Instigator / Pro
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1488
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Topic
#3212

Humans Carry the Responsibility for Population Control in the Case of Overpopulation

Status
Finished

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

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
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12
Better sources
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8
Better legibility
1
4
Better conduct
1
3

After 4 votes and with 25 points ahead, the winner is...

949havoc
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Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
3
Time for argument
Three days
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One month
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
27
1546
rating
7
debates
57.14%
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Description

Rounds 1 and 2 are for presentation of arguments, Round 3 rebuttals only.
Some definitions:
Humans: Homo-sapiens
Responsibility: the state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something
Population Control: a policy of attempting to limit the growth in numbers of a population
Overpopulation: the condition of being populated with excessively large numbers.

Burden of Proof lies on both pro and con

Forfeiture results in a loss, so don't forfeit.

Note also that this is not a debate of current affairs. It is a hypothetical situation and merits responses with that in mind.

Good luck and lets have some fun

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@Barney

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@Ramshutu

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@ILikePie5

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@RationalMadman

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@MonkeyKing

You may attempt that topical migration from what the topic statement and description specify, but voters may not buy it, and, now having accepted the debate as is, without your migration to include all animals as made in your comment post #3, I certainly do not and will argue against it as being outside the scope of the topic statement since that statement specifies human, only.

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@949havoc

I should have specified, I do mean all life so that would include humans. I do also note that this is hypothetical, whether Earth is currently overpopulated or not isn't the issue. The debate is whether the responsibility lies on humans to manage overpopulation as a whole.

I make the same assumption as RationalMadman; this is a truism. what other Earth lifer form would assume responsibility for human population? Aardvarks?
Also, it appears there is couched argument that Earth is presently overpopulated. Will Pro assume BoP of the claim, or is that expected to be a truism, as well?

I assume this means overpopulation of other species... If it means our own then that's blatantly true.