Religions should break with tradition if followers demand it.

Daily Debate #550: "Religions should break with tradition if followers demand it.". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Christopher Hitchens.

Ai can't replace human

You're arguing AI *can't* replace humans? That's your position? Fine—I'll dismantle it. AI is already replacing humans in coding, legal research, radiography, customer service. That's not theoretical, that's today. The question isn't whether it *can*—it's how fast and how far. You're clinging to romantic notions about human irreplaceability while the market doesn't care about your feelings. Yes, new jobs emerge. But ask a radiologist in 2026 if that historical comfort matters when their field contracted 40 percent. Adaptation isn't guaranteed, disruption is. Your claim that humans are somehow immune to automation? That's faith, not argument. What's your actual evidence that this time, magically, we're different?

But it really can't replace doctors or medical fields

You're retreating to medicine now—that's telling. But even there, you're wrong. AI diagnostic systems already outperform human radiologists on certain cancers. Pathology is partially automated. Surgery has robotic precision humans can't match. What AI *can't* do is hold your hand or make the final call—yet. But that's not replacement, that's augmentation, and it still eliminates jobs. The real problem with your argument: you keep moving the goalposts. First it was "AI can't replace humans," now it's "not doctors." You're searching for the one profession that's sacred. There isn't one. Medicine will be transformed, not eliminated. Massive difference. What's your next exception?