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1b. Abortion
Abortion is one of the most widely disagreed upon topics. To determine whether abortion is right or wrong, we must define our values. Before I go on, I will clarify my stance. Some of you might see PRO for 'Abortion' and assume I am advocating that Abortion is awesome and should always be done. Au contraire. I am arguing that abortion is fine, but not necessarily 'good' [though in many cases, it is good]. Due to the nature of the debate on this subject, my opponent will be arguing that aborti...
1a. Abortion
Abortion may be an issue of some contention, but that should not allow one to take a worse position for what amount to very poor reasons. 1) Abortions are a necessity. 2) Medical decisions are sacrosanct. 3) Forced birthing is far worse than any abortions. 4) Carrying a pregnancy to term is dangerous. 5) Abortions are often medically necessitated. 1) Women get abortions if not legally then illegally. There was a time in this country when women would come into the emergency room with a...
Resolved: There is no such thing as reality
A very famous experiment in physics is known as the double slit experiment. Two tiny slits are made in a very thin sheet of metal. Particles are fired at the sheet of metal, and a sensitive plate sits behind the apparatus, to see where the particles end up. If you performed this experiment with bullets and 2 slats cut into a door, with a brick wall behind it, and a machine gun firing at the door, you would find slat shaped marks in the brick wall when you were done firing. The occasional rico...
.999... is equal to 1
Con Now I know full good and well that most of you reading this debate actually believe that .999... is equal to 1. I've seen a lot of Debates on the issue and frankly Con has generally done a horrible job supporting the position,not to say Pro is correct. There is no question in my mind that 1 and .999... recurring forever is not equal but entirely two different numbers and I will help you understand why. .999... = 1 is a false statement. Definitions .999... refers to .9 with recurring...
Beijing Olympics 2008 will not change India....
I agree that India has performed better than the previous years. Abhinav Bindra became the first individual gold medalist, and Vijendra Singh and Sushil Kumar too performed incredibly well. However, I don't think that India will ever be able to perform as the US and the Chinese did. A few reasons supporting my argument. 1. Most of the Indians are interested only in cricket. It is the only sport that attracts attention from the Indians. 2. The infrastructure of the government does not support o...
RESOLVED: All debate resolutions should not be one sided
I am tired of people posting one sided debates. They are just farming their own win to loss ratio on a debate website, speaks so much of their character. You are forced to post bizarre, off the wall arguments, but then they get mad and remove your argument; they were expecting a free win. Debates such as http://www.debate.org/debates/It-is-as-likely-or-more-likely-that-9-11-was-an-inside-job-as-compared-the-Official-Story/1/ and http://www.debate.org/debates/The-US-Government-should-not-...
The need for "Identity Confirmation" with a phone number is aburd.
Debate is inextricably linked with journalism. Journalism ideally is the process of informing people so that they can make a legitimate decision. Debate is the discussion that hopefully precedes that decision. To levy such a heavy handed and draconian caveat to the freeness of speech such as any demand of absolute identification is a corruption of the entire ethic behind debate itself. This entire idea is disgustingly manipulative. Anonymity is a serious personal right, and the desire...
Assuming an endless universe, there are as many Thursdays as there are days.
Georg Cantor established the idea bijection to establish the relationship between the sets of infinite numbers and establishing that they were the same size. He famously derived the counter intuitive proof that there as many unit squares as items on the number line in his 1874 Crelle paper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor Assuming the universe doesn't end and the word day still holds some meaning unto the infinite, then there are as many Thursdays as there are days in general....
It is Morally Permissible to kill one innocent person to save the lives of more innocent people.
Resolve; It is Morally Permissible to kill one innocent person to save the lives of other innocent people. For this resolution I offer Utilitarianism as my Value Premise and Egalitarianism as my Value Criterion. Also I offer a few definitions to clarify the resolution. Morally Permissible; conforming to a normative standard of right and wrong…..Kill; to end ones life……Save; to rescue from danger or loss. I will also define my Values, first my Value Premise, Utilitarianism; The Greatest good for...
The 16th Amendment should be repealed
I will let my opponent make the first argument as to why we should not repeal the 16th amendment...