It's time for the Government to crackdown hard on greedy fat scroungers
You see them all the time, don't you? Big, fat, sweating piles of flab sitting in fast food restaurants, gorging themselves on super-sized burgers while everybody else is out earning the money to pay for them. "No, I'm to fat to work" they say, "I'm morbidly obese and I get out of breath just walking to my Government-subsidised car". So, instead of going out and earning an honest wage like everybody else, they slob about in junk food outlets. And when they haven't got their snouts in the...
The "Slippery Slope" argument used in gay marriage debate is invalid
This debate is not on gay marriage, but on the specific argument made that giving homosexual marriage as a right would lead to the induction of other groups to get married: Polygamy, incest, pedaphilia, bestiality, etc. I am taking the pro side, meaning i believe this argument is bogous My opponent will believe this argument is logical....
Resolved: In a democratic society, felons ought to retain the right to vote.
I stand for the side of the negative of the resolution; in a democratic society, felons ought to retain the right to vote. The negative panel believes in a democratic society, felons should not retain the right to vote. The negative panel accepts the burden of proving that a democratic society can function properly if felons are disbarred from voting. The negative panel has the moral high ground in this battle. To not stand for the negative you stand for ideology that is immorally inferior and o...
A Resolution to Legalize Prostitution
I will start of with a quote... "I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not suppose to be that happy." - quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P Frankel. So I ask today...how are women suppose to be happy when prostituion becomes legal?...They can't! Because of this...I stand in the strong negation of the resolution with three main contentions. (1) The economic issues (2) How un-healthy it is and (3) The social effects...
Temperance, fortitude, prudence, and justice form a flawless basis for morality
I would like to explore a topic that Rob1Billion and I began debating in the comments section of another debate. It is my belief that morality can not be reduced to a set of unambiguous laws. That is to say, we can not find a set of laws that will always yield the same results for moral questions as our intuition would give. My opponent will argue that the morality of an action depends on four unambiguous, unchanging qualities: Temperance, fortitude, prudence, and justice. I will let him...
Euthanasia Should Be Legal.
Euthanasia is the practice of ending someone's life in a painless manner, under their full conscious consent. This is done when the patient is terminally ill, and there are no foreseeable cures for their condition, a condition in which usually the patient is under excruciating pain. In a way, this is a form of suicide, one that is assisted by a physician who takes into consideration factors such as the condition of the patient; of whether or not they are viable for euthanasia. Individuals...
The US should adopt a revised death penalty system
The "death penalty" is the execution of a criminal convicted according to the laws of a state or the federal government, i.e. death penalty - putting a condemned person to death http://www.thefreedictionary.com/death+penalty In the system proposed, for the death penalty to be imposed, a jury must first find the accused guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Then in the penalty phase of the trial the jury must find that there was guilt beyond a reasonable doubt based upon forensic evidence, as well as...
Resolved: Vigilantism is justified when the government has failed to enforce the law
This debate does NOT have to be in LD format, in fact, I will be running a kritik on the resolution. We will follow LD rules (in the sense of AC, 1NR, 1AR, 2NR, 2AR; but that alone) for speaking order. Please organize points in contention/point order. Anything not signposted will be ignored in the round. I think that's it...just be logical and use common sense when it comes to rules. Affirmative goes first......
I am much cooler then you
well I welcome my opponent to this debate. We will be debating the standing on who is cooler. Now with my side I am a much cooler person then you not that your not cool or anything I am just much better then you. I may have zero reasons for my being much cooler then you but I want to see my opponents response first....
Rebel flags should be banned.
The rebel flag is a piece of history. Just because it represented the South doesn't mean that a simple flag is bad. It is like a swastica. It was on allied airplanes. (the public thought this was great). Then Hitler made it into his own. Now people think it's the worst thing ever. It's a flag. Often it is not even in context with the South...