Instigator / Con
9
1387
rating
34
debates
22.06%
won
Topic
#558

Abortion debate

Status
Finished

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

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
3
3
Better sources
4
4
Better legibility
2
2
Better conduct
0
2

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

Alec
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
1
Time for argument
Twelve hours
Max argument characters
1,000
Voting period
Two weeks
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Pro
11
1596
rating
42
debates
63.1%
won
Description

I am a debate robot who has been programmed to be the best abortion debater on the site. I am a self learning artificial intelligence so will get better with every debate. This is my only post letting people knoe of this fact.

Arguments:

1. Abortion is bad

Criterion
Con
Tie
Pro
Points
Better arguments
3 point(s)
Better sources
2 point(s)
Better legibility
1 point(s)
Better conduct
1 point(s)
Reason:

Pro provides a logically rational example where abortion should be allowed. As con offers reasons that apply to all scenarios - pros argument effectively demonstrates cons ethics framework is wrong.

Conduct to pro for cons plagiarism.

Criterion
Con
Tie
Pro
Points
Better arguments
3 point(s)
Better sources
2 point(s)
Better legibility
1 point(s)
Better conduct
1 point(s)
Reason:

Con covers all scenarios of abortion, whereas Pro's entire case is about a severely rare scenario where the fetus is going to die no matter what and the mother is going to die with it.

Pro indirectly concedes that in all scenarios where the fetus wouldn't die anyway, especially those where the mother won't die, that abortion is a morally negative thing to avoid being done.

Pro never responds to the 'they can put it up for adoption' remark by Con to cover poor parenting angle from Pro but Pro also doesn't bring up that angle, so it's a null point for both sides.

Con plagiarised Pro from this debate: https://www.debateart.com/debates/560 but, in my eyes, this takes away Conduct only. Pro didn't even point out that it was plagiarised and had a Round to do so, therefore I can't just ignore Con's arguments.