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Society always right. Society is not always right.
Debate Score:9
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Total Votes:12
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Society decision

If everyone in the society decides something is good, it is good.

Society always right.

Side Score: 1
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Society is not always right.

Side Score: 8
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If someone is voted as president, he is president, whatever you feel like.

Side: Society always right.
JennJenn(15) Disputed
1 point

That has nothing to do with if the society is always right.

Side: Society is not always right.
TheThinker(1697) Disputed
1 point

Your argument proves that Society decides, but that is not the question in hand. The debate question is it whether what society chooses for you is good for you. For this, i am down voting your argument.

Side: Society is not always right.
2 points

Majority isn't always right. Suppose the society says, "Kill yourself", would you do it?

Side: Society is not always right.
1 point

Ignoring the fact that everyone would never agree on anything, even if they did it would not necessarily make it right. They would think it was right, but morality and ethics are subjective between populations. The only possibility for objectivity is through deductive, impartial analysis (as improbable as total consensus)... and even then I doubt the majority would go along with the reasonable approach. Call me a cynic.

Side: Society is not always right.
1 point

It depends on how you define "good", and good for whom exactly? There are things I think of as being "good" that I'm sure most of society does not. And I know there are things society thinks of as being good that I do not.

Side: Society is not always right.

Take into consideration, the Salem Witch Trials. That society thought girls who danced naked in the woods, and old women who had no home to live in were best to be hanged.

Side: Society is not always right.
1 point

If you actually look at there are only a few topics which everyone in society agrees on

1) Crimes like murder,looting,rape etc. should not be accepted

2) Charity is good(Most people agree on that 0.00001% don't).

Then all other subjects is debatable.On those issues there will be a noticeable group of people who benefit on what society does not agree on hence society is not always right.

Side: Society is not always right.