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Living Organ Donors Should Be Allowed to be Compensated

A lot of Americans check the box when getting their driver's license renewed to be an organ donor so that, in the event of their own death, their organs can be used to save the life of someone else in need or in research. A lot of Americans also donate blood and get some compensation for this. A lot of Americans also volunteer to participate in experimental research trials of new medications, before risks and side effects of the medicines are known. There are a few Americans who volunte...

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Updated 1 Month Ago

The use of credit scores should be tightly curtailed

In the United States, just about anything you need or want -- getting a higher education, getting hired for a job or renting a place to stay -- is hinged on your credit score. I believe this is abusive, that it unjustly penalizes people for having medical problems or those who attempt higher education (especially if the institution of higher learning fails to provide anything beneficial to a person) and that the use of a credit score for hiring for a job, obtaining a utility service such as a...

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Updated 3 Months Ago

"Harsh Interrogation" should not have secrecy protections

I am taking this round solely to lay the parameters for this debate. Con will get the first "argument" as I will make none in this first round. This debate is to determine whether or not actions to commit waterboarding and other "harsh interrogation" techniques that the Bush administation is accused of should not have the protections of any "National Secret" status. As PRO, I will be tasked with establishing that these actions should not have any secrecy status, that President Obama was ri...

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Updated 6 Months Ago

This House Would Recognize 'The Pirate Bay' As Wrongly Convicted.

In case you have not heard the news; http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/business/global/18pirate.html Today we find ourselves at a crossroads, both marred by fog, spooky trees and werewolves and whatnot. One road involves criminalizing file sharing and persecuting everybody who participates in it, leading to never ending witch hunt. The other path would be that of legalization. It would be a path in which we work with the entertainment industry to find a new way in which they may remain compe...

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Updated 7 Months Ago

Abortion is a form of murder

This is, I believe, the most contentious and embattled political issue of all time. I am actually quite afraid to take it on, especially being so new here, but I hope my unique position (an anti-abortion atheist) might make things more challenging than usual for an opponent otherwise equally entrenched, because they would be accustomed to dealing with religious arguments I will not use. Because of the contentiousness, and admittedly selfishly to allow myself more leeway to amend whatever scre...

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Updated 7 Months Ago

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Debate Statistics
Debates:	13
Lost:	5
Tied:	2
Won:	6
Win Ratio:	54.55%
Percentile:	93.58%

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•	Abortion	ConComments Very strongly opposed. Yes, I'm a "devout atheist" who is absolutely opposed to abortion. I would love to discuss this with anyone who is confused or curious and wants to learn what someone else thinks ... I have no pretentions about being able to "c
•	Affirmative Action	ProComments Very complicated reasons I tried to explain in this window but it crashed and I'm too frustrated to fully re-write. The ugly short: U.S. caused this generation-to-generation inequality, that inequality still exists, the U.S. needs to make amends to
•	Border Fence	Con
•	Campaign Finance Reform	Pro
•	Civil Unions	ProComments Any consenting adults who wish to have a legally recognized bond but not call it marriage should be allowed to. BIAS: I'm bisexual and have exchanged vows with a special man and a special woman in my life. Much drama, I'm widowered by both, feel fre
•	Death Penalty	ProComments Anti-abortion, pro-death penalty seems like a contradiction, especially if you toss into the mix my personal trait of being an atheist. Essentially, I view all people as having equal rights, but if you take away someone else's right to life through
•	Drug Legalization	ProComments I have very mixed views here, so don't think I'm a drug anarchist. I think alcohol and tobacco need a lot more regulation, and the "less dangerous" forbidden taboo drugs like marijuana less so. I do not drink nor smoke even legally, and I think in
•	Environmental Protection	ProComments Reducing the additional damage is a first step I feel is a basic absolute must we are far from achieving. We will need to further find a way to undo some of the damage we've caused (by that I mean, for example, actually removing the toxins from the
•	Estate Tax	ProComments I loathe those who twist "tax on inheritance" to call it a death tax. Its the signal to me of someone who hates freedom and liberty, though they would of course deny that, for it is someone fighting for aristocratic birthrights. You got lucky and got
•	Euthanasia	ProComments Anti-abortion, pro-death penalty, pro-euthanasia ... gee I'm just insane! On euthanasia ... its my understanding there is a medical creed in very long standing that you should never do harm, to do the best that you can. When life can only be extende
•	Flag Burning	ProComments I am rather un-fond of the environmental damage, these plastic made-in-China American flags don't burn clean, but that's minor to the freedom of speech it stands for, and that is something I value.
•	Flat Tax	UndComments Those who reap the most should pay more of what they reap, for they reap it from the poor by and large.
•	Gay Marriage	ProComments Once upon a time, women were property and their family would try to marry away their daughters to someone wealthy. Business deals ensued between men on both sides on who would own the woman. This is the "institution of marriage" we get from Christian
•	Global Warming Exists	ProComments Get your head out of the sand. It is cruelly ironic that the vice presidential candidate chosen by McCain to be his partner in his campaign lives in a state where global warming is among the most visible, yet Palin fought so hard to refuse to see it
•	Gun Rights	ConComments To me, gun rights or gun control is a question of whether you feel guns are too few or too numerous and in the hands of too few or too many. I've been witness to several accidents, and have myself been the target of homophobic gun violence. Fortunat
•	Labor Unions	Pro
•	Late Term Abortion	ConComments See: Abortion. When a sperm and egg unite to form a unique strand of human DNA, that is a human being. Waning seedling it may be, but a human all the same. It is distinct genetically from its mother and its father. That is my view, and thus abortion
•	Medicaid & Medicare	ProComments Actually I'd have to say I'm opposed to their being left as the status quo ... they should be merged and expanded, in my book, to cover every last person. Yes, nationalized, universal, "socialized" health care!
•	Medical Marijuana	ProComments Why is it those on the right express paranoid fear about the government coming between them and their doctor, and yet they insist the government belongs there to prevent a medical prescription?
•	Minimum Wage	ProComments Needs to be expanded. Not just raised, but expanded. Living wage at a minimum, and beyond that ... Were I Emperor of America, I'd put a "communistic tax" in on labor that would essentially make it so the wider the gap between the lowest-and-highest
•	Missile Defense System	ProComments We need one, but I do not believe we should violate our long standing M.A.D. agreements with Russia. Anything we can do short of violating those treaties, yes, do so, but do not cross the line. TOTALLY INSANE IDEA -- let's develop a missile system,
•	NAFTA	Und
•	National Health Care	Pro
•	National Retail Sales Tax	Con
•	Patriotism	ConComments The beloved value of Christian America -- faith -- is something I've come to regard as the biggest evil in America. Blind faith is redundant, as faith requires blindfolding. You are to trust completely and not question that being Christian is good,
•	PETA	ProComments 95% with 'em, so that's a big Pro! 5% no, and won't specify where.
•	Police Profiling	UndComments Very difficult and way too complicated to answer with a simple Con or Pro. Holding anyone "Arab-looking" as a terrorism suspect to me is way, way, way over the line and I strongly oppose it. Deny it or not, I've known cops who are outright bigots a
•	President George W. Bush	ConComments I'd like to vote for George W. Bush, actually ... as the worst president in our nation's history. Thanks, George, you displaced Nixon for me! At least he didn't bring half a million innocent people to their death.
•	Progressive Tax	ProComments Those who can afford to should pay more. Of course by and large, they'd rather spend a million of their bucks to shave ten thousand off their taxes than pay the ten thousand. Nonsensical to me, really, but then I've never made more than $14k in any
•	School Vouchers	ConComments You don't fix our public education system by undermining it so badly!
•	Social Programs	ProComments Our lack of social programs puts our health care system as comparable to THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES. Sure the rich won't see that, they get all the shiny hospital rooms and regular visits to the doc, they don't see it because they don't really care as muc
•	Social Security	ProComments Needs great expansion.
•	Term Limits	Con
•	Tobacco Rights	ConComments How about a right against tobacco? I choose not to smoke. I get migraine headaches from it. Why should I be forced to endure poisoning someone else inflicts? Its a neglectful drug assault, the equivelant to unintentional manslaughter as intentional
•	United Nations	ProComments Do we need another World War to inch into becoming reality?
•	United States	ConComments Doesn't answer for its crimes. Falls short on freedom, liberty and justice for all. Falls short on separation of church and state, and actually providing for equality among the religious minorities. Falls short on not establishing and maintaining an
•	War in Afghanistan	ProComments As a pacifist, it is difficult for me to accept war, but this is the only war since WWII I felt it regrettably necessary to get involved with.
•	War in Iran	ConComments Our enemies would grow very strongly were we to destroy Iran.
•	War in Iraq	ConComments Hussein was convicted on mass murder for his own people he gassed. How many tens of thousands? That was horrible, truly horrible. Bush took out Hussein, and for doing that we are responsible for what ensued -- an anarchy that has killed upwards of h
•	War on Terrorism	ProComments I believe we should war on Terrorism, but we should not practice it to fight it. We must be above it. "Shock and awe" is the very definition of terrorism.
•	Water Boarding	ConComments Torture is torture, we have no right to complain about others committing torture when we consider it valid to terrorize people into believing we are going to murder them through actual physical actions to make them believe it.
•	Welfare	ProComments If Corporations deserve millions of it, why can't the poor have $10k per year as a safety net?
•	World Trade Organization	ConComments Global conspiracy against people and human rights pretending it supports instead of opposes them.