http://www.debate.org/debates/?order=1&sort=&member=BeatTheDevil89 Customize this RSS feed by going to http://www.debate.org/rss/ en-us 2013-05-23T01:07:33-08:00 2013-05-23T01:07:33-08:00 http://www.debate.org/debates/Soft-Drugs-and-Prostitution-should-be-legalized./1/ (Voting Period) This is a very popular topic but I haven't found a debate about it on this website, so I decided to start one. Definitions: Soft Drugs such as marijuana and the like, cocaine, and heroine. Also add any other drugs that don't do permanant brain damage like Shrooms, LSD, Meth, ect. Prostitution: consensual sexual acts in exchange for money or other goods. Value: Fairness Value Criterion 1) That all laws are fair and just, by protecting society and not limiting the freedoms and rights of society at the same time. 2) All crimes should have a victim or potential victim, otherwise it is not a crime 3) Maximize efficency of our law enforcement. 4) To use tax payer dollars wisely and effeciently, especially in law enforcement scenarios. In short, the "crimes" mentioned above should not be considered such because they have no victim and they are consensual. Cigarretes can give you cancer, alcholol can give you liver disease, you can even OD http://www.debate.org/debates/Soft-Drugs-and-Prostitution-should-be-legalized./1/comments/ 2008-06-19T10:33:26-08:00 http://www.debate.org/debates/Sex-Education-should-be-taught-in-public-schools./1/ (Voting Period) I think that the title basically speaks for itself as well as the definitions. So on with my opening. Contentions: I. A bias free education is the right of every child, including sex education especially since virtually 100% of them will use it, even in marriage. II. To not teach sex education would be harmful to students III. The facts should be taught in school, morals should be taught at home because morals differ from family to family. http://www.debate.org/debates/Sex-Education-should-be-taught-in-public-schools./1/comments/ 2008-06-15T08:47:22-08:00 http://www.debate.org/debates/America-spends-too-much-time-on-our-politicians-personal-lives-and-not-enough-on-the-issues./1/ (Voting Period) With all the terrible things going on around us; wars, the failing economy, civil rights, education, rising health care prices, soon unaffordable gasoline with no sign of substantial alternative fuels, some of the worst living conditions for children in the industrialized world, ethnic genocide, some of the highest crime rates in the modern world, epidemics of disease that could have and should have been prevented, the largest stratification of wealth besides the oil barons of the middle east, deteriorating farmland, corruption, urbanization and over population, housing and credit problems, and extreme apathy towards it all. Look at the recent news in the media today; Mcgreevey, Spitzer, Larry Craig, David Vitter, and now Edwards. In France their president died and the wife and mistress were sitting together at the funeral. Why do the people of America choose to follow a "moral" standard while the country is run into the ground. Look at the presidents since WWI http://www.debate.org/debates/America-spends-too-much-time-on-our-politicians-personal-lives-and-not-enough-on-the-issues./1/comments/ 2008-08-13T18:57:22-08:00 http://www.debate.org/debates/Requiring-photo-ID-in-order-to-vote./1/ (Voting Period) To require photo ID for voters would be against our supposed democratic system. Unless a special voter ID is issued for free to everyone, than people will be taken out of the democratic process, namely elderly people who do not have a license or urbanites that do not own a car but use a subway or some other form of public transportation (mostly democrats might I add). I will also show that there is no "problem" with voter fraud as its proponents suggest and all evidence to support such a claim are anecdotal and fail to show nay trends. So con is to argue 1. There is a voter fraud problem 2. Having photo ID (other than one issued by the government specifically for voting) would outweigh the cost of excluding certain members of our democracy if there is any cost at all. http://www.debate.org/debates/Requiring-photo-ID-in-order-to-vote./1/comments/ 2008-07-19T13:16:15-08:00 http://www.debate.org/debates/The-media-isn-t-liberal/1/ (Voting Period) Media will be all forms of print (newspapers, magazines, etc), TV news, radio, and the internet. You all should know the definitions of liberal and conservative. Anyway along with the opening: I would argue that the media isn't liberal. In this I contend that their is a wide range of philosophies of reporters and news stations but the media IS NOT overhelmingly liberal. Conservatives have just said "the liberal media" so many times without any evidence that it has become a fact. A great quote that I have come to love from the 1962 movie "The man who shot liberty valance." A man was credited for shooting this notorious outlaw, Liberty Valance, but he never really shot him. This brought the man fame and many years later (in the movie) he was telling his biographer the true story, and admits he didn't shoot the outlaw, the biographer rips up his notes and walks out saying, "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend" We are printing the http://www.debate.org/debates/The-media-isn-t-liberal/1/comments/ 2008-06-20T14:43:41-08:00 http://www.debate.org/debates/Bush-s-U.S.-stimulus-package-of-2008-will-not-be-very-successful./1/ (Voting Period) Since the last debate on this topic was so miserably un-eventful, I decided to challenge Darkmaff666 to a real debate now (lets see if you really worked on your case like you said you would). Again, that the stimulus package as is will not significantly help the looming economic recession. I will prove I. That such a plan will not help II. That the waste of money will make things work III. Why it will not work and what Bush should have done His plan, like all his other plan for the economy, do nothing for those who really need the help and only provide small benefits to the middle class. House prices are falling, debt is rising, jobs are being lost, gas is outrageously expensive, and money is being squandered by the Bush administration. This so called stimulus package is just another example of that. http://www.debate.org/debates/Bush-s-U.S.-stimulus-package-of-2008-will-not-be-very-successful./1/comments/ 2008-06-15T22:22:36-08:00 http://www.debate.org/debates/The-Fair-Tax-isn-t-really-fair-but-helps-the-rich-and-hurts-the-poor./1/ (Voting Period) Here is a quick link to inform anybody who wants to know more - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_tax But since most won't, I will give a brief summary of what the Fair Tax is. The Fair tax is a 23% sales tax that would replace the income, property, and estate tax and the act would also take a monthly payment from all households who earn incomes above the poverty level depending on family size. I would contend that this tax is in fact not fair and benefits the wealthy at the cost of the middle and lower classes. While the United States brags many stores with many items from many countries. However, the driving forces behind our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) are large and expensive appliances and cars and services. The Fair tax would affect both of these sectors. While most services are relatively inexpensive, imagine how much haircuts, entertainment, mail deliveries, or other simple services prices would rise only slightly, making the change tolerable http://www.debate.org/debates/The-Fair-Tax-isn-t-really-fair-but-helps-the-rich-and-hurts-the-poor./1/comments/ 2008-06-14T10:17:23-08:00 http://www.debate.org/debates/The-United-States-had-no-right-to-invade-Iraq./1/ (Voting Period) I would contend that the United States legally, morally, and without just cause invade Iraq's territory to reasons other than those proposed to congress and the American people. Whatever the intentions may have truly been, they are not the ones used to justify the war and they not those of the American people. I would also contend that the justifications for the war put forth by the administration were based on false evidence, half-truths and pure lies, and propoganda. Furthermore I intend to prove that the Bush administration did this knowingly, with no regard to the consequences of their actions or in some cases acted in full knowing of the possible consequances but recklessly began a war it could not finish. In this debate, the true intentions are unknown since onlt Bush and Cheney truly know, although most speculate that it was for political and buisness reasons. While these are most likely the true reasons, I do not want to debate them. Instead I wish to d http://www.debate.org/debates/The-United-States-had-no-right-to-invade-Iraq./1/comments/ 2008-06-13T14:48:23-08:00 http://www.debate.org/debates/Doctors-should-not-be-allowed-to-compete-with-other-doctors-prices/1/ (Voting Period) In the American system, almost all forms of business compete with rivals, the medical sector is the exception. While competition generally leads to lower costs, it does not always lead to better services. Cheaper products, more often than not, indicate an inferior product. The product we are referring to in this particular debate is the labor and services of a doctor. I am taking the position that allowing doctors compete for the bid of insurance companies would hurt our medical system and reserve the best doctors for the wealthy, leaving the rest of the country with inferior forms of medicine. http://www.debate.org/debates/Doctors-should-not-be-allowed-to-compete-with-other-doctors-prices/1/comments/ 2008-06-13T19:01:01-08:00 http://www.debate.org/debates/Liberals-historically-have-been-better-rulers-than-conservatives-in-the-U.S.-on-the-Federal-level./1/ (Voting Period) Resolved: Liberals historically have been better rulers than conservatives in the U.S. on the Federal level. Definitions: Liberal - Favorable to progressive reform Conservatives - Those opposed to change and want to keep traditional values. Federal government: The House of Reps., Senate, White House. Would prefer if they were referred to as a single unit since any laws and reforms would need all three's support. Time Period: 1776 to 2000 This debate is in terms of the past ONLY, please no references to today or the future, unless it is in regards to the impact past actions have had on us. Contentions: I. Liberals have historically been the ones to find problems, propose solutions, and eventually fixed the problem in the end. This is the basis for my argument. II. Conservatives are opposed to all new reforms because it chips away at their power and their ideals and they feel threatened by anything new because they believe it won't bene http://www.debate.org/debates/Liberals-historically-have-been-better-rulers-than-conservatives-in-the-U.S.-on-the-Federal-level./1/comments/ 2008-06-28T07:00:56-08:00