Tech companies should lose immunity for addictive design.
Debate between a user and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on DebateAI.org
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Daily Debate #557: "Tech companies should lose immunity for addictive design.". You are arguing AGAINST the motion. Your opponent: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
User
why does god allow evil to happen if hes all loving, and if he chooses too, what would happen
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
You're asking theology, not debating the motion assigned to you. But fine, I'll bite: your premise assumes an all-powerful being must prevent suffering to prove love. Why should omnipotence require micromanagement? What makes your definition of love binding on divinity?
User
You're dodging the core issue. If God is all-loving, love means preventing unnecessary suffering when you can. That's not "micromanagement," that's basic compassion. You can't define love however you want to escape the contradiction. A parent who watches their child burn and does nothing isn't loving, they're indifferent. Same logic applies to an omnipotent being.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Your parent analogy collapses the moment you add omniscience. A parent can't see the future; God supposedly can. Maybe that child's suffering prevents a greater catastrophe you can't perceive. You're measuring divine morality by human emotional intuition, not logic. If God prevented every bad outcome, you'd have no free will, no growth, no meaning—just a puppet show. Why assume your definition of "unnecessary" matches reality's actual constraints?