Instigator / Con
4
1593
rating
21
debates
66.67%
won
Topic
#3433

THBT On Balance, Excluding Cases of Necessity, People Deserve to Eat Meat

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...

Intelligence_06
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
4
Time for argument
One week
Max argument characters
15,000
Voting period
One month
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Pro
7
1731
rating
167
debates
73.05%
won
Description

I am con, the contender is pro.

Cases of necessity: Any case where someone must eat meat in order to maintain their health such that abstaining from meat would lead to considerable detriment(s) to their health and/or quality of life and there is no other practical way to avoid said detriments. Examples of this can include: poverty (A person can only eat healthily if they eat meat due to a lack of money), health (a person has no other option to intake protein other than meat), etc... Those afflicted by any case of necessity related to the resolution cannot be used as a stakeholder.
Deserve: Do something or have or show qualities worthy of (reward or punishment); barring any reasons to the contrary (in the context of this resolution, inability to pay, being physically harmful, taking food from others, etc...), to have the right to eat meat.
On balance: there is more reason to believe the resolution than to not believe it such that the magnitude of reasoning is sufficient for what the resolution entails.

As it is good practice for the affirmative house to go first, I will forfeit the first round and pro will forfeit the last round. Con's first round and pro's fourth round must be ignored in their entirety when voting. For con or pro to make a speech with any rebuttals or constructive arguments in the first or fourth rounds respectively must result in the loss of a conduct point.

Questions and feedback are welcome and appreciated!

I find Novice's vote to be as ironic as it is unsurprising

Pro-choice abortion alongside vegetarianism, let alone veganism, is a deeply sickening irony to me. Not relevant necessarily to this debate but a stance I have grown to deeply find irony with.

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@Intelligence_06

Hey, thanks again for the great debate, homie! Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

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@TheUnderdog

No. I'm still dependent on my parents and thus don't have much control over my diet. I think I'll probably become vegetarian or vegan later in my life, though.

I created this debate to prove a point to Novice, that being that, even if I lose this debate, this debate is not inherently unwinnable and I would perform significantly better and could present an actual argument that would stand up to scrutiny. Him being completely swept by RMM was the result of poor debating, not the debate topic or bias.

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@Nyxified

Are you vegetarian or vegan?

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@Intelligence_06

The feeling's mutual! I've quite enjoyed debating with you.

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@Nyxified

Argument ready within a day. Gotta say, I think this debate is good, and you are good too.

Good luck.