Instigator / Pro
4
1481
rating
11
debates
40.91%
won
Topic
#866

Fetuses as a replacement for the USD

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...

Barney
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Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
4
Time for argument
Two days
Max argument characters
12,000
Voting period
One week
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
7
1815
rating
50
debates
100.0%
won
Description

Specifically, fetuses aborted prior to 5 months. These fetuses currently have no value, as evidenced by the debate: https://www.debateart.com/debates/654

I propose we change that.

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

Pro offers a small number of actual benefits for his plan.

Specifically, the ability to create money will lift poorer organizations of poverty.

Pros argument that it will allow for eugenics by encouraging some races not to breed appears flatly absurd - and given that it doesn’t sound like a good thing at all, counts against him.

Pros argument from the grounds of crime rate are also absurd - pro doesn’t give a clear reason why this is true in his plan, so will be dismissed .

Pros arguments for practicality with morality and feasibility appear to be an argument against wastefulness, which sure, I guess could be a net positive, but isn’t.

The main argument that con presents is relating to the economics of this: basically inflation from being able to print money, and the inability to store and maintain fetuses. Worse, con introduces the possibility that it would induce theft of fetuses that were intended to be children.

These seem damning practical issues.

In terms of storage alone, pro doesn’t have an answer for the cost prohibitive nature, on this. Or how the poor people who he claims will benefit most will be able to store fetuses. Pro flits between arguing the rich will have nitrogen storage or the public sector will provide storage.

There was also no real explanation of why the stability of the USF would be sufficient in light of cons objections.

As pro offers no real objective benefit, only a nebulous appeal to waste, and the poor being able to make more money; con doesn’t do much here to overturn the benefits - as quite frankly pro argues no tangible or measurable benefit; only hypothetical assertions that it will benefit - no quantifiable description of how much.

Con overturns this in two ways: one by showing that there is no practical ability to store the currency rendering it useless - and antithetical to the idea of the poor making more money.

pros appeal to eugenics, and racial purity further undermine his own point as these are inherently undesirable by default.

As the tangible and practical issues clearly land in favour of con, and there appear to be no clear benefits of pros benefits: arguments to con.