Instigator / Pro
4
1470
rating
50
debates
40.0%
won
Topic
#1910

Taoism vs Confucianism

Status
Finished

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

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
0
9
Better sources
2
6
Better legibility
2
3
Better conduct
0
3

After 3 votes and with 17 points ahead, the winner is...

Nevets
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
2
Time for argument
Two days
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
Two weeks
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
21
1557
rating
35
debates
52.86%
won
Description

I will be arguing for Taoism, and my opponent will be arguing for Confucianism. Both will be arguing which school of thought is more beneficial to humanity in general.

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@User_2006

If it is the fact that you find the "quantity" of argument too much to deal with, you could try not engaging with the opponent. You could try simply building your own case, and then finish by concluding that this is the correct conclusion. Therefore regardless of what my opponent says, it cannot be true, because "this is true".
Though that does not always work either. I was met with this when i first came on here. I took on a challenge and then when i went to look at the my opponents round 1 argument i was met with a 10,000 character great wall of text. And i thought "how on earth am i supposed to refute all of that"? Where do i even begin? What are his key points to refute, and what are not? So i decided to just skip it. And put forward my own argument and let him refute me instead. Though i have noticed a voter may view failing to refute an opponents argument = validating their argument, and may not see that you refuted their entire argument, when you offered a conclusion that your own argument was the correct conclusion.

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@Nevets

Sorry for forfeiting. Guess a vote against me will be my teacher of being responsible. I am still relatively new and not as skilled.

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@User_2006

I agree with Nevets on the time for arguments, but disagree on the character limit.

Based on what you presented in R1, you might want to go down to about 5000 characters. This will force you to be selective in what you reply to, which is a good skill to master.

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@User_2006

You should make your debates 30,000 characters.
You don't need to use all 30,000 characters. But at least then you will have more room to make up for incidents like this.
Also you should extend how much time you give for arguments to be presented

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@Nevets

The reason I wrote this short is that I am basically out of time. I had to attend class meetings at online school WHILST writing it because I simply don't want to forfeit. Now that the timer is refreshed, I can take my sweet time.

Good luck to my opponent.
I accepted this challenge as confucianism sits well with my own outlook.