Pastor Fred Phelps should have the right to picket funerals.
Resolved: Pastor Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church should have the right to picket funerals. Clarification points: - Funeral picketing refers to the ongoing controversy surrounding Pastor Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church's practice of picketing the funerals of dead American soldiers. - The debate should focus on the issues debated in Supreme Court Case Snyder v. Phelps. These issues include whether or not the Constitution protects the right to picket and where the li...
There should be a debate section for philosophy and "other" topics.
Philosophy: Debate is an integral portion of philosophy and I would love to have debates on ethics, political philosophy, free will, etc. but there is not a section. "Other": Because it would be conceded and closed-minded to think that you can create a list of all possible debate categories. After all. I couldn't even find a legitimate category to put this topic....
The media should have more restraints on what kind of pictures they take.
In the past couple of years there has been a problem with the media taking pictures of celebrities. Some of these pictures have been spotting up their skirt, down their shirt, or completely naked in the privacy of their home. Me personally, I believe that we need a lot more restraints on what is published in newspapers and on the net. I do not believe people should be able to make money off of a picture of a naked celebrity. If it was of any normal person than the person could be arrested. I thi...
The Madeline Mccann kidnapping was abused and exaggerated by the media, which led to harm.
On. May 4th, 2007 Madeline Mccann was reported snatched from the ground story of her condo at a resort in southern portugal, while her two-year-old twin brothers and her were sleeping, and her parents were out of the condo eating dinner. Immediately, with at first positive help from the parents, aired multiple stories about the kidnapping on british and portuguese television. Soon after, the media attached itself to the story and reported every move by the police, speech by the Mccanns, and rema...
Someone will get there "panties in a wad" over this debate!
Someone will get uptight about this debate! Inplying that i'm "Stupid" and they are "how you say SMART!". My words will get all twisted around. Because DDO debaters take this to seriously!...
People These Days
Can belive that someone would call 911 just get on Tv!!!! It is so stupid that people would do that!!! the thing is that the story about the 9 year old boy in the balloon. The dad calls in and says that his son is in a balloon and he was carryied away. The father must have known that they were going to find out that there was no one in the balloon and that the balloon wasn't even close to the size that it could hold a kid i mean come on people it is stupid you can go jail for that and then...
Terrorism
1. Population control
2. if the act of terrorism is suicide bombing the terrorist dies too
3. it creates drama (girls can't live without drama)
4. it creates news for the media which increases jobs for the media
5. terrorism could also kill future evil leaders
Resolved: The average intelligence of a Fox News Anchor is = or < the average intelligence of a rock
The resolution is pretty straightforward, Pro must argue why the average Fox News anchorman is about as smart as a rock or less than that of a rock, while the con must argue that Fox News anchormen are capable of intellectual thought, reasoning, and logical conclusions based on evidence. First round is acceptance only :D...
Oryus is a troll
He trolled my debate! He needs to be banned!
http://www.debate.org/debates/An-800-meter-race-is-longer-in-terms-of-length-than-a-400-meter-race./1/
Gravity is good
1. Without gravity, you would be floating in the air 2. Water will be floating 3. You can not touch the ground 4. It will be hard to eat...