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| Ideology: | Liberal | Education: | High School | |
| Party: | Democratic Party | Ethnicity: | White | |
| Relationship: | Not Saying | Income: | $75,000 to $100,000 | |
| Interested: | in Women | Occupation: | Student | |
| Looking: | No Answer | Religion: | Agnostic |
| About Me: | I enjoy being. |
| Beliefs: | It doesn't matter what I believe, but I do believe that people need to realize that the purpose of debate and political discourse in real life, and here on this website iis not to argue, but to learn. Consensus is reached much easier when everyone isn't trying to make everyone else hate each other. |
| Movies: | The Godfather, West Side Story, James Bond films, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Braveheart, Patton, Saving Private Ryan, Duck Soup |
| Music: | I prefer the Beatles, and a lot of other older music. |
| Quotes: | All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. |
| TV Shows: | Any and all C-SPAN Programming, Meet the Press, BBC World News, Colbert Report, The Office, The Wire, I Love Lucy |
Moral Accountability
Thank you to my opponent(whoever you are) for accepting this debate. Before I start, I want to put up some ground rules: 1. We both have to prove our side. I have to prove the topic I'm going to state below, and you have to argue against it. The burden of proof is on both of us. 2. This round shall not be used for presenting arguments. This first round shall be used to answer any questions my opponent might have about the topic. 3. No semantics. We all know what we mean by something. Don...
The United States should significantly increase its use of nuclear energy.
Okay so, I'm gonna run my PF case, since I didn't get to today on the actual tournament. Nuclear Energy needs to be substantially increased in the United States of America, heres why. 1.Relatively environmentally friendly 2.Economically Sound 3.Safe 1.Nuclear Power plants are the only power source capable of giving energy to people on a massive scale, while still not having major harmful environmental effects like coal and natural gas do. As Patrick Moore, the co-founder of the enviro...
The United States government or governments (federal, state or otherwise) should not ban trans fats.
1. Yes. Trans fats are unhealthy. But we live in a free society. We should be able to live and choose what foods we eat even if they are fatty. "No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words 'no' and 'not' employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights." http://www.libertarianquotes.com/quotes1.html 2. Trans f...
The Marines are one of the best fighting forces in the world.
The US Marine Corps is one of the best fighting forces in the world....
A debate on a Supreme Court Case
The case is DC v. Heller. I contend that Heller had the constitution on his side. The Second Amendment can be interpreted as thus "The Second Amendment is naturally divided into two parts: its prefatory clause and its operative clause. The former does not limit the latter grammatically, but rather announces a purpose. The Amendment could be re-phrased, "Because a well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be...
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| Debate Statistics | |
| Debates: | 34 |
| Lost: | 18 |
| Tied: | 0 |
| Won: | 16 |
| Win Ratio: | 47.06% |
| Percentile: | 98.18% |
| Elo Ranking: | 2,097 |
| Statistics based on completed debates. | |
| Activity Statistics | |
| Forum Posts: | 83 |
| Votes Cast: | 212 |
| Opinion Arguments: | 0 |
| Opinion Questions: | 0 |
| • | Abortion | |
| • | Affirmative Action | |
| • | Animal Rights | N/S |
| • | Barack Obama | N/S |
| • | Border Fence | |
| • | Capitalism | N/S |
| • | Civil Unions | |
| • | Death Penalty | Con |
| • | Drug Legalization | Pro |
| • | Electoral College | N/S |
| • | Environmental Protection | Pro |
| • | Estate Tax | Pro |
| • | European Union | N/S |
| • | Euthanasia | Pro |
| • | Federal Reserve | N/S |
| • | Flat Tax | Con |
| • | Free Trade | N/S |
| • | Gay Marriage | Pro |
| • | Global Warming Exists | Pro |
| • | Globalization | N/S |
| • | Gold Standard | N/S |
| • | Gun Rights | Pro |
| • | Homeschooling | N/S |
| • | Internet Censorship | N/S |
| • | Iran-Iraq War | Con |
| • | Labor Union | Pro |
| • | Legalized Prostitution | N/S |
| • | Medicaid & Medicare | Pro |
| • | Medical Marijuana | Pro |
| • | Military Intervention | N/S |
| • | Minimum Wage | Pro |
| • | National Health Care | Pro |
| • | National Retail Sales Tax | Con |
| • | Occupy Movement | N/S |
| • | Progressive Tax | Pro |
| • | Racial Profiling | Con |
| • | Redistribution | N/S |
| • | Smoking Ban | Pro |
| • | Social Programs | Pro |
| • | Social Security | Pro |
| • | Socialism | N/S |
| • | Stimulus Spending | N/S |
| • | Term Limits | Con |
| • | Torture | N/S |
| • | United Nations | Pro |
| • | War in Afghanistan | Pro |
| • | War on Terror | Con |
| • | Welfare | Pro |