THBT: Present-day style motorsports will not go extinct even if more advanced forms of transportation replace the car/motorcycle industry
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After 2 votes and with 4 points ahead, the winner is...
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Motorsports: Sports that involve driver-operated land vehicles
Extinct: Disappear, to be replaced
Car/motorcycle industry: Industries that could, while not necessarily includes the production of cars and motorcycles, and generally refers to industries that fuels the medium of the present-day vehicles and motorsports(Including tuners, internal-combustion engine suppliers, etc) and generally does not partake in the planned wave of new forms of transportation(Such as flying cars, hyperloop, etc) that will replace the present forms of transportations, especially ones eligible to be used in general motorsports.
Advanced forms of transportation: Transportation that are more advanced than the forms used in the present, and is hypothetically/planned to be used in the future and has a very high tendency of replacing the present-day forms of transportation.
Present-day style: Forms of a spanned subject that is currently being utilized by the world
B_O_P(PRO): Present-day style motorsports will not go extinct even if more advanced forms of transportation replace the car/motorcycle industry
CON: PRO did not sufficiently prove his case
Concession.
Still going to give a little review (yes, this is always allowed).
Con made three key arguments.
1. The first is where I feel the true spirit of the debate lay, and his penny farthings (and similar examples) was strong. Pro may have been able to defend from this, but a little more focus on the lack of extreme penny farthing racing, would have likely sealed it as most Motorsports would almost definitely go extinct (even if not all, leaving it an on balance the resolution is false thing).
2. Can't know the future. This had some strong merit.
3. Heat death of the universe... I hate to say it, but next time a scope statement in the description would avoid certain semantic arguments. That said, I do believe a reasonable scope was implied by nature of the resolution's the comparative statement (said extinction being related to the replacement).
While I would have been curious for pro's defenses, and I think he still stood a chance (even if not a great one), con indeed seemed right to simplify pro's case to an appeal to tradition (there are possible defenses, but such a fundamental problem is really hard to overcome, shaking general confidence in the case).
concession
Thinkong robots. What are you even referring to?
What happens when two literally thinkong robots collide? Theg agree on AI demolishing everything u til the universe ends and that therefore cars will go extinct... Lovely logic.
I just don't think I can sufficiently prove my BOP after that. What I proved is that it is more likely to not disappear until the present modes of transportation has been replaced, but I do not know the future.
The context is “will not go extinct.” Consider heat death evidence showing all things go extinct eventually.
The heat death of the universe IMO is not something within the implied scope of the debate.
SOURCES for R1:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page
https://www.wikipedia.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorsport
https://medium.com/@tpbesq/the-decline-of-americas-first-pastime-horse-racing-s-descent-into-irrelevance-bdd6866f3e24
https://tcdhorseracing.com/horse-race-betting-popularity/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harness_racing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny-farthing
https://www.evandalevillagefair.com/index.php/race-results/48-record-of-medals-won
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_D-Type
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible#Surviving_copies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano#Extinct
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_in_the_wild
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/22/2020-predictions-decades-ago-self-driving-cars-mars-voting/2594825001/
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/07/what-is-the-probability-of-a-nuclear-war.html
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
https://motorsports.nbcsports.com/2020/03/19/f1-monaco-grand-prix-dutch-spanish-covid-19-three-races-postponed/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition
Skimming the first half of R1, I'd say pro has a shot at this.
oh no