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That Pennies Should Be Abolished
The purpose of currency is to facilitate the exchange of goods and services by providing a good with an agreed upon value that can be traded for a multitude of other goods. As Pro in this debate I will argue that pennies are failing to fulfil this purpose.The context of this debate is present day United States. For this debate "penny" refers to the one-cent-coin.The model I am proposing is that the US mint simply stops producing any more pennies. All pennies currently in circulation are to remai...
Resolution: Ulilitarianism is a superior moral theory to Kantianism.
This is part of the Official DDO Tournament moderated by 1DevilAdvocate. Note on Voting: This is Jury voting only via the terms of the tournament found here: http://www.debate.org/forums/debate.org/topic/31364/ Debate rules: 4 rounds, 1st round acceptance. 72 hour posting time. 8k characters. RFD required. 1 week voting period. Debates must be challenged and accepted no later than 6pm US central standard time on Sunday, June 2nd, 2013. Unfortunately, I am replacement for someone...
Presidential Debate - Airmax1227 VS Larztheloser
In his recent interview, Airmax offered to debate other candidates on why they would make a better president. Therefore, here I am to make my case!Hopefully we can have a good, quick debate and give everybody a better overview of where we stand and why we differ in the process.I'll leave this first round for Airmax to accept, and then we can let the real fun begin! ...
Random Freestyle Writing
I'd say that I'm pretty creative. Let's see if anyone thinks they can be more creative than I....
Negotiations for the TPP agreement should be abandoned
Welcome one and all to the grand finals of the second ELO tournament. Special thanks to Noumena for setting things up, Raisor for suggesting an interesting subject as well as agreeing to the final motion and everybody else who competed for making things fun. Extra-special thanks to anybody that votes. Just try to remember to be fair and constructive if you can. The TPP agreement is a little acronym for the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic "Partnership", which is basically a free trade deal. A...
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| Debate Statistics | |
| Debates: | 166 |
| Lost: | 47 |
| Tied: | 13 |
| Won: | 106 |
| Win Ratio: | 69.28% |
| Percentile: | 99.88% |
| Elo Ranking: | 2,925 |
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| Activity Statistics | |
| Forum Posts: | 281 |
| Votes Cast: | 170 |
| Opinion Arguments: | 4 |
| Opinion Questions: | 0 |
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| • | Affirmative Action | Con |
| • | Animal Rights | Pro |
| • | Barack Obama | Con |
| • | Border Fence | Con |
| • | Capitalism | Con |
| • | Civil Unions | Pro |
| • | Death Penalty | Con |
| • | Drug Legalization | Con |
| • | Electoral College | Con |
| • | Environmental Protection | Pro |
| • | Estate Tax | Pro |
| • | European Union | Con |
| • | Euthanasia | Pro |
| • | Federal Reserve | Pro |
| • | Flat Tax | Con |
| • | Free Trade | Con |
| • | Gay Marriage | Pro |
| • | Global Warming Exists | Pro |
| • | Globalization | Con |
| • | Gold Standard | Con |
| • | Gun Rights | Con |
| • | Homeschooling | Pro |
| • | Internet Censorship | Con |
| • | Iran-Iraq War | Con |
| • | Labor Union | Pro |
| • | Legalized Prostitution | Pro |
| • | Medicaid & Medicare | Pro |
| • | Medical Marijuana | Pro |
| • | Military Intervention | Con |
| • | Minimum Wage | Pro |
| • | National Health Care | Pro |
| • | National Retail Sales Tax | Con |
| • | Occupy Movement | Pro |
| • | Progressive Tax | Pro |
| • | Racial Profiling | Con |
| • | Redistribution | Pro |
| • | Smoking Ban | Pro |
| • | Social Programs | Pro |
| • | Social Security | Pro |
| • | Socialism | Con |
| • | Stimulus Spending | Pro |
| • | Term Limits | Con |
| • | Torture | Con |
| • | United Nations | Con |
| • | War in Afghanistan | Con |
| • | War on Terror | Con |
| • | Welfare | Pro |