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Deep Space Nine was the best star Trek show.

2013-05-23T08:37:53-08:00

(Voting Period) I will be arguing that overall, Deep Space Nine (from now on abbreviated as DS9) was the best Star Trek. My opponent may argue that any of the others were better but cannot rely solely on one movie (for example using Wrath of Khan to prove the original series was the best). The first round is for acceptance. Good luck and may the best nerd win.

courts have the responsibility to create racially balanced schools

2013-05-24T07:21:03-08:00

(Voting Period) negative assertion #1 : court- ordered desegregation plans do more harm than good. Evidence: there was a lot of violence because of desegration. Evidence: protest were held against federal building Evidence: school buses are getting attacked by the whites negative assertion #2 : courts are powerless to combat prejudice Evidence: schools are being boycott Evidence: protest of inequality by the people Evidence: students are attacking the balck students with rocks on buses Negative assertion #3: schools should not be used as battlegrounds to adress inequality and discrimination. Evidence: mayor goes to homes where parents dont agree with the plan Evidence: school commitee fights against trying to keep races balanced Evidence: lawsuits against commitee

Should Native American Mascots be Banned from sports teams?

2013-05-23T11:31:27-08:00

(Voting Period) Well, many believe that the Native American mascots are racist &/or offending. I, for one, am not native american but I duly believe it would be an honor to have a professional sports team representing your race/nationality. I understand the other side's opinion when many say that some logos or mascot names such as the logo for the Cleveland Indians logo or the term "redskin". However, just these small adjustments can be made without having to revoke the whole idea of having a Native American culture mascot.

America is NOT obese.

2013-05-23T04:41:17-08:00

(Voting Period) Everybody says that America is a country full of obese slobs, correct? I don't believe that to be true. I walk down the street every day, and through my school every day, and I hardly see any overweight people at all. Sure, there are some kids who could do with a diet, but that doesn't make all of America fat. Does it?

Resolved: North Korea and South Korea should just have sex and get it over with already

2013-05-11T17:13:27-08:00

(Voting Period) The debate resolution is that North Korea and South Korea should just have sex and get it over with already. THIS IS A TROLL DEBATE 1st round acceptance only 4000 character limit Can now be accepted

The US Should Have Better Gun Control

2013-05-18T23:13:42-08:00

(Voting Period) I believe that the lack of gun control in the Unites States is a serious danger to the public, in nations with full gun control the homicide rate, armed robbery rate, and suicide rates are much lower. First Round is for acceptance Second Round is for initial arguments & rebuttals Third Round is for further arguments & rebuttals Fourth Round is final rebuttals & concluding statements only, no new arguments

Should we put a ban to animal testing?

2013-05-23T19:13:35-08:00

(Voting Period) I am con against Animal testing because as a human we have freedom and choice. Also animals have the right to live, and the right to choose. But is it right to take the freedom or the life of animals just because we want to research and test new medicines? NO. It's not right to kill and make them suffer just for our own benefit. Animals have emotions. They have thoughts, ideas, feelings. They also suffer. If we just kill and make them suffer, we are taking the freedom and the life of other animals. Remember that animals are living creatures as we are. That is why we should Ban animal testing!!

It is better to have Brains than Beauty

2013-05-23T17:36:47-08:00

(Voting Period) " Knowledge is Power" - Sir Francis Bacon 1)The brain is the container of knowledge. The basic difference between a beast and a man, is the latter's possession of an advanced brain which gives him the ability to think and allows him to differentiate between good and evil. 2)Physical beauty is an added quality. Life is enlightened for brains and not for beauty. A beautiful person, especially the female gender in this case, can have a dull brain and might just end up harming herself. For example, Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn was the biggest box-office draw of her time, her name sold a million movie tickets, and every red-blooded man in the world was in lust with her. But despite the power she exerted over men, including the most powerful of them, John F Kennedy, then President of the United States , Marilyn seemed strangely powerless when it came to staying in charge of her own life. She drifted from one disastrous relationship to another, sought comfort in d

lowering the driving age

2013-05-23T11:38:46-08:00

(Voting Period) I am doing a debate on lowering the driving age to 15 instead of 16 this would help us out with our economy too, there would be more cars being bought by younger ages. Because of more cars being bought there would be money being pumped into our economy and with that lowering our taxes a lot. Our biggest problem in this country is money and with m,ore money we open a lot of new doors and opportunities for others. We could open up new jobs for other people, we could lower the food prices in grocery store, the two most important in my opinion is either making homes with the extra funds coming in or feeding the people that have nothing especially if they have children. That is why we should,NO,need to lower the driving age!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Leibnizian Cosmological Argument is Sound - 2

2013-05-16T01:25:43-08:00

(Voting Period)

Resolved: The Leibnizian Cosmological Argument is Sound.

Rounds:

1. Presentation of the LCA/Initial Refutation
2. Clash
3. Weighing/Clash

No new arguments should be presented in round 3 unless in direct response to a new argument presented in round 2.

God is defined as the necessary, personal first cause of the universe.

We should rationally accept an argument as sound if the affirmation of its premises is more plausible than the negation.

The Leibnizian Cosmological Argument

Every existing thing has an explanation of its existence, either in the necessity of its own nature or in an external cause.
If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God.
The universe is an existing thing.
Therefore the explanation of the uni

Being a Fatty is Worse than Being a Ginger

2013-05-17T21:38:09-08:00

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BRING. IT. ON.

I purposely challenged MassiveDump seeing that not only is he the most famous ginger on DDO but he would know what being a ginger is like more than most of us!

This is a troll debate!

Telling the truth is not required, but let's at least try to make it relative to being fat or being a ginger. No going, "EMEMGERD FAT PEOPLE ARE FLYING ALIENSFRFROM MARZ THEREFORE THEY ARE BETTER." Or anything like that! Let's keep it real bro.

Innapropriate language is also allowed!

First round is for acceptance.

Note to all viewers: this debate may be found offensive, especially to fat people and gingers. Viewer discretion is adviced. And don't say I didn't warn you.

IPL should be banned. Yes/No

2013-05-22T11:16:27-08:00

(Voting Period) IPL should not be banned. It is very good and entertaining.

Spider man is better than Superman

2013-05-21T20:35:44-08:00

(Voting Period) Spider man is bad a ss. Superman is a strait up PUSSS SSSSYYYYY. Id like to see that muh fu ckah step to the web head. hed steady get a mud hole stomped in his as s. real talk though that underwear over the pants wearin b itch aint got nothing on spiderman. Plus my nigga spiderman be gettin that mj p ussy. what is superman gettin? batmans d ick. try and argue with me bitc hessssss

Wrestling being eliminated from the 2020 Olympic Games

2013-05-21T17:30:59-08:00

(Voting Period) First of all wrestling is one of the oldest Olympic sports and that alone should be a good enough reason to keep it. When wrestling was chosen to be one of the sports that may not be on the 2020 Olympic program the wrestling community came together to make sure our dreams stayed alive. Just recently we had the Rumble on the Rails which is a tri-meet between the United State, Iran, and Russia. It took place in Grand Central Station and had very many spectators. It was also broadcasted on television. We brought three countries together in hopes of keeping something we love dearly in the Olympics.

School kills creativity

2013-05-16T20:30:51-08:00

(Voting Period) Students think that once they come to school that all their creative juices have to stop working, but that doe not need to be the case. They can express the creativity in different ways, such as a creative writing class or a group project where everyone in the group can put their own spin on the topic. There are also other outlets to express creativity, the person just needs to find a way to let their creative juices flowing. If you enjoy playing instruments then join band, and if you enjoy singing then join chorus. You do not need to put your creativity on hold just because you are in school for a couple of hours during the day.

There is no proof of God's existence

2013-05-22T20:35:43-08:00

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If you are to induct logic, God does not exist as far as we know. He only exists in faith, the creation of the mind of an individual. By "God", I am referring to the Christian God.

Where is proof that God exists? There is no physical evidence of his existence. Here are the only arguments for his existence:

1) Prove the God doesn't exist!
This in itself is a logical fallacy. Specifically referred to as Argument from ignorance or argumentum ad ignorantiam. "[Appeal to ignorance]: the claim that whatever has not been proved false must be true, and vice versa." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance).

You cannot logically support the point "prove that God doesn't exist" because that is clearly leaving the bounds of logic by a

We should modify beaches to make the sand lower in density so that the obese sink.

2013-05-22T18:50:24-08:00

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There you are, sitting in your brand new deck chair with your robotic pet when all of a sudden this whale of a humanoid starts waddling along in a bikini that's three billion sizes too small. That's put you off food for a few years.

You wish you could get that chocolate-chasing boulder of blubber would get out of the way, because now you've forgotten what the sun even looks like. Is it square? Is it purple? Is it visibly in motion? You don't know. This crisp-crunching menace is blocking your view and has been doing said thing for about three years, because chocolate-chasers move about as fast as a dead tortoise.

In all that time you have to think, you get a great scientific and sophisticated idea! "Why not modify beaches to make the sand lower in density so that the obese sink?" You think to yourself. That would make everyone's life more pleasent.

So that's what I'd like to debate today,

Jim Carrey is better than Adam Sander

2013-05-22T11:11:00-08:00

(Voting Period)

In this debate I will be affirming the resolution.
Resolved: Jim Carrey is better than Adam Sander
This is a debate for entertainment, so at least pretend to have fun!

RULES OF THIS DEBATE:

One video or link must be posted eve

The Cosmological Argument is Sound

2013-05-18T19:06:52-08:00

(Voting Period)

Ave, ladies and gentlemen. I've decided to challenge TheHitchslap to a debate on the Cosmological Argument. He's obviously a fan of Christopher Hitchens, the late member of the New Atheist movement. I think it will be interesting, then, to see what he has to say about this argument. Perhaps he will fare better than his hero did against William Lane Craig at Biola University.

The cosmological argument for this debate will be the one that William Lane Craig uses. Everything that begins exist has a cause, the universe began to exist, therefore the universe had a cause of its existence.

God is defined as the timeless, immaterial, spaceless, omnipotent, and personal cause of the universe existing.

Homosexuality is not a Sin in The Bible

2013-04-09T07:28:52-08:00
(Voting Period) I will allow the opponent to give arguments against this, and then I will offer my rebuttal.