Instigator / Pro
0
1491
rating
1
debates
0.0%
won
Topic
#2933

it is better to be feared than loved

Status
Finished

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

Winner & statistics
Winner
0
7

After 7 votes and with 7 points ahead, the winner is...

Intelligence_06
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
3
Time for argument
Two weeks
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
Six months
Point system
Winner selection
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
7
1731
rating
167
debates
73.05%
won
Description

it is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

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@Intelligence_06

Do what?

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@Sum1hugme

Someone come here to prove that 0/0=0!

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@Sum1hugme

You're right.

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@Intelligence_06

Either your try or you don't. If you try, there is a potential for success and failure. If you never try, your success rate is exactly 0%

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@Sum1hugme

Fine, I admit that I am using my own interpretations in my last comment, but that statement is a false dichotomy. Just because I succeed 0% when I don't do anything, doesn't mean I miss 100%. I also miss 0%. A person who never plays basketball doesn't lose 100% of his NBA games. He wins none and he loses none.

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@Intelligence_06

First, you're just imposing assumed motive onto the speaker. Second, your logic works both ways, you can't fail if you don't try, but you also can't succeed.

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@Sum1hugme

No. You miss 0% of the shots you don't take because there is nothing for you to miss at the start. This dude is acting like as if I am SUPPOSED to take shots indefinitely but I have no moral obligations to take shots. I don't miss them if I don't take any. I don't get rejected by girls when I don't even ask them out. Simple logic.

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@Intelligence_06

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky

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@Benjamin

"I have never been rejected from a girl... because I never tried dating any."
--Numerous boys, All of human civilization

Ironic that Andrei Sator is currently on my TV right now. Instant disproof.

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@Gadfly

No that's never happened to me. Try contacting a mod maybe.

i'm frustrated. i submitted my first round two days ago, and for some reason it did not post. i am trying to recover my initial round because i do not want to rewrite the entire thing. is this a common glitch on dart?

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@Barney

I'm really expecting some Machiavellian evidence from The Prince about this topic. He gave several examples in the book, and a bit about the nature of love and fear. I don't want to give arguments so I won't say what specifically.

I am expecting a personal relationship angle in this debate.

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@Gadfly

Read The Prince lately?

Guess who was one of them? Hitler.