Instigator / Con
9
1500
rating
13
debates
42.31%
won
Topic
#2834

I Am A Devil-Worshipper

Status
Finished

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

Winner & statistics
Winner
9
1

After 9 votes and with 8 points ahead, the winner is...

Puachu
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
4
Time for argument
Two weeks
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
Six months
Point system
Winner selection
Voting system
Open
Contender / Pro
1
1439
rating
7
debates
7.14%
won
Description

I thank my opponent in advance for this opportunity to clear my name and erase all suspicion that I am in fact a worshipper of demons, or any unclean spirits. What happened to Billy had absolutely nothing to do me. Between the hours of 2 and 4 AM on Monday, February 22nd, I was sound asleep in bed, believe it or not. There was no hastily inscribed pentagram on the floor of my outhouse surrounded by 5 cheap candles between 2 and 4 AM, nor at any other time before or afterwards.* The blood-stained parchment found in my left pants-pocket (allegedly) was in fact neither a parchment nor blood-stained, therefore it is not real and cannot be presented as evidence against me.

Also, the voice on the cassette tape chanting the Angelus backwards, in Latin, in a very muffled yet deep voice, cannot possibly be mine since it employs the classical pronunciation and I would never desecrate anyone's most sacredly held beliefs by trying to channel Abaddon in an insultingly vernacular dialect.

* Since I do not convene with the demonic, I am unable to predict the future, hence the asterisk signifying a certain reasonable allowance of uncertainty.

Criterion
Con
Tie
Pro
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

Full forfeit

Criterion
Con
Tie
Pro
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

Full forfeiture.

Criterion
Con
Tie
Pro
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

Full forfeit

Criterion
Con
Tie
Pro
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

Full forfeiture

Criterion
Con
Tie
Pro
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

Full forfeit

Criterion
Con
Tie
Pro
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

The exhibit of Billy, notwithstanding, I am confused by Con's R4 argument re: capretto, which is not pork, short, or long, but kid, i.e., an immature goat. I've eaten both, and have a clear, distinctive palette for both, being an omnivore. Further, strictly by Voting Policy, I could potentially call the debate a tie since both participants forfeited at least a round, and at that, only by Con's R2 statement was it a mutual forfeit. Further, Con's only argument relative to the Resolution exists in R1, after which, the commentary, while entertaining, was not convincing as further argument, further advancing [or retarding, in this instance] a vote for Con. R4, as noted above, was confusing.

All considered: Tie.

Criterion
Con
Tie
Pro
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

Full Forfeit

Criterion
Con
Tie
Pro
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

Full Forfeit

Criterion
Con
Tie
Pro
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

Con while gorging himself on long pig, went wholly unrefuted... Poor billy!