would require to provide a source that does understand something fundamental like what would lead to better forms of capitalism instead of an assumption like corruption doesn't improve the economy or even economic freedom. Less laws do mean more freedom not the opposite.

Given Wylted only gave 1 initial argument and I had a problem with premise 1. I can’t exactly mention premise 2 due to the problem of premise 1. Sure the universality argument of Pro’s was based on his affordability argument but that had its own data instead of simply using previous data so I had something to work with.
I have only really targeted the core arguments because both of them don’t have substantial points. Given that 3 not substantial points are better than 1 Pinkfreud08 wins the argument vote.
In order for a claim to be substantial it requires evidence.

Affordability was based on evidence that was not given.

Universality was based on affordability but did have evidence of a survey but a survey only shows X amount of people picked this. It doesn’t show the effectiveness of it.

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@TheRealNihilist

RFD pt2

Quality on the other hand was based on data that states United States are not even in the top 11 for the least deaths. Given this is averaging out the numbers it does help alleviate the massive discrepancy with comparing the United States population to other countries apart from India, China and other countries. All the other countries above the United States were using public healthcare so the evidence does support public healthcare can be a factor leading to less deaths. The thing is Pinkfreud08 did not show how this was linked to quality. There can be instances where a state has more quality than another but that wasn't addressed. A way to improve Pro's arguments is to concede that cherry-picking the best areas in the US would have a drop in healthcare but that would be negated given the potential good coming out of elevating a lot more areas out of dire states.

Wylted core argument is about Economic Freedom leading to higher standard of living

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@TheRealNihilist

RFD Pt1:

This is a long debate so I'll just stick to one.

Pinkfreud08's arguments are affordability, universality and quality. Given these are the 3 things healthcare can achieve reminded to us by our pseudo-intellectual Ben Shapiro debates healthcare this would mean if all arguments are sound would require either Con to provide even better results outside Pro's arguments or would not be able to show a better healthcare system.

Affordability is based on data from the Washington Post which wasn't linked instead was linking to their homepage. Even though Pinkfreud08 made it aware in Round 2 "if I've accidentally left out sources for my claims please inform me and I'll gladly provide sources." Wylted did not ask for the source that is the core of Pinkfreud08's arguments. Given this I'll have this as a claim not substantiated with evidence. Hopefully Pinkfreud08 realizes this and next doesn't make the same mistake even if your opponent does not pick up on it.

Universality is based on data under the assumption that healthcare is cheaper it would result in poorer Americans would have healthcare. Universality is contingent on the affordability argument. I can't let that slide while also the link provided was a survey not evidence that universality would help solve the problem. A link to lets another country with public healthcare having pretty much everyone insured would have helped Pinkfreud08's case.

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@TheRealNihilist

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>Reported Vote: Omar2345 // Mod action: [Removed]
>Points Awarded: 3 points to pro for arguments

>Reason for Decision: See Above

Reason for Mod Action> While the voter appears to survey the main arguments from both sides sufficiently, the vote insufficiently reviews the counter arguments presented by both sides.

To award arguments, the voter must (1) survey the main arguments and counterarguments in the debate, (2) weigh those arguments and counterarguments against each other, and (3) explain, based on the weighing process, how they reached their decision.

While there were hints, from the vote it is unclear as to why cons rebuttals and counter arguments were weighted as not sufficient to overturn pros main arguments - or vice versa.

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