i will lose this debate
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After 4 votes and with 2 points ahead, the winner is...
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- Number of rounds
- 2
- Time for argument
- Two days
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- One week
- Point system
- Multiple criterions
- Voting system
- Open
Rules:
no forfeits.
no semantics.
Pro has lost the debate by virtue of breaking the no forfeit rule.
Con has lost the debate for the incorrect argument, the only argument by Con, offered in both rounds, that Con is the instigator and composer of the topic statement when, clearly, the instigator is Pro.
This debate results in the unusual tied loss. No one wins.
The resolution is a paradox. To lose a debate, you must be proven wrong, but if you lose this debate, you're proven right, which means you should win, which means you're proven wrong and should lose (this repeats forever). Neither side can then conceivably be correct in any meaningful way.
Conduct point to con as pro literally forfeit 50% of the debate and the "no semantics" rule is ridiculous. There's no way to understand what is being debated if we do not have an absolute meaning of the resolution as established by the way the resolution itself is worded. Both sides engage in semantics anyways.
In order to win the debate both Pro and Con must lose the debate, sort of a double catch 22 situation.
Both violated rules, conduct was good and both presented with minor grammatical oversights.
And In the end, neither overcame the inherent dilemma.
So undoubtedly a tie.
Con broke the rule about 'no semantics' meaning Con abusing the term 'I' the way that he did, itself was a violation.
Pro violated the forfeit rule but correctly points out, in Round 2, that this further cements the resolution as true since he is securing his own defeat.
if i do win this debate then i lose this debate
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Wow, this is "Show, don't tell" taken to the extreme.
How is it possible for this debate to have no semantics when there is no real "content" to feed the topic statement with except the topic statement itself?