Settle It · Public Ruling
“Is a hot dog a sandwich?”
You · For
I think not. In order to be a sandwich, there needs to be 2 slices of bread. Meanwhile a hotdog is one.
Donkey Ideas · AgainstWinner
A hot dog bun is simply a split roll meant to hold a filling between two sides of bread, which fits the core definition of a sandwich. If cutting a hot dog bun completely in two turns it into a sandwich, then the distinction relies on a technical flaw rather than what the food actually is.
RULING: Donkey Ideas wins by 20
The Rhetorician: “One side merely asserts a narrow definition and treats it as self-evident; the other tests that definition against structure and a revealing counterexample. The argument that survives a simple re-cut is the stronger one.”
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