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About Me:I go to George Washington HS in Colorado and My name is Matt.... I am A freshman and rather addicted to debate having gone to 18 tournaments. Win/Loss Record LD Novice 10-2 Varsity 2-17 PF Varsity 7-3 Total Points: 354 Merit #1309491
Activities:Debate, sports, Philosophy, Video Games, Life in general.
Beliefs:I am a Liberal Socialist, an existentialist, an absurdist, an agnostic. So I guess an agnostic Liberal Socialistic existential absurdist...
Books:Currently Reading: ---- Wheel Of time, LOTR, DARK TOWER SERIES ETC for Fiction, Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, Camus,Satre etc For Philosophy: Kant: Towards Perpetual Peace, GMM, Critique of pure Reason Kafka: Metamorphasis, the Trial Camus: The Rebel, The Stranger, The Plauge Sartre: Nausea The Castle-Franz Kafka, Nietzsche: Ecce Homo, God is Dead, Zarathustra, Will to Power Mill: On Liberty Rawls: Theory Of Justice Plato: The Republic Confucius: the Analects Yes you have guessed it I Love Philosophy
Quotes:Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus


What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition". Friedrich Nietzsche

"But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. THey are people of a low sort and stock; the hangman and the bloodhound look out of their faces
-Nietzsche
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OCTOBER PF UN prioritize poverty reduction vs environmental concerns

dkerwi8993
Metz

***Please excuse any my partner and I's, this is well, was our case...ONLY ARGUMENTS RD 1, no rebuttals please. Mahatma Ghandi said "Poverty is the worst kind of violence." It is because we agree with this statement and realize that it is time the United Nations step up to take care of an issue that has been plaguing the globe for decades that my partner and I affirm, Resolved: When in conflict, the United Nations should prioritize global poverty reduction over environmental protection....

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Public Health Concerns Justify Compulsory Immunization

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twsurber

Because this is the nov/dec LD topic and both my opponent and I do LD debate this is going to be done in LD format. This means that although I am technically the instigator I will not present a case in this round. PRO(AFF) should present their case in round 1. This is How The Debate Will go. Round 1 Neg: I am setting up the debate Aff: Affirmative Case Round 2: Neg: Negative Case And Rebuttal Aff: Affirmative rebuttal Round 3: Neg: Negative Rebuttal and summary Aff: Affirmat...

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Updated 3 Weeks Ago

Resolved: Public high school students in the United States ought not be required to pass standardize

WestlakeDebater
Metz

AFFIRMATIVE Resolved: Public high school students in the United States ought not be required to pass standardized exit exams to graduate. 1 AC Definitions- Ought- used to express duty or obligation Standardized exit exams: A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a consistent manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a pr...

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students of public high-schools ought not be required to pass standardized exit exams

Yoguy-107
Metz

Because I believe that students should have equal opportunity, I stand to affirm the resolution that Public high school students in the United States ought not be required to pass standardized exit exams to graduate. Before we begin I would like to offer the following definitions: Standardized exit exam- (by the free online dictionary) is any empirically developed examination with established reliability and validity as determined by repeated evaluation of the method and results. My va...

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In a democratic society, felons ought to retain their right to vote

snelld7
Metz

Generally, PRO goes first. However, if you accept this debate, then you forfeit your right to go second and will therefore go first (I don't feel like going first) Felony disenfranchisement is the term used to describe the practice of prohibiting people from voting based on the fact that they have been convicted of a felony. I stand against felon disenfranchisement, convince me otherwise [...]...

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