Instigator / Con
22
1465
rating
10
debates
25.0%
won
Topic
#4395
Robots are going to increase the quality of life for humans
Status
Finished
The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.
Winner & statistics
After 4 votes and with 6 points ahead, the winner is...
Mast3rDebater
Parameters
- Publication date
- Last updated date
- Type
- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 2
- Time for argument
- Two days
- Max argument characters
- 600
- Voting period
- One week
- Point system
- Multiple criterions
- Voting system
- Open
Contender / Pro
28
1500
rating
2
debates
100.0%
won
Description
Simple as said:
Pro - agree w/ (Robots are going to increase the quality of life in humans)
Con - disagree w/ (Robots are going to increase the quality of life in humans)
Players play fair (no aggression)
And judges (open voters') vote fair accordingly to the players arguments (no favouritism based on past debates)
Round 1
Increased automation and use of robots could have unintended consequences. For example, you get a very different feeling of speaking to a robot. A patient may become reassured by the human touch of speaking to a nurse who smiles and emphasises with them. A robot could be very depressing because it feels informal, non-human. For some services like health care, education, the personal touch is an important, unquantifiable aspect of the service. If we push for more automation, we may lose out on valuable personal interactions and our quality of life may be diminished - huge impact on social life.
I agree with you in that regard, however, going back to the actual statement, I'd argue that robots are going to increase the quality of life many other ways. Let me use an example, think about all the construction workers that allegedly died during the construction of the several football stadiums made for the world cup held in Qatar last year. All those deaths could've been avoided if we simply had robots carry out these difficult jobs. Sure, just like with any other invention, there will inevitably be good and bad consequences. In this case, I believe the good outweighs the bad and it's not even close.
Round 2
Regarding the fact that you said that many died due to construction etc. But have you ever thought of the increasing temperatures causing global warming? People often buy robots to do household chores for them disregarding the fact of exercise - but a robot leads a mass in pollution. They could also enhance unsustainable exploitation of natural resources, especially if our dependency on rare metals for production of electronic equipment further deepens. Proliferation of all sorts of electronic equipment and future composite materials also bring new challenges for recycling and waste management.
Though your point on pollution might seem reasonable, it is not an insurmountable problem. As technology advances, I'm certain that we humans will find a way to minimise this pollution, just like how we've seen in the past with electric cars emitting less greenhouse gases then engine cars. Regarding your point on "exploitation of natural resources" and usage of "rare metals", just like with pollution we will surely find a way to optimise recycling and invent new "waste management" technologies which can be further utilized to save so much more resources other than just metal used for robots/electronics.
ty Best.Korea for voting
Bro it doesn't matter how disturbing the robots are, they literally will improve QOL no matter how you look at it.
yes indeed its lovely for all the work to be done for us, but not all of us can manage exercise as a separate task so its quite nice to take in chores as a way of exercise deceiving ur brain
The technology tends to do both harm and good. But sure, it would be nice to have my own robot to do the work for me.