| Online: | 8 Months Ago | Name: | William Private | |
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| Ideology: | Libertarian | Education: | Bachelors Degree | |
| Party: | Undecided | Ethnicity: | White | |
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| About Me: | I have an interest in opposing perspectives. |
| Beliefs: | Privatist Propertarian. Austrian Subjectivist. Soft Determinist. Individualist Minarchist. Agnostic Atheist. Interested in solipsism, universal reconciliation, and voluntaryism. |
| Books: | Catch-22, Candide, Animal Farm, Ender's Game |
| Movies: | Forrest Gump, The Social Network, The Prestige |
| Music: | Classic Rock, KPOP |
| Quotes: | "Why can't we wear hats in school?" -Me "Because it's against the rules."- School Official "All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility." -John Stuart Mill "Government is good at one thing. It knows how to cripple you, hand you a crutch, and then tell you that you couldn't walk without government." -Harry Brown "What's going on in my country?" -Mark Levin "Man has known and now he's blown it upside down and hell's the only sound. We did an awful job and now they say it's nobody's fault." -Aerosmith "So I concluded that the dead are better off than the living. And most fortunate of all are those who were never born." -Ecclesiastes 4:2-3a "By doubting we come to enquiry, through enquiry to the truth." - Abelard |
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| College: | The University of Texas at Austin, Undergraduate Class of 2015
Austin, Texas, United States
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| High School: | The Woodlands College Park Hs, Class of 2012
Conroe, Texas, United States
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The United States should abolish the death penalty
First round is acceptance. 2nd round is constructive, no rebuttals, 3rd & 4th are for rebuttals. Cross examination is permitted. No new arguments in the last round. The death penalty will be defined in this round as: The punishment of execution, administered to someone convicted of a capital crime....
All Agnostics are also Atheists
I will argue that all agnostics are actually, in fact, atheists (and not the other way around)... My argument: There's a difference between "knowledge" and "belief". For example: I can know that a black cat has four legs. I can have this knowledge despite any other beliefs I might have. I can believe that 1) This black cat will land on his feet if scooted off the table, and 2) This black cat is bad luck because it is black. And we can have many more beliefs about the cat despite the knowledg...
Mixed economies work better then fully socialist or fully capitalist economies.
I will argue the pro that mixed economies function better then fully socialist or fully capitalist economies. Mixed economy: an economic system that combines private and state enterprises wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn socialist economy: an economic system based on state ownership of capital wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn Capitalist economy: an economic system based on private ownership of capital wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn...
morality is not possible without god's help.
I will argue that morality is not possible without god's help....
Time: Did events ever exist if there are no records and no memory of it?
How can we say certain events in history occurred if there is no written or spoken memory of them. If there was a war in say the 1520 and one side was completely eliminated and the other made no record of the victory - the event did not happen. We can only recall time and events as long there is a memory of them. If there is no proof of the event, it cannot have happened....
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| • | Animal Rights | |
| • | Barack Obama | Con |
| • | Border Fence | |
| • | Capitalism | |
| • | Civil Unions | |
| • | Death Penalty | Con |
| • | Drug Legalization | Pro |
| • | Electoral College | Con |
| • | Environmental Protection | Con |
| • | Estate Tax | Con |
| • | European Union | Pro |
| • | Euthanasia | Pro |
| • | Federal Reserve | Con |
| • | Flat Tax | Con |
| • | Free Trade | Pro |
| • | Gay Marriage | |
| • | Global Warming Exists | Pro |
| • | Globalization | Pro |
| • | Gold Standard | Con |
| • | Gun Rights | Pro |
| • | Homeschooling | |
| • | Internet Censorship | Con |
| • | Iran-Iraq War | Con |
| • | Labor Union | Pro |
| • | Legalized Prostitution | Pro |
| • | Medicaid & Medicare | Con |
| • | Medical Marijuana | Pro |
| • | Military Intervention | Con |
| • | Minimum Wage | Con |
| • | National Health Care | Con |
| • | National Retail Sales Tax | Con |
| • | Occupy Movement | |
| • | Progressive Tax | Con |
| • | Racial Profiling | Con |
| • | Redistribution | Con |
| • | Smoking Ban | Pro |
| • | Social Programs | Con |
| • | Social Security | Con |
| • | Socialism | Con |
| • | Stimulus Spending | Con |
| • | Term Limits | Con |
| • | Torture | Con |
| • | United Nations | Con |
| • | War in Afghanistan | Con |
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| • | Welfare | Con |