Women should not be able to vote.
Women should not be able to vote. Men are better....
Resolved: Vigilantism is justified when the government has failed to enforce the law.
I would like to debate in LD format. Thanks! "Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer." It is because I agree with Anita Roddick that I affirm the resolved, vigilantism is justified when the government has failed to enforce the law. For clarity I offer the following definitions: Vigilantism:...
Parents should be legally identified and held responsible
The full resolution is: "The parents of each child should be identified as a legal requirement and the parents shall be held responsible by the government for the costs of raising the child." Parents should be held responsible for the care of their children. Unidentified fathers cannot be held responsible. The problem is growing due to the large number of births outside of legal marriage, many with unidentified fathers. In the US in 2007: * Number of live births to unmarried women: 1,5...
Legalization of street racing
Every year drunk driving kills more people in the u.s than street racing and yet, the fines and penalties are harder on street racers. Drunk driving kills an estamated 144,000 people a year. Street racing kills an estamated 50 people for every 1,000 that attend street racing. Say a guy gets pulled over for drunk driving right, all he will get is 1 night in jail maby 3 and his licens suspended for a few months plus a little fine. ok, now say a guy gets pulled over for street racing or sucpected o...
It's time to stop depraved madmen from breeding two-headed human freaks at the taxpayers' expense
Evil, calculating Mike Pedance, an unemployed nuisance caller, has persuaded his partner Lisa Chamberlain, also unemployed, to give birth to a hideously deformed human monstrosity and he wants the taxpayer to foot the bill. This benefit-scrounging former telesales agent is deliberately planning to bring a baby with two heads into the world, even though the doctors at the wicked couple's government-funded hospital advised them to terminate the pregnancy. They told sinister-looking Pedance a...
All people should expect to live an equal life.
Though we are born equal, we should not expect to live equal lives. Equal is referring to livestyle, wage, and happiness. I will present my points in later rounds....
Those pot-smoking atheist communist homosexual peacenik anarchists
I think the real question is when are these groups going to realize that their common issue is freedom and quit pretending one another don't exist because it might stigmatize them? Also why don't they already and what does that prove besides they (or we) are all just hypocrites? Resolved, that this is a good topic for debate. I will be arguing the Con. This is a terrible topic for debate although it actually is a good topic for discussion since in order to disprove it you would have to exh...
Being gay is a not a choice!
Theories of causation for homosexuality have shifted dramatically in the past 100 years. Early psychologists believed that early childhood trauma caused homosexual feelings to develop. Specifically, Freud proposed that a weak father and an overbearing mother caused a person to "stall" in the phallic stage of childhood development. Subsequent studies have shown there is no association between any parenting style or early childhood experiences that leads to homosexuality. According to the American...
Smoking Makes You Cool
The Greaser's did it, and they were cool. Plus, check out these handsome Fellas: http://img199.imageshack.us/i/pompadour.jpg/ http://img9.imageshack.us/i/200pxspyandhislovelylit.png/...
Income inequality does not equal economic inequality
Despite rising levels of income inequality within the United States, real standards of living have become more equal. While it is true that disparity between incomes is on the rise, the gap between our actual standards of living have remained relatively unchanged, and have even improved. Measurements of income inequality produce distorted pictures of actual economic equality. Anyone interested in refuting this argument is welcome to try....