MasturDbtor

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China Is a democracy

China is often criticized for not being a democracy. While its system does not conform to how mainstream Western thought thinks a democracy should be run China's government is in fact a form of democracy.China has competitive elections.In China there are competitive elections at the local level. Then those elected at the local level elect the people at each higher level. Effectively this means that everyone takes part in deciding who will be elected at higher levels of government through their c...

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Alan Turing Should Have Chosen Celibacy

Alan Turing was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. His contributions to computer science helped crack the enigma machine the Germans used in their submarines, and helped to push forward the progress of information technology. Unfortunately for the world and for himself Alan Turing was persecuted for being a homosexual, forced to chemically castrate himself, and driven to suicide. That was a horrible. Nobody should ever be persecuted for their sexual orientation, especially not...

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Is a utalitarian friendship really a friendhship?

I think a friendship based on utilitarianism shouldn't be considered a friendship due to the fact that you are using that person to your own advantage , therefore it's not a friendship....

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Cut Down All the Trees, Put Them in a Tree Museum

We should cut down all the trees, put them in a tree museum, and charge everyone a dollar and a half just to see them. This would greatly stimulate the economy by creating jobs and the economic exchange of going to a museum to see trees would generate tax revenue. But we don't want to tax them too much. The owners of the museums should have as high of profits as possible so they can invest those profits in our economy and make more money encouraging economic growth and ultimately leading to h...

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Could My Ultimatum and Recolonization Plan Help Stop Ebola

Rules: 1. The basis of whether I win or not is not based on whether we should adopt this proposal just whether it would stop ebola. So moral arguments such as "this sort of intervention in other people's affairs is wrong" do not count towards determining the winner. Economic arguments that this would cost western nations money to implement also are irrelevant. This debate is solely about whether this would work to stop the spread of ebola. As we all know there is an ebola epidemic in Afric...

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Debate Statistics
Debates:	71
Lost:	27
Tied:	32
Won:	12
Win Ratio:	30.77%
Percentile:	98.36%
Elo Ranking:	1,512
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Activity Statistics
Forum Posts:	45
Votes Cast:	0
Opinion Arguments:	1930
Opinion Questions:	271
Poll Votes:	208
Poll Topics:	16

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•	Abortion	ProComments Abortion policy should be based on practical considerations not this "life" and "choice" nonsense. An exploding population, legalize abortion. An aging population, ban abortion and also provide state help so women don't put their kids up for adoption and the kids wind up abroad.
•	Affirmative Action	ConComments Racism is still a real issue in this country, but we're not going to fix it by discriminating based on race.
•	Animal Rights	ConComments Look at this practically. Humans have the power. Animals do not. We may enjoy loving animals at times such as pets. But the fact is humans are at the top of the hierarchy.
•	Barack Obama	ProComments President Obama has done a much better job than McCain or Romney could have done.
•	Border Fence	ConComments This does environmental damage and people find ways around it especially because we didn't put the fence on the whole border.
•	Capitalism	N/OComments Capitalism, socialism. Both suck. I'm for whateverworksism.
•	Civil Unions	ProComments This needs to be updated. Obergefell has been decided, and it doesn't mention it. The description of the issue makes it sound as though gay marriage is still illegal in some states.
•	Death Penalty	ConComments Innocent people have been executed before. It is not an acceptable risk.
•	Drug Legalization	ProComments The war on drugs is a drain on our budget, fuels irrational paranoia and the chipping away of constitutional liberties, and at times innocents have been killed by drug enforcement. I do think there needs to be regulation. In particular some of the heavier drugs that have major impacts on behavior should only be sold and used in licensed recreational or recreational/therapeutic salons where experts on the effects of the drugs equipped with any needed antidotes and restraints can keep an eye on the person. That is a much more effective way of keeping the public safe than trying to ban them. Consider the stories about bath salts. Had we had a non-prohibitive regulatory scheme to run them through we could've required they be used only under supervision in salons and the people who took it may have chosen this route and before they could've posed any threat to themselves or others they would've been restrained and instead of these horror stories we would have had a few people who just exper
•	Electoral College	ConComments Does no good. It doesn't make the right person more likely to be elected in cases where the majority vote doesn't win. It's useless. As for protecting the interests of states, states don't have different interests anymore. The major issues cross state lines. You could say there are differences between urban and rural opinions but the electoral college just incentives candidates to pay attention mostly to the urban interests of cities in swing states, since it's easier to talk to a lot of people at once in urban areas.
•	Environmental Protection	ProComments How do people deny global warming when there's such a wide scientific consensus.
•	Estate Tax	ProComments Currently it is only applied to people making over 4 million. Seriously? People making 1 million can't afford to part with a small, just tiny portion of that inheritance?
•	European Union	ProComments We should also have an American Union, but not NAFTA. We need to include free movement along with free trade. (Why should goods be free to move but not people?). And a common currency. Extending human rights, environmental protection agreements, and labor laws to all members of the union could help develop standards of living throughout the Western Hemisphere. When the United States declared the Monroe Doctrine we pledged our support for all peoples in this hemisphere. We should even let Cuba in.
•	Euthanasia	ProComments For people with terminal illnesses ONLY.
•	Federal Reserve	UndComments Not sure about this one.
•	Flat Tax	ConComments A millionaire does not need "X%" of their income as much as someone making $30,000 does and taking it away does not effect them just as much. To promote growth and create jobs we should offer tax cuts per American job created with more tax cuts going to smaller businesses that create jobs than larger, wealthier businesses. The idea that a flat tax is needed to simplify the tax code is plain wrong. The bracketed income system could fit on just a page or two. If you want to simplify the tax code get rid of all the tax write-offs and the tax code will be small.
•	Free Trade	ConComments We should not tie our hands. The US should reserve the right to set trade policy according to its own interests and sign temporary reciprocal treaties with other nations regarding trade (no/lower tariffs here, no/lower tariffs there). Quotas should not be used because in economics the deadweight loss is far greater than with tariffs and you don't get any revenue from applying quotas. Tariffs should only be used.
•	Gay Marriage	ProComments Let them get married. If marriage is about kids then gay couples adopt and the adopted kid would be better off if their parents could get married.
•	Global Warming Exists	ProComments The scientific consensus here is huge. The science of how the greenhouse effect works is pretty straight forward. Carbon dioxide and other gases sticks more sunlight in the atmosphere, leads to more warming. It's clear it exists and denying it isn't going to make it go away.
•	Globalization	ProComments The wave of the future. Can't be rolled back.
•	Gold Standard	Und
•	Gun Rights	ConComments Not sure how far I'd go with this one but legal assault rifles for civilians is ridiculous.
•	Homeschooling	ProComments People criticize homeschooling because they think kids won't socialize. But think about it. People are social animals. The kids and their parents will want them to socialize and will make sure that they do. School is not the only nor the best opportunity for kids to learn social skills. Joining clubs is better, because if the kid is excluded or bullied the kid can join another one. But with school typically the kid is SOL and this can seriously hurt social skills development if the kid spends his teenage years in a hostile environment. What would be even better is if we had widespread online public schooling available.
•	Internet Censorship	ConComments "Free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny."-Pravin Lal, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
•	Iran-Iraq War	ConComments We don't need more wars, especially when this country has its own problems. When we exclude an innocent peaceful people (the Chagossians) from their homeland of islands just because we want a military base on a portion of one of the islands we have no moral authority to tell other countries what to do, let alone go to war.
•	Labor Union	ProComments Employer-employee relationships are asymmetrical. With very few exceptions the employer has the upper hand and unions help to give workers some weight.
•	Legalized Prostitution	ProComments Like alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs banning prostitution doesn't stop people from seeing prostitutes. Legalized prostitution means we can require condoms, test for STDs, and we can guarantee the right of sex workers to form unions and go on strike (as opposed to suffering under a controlling pimp).
•	Medicaid & Medicare	Pro
•	Medical Marijuana	ProComments And legalize recreational marijuana. For medical marijuana when studies prove it is effective for something and a physician thinks it's the best treatment it should be free as well when we have universal health care.
•	Military Intervention	ProComments In some cases it is justified. We should be more consistent and systematic about how we go about it. For starters let's rid the world of slavery. Mauritania still has slaves. To Mauritania!
•	Minimum Wage	ProComments People deserve at least a living wage for their work.
•	National Health Care	ProComments Absolutely. Not having this violates people's right to life.
•	National Retail Sales Tax	Con
•	Occupy Movement	N/O
•	Progressive Tax	Pro
•	Racial Profiling	Con
•	Redistribution	ProComments Any government taxing and spending is by definition, redistribution. Only anarchists should be checking the "Con/Against" box.
•	Smoking Ban	UndComments I'm in the middle on this one. Smoking bans did overall help health by reducing second-hand smoking. At the same time it did hurt some small businesses. I think what we need is licenses for allowing smoking on the premises given out to just a few businesses. That way nonsmokers still have plenty of options to go to bars, bowl. or eat out without having to inhale smoke fumes and smokers can have their own places too.
•	Social Programs	Pro
•	Social Security	UndComments Is social security still salvageable?
•	Socialism	N/OComments See "Capitalism".
•	Stimulus Spending	N/OComments Stimulus spending going to any big businesses should always have strings attached to make sure the way it is spent helps the American economy. In this recent debacle the better thing to do would've been to give stimulus funds to ordinary Americans, requiring they first use it to pay off the mortgage. That would've stopped the foreclosures and bailed out Wall Street indirectly (by people being able to pay their mortgages).
•	Term Limits	ProComments Incumbents have way too much advantage for us not to have term limits.
•	Torture	ConComments When the Inquisition used it people confessed TO BEING WITCHES! Torture doesn't work, innocent people lie just to get it to stop. It's not only wrong, it's bad for intelligence-gathering. In a situation where the clock is ticking and there's no other way then I could see it justified.
•	United Nations	UndComments It's definitely got its good points and its bad points.
•	War in Afghanistan	Pro
•	War on Terror	ProComments Let's get those SOBs.
•	Welfare	ProComments BUT unless you are disabled welfare should not just be free money, it should be a card that can only be spent on approved items. No more welfare-for-cigarettes or welfare-for-alcohol! People should have the right to live and hence appropriate housing, access to food, water, adequate hygiene, and health care. People should have access to education and job training programs too to help them get out of their situation. But "welfare" should not be an easy living situation. Their use of welfare funds should be limited even to only healthy foods and no junk food, and electronic devices should depend on whether they can show it's needed to help them get and maintain a job.