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The National Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act 1984 should be repealed and the drinking age eliminated
BACKGROUND: The National Minimum Drinking Age Act 1984 (also known as MLDA21) was passed by the US Congress on 17 July 1984. It requires states to create laws setting the minimum age to purchase or publicly posses alcoholic beverages to twenty-one. States that do not comply lose 10% of their federal highway funds. Some states also ban the private consumption of alcohol by those under the age of twenty-one, though this is not required by the Act. ARGUMENTS: MLDA21 should be repealed for the fo...
school vouchers.
school vouchers are essentially tax write offs for families who choose to send their children to non-government, or privately funded and parochial schools. the reason for this tax break according to supporters is that families should not have to pay taxes to help schools that their children do not attend. i stand in firm negation, and will expand on the four main arguments in opposition of these vouchers. 1. since most of the schools in the program are religious, government funding violates...
atheism.just because its fashionable does not mean it has any merit
Thanks to my opponent for the challenge.Atheism has become fashionable lately in the u.s and british media with Richard Dawkins and comedians like Ricky Gervais and Bill Maher.Im all for free speech but some things bother me about these commentators,specifically... 1When these people attack organised religion they assume that A;all christians believe in a corporeal god.B;all christians believe in the genesis story of the bible as literal truth.C;You cannot be a christian unless you do and you c...
Abortion is Murder (providing for exceptions in extreme medical emergencies)
(A) -noone who is sane wants to be murdered -We define 'murder' as the intentional ending of human life by another individual when not done --during war --in self-defense --as an 'assisted suicide'* --as a last-ditch effort to save another life, in such a scenario where to refuse to terminate one life is to endanger another along with it** --by the State, as capital punishment for grievous crimes -We therefore call for the legal protection of all human life, save for the aforemention...
There is Substantial Fossil Evidence for Evolution
I thank my opponent for accepting this challenge, and I hope this turns out to be a great debate. To begin the debate, I shall first define key terms: [Word - Substantial] [Source - http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=substantial&search=search] Of ample or considerable amount, quantity, size, etc. [Word - Fossil] [Source - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fossil] Any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc....
David Icke's view that the world is ruled by a secret group called "Illuminati" is false
I welcome GeoLaureate8 to this debate, and him in general to this website. I hope this turns out to be quite enjoying given it's unique nature ;) Unless I am mistaken, most members of Debate.org are new to these ideas that Geo has recently espoused upon entering this site. In general, his ideas align with David Icke's - an infamous British writer and public speaker who has developed this type of "New Age Conspiracism"[1]. To summarize it briefly, he basically believes that there is a secret g...
zelda better then final fantasy
I say that zelda beats ff by far, look at it zelda has had a lot less games then ff. zelda also offers the most entertainment then ff, and zelda is a little bit more story based. plz start the debate....
Mutilating dogs for aesthetic reasons
This is a debate on the mutilation of dogs, namely ear and tail docking and ear cropping, for aesthetic reasons. I shall be taking the 'against' role. I would like to begin with some definitions: Aesthetic and mutilation were taken from http://www.dictionary.com/ - Aesthetic 1. Pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the science of aesthetics. 2. Having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty. 3. Pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sen...
Friends with benefits is not ok
Friends with benefits is not ok...
Resolved: That circus animal entertainment is morally wrong and should be banned.
Circus animal entertainment is morally wrong and should be banned for the plain and obvious reason that we are more civilized and must realize that an anthropocentric attitude is morally wrong as well. To further clarify this debate round; circus: an arena often enclosed in a tent or building for performances by acrobats, TRAINED ANIMALS, clowns, etc animal:any such organism other than a human being, esp. a mammal or, often, any four-footed creature (in this debate, we will be referring to...