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Debate Score:22
Arguments:22
Total Votes:23
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Is it possible to actually do nothing?

Well I see it as we are always doing something, since when we say we're doing nothing at that point your speaking and breathing which is doing something... I guess it all depends on how you see the word :)

Yes

Side Score: 8
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No

Side Score: 14
1 point

Although your heart is always beating, as long as you live, to do nothing in a general sense means to be taking no action beyond the most minimum.

To stand still when disaster strikes, to play video games all day, to do the bare minimum you can do to live is to "Do nothing with one's life".

Side: Yes

When you're dead you certainly aren't doing anything, period.

Side: Yes
1 point

That's a true point XD.......................................

Side: Yes
Emperor(1348) Disputed
1 point

When you are dead, "You" no longer exist. Only a corpse does.

That corpse is doing things. It is being food, it is being energy and matter, it is vibrating because it has heat.

Side: No
chatturgha(1631) Disputed
1 point

'Being' is a verb, but not necessarily a verb that is synonymous with 'doing'. I'm fairly sure it's its own category of verb and does not have anything to do with doing anything.

Side: Yes
Vermink(1944) Disputed
1 point

Fair enough but it's not you brain controlling your rotting body, The real 'you' is not in it any more so technically if your an atheist and don't believe in heaven or hell once your dead you do nothing. But if your Christian like I am It's hard to do nothing since once dead we believe we go to heaven or hell.

Side: Yes
GoodAnswer(7) Disputed
1 point

But if you are dead, you are clearly laying down. Or if you are dead what you are doing is being dead or not being alive.

Side: No
Peripatetic(1) Disputed
1 point

When you are dead there is no "You". Therefore, you cannot do something or do nothing. Perhaps some can argue that "you" are decomposing or just look like you are sleeping initially, but that is not by choice by "you".

Side: No
1 point

Philosophically I know you are right, but then I think about my lazy good for nothing ex and I have to say - YES - yes it is possible to do absolutely nothing for years and years.

Side: Yes

I do and it is some comforting. I would rather be doing nothing than to do something.

Side: Yes
logic15(1) Disputed
1 point

you say you do nothing but in truth you are always doing something, if you are relaxing that is something if you are just sitting or laying down you are doing just that so logically you are always doing something

Side: No
2 points

I don't think it is possible to do nothing; how can you do something that, by definition, can not be done? For example, existing is doing something, and since matter can not be created or destroyed, everything in the universe will always be existent, in one form or another. There are other things that you can be doing that can't count as nothing, even if you are dead (such as decomposing and aging).

Side: No
1 point

Nothing is something. The absence of anything is the presence of nothing. And therefore you are always doing something, and there always is something.

Side: No
1 point

Your brain i always active, no matter what. Even if you lost concenrtation, you are still doing someting.

Side: No
1 point

no because your heart is always beating constantly and there is two ways to stop your heart from beating is to be killed or sneeze

Yah Fools

Side: No
Vermink(1944) Disputed
1 point

>sneeze

Have you been watching curious and unusual deaths? XD On that some died from a sneeze :P

Side: Yes
1 point

1. You sleep - Action

2. You breath - Action

3. You think - Action

4. You blink - Action

See My Point?

Side: No
1 point

I agree with others; it is impossible to do nothing. You are always breathing. (unless you're dead!) your muscles are always moving, and you are always existing. These are some reasons why it is not possible to do nothing.

Side: No
1 point

its impossible to do nothing because your living your standing or sitting or your heart is beating so its impossible to do nothing

Side: No
1 point

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Side: No