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Originally Posted by Elphaba
Actually, that was what Politico and I had hoped for. We simply did a poor job of explaining our intentions. It may be that abortion in any form has been beat to death in previous topics and no one is interested in continuing this particular debate with their own position on the topic.
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I see, well I think that your intentions are good and I like the concept of having formal debates within a larger discussion, and after the formal debate is over the normal forum format would take over. For the sake of the debate, I like that third parties outside the debate have an opportunity to tear apart the arguments and counter with their own information and opinion afterwards. I think this would improve the participants' ability, and also build very strong arguments for both sides.
If any members do decide to continue in this vein and hold another debate in this format, I think I would prefer the comments are limited to the scope of the debate itself, presenting personal opinions and facts when needed, and addressing the validity of the arguments used and they way they were presented by either side. I felt this thread became more of an experiment since it was the first thread of its kind around here, and most other users took the opportunity to discuss the format rather than the topic itself, I wouldn't expect this kind of discussion in future debate threads.
I wish I could set an example and actually address the issue as mentioned above like dy156 has, but I can't at the moment. And now that we've beaten this horse to death, please discuss the debate itself.