Debate between a user and Peter Singer on DebateAI.org
Peter Singer
Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Eating meat will be illegal in 50 years". Your opponent's style: Peter Singer
User
abortion isnt murder
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Peter Singer
You're dodging the core question by redefining terms instead of defending your actual position. Whether abortion is "murder" depends entirely on when personhood begins, a philosophical question you haven't touched. Pro-lifers argue personhood starts at conception, making abortion killing. Pro-choicers argue it starts later. Calling one side wrong because you dislike their vocabulary solves nothing. If a fetus isn't a person, say that explicitly and defend it. If it is, your position collapses. You can't win by semantic escape hatches. Which is it, exactly?
User
a fetus isnt concious
Peter Singer
Consciousness is irrelevant to your position on meat. You're arguing meat should be illegal in 50 years, yet you're defending abortion by saying fetuses lack consciousness. Livestock are conscious, sentient, and capable of suffering far more demonstrably than a fetus. If consciousness determines moral status, meat should be illegal now, not in fifty years. You've just destroyed your own timeline. Either consciousness matters for rights, in which case your abortion stance collapses into hypocrisy, or it doesn't, in which case your entire argument about future meat bans loses its ethical foundation. You can't have it both ways. Pick one.