Thanks, billbatard.
RESOLVED: NORWAY is the MOST PROGRESSIVE NATION on EARTH
Let's recall that CON argued that PRO, as instigator and claimant entirely bears the responsibility for proving that the Kingdom of Norway is the most progressive nation on Earth.
PRO's CASE:
PRO never defined Progressivism but seems to conflate 3 concepts into a hazy mush that PRO seems to be thinking of as progressive without ever actually setting terms:
- Democracy, a theory of governing in which citizens have the authority to choose their government and legislatiion
- Socialism, an economic theory in which citizens have the authority to control the means of production, and
- Wealth (CON can't say why PRO folds wealth into progressivism).
Since PRO never defined progressive, PRO never established a standard by which Norway could be shown as the foremost example. Instead, PRO just went looking for lists which Norway recently topped and left the actual application of a standard to CON.
So PRO offers a 2017 democracy ranking, a list of government run Norwegian businesses and a list of wealthy countries and calls that proof of "MOST progressive"
CON's CASE:
In the absence of any definition offered by the instigator, CON offered a simple wikitonary definition of progressivism as
liberalism which is "
a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed, and equality before the law."
Wikipedia goes on to explain that
"Liberalism sought to replace the norms of hereditary privilege, state religion, absolute monarchy, the divine right of kings and traditional conservatism with representative democracy and the rule of law."
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That is, using one commonplace definition of progressive, PRO must demonstrate the Kingdom of Norway has (to a greater degree than any other nation) done away with and replaced
- hereditary privilege
- state religion, and
- the god given right of kings to rule
PRO had no hope of making such demonstration because the Kingdom of Norway has preserved these anachronisms of autocracy in its constitution and by that same constitution forbidden the removal or replacement of kings, evangelical Lutheranism, and the principle of hereditary superiority.
In R2, PRO concedes the debate by admitting that the Kingdom of Norway is a monarchy. By definition, no monarchy can be the MOST liberal, the MOST progressive because qualification is contingent on the removal of state-enforced superhumans and state-enforced gods.
In R3, PRO irrelevantly posts rankings of Norway as democratic and wealthy.
PRO never understood that it was up to PRO to set the terms of this debate and having left that work to CON, permitted CON to define Norway out of the running for MOST Progressive.
VOTERS should evaluate whether progressivism is some vague melange of democracy + socialism + wealth or progressivism is first and foremost the assertion of human equality. If the latter, VOTERS should note that the Kingdom of Norway constitutionally rejects the equality of all humans and VOTERS should find that the Kingdom of Norway is therefore disqualified from the rank of MOST progressive.
Thanks in advance to all VOTERS for their kind consideration. Please VOTE CON!
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wildbill
21 hours ago
Criterion Pro Tie Con Points
Better arguments ✔ ✗ ✗ 3 points
Better sources ✔ ✗ ✗ 2 points
Better spelling and grammar ✗ ✗ ✔ 1 point
Better conduct ✗ ✗ ✔ 1 point
Reason:
This guy is an unappreciated genius this guy
From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision", also "to make a heavy, hollow sound, boom”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”). Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”), probably of imitative origin. More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.
Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of social reform.[1] As a philosophy, it is based on the idea of progress, which asserts that advancements in science, technology, economic development and social organization are vital to the improvement of the human condition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism
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