People should be allowed to donate their bodies to cannibals and necrophiliacs after they die.
I believe that people have a right to their bodies. People should be allowed to choose what happens to them after they die. And for the most part, they can. They can be buried, cremated, or donated to science. However, they can not donate their body to those who may wish to consume it and/or have sex with it. I believe that if donated their bodies to cannibals/necrophiliacs, less cannibal/necrophiliac crime would be committed. Also, this would ensure necrophiliacs the same rights that normal...
Abolishing the minimum wage will not reduce unemployment
In the debate I noticed on Minimum wage (http://www.debate.org/debates/Minimum-Wage), I was disappointed from the Arguments put forth from the Pro side which ended up agreeing effectively that minimum wage reduces employment and just tried to put forth a defence of a subsistence based minimum-wage. I feel that the defense of minimum wage has a lot more meat than what was presented and thus I would like to put the Pro side for minimum wage myself. --- Removing the minimum wage in an economy is...
Everything that humans do is because of their own self-interest.
People only do things out of self-interest. A person works hard for his own goals, probably to get money, because he wants money. People do not break laws because they have the self-interest of not going to jail. I will further this argument when I have an opponent, and refutations to argue against....
Gay Marriage Should Be Legalized.
Gay Marriage should be a legal form of marriage for the simple fact that disallowing LGBT groups to marrying is taking a right that should be theirs. I'll let you go first, as I am contending that there are no substantial legal reasons to disallow same-sex marriage, and thus it should be a right for any LGBT couple to marry....
In a world without negative emotions, there will be no positive emotions
This is a philosophical debate. My argument is that if nobody in the world was ever sad, angry, annoyed, etc. there could be no happiness. As far as I see it you can't have positive without these negative emotions. If you were permamently happy then you wouldn't be happy. You would just be normal. In this debate the phrase "positive emotions" should be defined as an emotion that makes you "feel" better than normal. Thus, if you were always happy you wouldn't be happy. You would just feel "normal...
Theresa Winters Should be Sterilised.
It is my proposition that once Theresa Winters gives birth to her 14th child it should immediately be taken into care and she should be sterilised against her will by the state. This debate is in reference to this article: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2562506/Pregnant-mum-of-13-For-every-child-they-take-Ill-have-another-one.html My arguments are as follows, Due to mental and moral deficiency she has been deemed as an unfit mother to all 13 of her children thus far. It can b...
Abortion is wrong
Hello. The resolution is, "Abortion is wrong." I will present the affirmative (pro), and my opponent will present the negative (con). first, I would like to define "abortion": abortion- the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy; any of various surgical methods for terminating a pregnancy. next, I would like to define "wrong": wrong- not in accordance with what is morally right or good; not correct in action, judgment, opinion, method, etc. both...
Life does not have a satisfactory "meaning" under an atheist perspective.
Meaning here means "purpose", as in the phrase, "The meaning of life". Satisfactory- giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/satisfactory I contend that life has no purpose and that their is no motivation to live from an atheist perspective. I will allow my opponent to go first so that he/she may present a few potential purposes of life to be debated....
Non-human animals should have rights.
Thank you and good luck to whoever accepts the debate. ======== DEFINTIONS ======== Non-human animals - any of the kingdom Animalia that is not a human should - used in auxiliary function to express obligation, propriety, or expediency http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/should rights - an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rights&sub=Search+WordNet&o2=&o0=1&o7=&o5=&o...
LSD should be legalized for recreational use.
LSD refers to Lysergic acid diethylamide, a psychedelic drug illegal in the United States of America. If you challenge me, you are in support of keeping LSD illegal, and/or increasing penalties for possessing or selling it. LSD should be legalized for the reasons listed below. A) LSD use is a victimless crime. If someone ingests LSD, no one is being victimized in any way, shape, or form. B) LSD is less addictive than many legal drugs in America. (1) (2) C) Only one person has ever d...