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Transgender women are women

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Prisons in the United States ought to be abolished

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Boys are hot (Pro) Girls are hot (Con

I like guys a lot! I think they are way hottier then girls. lol...

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The Washington Redskins should change their team name

Thanks to Kbub for agreeing to debate this topic with me! Standard DDO rules apply: first round for acceptance, no new arguments in the final round, no semantics, no trolling, etc. A couple of important notes to make on the resolution... -- "Should" implies some sort of obligation, legal, practical, or ethical (or all) -- BOP in this debate is shared; Pro must show that there is some sort of obligation for the Redskins to change their name, and Con must show that there is not. For anyon...

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Sex after marriage not before

I do like intercourse don't get me wrong. I am not pure and all that holy when it comes to that. But, I think it should be saved for after marriage. Any opinions and comments would be great!...

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Debate Statistics
Debates:	39
Lost:	10
Tied:	2
Won:	27
Win Ratio:	72.97%
Percentile:	99.35%
Elo Ranking:	3,238
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Forum Posts:	1343
Votes Cast:	311
Opinion Arguments:	42
Opinion Questions:	6
Poll Votes:	357
Poll Topics:	27

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•	Abortion	N/SComments I just have such a hard time deciding the ethics of long-term abortions! I am completely torn. Both sides (pro life, pro choice) have excellent, moral arguments for them. I am a big fan of life, and I'm also a firm feminist. It's tough for me. However, I do not believe that life begins at conception in any relevant way--thus, I am Pro-choice for most abortions. For late-term abortions, I am still quite conflicted, but then again, it's none of my business what other people decide is the moral choice. Pro legalizing abortions as a whole, then.
•	Affirmative Action	N/SComments Absolutely in favor. Too often affirmative action is opposed on the denial of the unique challenges facing particular groups. It is not a question of fairness but of policy: if particular groups are excluded from education, then they may be inhibited from advancing in their socio-economic statuses, which would further excluded them from education. In a so-called educational "meritocracy," there would be an endless or at least needlessly long cycle of pretty white straight male dominance in education and also SES. Affirmative action takes steps to reduce these cycles. Recieving Affirmative Action should always be optional. Additionally, the belief that it "devalues" personal achievement is irrelevant. The fact that white supremacists and other persons with more subtle racially-insensitive views use Affirmative Action as an excuse for advocating the outrageously ignorant White Rights and Black Privilege positions is not the fault of the groups receiving AA.
•	Animal Rights	N/SComments Stop the war.
•	Barack Obama	N/SComments President Obama. Could be better. Too many drone strikes. I'm glad Obamacare passed, and I'm glad he pushed for immigration reform. But I wished he'd do some more major reforms to the US' international policies.
•	Border Fence	N/SComments I can see the memes now.... spend a billion dollars on a boarder fence. Immigrant spend ten dollars on a ladder. Seriously though, immigration is great for the American economy, and our obnoxious obsession with keeping people out is detrimental to persons of other nationalities. The boarder fence is America's social-accepted xenophobia/racism. US citizens aren't usually elitist--they should be welcoming immigrants with open arms and trying as quickly as possible to make them citizens. Since when did the well-being US citizens matter more than non-US citizens? Not only that, but the boarder fence pushes immigrants to take more dangerous routes, which often kills them! Not to mention the fact that the border fence goes through three Native American reservations. Messed up, big time. Finally, the boarder fence could and does militarize the boarder.
•	Capitalism	N/SComments Capitalism will never solve for poverty, and will probably bring about environmental destruction. It is responsible for sexual slavery, consumerism, imperialism, and war.
•	Civil Unions	N/SComments They are an important counter-balance to raging capitalism. They are also probably more necessary than the police.
•	Death Penalty	N/SComments The death penalty is unnecessary, and a pre-meditated form of murder against a law-breaker. We try to shift blame over to the law and to the criminal, but the blood is on all of our hands. The members of the whole of American society become collaborators in an execution. Murder does not "fix" anything, and is based on the idea that someone's very existence is illegal. We assume that murder will allow us to "get rid" of the "problem" who is a person. This is the murder of feel-good, of convenience. Refusing to execute someone is never disrespectful toward victims.
•	Drug Legalization	N/SComments The war on drugs has done far more damage than drugs themselves have (also, drugs continue to be popular). I think legalizing would be easiest way to end the criminalization of drugs, but even barring legalization it shouldn't be the big deal it is made out to be. Be tolerant of drugs!
•	Electoral College	N/SComments The way the electoral college works in the US now promotes a 2-party system. They need to roll out a Single-Transferable-Vote system.
•	Environmental Protection	N/SComments I didn't realize this was controversial.
•	Estate Tax	N/S
•	European Union	N/S
•	Euthanasia	N/S
•	Federal Reserve	N/S
•	Flat Tax	N/S
•	Free Trade	N/SComments An oxymoron. There is no freedom in capitalism, unless you are among the lucky few to control the means of production.
•	Gay Marriage	N/SComments I am ACTIVELY IN FAVOR OF LGBTIQQA rights. IF there is marriage, there should be gay marriage, open marriage, and general marriage rights for any and all gendered or non-gendered persons. However, why keep marriage around? It is an institution intended only to give priority to "meritorious" citizens. It is a necessarily exclusive institution, and including homosexual relationships only allows for a "new normal" rather than deconstructing the normal/abnormal divide. Additionally, what right does the USFG have in regulating a socially regulated, extremely personal, and religiously rooted institution? It sounds like oppression--society's blatantly manipulating social norms through policies that benefit/harm only the target in-group/out-group.
•	Global Warming Exists	N/SComments This shouldn't be a controversy. I heard on npr that 97% of all published works in the area support the phenomenon of Global Climate Change (as it is better called). Additionally, the entire International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) who were chose from among the best scientific minds to investigate Global Climate Change UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that Climate Change is a real and potentially devastating phenomenon caused by an increase in greenhouse gases.
•	Globalization	N/SComments Basically neo-colonialism/imperialism. Sweat shops. Oppressive conditions. Forced dependence on the West. It's pretty messed up.
•	Gold Standard	N/SComments Terrible idea. If you want a gold standard currency, invest in GLD stock. We need to be able to watch and manipulate currency--without it often changing hands, the economy would collapse.
•	Gun Rights	N/SComments I go back in forth, and here's what I decided. Disarm the police. Keep maybe a swat team in reserve, but disarm all police officers in the United States.
•	Homeschooling	N/SComments Having students forced to go to any institution for several hours a day is against their basic rights. The option not to be involved with a particular school is precious and should always be protected. I believe public schools are fine, even great! However, many would disagree, and that is their right. Let me put it this way: legally mandatory activity is something that the government should shy away from. Aside from criminal punishment, mandatory activity as long as a full-time job is something that the government should seriously avoid. We probably don't belong to fascist nations, so let's have some common sense and not force kids to be taken from their homes for 8 hours if they don't want to.
•	Internet Censorship	N/SComments Except for some material that threatens security or is explicit material involving children.
•	Iran-Iraq War	N/S
•	Labor Union	N/S
•	Legalized Prostitution	N/SComments It's so hard to say. On the one hand, sex due to economic necessity isn't consent. On the other, women and sexual minorities should be able to do whatever they want with their bodies, including charge money for sex. It's difficult--but we can all agree that punishing prostitutes is a terrible idea, and that we must create policies that gives them more security.
•	Medicaid & Medicare	N/SComments Of course! I believe everyone has the right to being able to receive medical care no matter what their economic situation. Lives are worth it--regardless, by the way, of age or immigrant status.
•	Medical Marijuana	N/SComments Eh, why not.
•	Military Intervention	N/SComments Military intervention is a tradition of imperialism and is basically everything that is wrong with the United States' policy today. Nations have the right to self-determination and autonomy, a right that the US continually violates. Military intervention continues to make things only worse.
•	Minimum Wage	N/SComments Entirely in favor, of course. The market will naturally push the wages of low-paid workers down as far as possible. Thus, a minimum wage is necessary to ensure basic human decency. Raising the minimum wage would negatively affect only the upper class and upper-middle class persons--as the entire market raises the cost of products slightly to compensate for the increased wages, the working-class wages are boosted. Pretty much the same number of workers will be needed regardless, so no effect on unemployment. And also, the wages of lower-middle class and middle class workers will receive a slight bump, in order for companies to attract workers with the same-level skill set. Thus, a minimum wage bump would have overwhelmingly positive effects. That being said, the effect, though assuredly positive, would likely be slight. Still, I'm all for it, and all for a raise too.
•	National Health Care	N/S
•	National Retail Sales Tax	N/S
•	Occupy Movement	N/S
•	Progressive Tax	N/S
•	Racial Profiling	N/S
•	Redistribution	N/S
•	Smoking Ban	N/S
•	Social Programs	N/S
•	Social Security	N/S
•	Socialism	N/S
•	Stimulus Spending	N/S
•	Term Limits	N/SComments Erm, I think they should be relaxed more. Four years is too short for presidency--they finish one year before preparing for the next elections.
•	Torture	N/SComments It is not effective. Why do we do it then? It is the worst part of humanity.
•	United Nations	N/SComments Sometimes the United Nations seems to be coercive. Although I support any checks and balances on the United States' international policies, I regret that the US and other more imperialistic European countries have disproportionate power over the United Nations' actions. I would prefer a system that would limit the international influence of nations like the United States, France, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, and China; and bluster the input of nations like Botswana, DR Congo, Thailand, Egypt, Liberia, Pakistan, Iraq, Kenya, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and Argentina.
•	War in Afghanistan	N/S
•	War on Terror	N/S
•	Welfare	N/SComments I very much dislike welfare, but not for the reasons you may think. It simply isn't strong enough. It's a method of making sure impoverished people have just enough wealth to not revolt, and yet not so much that they are raised from poverty. It is another way in which the US makes it so that people rely on the government, in this case for survival. If you mess up, you don't get to eat. This whole system pressures the impoverished to stay impoverished, and yet also not create a fuss. We should reject this white guilt imperialism and fight for actual economic equality. Nevertheless, there are many countries that use a strong welfare effectively, such that individuals receiving welfare have a decent and humane living wage. Such countries generally also have high minimum wages. Thus, even though I don't think it's radical enough to be good, I'll still say Pro to honor the brave people receiving welfare, and in the hopes that welfare will become stronger.