Instigator / Pro
7
1309
rating
270
debates
40.74%
won
Topic
#4052

Cars are harmful and should be banned before more people die

Status
Finished

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

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
0
6
Better sources
4
4
Better legibility
2
2
Better conduct
1
2

After 2 votes and with 7 points ahead, the winner is...

Sir.Lancelot
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Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
5
Time for argument
Two weeks
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One month
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
14
1587
rating
182
debates
55.77%
won
Description

No information

The topic can easily be interpreted as a truism, given how ambiguous it is. "Cars are harmful", yes, even if it is or is not "net harmful". As long as it has done some harm out of everything, it is technically "harmful" to an extent. As to "should be banned before more people die", "should" can be interpreted as marking a tendency similarly to the usage in "Dr. Cooper should return home by next friday". If the entirety of Earth gets destroyed in the future, which is almost certain due to the Sun's potential expansion into a red giant, when everyone is dead and there is no one to die, there are no cars anymore, the same state of existence for cars compared to it being banned at any moment.

I am not joking, if you do not provide context on what the topic means, you can interpret it as anything as the instigator, as long as you have sources backing up not only what it means but why it can be used in this way. That doesn't mean you can define a verb structurally as a noun entry for the same verb because it violates how people use it, but any verb entry on said term suffices.

Yeah vote Con. He kills people with cars 😱

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@TheUnderdog

Vote Con. 😎😎😎

This is funny af.