Capital Punishment Debate
Should Christians support the Death Penalty?
Battle Royale XI
Turbo vs. theo_victis
The Battle will start on Monday September 18th 2006. Battle Royale XI will be a 5 round battle and follow the existing Battle Royale rules.
BATTLE ROYALE XI DETAILS
What: The debate will be titled Battle Royale XI: Capital Punishment: Should Christians support the Death Penalty?
Where: The debate will take place on the Internet at TheologyOnline.com (TOL), the popular online Christian forum, with the moderator, opponents, and spectators all participating and observing over the web.
Who: The debate will be moderated by the site’s webmaster, through his TOL screen name Knight, who can be contacted at knight@TheologyOnline.com. Turbo and theo_victis will be the combatants
When: The debate will begin on Monday, September 18, 2006 at noon. IMPORTANT NOTE: BOTH COMBATANTS WILL POST THERE OPENING POST ON MONDAY SEPTEMBER 18th BETWEEN 12:00 and 12:30PM MDT (2-2:30 p.m. Eastern Time). After the opening round theo_victis will post next as determined by my coin flip. Then turbo, then theo and so on.
Each side will have 48 hours to upload their successive posts, THERE WILL NOT BE A WEEKEND BREAK FOR THIS BATTLE. Each combatant has 48 hours from the time of the previous post to make their next post. If for some reason a combatant cannot make their post on time they can make arrangements with me (Knight) and we can make an adjustment as long as it is a reasonable adjustment.
How: The debate will last for five rounds. The recommended maximum word limit for the average post is 6,000 words, but any or all posts could be much briefer or possibly longer if need be. For each round, the opponents will login to TheologyOnline.com to upload their posts prior to each round’s 48-hour “move clock” running out of time. The official BR XI clock will be "TOL time" i.e, the time that is listed with each TOL post.
So why five rounds?
7 rounds seems a bit too long and 3 too short, so 5 it is!
Think of the battle like this....
Round #1 - opening statements
Round #2 - rebuttals
Round #3
Round #4
Round #5 - closing statements
Guidelines
Clarity: Both sides will attempt to achieve clarity and avoid obfuscation.
Responsiveness: Each side will make an effort to be responsive to the other, to interact, and to answer relevant questions forthrightly, which also ensures that the participants actually debate one another and not simply post material written for other purposes, especially if that material is not specifically responsive.
Specific BR XI Rules
Rule 1:
Question Numbering: To help focus the opponent on the topic(s) of a particular post, and to enable readers to follow the debate more easily, participants will sequentially number their questions using TOL’s Battle Royale convention of first part of username, a Q for question, an A for answer, and then the question number. Turbo and Theo would identify their questions with Turbo Q1, Turbo Q2, Theo Q1, and would mark any answer given with Turbo A-TheoQ1 (Turbo answers Theo’s first question), Theo A-TurboQ1, etc. After reading a post of, say, fifteen paragraphs, without such a convention, it may be unclear to the audience and even to the opponent exactly what is being asked. So this also saves participants time in evaluating an opponent’s post. And it discourages unresponsive replies that focus for example on rhetorical questions or incidental details while ignoring the primary challenges. Of course there can be valid reasons why an opponent may refuse to answer a given question.
Should Christians support the Death Penalty?
Battle Royale XI
Turbo vs. theo_victis
The Battle will start on Monday September 18th 2006. Battle Royale XI will be a 5 round battle and follow the existing Battle Royale rules.
BATTLE ROYALE XI DETAILS
What: The debate will be titled Battle Royale XI: Capital Punishment: Should Christians support the Death Penalty?
Where: The debate will take place on the Internet at TheologyOnline.com (TOL), the popular online Christian forum, with the moderator, opponents, and spectators all participating and observing over the web.
Who: The debate will be moderated by the site’s webmaster, through his TOL screen name Knight, who can be contacted at knight@TheologyOnline.com. Turbo and theo_victis will be the combatants
When: The debate will begin on Monday, September 18, 2006 at noon. IMPORTANT NOTE: BOTH COMBATANTS WILL POST THERE OPENING POST ON MONDAY SEPTEMBER 18th BETWEEN 12:00 and 12:30PM MDT (2-2:30 p.m. Eastern Time). After the opening round theo_victis will post next as determined by my coin flip. Then turbo, then theo and so on.
Each side will have 48 hours to upload their successive posts, THERE WILL NOT BE A WEEKEND BREAK FOR THIS BATTLE. Each combatant has 48 hours from the time of the previous post to make their next post. If for some reason a combatant cannot make their post on time they can make arrangements with me (Knight) and we can make an adjustment as long as it is a reasonable adjustment.
How: The debate will last for five rounds. The recommended maximum word limit for the average post is 6,000 words, but any or all posts could be much briefer or possibly longer if need be. For each round, the opponents will login to TheologyOnline.com to upload their posts prior to each round’s 48-hour “move clock” running out of time. The official BR XI clock will be "TOL time" i.e, the time that is listed with each TOL post.
So why five rounds?
7 rounds seems a bit too long and 3 too short, so 5 it is!
Think of the battle like this....
Round #1 - opening statements
Round #2 - rebuttals
Round #3
Round #4
Round #5 - closing statements
Guidelines
Clarity: Both sides will attempt to achieve clarity and avoid obfuscation.
Responsiveness: Each side will make an effort to be responsive to the other, to interact, and to answer relevant questions forthrightly, which also ensures that the participants actually debate one another and not simply post material written for other purposes, especially if that material is not specifically responsive.
Specific BR XI Rules
Rule 1:
Question Numbering: To help focus the opponent on the topic(s) of a particular post, and to enable readers to follow the debate more easily, participants will sequentially number their questions using TOL’s Battle Royale convention of first part of username, a Q for question, an A for answer, and then the question number. Turbo and Theo would identify their questions with Turbo Q1, Turbo Q2, Theo Q1, and would mark any answer given with Turbo A-TheoQ1 (Turbo answers Theo’s first question), Theo A-TurboQ1, etc. After reading a post of, say, fifteen paragraphs, without such a convention, it may be unclear to the audience and even to the opponent exactly what is being asked. So this also saves participants time in evaluating an opponent’s post. And it discourages unresponsive replies that focus for example on rhetorical questions or incidental details while ignoring the primary challenges. Of course there can be valid reasons why an opponent may refuse to answer a given question.
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