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brian_eggleston's Debates
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Resolved: Military Conscription is unjust.
Ill start by defining the topic Military Conscription is known as the draft where the military forces teens and older to join the military. Contention 1 It has been realized by people 30 years ago that this is a bad idea. During the Vietnam war hundreds of people skipped out because they did not want to give their life for something they did not believe in. A few years later our president Jimmy Carter had the common sense to grant these people amnesty. This an example of how Military Co...
Performance-enhancing drugs should be allowed in professional sports.
Said drugs should stay illegal for use in sports, for a few reasons. 1) Negative effect on the steroid user Steroids, as we all know, speed up protein synthesis to enhance performance. However, there are some harmful side effects to using them. They include: - higher blood pressure - higher cholesterol levels - higher risk of heart disease - liver damage - premature growth - testicular cancer - abnormally large amounts of acne - breast development in men This, obviously, is no...
Knowledge about the past is usefull to complete our knowledge of the world we live in
Knowledge of the past is as important as all the knowledge we are getting in our daily life.it is cause of this knowledge that we are able to develop our current knowledge to the next level....
Death penalty
I am against the death penalty for many reasons, mainly because the logic "lets kill to show that killing is wrong" doesn't make much sense to me, it also somewhat encourages "you do wrong to me, i do the same back to you" but yeah this argument can have a lot of views based on religious beliefs, etc. so vote on who has better debating skills mainly....
Induced Abortions for Personal Reasons ought to be Illegal in the United States
Good luck to my opponent and may the best argument win. ______ Definitions: Abortion -noun 1. a. Termination of pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or of a fetus that is incapable of survival. "Induced Abortion" b. Any of various procedures that result in such termination and expulsion. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/induced%20abortion) "Personal Reasons" - For the purpose of this debate, personal reasons will incorporate the following common factors found to influe...
is society aware of sex
sex.................a word of which is unaware 4 todays society...........is this wat is r society known for........................is this.....our way of living without education........................................
I (Im_always_right) will lose this debate
if I win this debate, by getting more votes than my opponent I lose. If I lose this debate by forfeiting (Which I wont do, forfeits make me mad and in the famous words of puck:(\_/) I don't want the bunny to die!) (o.o) (> <) Or if I make a worse arguement, or make no sense at all, I will lose, therefore I will win. Prove me wrong....
Civil Disobedience is appropriate in the fight for justice
CD is never appropriate in the fight for "justice" Justice: As defined by dictionary.com it is the quality of being just; fairness Contention I Justice Justice is a mind set, it varies from person to person. Any thing therefore could be considered justice like assassinating the president or just skipping school. Just by adding that you want to fight for justice as a means to an end does not make it justified. Morals vary person to person so as such there should be a means where all peop...
reagan was a bad president
so i'm questioning the conventional wisdom that regean was such a great president. the national debt went up substantially, starting with him, exponentially. now, we have the debt going up two million dollars a minute, and the everyone paying a fifth of their taxes to interest only, nothing really, and the average person is born with 30k in debt. he wanted to spend less, but whatever the case, his tax cuts costed us this, given that spending less wasn't going to happen. it's a fundamental...
Bread is related to everything.
relate: to have some relation to (dictionary.com) to have a relationship or connection (Merriam-Webster dictionary) Bread has a connection, or is related to, in some way, everything in the world. Prove me wrong....