Drug Testing on students in extra curricular activities
Drug testing on students is not nessecary. Imagine if you wanted to apply for a sports team and had to pee in a cup to join. If you had to do this wouldn't you be mad? The Government would loose 2 billion dollars doing random drug tests! Even if the government did start drug testing, what would they accomplish. No Middle school students have been tested positive on a drug test for performance enhancing drugs. The few cases in which a student has been tested positive relate to use of marijuana, w...
Vaccinations Against Preventable Childhood Disease
Vaccinations against highly infectious childhood diseases such as the measles, mumps, rubella, and pertussis (aka whooping cough) have saved millions of lives and improved the quality of life in countries where vaccines are accessible to the public. Unfortunately, more than half of the parents in the United States and some parts of the United Kingdom are choosing not to vaccinate for fear that vaccinations are harmful to their children. Autism, mercury, and aluminum are commonly cited as reasons...
Resolved: Cats rule the world.
I would like to thank teddy2013 for accepting this debate. In this debate we will be debating the subject on weather or not cats rule the world. But first lets lay down some rules for this debate. Rules 1st round is exceptance No new arguments after round 3 Wikipeadia shall not be cited No cussing No forfieture If any of the above points are violated then all 7 points go to the opposition....
Poop has DNA
I'll argue that poop has DNA, Con obviously debates it does not. First round acceptance only....
Label GMO foods in the US.
People have the right to know what they are eating and ought to be informed if their food has GMOs in it, therefore all foods with GMOs ought to be labeled....
should cannabis be made legal
I personally think cannabis aka weed should be made legal. Personally I don't smoke it or use it in any way possible but it does have many health benefits such as pain killer, muscle relaxant, stress reliever and the list goes on and on. But personally why should tobacco be legal and not weed, weed has more health benefits but yet its illegal. End the war on drugs its just wasting tax payers money....
Eating meat is good for your health
Does anyone want to argue in favour of this? Assuming focus on developed western nations, and that extended life expectancy and prevention of disease = good for health. Also, that eating meat is good for your health in comparison to other non-meat alternative food sources (i.e. not to be compared with eating nothing instead etc.). I'll argue against. If someone accepts, this will be my first debate, so please let me know if there is anything that I've missed out regarding format & rule...
should people adopt wild animals
A lot of times this question has popped into my head and at first I thought "why not, people have rights, don't they?" But it could be a major health issue. For example, the animal has rabies, or you decide to set it free after a few years and it dies from starvation or wanders into some random house for food...big problem. I look forward to seeing what my opponent thinks....
Should an active* prostitute infected with the AIDS virus be charged with attempted murder?
active* meaning they are still a prostitute And we're going to assume that the prostitute knows that they have AIDS, but continues to have sex for money anyway....
Drugs should be legalized in the United States
This is our first round in the 2011 DDO tournament. Due to future time constraints by Danielle, she can go first to get her argument out there while I finish my initial case. Pretty hot and controversial topic here, but I hope we can keep it civil. Good luck!...