Sex Offender Registries should be discontinued.
Definitions: Sexual offender registries: the lists of sexual offenders that are available online. These lists include people with a wide diversity of offenses: from streaking to rape. These lists are FOR LIFE. The local police stations furnish the information for these registries. Discontinued: Abolished, removed, stopped. Police stations will providing these lists of offenders. Advocates of these lists argue that such lists help safeguard local societies from the offenders. I will argue...
A government should value the civil rights of its citizens over the welfare of the community.
I'm open to any debater, and i would ask for at least some adherence to a Lincoln-Douglas format. As per the L-D Format, I'll let the Affirmative have the first go....
Abortion is Morally Justified
I affirm the resolution: termination of the fetus is morally justified. I will go through a few definitions and a few simple opening arguments. [Definition - Abortion] http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2091 In medicine, an abortion is the premature exit of the products of conception (the fetus, fetal membranes, and placenta) from the uterus. ===== Argument - Fetus is not a Person ===== By definition, murder is the intentional (first degree and second degree)...
Psychological Egoism is an Inconclusive Empirical Doctrine.
If I remember correctly, this is my first debate with L-M. SUH-WEET. Onto the debate: [Definition - Psychological Egoism] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/egoism/ 1. Claims that each person has but one ultimate aim: her own welfare. ~I find the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's definition of Psychological Egoism (PE) to be quite accurate and with minimum hope of semantics. Basically, it states that every conscious act a person does is in the sake for their own welfare. [Defini...
Driving on public roads is a right not a privilege.
State and local governments often quote driving as a privilege. However, this is in error. In fact, driving is a right for all law abiding taxpayers. Dictionary.com defines a right as "the interest or ownership a person, group, or business has in property...". U.S. citizens pay taxes that fund roads, construction and maintenance. As a U.S. citizen that pays taxes we thus have the right to drive on the roads we purchase. In addition, in purchasing our vehicles, we have the right to drive said veh...
Cellphone is very useful nowadays..
Does cellphone very usefull nowadays? especially our country is facing financial crisis.....
Suicide should be legalized.
If I no longer want to walk the earth, I have the right to kill myself. Otherwise, I might commit other crimes just to get the death penalty. I feel like that'd be doing society more good than bad. I have the right of life, but not the right of death? Come on... (thanks for the debating thing. I'll be on for a while, so I want to finish this debate today, so I'll answer quickly)...
Discrimination is unjust
The resolution reads as follows: Discrimination is injust. The resolution needs additional explanation and definition. "Discrimination" is the "treatment of a person on the basis of prejudice", where "prejudice" refers to a preconceived preference or idea. The meaning of "unjust" used in the resolution refers to a normative judgment; that is, whether or not some action violates the rights of another person. Consequently, the resolution may be read as: Discrimination deprives people of rights....
Bestiality is NOT abuse in all cases
I am shooting for the moon here, taking a position that I expect will be nearly impossible to prove, but here goes ... === I contend that bestiality (the sexual congress between a human and non-human member of the animal species) is not, in and of itself abuse in all cases. I contend that an opponent taking the "Con" side of the argument will need to successfully prove that all forms of bestiality are abuse. I believe it necessary for both sides to establish definitions for the terms BES...
Water Boarding is an act of torture and is immoral.
I affirm the resolution : Water Boarding is an act of torture and is immoral. I consider myself an open minded person yet I am always shocked when glancing at people's profiles on this site when I see people saying they are pro-water boarding. This is especially true if their other opinions do not seem particularly extreme. I would appreciate if somebody who is pro-water boarding would like to take me up on this debate. If nobody does so, I will be forced to conclude that most of these ind...