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Yes No / Whachatakin 'bout?!
Debate Score:24
Arguments:16
Total Votes:34
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Should questions be illegal?

Yes

Side Score: 8
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No / Whachatakin 'bout?!

Side Score: 16
0 points

Theoretical free will as long as it is directly harmless, is also theoretically free of logos, free of reasoning and definition. A question asked about anything within the field of harmless free-will-justified-already is most likely to be an act of directing the free-will.

Side: Yes
RevFred(351) Disputed
1 point

I find no problem with trying to direct others free-will. It's the only reason I'm here.

Side: No / Whachatakin 'bout?!
0 points

The question is a bit vague but some questions in some contexts should be illegal. For instance, it should be illegal for an agent of the state to stop me while I'm walking on the sidewalk and ask me about my political beliefs.

Side: Yes
RevFred(351) Disputed
1 point

Even this question should be legal to ask, but it should also be legal for you to not answer.

Side: No / Whachatakin 'bout?!
0 points

it depends; if you postulate that 'statements' are legal, than their opposite, 'questions', should be illegal by default

Side: Yes
shunted(139) Disputed
2 points

Why does the opposite of something have to be illegal? It's legal, in many circumstances, to drive a car and the opposite of driving a car is also legal.

Side: No / Whachatakin 'bout?!
-1 points

Yes, why not? Wait...

Side: Yes
3 points

Although I don't really understand what it is we're debating here, I've gone over in my head all of the possible things this question could mean, and to all of them the answer is no.

How can questions be illegal?

Do you mean to question other peoples' beliefs? To question authority? To pose questions in general? To question a politician? To be questioned by the police?

All of these should definately be legal.

Side: No / Whachatakin 'bout?!
1 point

I meant the idea of a question. Any question.

Side: No / Whachatakin 'bout?!
3 points

I still don't really understand what you mean, to be honest. Well... I do understand what you mean, I just don't really get the point. Why should questions be illegal? What are the possible arguments for?

Side: No / Whachatakin 'bout?!
1 point

That was what I thought as well. Obviously there are always situations in which we should be using our wisdom in NOT exercising our right to ask questions.

Side: Yes
2 points

We should always be allowed to question. Inalienable right and all that.

Side: No / Whachatakin 'bout?!
1 point

...Or should answers?]

Questioning and inquiry are what we learn from, so no.

Side: No / Whachatakin 'bout?!
Stav(69) Disputed
1 point

That's not quite a full answer.

Learning should be placed as the need that questioning answers.

It doesn't justify it. Just like Hitler can't justify the killing of all those people by saying that it brings the human race to a more pure state.

I probably should add that when I refer the learning ability as a need, I mean the real deal, being positive about the shape of the earth, being epistemologically certain that the sun doesn't orbit the earth. Hitler's example is just the one that gurgles up first, in his case the need is self purification, the answer comes with the extermination of the polluting virus. Obviously if he was to present his plan instead of his genius propaganda, the puring thing wouldn't even justify his mustache.

Plus, not all questions have the learning merit as a support, much of the questions asked could be acquired by experience, much of them make our lazy lives easier, and I wouldn't like to mark those with the testing interest in their backgrounds, not at this point - too knotty, gets the lines all blurry.

Maybe I didn't set the question right, maybe a better question would be whether the lies one might put himself into by making up answers would be worse than the certainly part-truths one might unknowingly dive into by accepting the answers of another.

Side: Yes
1 point

no, just no. :P

well if u are saying any question... then no. human rights yada yada yada ...

Side: No / Whachatakin 'bout?!
0 points

Oops. I meant, Yes.

Side: No / Whachatakin 'bout?!