Professional sports stadiums should be privately funded and owned.
Resolved, that private investors, not the Minnesota taxpayer, should build a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings. Generally, I oppose public subsidies for private businesses. Assumption: The Minnesota Vikings franchise is a profitable enterprise. Contention: Currently, the Minnesota taxpayer cannot afford to provide the Vikings with a new stadium. But a group of Minnesota private investors could do so. Thus, the private investor, not the Minnesota taxpayer, should determine...
Religious symbols, religious pictures, prayers,... should be allowed in Public faculty?
Just as the government of the United States try to take away the right to express religions in public faculty. The fact that some states not allow teachers to wear big crosses or use crosses to decorate their classes. They even gone to extreme when they not allowed Muslim teachers to waer the Jihab. This is against the laws and constitutions....
Conscientious objectors should be obliged to make the same sacrifices as conscripted soldiers
The leader of one nation to another: "You should, like, chill out, man. Instead of invading my country, why not light an ethically-sourced soy-wax scented candle, make a nice cup of organic Fairtrade jasmine tea and attain inner peace through holistic meditation? Because killing people is like wrong, you know, and war is like really bad and that." I think we can all sympathise with the appeal from a pacifist head of state to an evil, psychopathic tyrant to stop his warmongering ways and get i...
Agricultural Subsidies
I Affirm that Agricultural, because of its negative environmental impact due to greenhouse gases and other forms of pollution it produces is a negative externality. Thus by economic principles, Agriculture should be taxed in the amount of money that would clean up the amount of pollution it produces, or in the amount that would subsidize a positive externality that removes the pollution agriculture produces. Given: In this debate the emittance of greenhouse gases and other forms of pollution...
3 Items found at Wal Mart that will best kill a velociraptor
Greetings to all. I mean this to be a fun debate. Its goal is clear. What we will do is determine three items found at Wal Mart that would be able to kill a Velociraptor. The scenario is that you (and I) have been trapped by a hungry velociraptor in a closed Wal Mart (with the lights on). One of has has to kill it with our best choices of Wal Mart items. Velocraptor - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor We shall each divulge one idea/item a post. You can have the item stand...
Rap music contributes to violent crimes
Just some information as to why I have created this debate. I am currently enrolled in Law and we are scheduled to begin a debate about this issue in a few days. I was to be on the affirmative side, so I will be taking affirmative during this debate as well. ======================================= Be it resolved that rap music contributes to violent crime and therefore its production should be limited. ======================================= Definitions Rap music- a type of rhythmic tal...
In reality, is .999 repeating actually equal to 1?
Hello everyone. I have been searching through the website's old debates and I had come upon multiple interesting mathematical debates covering this topic. However, they are long gone and the one I looked through had bad grammar, spelling, and behavior. Thus, I would like to redo this debate with a hopefully better behaved person. Thank you in advance for whoever accepts this debate, and I hope that you enjoy it. Please be aware that when I state a decimal with three numbers following...
It makes no sense to ask for scientific evidence for Gods existence.
It makes no sense to seek scientific evidence for supernatural existence. If what is meant by "scienific evidence" requires confirmation by repeatable experiments, then by definition of supernatural, a system that is at a higher hierarchical level than the natural, confirmation by experiment is impossible. This is to say, the natural system as the sub-system is unable to access the supernatural system as the super-system. In Causal terms, there is nothing we can do in the natural system as a...
/b/oxxy is queen of /b/
/b/oxxy is queen of /b/ she ruins all other memes on the site. her name starts with /b/. she is very attractive and captures the hearts of young men that typically lurk on 4chan. her cute and jittery personality rule all. /B/OXXY IS QUEEN AND WILL ALWAYS BE....
Child Beauty Pageants
Child Beauty Pageants: Child beauty pageants should be banned. It causes children, especially little girls, to use artificial means to boost their self esteem. People were born as-is, not with makeup, spray tans, big hair, and false teeth. Not only does it cause low self esteem in young girls, but it also sexualizes them. It seems that our society has overlooked the fact that there are sexual predators (pedophiles) who are not incarcerated. Placing children in a child beauty pageant is only...