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+# Debate 1
+
+## Proposition
+> "Plants have a general tendency to perform an action in ways that is consistent with their self organization."
+
+## Argument
+
+### Criteria for moral value
+
+1. Autopoiesis
+	- self-organization
+	- self-maintenance
+	- self-regulation 
+	- comprising a network of interrelated processes 
+	- capable of renewing itself by regulating its composition and maintenance of form
+	- creating its own parts 
+	- homeostasis
+
+## Semantics
+
+1. Homeostasis
+	- the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements
+2. Tendency
+	- an propensity to a particular characteristic.
+
+## Analysis
+
+### Reductio
+
+| **Criteria**            | **Atom** |
+| ----------------------- | -------- |
+| Tendency                | Yes      |
+| Equilibrium             | Yes      |
+| Interdependent elements | Yes      |
+
+1. Even atoms would qualify as having moral value.
+
+---
+
+## Hashtags
+
+#debate 
+#philosophy 
+#sentience 
+#autopoiesis
+#morality
+#debate_opponents