Conspiracy Theories Are Generally Unlikely
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- the use or the administering of drugs
- poisoning
- sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it
- metaph. the deceptions and seductions of idolatry
the word pharmakon means
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most if not all prescription medication tons of side effects per pill and these side effects include thoughts to kill yourself puking blood yellow eyes and skin disturbing weight gain increased. i'm making the case that the side effects are poison
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con saidA government, usually the U.S., is conducting experiments or building something, etc., that is highly illegal and needs to be hidden from the world. (Note: governments have hidden projects before, such as the Manhattan Project, with no information leaks, or people postulating on a secret project. So the chances that since then, our government's secrecy levels have gone down is preposterous.)
you do not have to be a rocket scientist to figure some of this stuff out....there are almost no conspiracy theory's which another government would be aware of another government evils
the mainstream media picks it the ones they mock carefully....i spent the first round showing conspiracy theory's that are very likely to be true
alex jones had 2 million before hey silenced him
99 percent of conspiracy theory's are not unfathomable like flat earth.
con saidA government, usually the U.S., is conducting experiments or building something, etc., that is highly illegal and needs to be hidden from the world. (Note: governments have hidden projects before, such as the Manhattan Project, with no information leaks, or people postulating on a secret project. So the chances that since then, our government's secrecy levels have gone down is preposterous.)
you do not have to be a rocket scientist to figure some of this stuff out....there are almost no conspiracy theory's which another government would be aware of another government evils
the mainstream media picks it the ones they mock carefully....i spent the first round showing conspiracy theory's that are very likely to be true
99 percent of conspiracy theory's are not unfathomable like flat earth.
Pro points out in his opening round the detail about how conspiracy theories can be generally thought of to be unlikely and provides key support as to why they are unlikely - in his opening round he explained issues like the government silencing everyone by the guy on YouTube who has evidence.
At no point did com address any of these: cons approach was primarily to list the “evidence” for conspiracy theories, and use marginal explanations and limited arguments to try and show that there is something to them.
Imo this misses the point: as pros opening round somewhat explains the issue with this sort of list of evidence in his opening round. Con didn’t make an attempt to show why conspiracy theories are generally likely by offering a generalized argument - but to effectively attempt to list all the individual prices of evidence for them - which falls far short of being convincing unless he also offers a slam dunk argument to show these conspiracies are definitely true even in the face of the issues pro raised in R1.
As such, with pros opening round unrefuted, and con offering no contextual or generalized defense of conspiracy theories: arguments go to pro.
Conduct: con made well over 50 individual assertions, that he provided with little logical reasoning to defend his claims - mostly in the form of (this is true - therefore my conclusion is true). This is a flagrant attempt at a Gish Gallup. Cons expectation for pro to refute all this “evidence” and to overwhelm his opponent without providing detailed arguments or reasoning is clearly grossly unfair and detrimental to reasoned debate. For this reason pro gets Conduct points too.
Con gets credit for legit putting blood sweat and tears into sourcing and stringing together a case for conspiracy theories being plausible. Every single one, from vaccines to 9/11, were backed up with sources and they were used to bring points and angles of thinking and add weight to them.
Pro wins arguments because Con kept trying to prove it's fathomable, despite being unlikely. All Pro does is say 'well how is this likely? You're just saying it's possible against all odds' and Con basically just adds more sources and conspiracy theories to show that they can work. Con seemed to think this debate was that they are generally unfathomable when it is in fact that they are generally unlikely. Pro plays total defence all debate but Con was attacking the wrong thing, not even bringing up probability once other than saying 99% are plausible other than flat earth... Well Con is wrong as flat earth is severely plausible but that's for another debate and not why I'm voting Pro here.
Pro's strongest defensive manoeuvre was to ask: how can normal civilians be more knowledgeable or clever to solve conspiracies while the powers that be are too stupid or powerless to expose each other. Con replies:
"Rebuttal: you cut out the last part
your taking it out of context
you do not have to be a rocket scientist to figure some of this stuff out.
you do not need to be smart. to think hay Obama saying this is bad. you just need to not be brainwashed."
Yeah um... This not how probability works or 'unlikely' gets negated, sorry.
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I'm fifteen. I don't drink.
i can drink to that
May the most right win.
If conspiracy's dont exist, then russia collusion never existed and has been proven not to exist. Point proven on pro's side.
Yes, because everyone knows conspiracies don't exist and everyone who believes in them is a flat earther who believes in reptilian jews.
i been waiting for an opportunity to talk about 5g internet fema camps 911 stages agenda 21 chem trails pizza gate and i would like to thank pro for the opportunity. i am a fan of your dragon profile pic