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No Religion in school should include certain theories.
Let me start off by thanking my opponent for his or her time. Also, let me state this is my first debate so afterwards please leave in comments or send me a messgae how I did. Thank you. I believe that If Religion is not aloud in school this should include certain theories. A couple of these theories are but not limited to (due to me not being able to think of them mainly and this is my first debate.): Theory of Evolution. Big Bang Theory. My arguments for the following are as follo...
Free will exists.
I thank my opponent for challenging me to this debate. He will be playing the Devil's Advocate, as we agree on the issue of free will. Free will: The capability to make a free choice. Free choice: A choice that is ultimately not influenced by any outside entity and completely unpredictable, but is also completely rational from the perspective of the entity making the choice. Rational: Proceeding or derived from reason or based on logical reasoning. (dictionary.com) Note that a being with...
TheLwerd is a decent human being with a good head on her shoulders.
On theLwerd's profile, it says "I'd like to think that I'm a decent human being with a good head on my shoulders. Feel free to debate me on it if you disagree." I take that challenge. I am going to be taking multiple routes of argumentation. Definitions (from Merriam-Webster) Decent: conforming to standards of propriety, good taste, or morality. Conform: to be similar or identical. Good: of a favorable character or tendency. On: used as a function word to indicate position in conta...
The Exclusionary Rule in the United States
I thank whoever accepts this debate. I started it a few weeks ago but was forced to cancel because I went on vacation. I intend to debate it seriously now. The exclusionary rule is a highly contentious issue in the American judicial system. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the exclusionary rule, the exclusionary rule is the rule that states that illegally obtained evidence may not be used in a trial, even if it may have led to a defendant's conviction. The rule has been consis...
A just society ought not use the death penalty as a form of punishment.
This is the round two debate of the Tournament of Champions. I thank my opponent for participating in this debate, the gracious judges for their time, and the host(s) of this tournament for creating a great forum for debate. Although this is an LD resolution, it will be debated in a more loose format. Definitions Just: acting or being in conformity with what is morally upright or good. Society: an enduring and cooperating social group whose members have developed organized patterns of r...
Eating animal meat purely for pleasure is unethical.
From where do rights flow? How are we to determine who has rights? Clearly a claim to rights should have something to do with whether or not an entity can hold preferences and suffer. It would simply be absurd to say that kicking a rock is a violation of its rights because the rock cannot desire anything. A rock is not capable of holding any desires about the world nor can a rock suffer, one would presume. Chickens, cows, and pigs on the other hand can all feel a great deal of pain and also hold...
Obama's Health Care Plan is beneficial to the United States of America
There will be no semantics, you know what I mean by the resolution. As usual, I will defer to the affirmative to open. Good luck....
Fallacy Debate: Marijuana should be smoked regularly by adults in the United States.
Inspired by http://www.debate.org/debates/Fallacious-Arguments/1/ Each person must argue the resolution to the best of their ability. But the catch is, each person must use as many logical fallacies as possible. The arguments vote should be given to the person with the best balance between persuasiveness and fallaciousness. To my opponent, please do not argue semantics or attempt to weasel out of the spirit of the debate. Since sources are irrelevant, the sources vote should be defaulted t...
Fallacous Arguments II:Stupidity should be a crime, and violators should be given the death penalty.
Stupidity causes deaths; MTGandP is biased against stupidity; Forrest Gump says "Stupid is as stupid does." Therefore, stupidity should be a crime; If stupidity isn't a crime, WW3 will happen shortly; Being smart is a lost art; Most people don't approve of stupidity; Stupidity is an old tradition that needs to be abolished; I polled myself and I agree with my view, therefore stupidity should be a crime; You cannot prove stupidity is not a crime; Killing and stupidity are closely related, therefo...
Torture is sometimes morally permissible.
Torture can be morally justified in rare circumstances. In the case of a ticking time bomb that could destroy a city and potentially kill millions of people the use of coerced interrogation to extract information can be justified. I am not arguing that torture should be made legal. Torture, like theft, could be ethical under certain parameters and still be against the law. Nor am I arguing that a general practice of torture can be made from the scenario I outlined above. What I wish to argue is...