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Debate Score:24
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Total Votes:26
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Challenge Debate: Stryker v. Sitara: Suicide to avoid pain and/or grief is cowardly.

This debate is about suicide with the intent to avoid pain and/or grief, and whether or not it is cowardly.

Stryker(849)

True

Side Score: 14
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Sitara(11080)

False

Side Score: 10
2 points

Cowardly is defined as: Lacking courage.

Courage is defined as: Strength in the face of pain or grief.

So cowardly means lacking strength in the face of pain or grief.

My argument is that if you commit suicide to avoid pain and/or grief, you are demonstrating that you lack strength in the face of that pain and/or grief. That would make suicide in this case, by definition, a cowardly act.

Side: True
Sitara(11080) Disputed
1 point

You are wrong. People have the right to choose. .

Side: False
Stryker(849) Disputed
1 point

Please make an argument to demonstrate how I am wrong.

Side: True
1 point

If I was dying of AIDS or cancer and there was no hope, I would have every right to make the right choice for ME. It is MY body.

Side: False
Stryker(849) Disputed
2 points

You are off topic. We are not discussing whether suicide should be legal, or if it is a bodily right.

We are discussing that act of suicide, and whether or not it is cowardly.

Side: True
Sitara(11080) Disputed
1 point

I am not off topic. .

Side: False
1 point

Going into the unknown can be scary. It is not cowardly at all, and even if it was, who cares?

Side: False
Stryker(849) Disputed
1 point

We care, that is why we are having this debate. If someone killed themselves because they wanted to explore the scary unknown, I would agree that that wouldn't be cowardly, but again that isn't what we are talking about. I've specified suicide to avoid pain and/or grief, please keep to those reasons for suicide in your next argument.

Side: True
Sitara(11080) Clarified
0 points

Please define pain or grief, thanks. .

Side: True