Debate.org: Lasagna's Debates

Capitalism is a game; therefore it must be regulated as such by an authority.

2011-10-12T10:42:18-08:00

(Voting Period) Let's see if Ragnar is up on his game. 1,000 char maximum, 1st round for intros.

Modern Autos Lack Efficacy/Efficiency

2011-11-06T16:39:52-08:00

(Post Voting Period) Modern autos, on the whole, are one of the low-points of American society. Sure, we need them for transportation (because of unbridled urban sprawl from profit-driven urban-planning as opposed to planning based on scientific tenets and environmental stewardship), but really... how many of us are thinking transportation when we buy an automobile? We are thinking about the color, the horsepower, the sleekness, the stereo, the rims... Some of us are more shallow than others, but it's safe to say the median in this regard is quite low. So if you define "efficacy" in terms of what we, the materialistically obsessed populace wants, then I suppose we are just getting what we asked for. We want a car that will get us to work and not need to be fixed often, but after those concerns are taken care of we are focusing on things like impressing our boyfriends with them. Otherwise, what is the point of putting over-sized engines in cars? Luxury autos are very powerful but

Global climate change should not be a major factor in US energy policy

2011-08-11T22:27:02-08:00

(Post Voting Period)

"Global climate change" means the climate effects, whatever they might be, of humans introducing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

"US" is the United States of America.

"US energy policy" in this debate means prohibitions or incentives provided by the US government with regard to the US development or use of carbon-based fuels for energy. This includes outright prohibitions on the development of oil, oil shale, tar sands, natural gas, and coal, as well as disincentives and obstacles aimed at minimizing their use. Energy policy includes subsidies and mandates for use of non-carbon alternatives. Restrictions or incentives aimed at other purposes are not a subject of this debate, nor is the funding of research projects.

The US does not have an official energy policy, but it has

Capitalism is better than socialism

2012-01-12T16:24:57-08:00

(Post Voting Period) I will like to dedicate this opening to an acceptance to a debate. Opponent must accept these terms. Socialism-a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. Capitalism-an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/socialism http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/capitalism