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Debate Score:25
Arguments:20
Total Votes:26
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one man's loss is another man's gain

true

Side Score: 11
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Side Score: 14
1 point

yep!!! that's what they say,"Opportunities are never lost, they are taken over by someone else!!!"

Side: True
1 point

This is under the assumption that if one man loses, then another man wins.

This is may be the case in games or sports, but not in life.

Side: False
mitgag(1652) Disputed
1 point

This is under the assumption that if one man loses, then another man wins.yes that is true

This is may be the case in games or sports, but not in life.

I can't find any example to that;););)

Side: True

It is sad but true. For one to prosper at a another's lost is truly a pathetic way to succeed. It takes no brains to take advantage of someone. It is like picking on a mentally handicapped person and bragging about it.

Side: True
protazoa(427) Disputed
2 points

I entirely agree that people can make gains by taking advantage of another man's gain.

However, being used is not the only that people suffer from loss.

If I were to die, at this very moment, I would like to think that nobody would gain anything from my untimely demise. However, I still would have lost my life.

Another situation is one where a person messed up, and many people actually suffer rather than gain. For instance, if I were to go to a hospital for surgery, and rather than insert the computer-brain interface chip I wanted (slightly tangential but it was the first thing that came to mind) and rather than be able to think at quantum speeds I suffered from sever headaches. Of course, I would sue the doctor, who did this to me. This would hurt the reputation of the hospital, the doctor, and even the procedure.

Who would gain in this situation?

Side: False
Thewayitis(4071) Disputed
1 point

If you were to die, there are several people that gain from this too. The funeral home would make money. Your job would be available. Apartment maybe available.

In the malpractice suit lawyers would gain. There is always someone that gains.

Side: True

It is a philosophy that works because someone can take on a career that was vacated by someone.

Side: true
2 points

That phrase describes a zero-sum game.

But real life is not a zero-sum game. Humans are all interconnected. We can create wealth, trade it fairly, and all end up better off. Once you understand this you can see that one man's loss is another man's loss and one man's gain is another man's gain.

Side: False

Life is not a zero sum game. If humans can connect though not collectively, but as individually, life for humanity can be better where all men can gain without strife.

Side: False
1 point

its nice to know somebody else appreciates game theory.

Although some interactions may give the appearance of one +delta A= - delta B, in the end the interconnected society is truly a situation in which the loss of one is a loss of all.

I go into more detail in my reply to 'thewayitis'

Side: False
2 points

not necessarily, I mean did they really lose? it all depends on what they claim the other person gained.

Side: False
1 point

i dont think that if a man loses someone in his family than another man gets them as they will have passed away so how is this statement true

Side: False
mitgag(1652) Disputed
2 points

I dont think that if a man loses someone in his family than another man gets them as they will have passed away so how is this statement truethey say when a person dies, or passes away, the soul continues to live and enters another body so as to give life to it. it is not scientifically true but still if we believe this statement then the person who has lost his/her family member, another man has gained a new family member, hasn't he?

Side: True