Instigator / Pro
4
1644
rating
64
debates
65.63%
won
Topic
#2921

THW Abolish Daylight Savings Time

Status
Finished

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

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
0
3
Better sources
2
2
Better legibility
1
1
Better conduct
1
1

After 1 vote and with 3 points ahead, the winner is...

RationalMadman
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
4
Time for argument
Three days
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One month
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
7
1697
rating
556
debates
68.17%
won
Description

This House Would Abolish Daylight Savings Time

Daylight saving time (DST), also daylight savings time or daylight time (the United States and Canada) and summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks during warmer months so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The typical implementation of DST is to set clocks forward by one hour in the spring ("spring forward") and set clocks back by one hour in autumn ("fall back", from the North American English word "fall" for autumn) to return to standard time. As a result, there is one 23-hour day in late winter or early spring and one 25-hour day in the autumn.

Burden of proof is shared

Con will argue we should keep DST

No religious arguments, no quantum physics arguments, no trolling.

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@fauxlaw

Appreciate the feedback!

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@whiteflame

Your vote was a great analysis. I was planning to vote on this one, but became frustrated by arguments from both sides that seemed to wander on me. I appreciate you thoughtful and concise piercing of that frustration. Well done.

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@whiteflame

ah, damn. I focused too generally and forgot about the actual lives lost. You're right about that. Giving better numbers would've definitely helped, and I got lost in refuting Con's argument rather than going further in the first round.

I'll see what I can do.

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@Undefeatable

But it got dat girth doe ;)

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@coal
@whiteflame
@MisterChris
@Theweakeredge

this one's pretty short.

bumperino

Pro brings some new points or quotes in Round 3, it would be inappropriate for me to bring new rebuttals he can't reply to so disregard the new quotes.

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@RationalMadman

damn, you may have finally got me... let's see if I can negate any of these ideas...

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@RationalMadman

Enjoy the opportunity to take on one of my weakest arguments yet.

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@Undefeatable

Knowing about the topic is not always that important.

You already are aware of this, it's how you reply so rapidly to Rounds.

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@RationalMadman

I predicted you would accept this. Let's see if you can win this one. Funnily enough, I know less about DST than I do about Google Privacy, so this will be trickier.