Resolved: Abortion should be legal.............................................. On DDO

DEBATE ABORTION IS NOTHING BUT DISADVANTAGES The objective of the motion is to merely give CHOICE to quit but the PRO sidesteps the problems of his proposal (complete termination) without resolving its obvious disadvantages –o The system is subject to abuse by debaters for personal gain (prevent a loss record) and hide their incompetence against better debaters.o Sends the wrong message to the community that it’s acceptable to be irresponsible by not completing a debate.o Disincentives readers, voters, and commenters from participating given the knowledge that debates can be terminated without proper resolutiono Sends the message to the broader debate community that DDO debaters are quitters and intellectual cowards by blocking opportunities for the courageous to step in and take their place.o Creates the precedent that DDO debates are generally of poorer quality than traditional non-online debates were termination is not only prohibited but also shunned upon. o Debates are the exposition of arguments and facts aimed not just at educating the public but educating the debaters as well. It’s an opportunity for intellectual growth which is denied if debates are prematurely terminated.o Debates are supposed to be fun, regardless if one loses or wins. There’s nothing fun about walking away except to make fun of those who do. But PRO thinks this is ok and probably stemming from PRO’s confidence that cowards are shielded with anonymity.o New, innovating, and quality arguments can be found in many debates even in those that are abandoned. And they are still worth reading and examining but will be lost forever if terminated and deleted. It’s true that in the current system abandoned debates become clutter…but only because there is no mechanism to take the place of the absconding debater, which in doing so reduces clutter, maintenance, and unnecessary overloading due to redundant debates. Aborting debates for the sole purpose of de-cluttering is nothing but a thin veil to promote irresponsibility and abuse while burdening and trapping DDO with the above problems without resolution in-sight.Obvious resolution of these problems require that debates are not aborted. DEBATE ADOPTION PRESERVES CHOICE BUT WITHOUT THE DISADVANTAGES Debate adoption is without a question a better alternative. Adoption does not diminish CHOICE, in fact equally promotes it but without the disadvantages of abortion. It gives chance for cowards to quit (like what the PRO eargerly wants) but provides an opportunity for the courageous to take their place. PRO merely just wants the chance to quit and veil the coward’s incompetence. PRO refuses to recognize the benefit of adoption (that CHOICE is preserved) by bastardizing the relevance of the roles of other participants including those of voters even though this has no bearing on the argument of CHOICE. Voting is an integral part of DDO debates as they determine the winner. Clearly that is not irrelevant as PRO wants to believe. Voting is not mere a process of pushing a button but requires voters to make investment of time to understand the arguments and make critical judgment. While it’s true that people hold premature opinions of certain subject matters, debates provide opportunity to deeply examine and challenge these opinions and affect how policies are shaped. PRO completely ignores that the prime objective of debate is exposition of both sides of the argument and allow people to have a more informed view of the subject matter. Terminating debates deny us this purpose. Adopted debates are not clutter. Instead, they are a product of responsibility and the want for participants to continue to engage. It obviously increases quality as it replaces an absconding debater with a more responsible one.The more debates are adopted, the more we reduce unnecessary clutter. Adoption clearly has the advantages –• Many voters in the current system may be interested in viewing debates during the voting period only, but the same interest will be triggered if they see that a debate is open for adoption and may encourage some to partake. • Choice (to quit) is preserved without disenfranchising those who still want to engage• By giving other chance to partake, It sees to it that debates go thru their natural conclusion with the opportunity to properly resolve the motion• Abortion terminates the debate and become candidate for deletion. Adoption makes sure that debates that have good arguments are preserved.• While this still creates the perception that some DDO debaters are cowards, a placeholder system will reveal that there are many DDO debaters who are principled and will take the courage to better defend a position, if given the opportunity.• Adopters will be perceived as courageous vanguards and shining badge of honor in DDO which incentivizes more participation.• Unlike abortion which is completely subject to abuse, adoption adds another layer to the scoring system to promote responsibility. Demerits for quitters, and merits for adopters. Demerits are obvious indicators of quitters and participants become more discerning in engaging them, thus improving the overall quality of participation.• The reason why the system is overloaded and cluttered is precisely because people are encouraged to abscond when they are losing but deny further discussion on the motion. Overloading is because of redundant motions from those who want progress on the discussion but are denied by cowards. Cowards can be discouraged if there is a demerit system which flags them. In fact, by allowing adoption, participants would rather engage in the current debate rather than create redundant ones. • Ensuring that all debates go thru their natural conclusion will encourage more effort, and responsibility for debaters to present arguments off good quality. This is opposed to regularly absconding on them until one sees a winning record, which is really almost the case in the current system. This has to change. Abortion however does not solve anything other than make the problem worse by furthering the aim of the cowards - hide their incompetence and keep their “win” record.ADOPTION AND THE MERIT SYSTEM will shed transparency on the acts of these cowards and reveal them for who they are – a scam. This encourages them to seek false glory elsewhere and leave DDO to its rightful stakeholders – brave debate warriors who go into the battlefield with honor!!!