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awr700

Online:	6 Years Ago	Name:	- Private -
Updated:	6 Years Ago	Gender:	Female
Joined:	6 Years Ago	Birthday:	- Private -
President:	Undecided	Email:	- Private -
Ideology:	Socialist	Education:	Not Saying
Party:	Green Party	Ethnicity:	Not Saying
Relationship:	Not Saying	Income:	Not Saying
Interested:	No Answer	Occupation:	Not Saying
Looking:	No Answer	Religion:	Agnostic

Beliefs:	Marxist at heart but practical socialist, humanitarian, egalitarian (feminist and anti-racism), agnostic atheist, and anti-American exceptionalism and imperialism.
Books:	The Book Thief, Harry Potter, To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm
Music:	Rage Against the Machine, Flobots, Nirvana, Green Day, Florence + TM, etc.
Quotes:	"Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages." --Angela Davis "Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theater. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation." --Arundhati Roy "I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence." --Eugene Debs "I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities." --A. Davis

6 Debates

Is Omnipotence Limited?

Round 1: First Argument and/or RebuttalRound 2: RebuttalRound 3: Conclusion----------------------------------By accepting thing debate, you must go by this definition of Omnipotent: "having unlimited power; able to do anything.". One example I will use is this, "for with God all things are possible." (Mark 10:27).My position is that this definition of omnipotence means God can do literally anything: Examples of this being - A married bachelor, seeing without eyes.Since God has completely unlimit...

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Feminism: Equality of the Sexes

There seem to be many people who would like to argue against feminism. The definition of feminism is believing men and women are equal SOCIALLY, ECONOMICALLY, and POLITICALLY. Physically they are DIFFERENT- that is not the point of feminism. Feminism advocates for women's rights and the respect of women. Answer me this: Is feminism a positive movement for women GLOBALLY, or a negative movement that "belittles" and "threatens" men?...

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Abortion

I believe that abortion is wrong in all circumstances, and that it should be outlawed in all states. I think that abortion is never the best solution for an unwanted pregnancy. Adoption is always an option if the fetus is allowed to grow to full term and be born. A person is a person from the moment of conception to natural death, so abortion is wrong....

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Raise the minimum wage.

This is an open debate. First person to respond is the first one I debate. Round 1 is for acceptance....

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Abortion is morally acceptable

I know there's been about a million of these debates but I haven't often debated the issue and would like some practice :) First round is for acceptance and for anything you would like to say before the debate. To clarify on what I am arguing, I am arguing that, if the mother's life is not in danger, abortion is morally wrong....

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Debate Statistics
Debates:	6
Lost:	2
Tied:	2
Won:	2
Win Ratio:	50.00%
Percentile:	91.15%
Elo Ranking:	2,014
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Activity Statistics
Forum Posts:	0
Votes Cast:	14
Opinion Arguments:	32
Opinion Questions:	0
Poll Votes:	41
Poll Topics:	0

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•	Abortion	ProComments Until fetal viability (i.e., the fetus can survive outside of the womb), the premise of bodily autonomy comes into play, so women should be able to obtain abortions no matter the circumstances, provided it's not coerced. However, I don't believe post-viability abortion should be allowed unless the pregnancy becomes life-threatening.
•	Affirmative Action	ProComments Ideally, I would like for it to not matter, but research concludes that race-conscious practices are necessary to a certain degree in order to achieve a proper level of diversity. The Black average income is already half of what the White average income is, and hopefully, giving minorities certain benefits would allow them to lessen that inequality.
•	Animal Rights	ProComments Sentient animals are entitled to certain rights, including humane treatment.
•	Barack Obama	ProComments I am in opposition to the drone strikes and other forms of military intervention he's been doing, but otherwise he has been a very good president, especially compared to his predecessors.
•	Border Fence	ConComments Absolutely not. It's expensive, pointless, and discriminatory. Fencing in a country to stop it's people from coming into ours is a new low for the nation that declared the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right.
•	Capitalism	ConComments Poverty, wealth imbalance, worker exploitation, labor devaluation, social hierarchy, discrimination, internalized greed, glorification of power, institutionalized racism and sexism, environmental detriment, no thank you.
•	Civil Unions	N/OComments see notes at gay marriage
•	Death Penalty	ConComments Not only is it counter-intuitive, expensive, and prone to mistakes (read: innocent convictions), it reduces things to a contest of two evils. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." --M.K. Gandhi
•	Drug Legalization	ProComments We've already wasted billions of dollars on the "War on Drugs" and put thousands upon thousands of nonviolent criminals in jail. Honestly, it's more trouble than it's worth--if the government were to decriminalize drugs and put the effort they put into banning drugs on rehabilitation programs, it would be much more efficient. All in all, I am pro-decriminalization.
•	Electoral College	ConComments There's this crazy idea that the voters actual votes should count in their government? The Electoral College has outlived its purpose.
•	Environmental Protection	ProComments Environmental protection should definitely be a top priority. This is the Earth that our children and grandchildren will inherit, and we should take steps to conserve it and its beauty.
•	Estate Tax	ProComments Could help to reduce income inequality. Of course the right-wing had to parade around their "Death Tax" logo and turn everyone against it.
•	European Union	N/O
•	Euthanasia	ProComments I can't really think of any good reasons why a terminally ill person can't have the right to doctor-assisted suicide; it's more humane than letting them live the rest of their life in suffering.
•	Federal Reserve	Und
•	Flat Tax	Con
•	Free Trade	Und
•	Gay Marriage	ProComments Personally I think marriage shouldn't even be recognized by the government. Civil unions or something similar should replace it, and since marriage is a religious institution it should be left for the church to decide.
•	Global Warming Exists	ProComments Regardless of the "earthly cycle," it's naive to think the crap humans pour into the atmosphere isn't going to have any negative impacts. We need to reduce carbon emissions.
•	Globalization	ConComments Creates a dangerous race to the bottom that's particularly harmful on developing countries and their working classes.
•	Gold Standard	N/O
•	Gun Rights	UndComments I'm pro-gun responsibility, so I would like them to be regulated to a certain degree. However, banning them is ridiculous.
•	Homeschooling	ProComments It's either extremely benefiting or extremely detrimental to the child, but anything is an improvement on public school.
•	Internet Censorship	ConComments If we allow for monitored or altered information, that'll be the beginning of a slippery slope. Government involvement should be limited to preventing illegal pornography or other criminal things from being posted, but other than that, the internet will stay unregulated.
•	Iran-Iraq War	N/OComments I don't like war. There's something about thousands of murdered soldiers and civilians that doesn't sit right with me.
•	Labor Union	ProComments Getting rid of labor unions would be too detrimental to the workforce and worker's rights. Workers' efforts are already devalued in our society, and not even giving them an influence would be horrid.
•	Legalized Prostitution	N/OComments I just personally disagree with prostitution (as well as the notion that people and companies can make money from sex) but prostitutes shouldn't be penalized for doing what they do. No woman should come to the point where they have to do that.
•	Medicaid & Medicare	N/OComments see notes at national healthcare
•	Medical Marijuana	ProComments All of these blood-thinners and painkillers with side affects like seizures and death are used on patients, but marijuana isn't?
•	Military Intervention	ConComments The situation determines my opinion, but generally against, especially when there's peaceful alternatives.
•	Minimum Wage	ProComments And make it a living wage.
•	National Health Care	ProComments A single-payer healthcare system would best benefit the greatest number of people. Healthcare is a human right.
•	National Retail Sales Tax	N/O
•	Occupy Movement	Pro
•	Progressive Tax	ProComments Those who are able to contribute more should do so. It lessens wealth inequality and consequentially poverty.
•	Racial Profiling	ConComments Your race doesn't determine how you act, period.
•	Redistribution	Pro
•	Smoking Ban	ProComments Only in public places, and businesses should be able to choose.
•	Social Programs	Pro
•	Social Security	Pro
•	Socialism	ProComments 'I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate (the) grave evils (of capitalism), namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals....The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.' --Albert Einstein
•	Stimulus Spending	N/O
•	Term Limits	UndComments For president, of course.
•	Torture	ConComments Not even terrorists. It is NEVER okay.
•	United Nations	Und
•	War in Afghanistan	ConComments War is not the answer.
•	War on Terror	ConComments Going into a country and killing people makes you the terrorist. This only fuels terrorism and hatred toward America. It's counter-productive.
•	Welfare	ProComments It shouldn't be necessary, but it is.