senor citizens are liability or an asset....
I think senior citizens are an asset to country.....
gay marriage
I would appreciate if you accepted this debate Resolution homosexuals should be able to marry contention 1- not only is not allowing gays a violation of the so proposed ideology of america being equal but it is also preposterous on the idea that if homosexuals want to be miserable in a marriage then let them "we the people of the united states are endowed with three unalienable rights the right to liberty, freedom, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS" does this not imply or state that men can pur...
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...
Homosexuality Is A Mental Disorder
I challenge... anyone! (since drafterman declined the challenge 3 times and proved to be all bark and no bite; YYW also proved to be toothless as well) Just waiting for acceptance, and I'll formulate my opening arguments sometime in the next 3 days....
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...
Should abortion be allowed?
I thank my opponent for this debate, and look forward to an interesting discussion. This round will merely be acceptance, and rounds will proceed in normal format, as in case introduction and refutations. My opponent's BoP will be to demonstrate the justification of abortion on not only legal premises, but also that it is morally sound. My BoP will be to adequately refute his points and provide points of consideration for why the practice should not be allowed. I would be glad to provide...
No true republic in history has ever lasted longer than three hundred years
A republic is a constitutionally limited government of the representative type, created by a written Constitution--adopted by the people and changeable (from its original meaning) by them only by its amendment--with its powers divided between three separate Branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. Here the term "the people" means, of course, the electorate....