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Islamic Socialism Is Superior To Atheistic Socialism

2013-05-20T15:28:17-08:00

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This is not a theological debate but the merits of Islamic Socialism and Atheistic Socialism in political theory and application.

1st round is for acceptance.
Open to anyone.

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

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

Gun Control is wrong and the government shouldn't infringe on the Second Amendment

2013-05-20T17:22:26-08:00

(Debating Period) The government should not infringe on the Second Amendment Obama is far from the solution on Gun Control. Why should people tell me what to use to protect my family. if it's an AR-15 or a double barreled shotgun that I use, it should be fine. The NRA is closer to the solution than the Liberals are on Capitol Hill are. The 2nd Amendment says a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. A person with a gun is a lot faster in dealing with an intruder than the police.An average time for police to respond to a 911 call is about 4 minutes and a private citizen response is about 30 seconds. Which one is faster and gets the job done quicker?

We should relax restrictions on guns

2013-05-22T04:37:17-08:00

(Debating Period) Here are some things I agree with: 1. Universal background checks 2. The prevention of allowing guns in the hands of people with certain mental health conditions. Although we cant stop them, I agree that they shouldn't have guns as easily as others. 3. People kill people, not guns. If everyone was armed, there would be less crime because nobody would want to commit crime against an armed person. 4. There should be armed policemen at every school, he can stop the killer before he even kills any innocent lives. With that being said, gun restrictions can make everything worse because it would create a black market which would kill more people. The same thing happened with alcohol, marijuana, and prostitution. If there is something that people want, they will get it. Criminals don't follow laws, to anyone who simply says that it would make it harder for them to get it: this may be slightly true, but reality is they will find a way. For example, Switzerlan

9/11 Conspiracy

2013-05-21T23:16:18-08:00

(Debating Period) I am not debating whether or not the planes hit the Two Towers because they did, but I am arguing that there is more to the story than what the 9/11 Commission tells the public. Round 1- acceptance Round 2- arguments/rebuttals Round 3- arguments/rebuttals Round 4- closing

are men better than women-should men get more rights?

2013-05-21T18:53:47-08:00

(Debating Period) Women are made to be humble, and have humility and to be nurturing. Not trying to be better than men.

Bashar al-Assad should stay or not?

2013-05-21T13:23:24-08:00

(Debating Period) China and Russia supports him, Turkes supports Free Syrian Army. We don't want to involve the war, there is no reason to stay anymore. He should go with his own. The Salafis and PKK are dangerous for the area. The Middle East should be under the control Turkey. USA army, CIA, whatever they should leave from Middle East!

Splitting of the USA into two countries

2013-05-21T07:41:45-08:00

(Debating Period) I believe that everything from GA to Texas should break away including Oklahoma and everything up to Kentucky. This would be called Dixie. I believe that I should be the Commander of Dixie. We will assume that a peace treaty between Dixie and the Yankees is in effect. (War betweeen the nations is not an issue that I would like to be included.) These are my plans: I, commander of Dixie, would be beneficial to the current southern states of America. We will assume that there is a peace treaty between the rest of America and Dixie as I have previously stated. The items that I would support/change/adopt are the following: 1. 30%-40% military spending. A strong military is necessary to keep the nation. 2. Cutting all welfare except for disability. I would only have six weeks of unemployment benefits provided. Wounded warriors and people born with disability would get full benefits. No food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, or anything of the sort. 3. O

The Democrats are not protecting the US Constitution right and have communist views.

2013-05-20T10:37:41-08:00

(Voting Period) Rules of debate: 1. Censor all vulgar vocabulary with pound (*) better yet, try not to cuss at all. 2. Mention nothing of gay marriage. It is off topic and too minor for this debate. 3. Be Clear, be fair First Argument: First I will state my thesis: 1. Hate Crimes 2. Gun Control 3. Banning sodas (why the heck would you do that??!?) 1. Hate Crimes The metal band Threshold has a song called, Return Of The Thought Police. It does explaining on this subject. If you are going to say that if you do a crime, and you hate the person you committed the crime against, then you get extra penalty. You would put in jail for three years for murder, instead of two, because the person that you commit the crime against, stole your girlfriend. So therefore this person's life is based on something as trivial as girlfriends (in a political view, girlfriends will help your life). Soon that will turn into corruption of the Judicial branch. People will get hig

Barack Obama is a bad president.

2013-05-20T05:49:06-08:00

(Voting Period) First round is acceptance. Good Luck.

Economically, Ronald Reagan had better policies than Barrack Obama

2013-05-19T23:05:58-08:00

(Debating Period) I believe that President Ronald Reagan's economic policy was better for the United States of America than that of current President Barrack Obama. Burden of proof is shared, the debate will consist of four rounds, the first for accepting the debate, the second for opening arguments, the third for rebuttals, and the fourth for concluding arguments. This is my first debate so my skills may not quite be up to par.

Splitting of the USA

2013-05-19T19:39:23-08:00

(Voting Period) I believe that everything from GA to Texas should break away including Oklahoma and everything up to Kentucky. This would be called Dixie. I believe that I should be the Commander of Dixie. My opponent may choose which topics he would like to discuss. (We will assume that a peace treaty between Dixie and the Yankees is in effect. War betweeen the nations is not an issue that I would like to be included.) Any issue, but war between the nations, will be considered.

Individualism is societally destructive

2013-05-04T14:14:09-08:00

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I've made this impossible for anyone to accept, if anyone wants to debate this comment or PM me.

Individualism is defined by Merriam Webster as: "a doctrine that the interests of the individual are or ought to be ethically paramount"

Destruction is synonymous with ruinous. My advocacy will essentially be that the individualism that has sweeped the world, particularly the West, since the enlightenment is responsible for many of society's current ills, along with showing sociologically the inevitable effects of such an individualistic state of mind.

No semantics, I have no interest arguing over what societally destructive means. If my opponent tries to make this an issue, they forfeit the debate. First round is for acceptance and no new arguments in the last round.

Negotiations for the TPP agreement should be abandoned

2013-05-15T21:16:56-08:00

(Voting Period) Welcome one and all to the grand finals of the second ELO tournament. Special thanks to Noumena for setting things up, Raisor for suggesting an interesting subject as well as agreeing to the final motion and everybody else who competed for making things fun. Extra-special thanks to anybody that votes. Just try to remember to be fair and constructive if you can. The TPP agreement is a little acronym for the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic "Partnership", which is basically a free trade deal. A mini-version of this deal, called the P4 agreement (of which my country is a signatory, along with Chile, Singapore and Brunei) has existed since 2005, but since then loads of other countries (including the USA and most recently Japan) have tried to negotiate their way into the deal. In this debate, I will argue that this is a dumb idea. In fact, I reckon all of these agreements have been a waste of time. I'd like to wish my opponent good luck and, after this accepta

Does Israel torture Palestinians?

2013-05-19T23:02:04-08:00

(Voting Period) I've done this debate twice already but I haven't had a good debate in a while and I'm looking forward to one. I'd like to thank my opponent in advance and wish him luck. Israel is the only country in the world whose judiciary has squarely faced the difficult issue of whether it is ever justified to engage in even a modified form of nonlethal torture unlike the current methods being used by the United States on captured al-Qaeda prisoners in order to obtain information deemed necessary to prevent a ticking bomb from killing dozens of civilians. On September 6, 1999, the Israeli Supreme Court decided that not only is torture absolutely prohibited but even the types of physical pressure currently being used by the United States sleep deprivation, forced uncomfortable positions, loud music, shaking, hoods over the head are prohibited by Israeli law, even in cases in which the pressure is used not to elicit a confession but rather to elicit information that c

Capital Punishment Ought to be Eliminated

2013-05-17T07:16:28-08:00

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My position is that CP ought to be eliminated as a form of punishment from the judicial system.

I shall have BoP as the US does have the death penalty, my opponent shall justify it's useage. I shall try to make a case for it's removal.

My opponent:
Round 1) acceptance & arguments
2) arguments/rebuttals
3) arguments/rebuttals
4) rhetorical statement of choosing.

Me:
Round 1) terms and conditions
2) arguments/rebuttals
3) arguments/rebuttals
4) conclusion

May be done through political, legal, medical, or economic arguments.
No semantics.
No plagurism (due to us having this debate before)

Failure to adhere to the rules results in an automatic loss.
Goodluck to my opponent!

The Americans with Disabilities Act should be repealed

2013-04-26T18:34:51-08:00

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This debate is about the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 [ADA], including changes made by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-325). The full text of the various versions of the law are linked from the ADA's government site. [1. http://www.ada.gov/pubs/ada.htm] Wikipedia summarizes the law:

The ADA is a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability. It affords similar protections against discrimination to