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I know what day of the week you will vote.
Yes, you. Resolved, that you are voting on a Wednesday. If you are voting, you are voting on a Wednesday, as you can see by any calendar, and as you are voting on a Wednesday, the resolution is affirmed, and as the resolution is affirmed, you ought to vote Pro. Vote Pro! In case you don't have a quick reference to today's calendar day, this site is quite handy: http://todaysdate.com/ Happy voting! var d = new Date();var weekday=new Array(7);weekday[0]="Sunday";weekday[1]="Monday";weekday...
The paradox of the stone is a valid refutation of God.
This debate is part of phantom's 99th percentile tournament. The paradox of the stone - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_the_stone is a valid refutation of - proves nonexistence of God - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God My opponent shall argue first in favor of the resolution, and I shall start my refutation in Round 2. In Round 5, I will give my final round of counter-argument, and my opponent may not argue, having already received the first word. Because I will be on vaca...
The constitution establishes Christianity as the offical religion of the USA
First round is for acceptance....
The Liar Paradox and Curry's Paradox are solvable
Solvable in this case means a logically valid true or false answer to each paradox without denying either the Law of Non-Contradiction (like paraconsistent logic) or the Law of the Excluded Middle (like intuitionistic logic). I argue that Arthur Prior's solution (Inspired by Buridan and Pierce) to the Liar's Paradox is sufficient to call it a non-paradox. Using the similar logic, we can also solve Curry's Paradox. The paradoxes are as follows: Liar's Paradox This sentence is false. Cu...
Resolved: the United States Government's War on Drugs should be continued in it's entirety
Pretty self explanatory. Pro will be arguing for the resolution, that the War on Drugs should be continued. Con will argue that the War on Drugs should be stopped.The biggest term which must be defined is the War on Drugs. Pro and Con shall be limited to the domestic war on drugs.As agreed upon (there is a more expanded definition in the comments):"The War on Drugs here refers to the set of drug policies of the United States government that are intended to discourage the production, distribution...
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| Lost: | 101 |
| Tied: | 4 |
| Won: | 139 |
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| • | Affirmative Action | |
| • | Animal Rights | N/S |
| • | Barack Obama | N/S |
| • | Border Fence | |
| • | Capitalism | N/S |
| • | Civil Unions | |
| • | Death Penalty | |
| • | Drug Legalization | |
| • | Electoral College | N/S |
| • | Environmental Protection | |
| • | Estate Tax | |
| • | European Union | N/S |
| • | Euthanasia | |
| • | Federal Reserve | N/S |
| • | Flat Tax | |
| • | Free Trade | N/S |
| • | Gay Marriage | |
| • | Global Warming Exists | |
| • | Globalization | N/S |
| • | Gold Standard | N/S |
| • | Gun Rights | |
| • | Homeschooling | N/S |
| • | Internet Censorship | N/S |
| • | Iran-Iraq War | Und |
| • | Labor Union | |
| • | Legalized Prostitution | N/S |
| • | Medicaid & Medicare | |
| • | Medical Marijuana | |
| • | Military Intervention | N/S |
| • | Minimum Wage | |
| • | National Health Care | |
| • | National Retail Sales Tax | N/O |
| • | Occupy Movement | N/S |
| • | Progressive Tax | Con |
| • | Racial Profiling | N/O |
| • | Redistribution | N/S |
| • | Smoking Ban | |
| • | Social Programs | Con |
| • | Social Security | |
| • | Socialism | N/S |
| • | Stimulus Spending | N/S |
| • | Term Limits | Und |
| • | Torture | N/S |
| • | United Nations | |
| • | War in Afghanistan | Und |
| • | War on Terror | |
| • | Welfare |