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Resolved: Summer is the best season

I am sorry if I messed up on the debate I haven't noticed what my mess up was so I will just continue. My opponent brings up the freedom of summer vacation. Yes summer vacation is the longest break but it is not the pure freedom as my opponent has stated. During the summer some students like myself are stuck in summer school watching everyone else have fun while we are stuck inside. While in winter break regardless of grades everybody gets a day off. So for those children who were unable to do well in school, summer vacation is not as joyous. Yes it is very sunny in the summer but some people (like myself) finds it infuriating to have to walk around in the hot sun and in my own sweat. I live in San Francisco so imagine getting on a public bus (MUNI) with about 25 other sweaty people for many bus stops which is not enjoyable in the least bit. Yes summer has independence day, but winter has Christmas, Kwanzaa, and other holidays like Martin Luther King day. That is it for this round. Again sorry if I messed up.
Resolved: Summer is the best season

Hello and thank you for accepting this. I am sorry in advance for the unorthodox manner in which this debate is organized. Trust me, after ward it does make sense. There also seems to be a mess up in the argument my opponent posses, as it is contrary to their position. To clear this up the Resolution now states "Resolved: Winter is the Best Season" so that my opponent's arguments fit with the debate. --- I stand in firm negation of the resolution that "Winter is the best season". I do so because of 2 main reasons. First, Winter is characterized my an uptick in the number of Suicides. This most likely comes from depression during dark and cold nights of winter. Second, Summer is a time characterized by joy. Among school children the entire school year revolves around summer Vacation, the longest vacation. I remember we use to count down the days to summer starting nearly two months in advance. I now look at my opponent's case. They bring up holidays, Sure holidays like Christmas and Kwanzaa occur during winter, but there are other big holidays like Yom Kippur, Halloween and Easter. They bring up Chanukah, a minor Jewish holiday that could occur during about any seven day period of December, and since Winter does not officially start until the 21st or 22nd of December then Chanukah could easily fit into Autumn, thus making it a point to my side. Also many Independence Days take place out side of Winter, such examples are the 4th of July (American Independence day), July 1st (Canadian Independence day) and September 16th (Mexican Independence day). Next was Winter break. Winter break, though fun, is insignificant to the pure freedom of Summer break. Some stores do have sales during winter. But they also have them during the summer. The holiday season is brought up, but since only a week or so of the 'holiday season' actually occurs in Winter this is irrelevant. The most common temporary job at a store that I am aware of is for Black Friday, which occurs in Autumn, not in Winter. It snows in Winter, some may enjoy this, but others (like myself) enjoy rain more so than snow. Others still like sunny days on the beach, which becomes hard if you were to do so in a foot of snow.
Resolved: Summer is the best season

Ok I will start. Spring is not the best season because Winter is the best season Reasons Holidays: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa in December. These holidays brings the family together and exchanges the message of giving. 3 holidays just dedicated to celebration and spreading good will. Winter is also the time where we celebrate the New Year. Winter is full of celebration. Winter Break: Kids like me, who goes to school also gets a winter break from school for 2-3 weeks. Stores: In December the stores are full of sales and special lighting to match the holiday season which makes the atmosphere a lot more uplifting. Many stores are also looking for extra help during the holiday seasons so more temporary jobs are available to fit the need. Weather: December is also the time of rare weather like snow which can be quite enjoyable for activities like snow boarding, skiing, and ice skating. That is it for now. I guess
Resolved: Summer is the best season

I want to try a Spar round (Spontaneous Argument). No concrete evidence is required but simple stuff helps (don't use stuff that you couldn't remember off the top of your head). If you are unfamiliar with Spar then please don't accept. In spar Pro goes first, then Con. Then there is Cross Examination. We will do this in the comments. (for this segment Pro will have to allow a forfeit in round 2, once the forfeit happens then Cross examination is over.) Then it is followed by con then pro conclusions. *If that out line is followed then it will fit perfectly into three rounds. Pro goes first, so good luck.
Is the American Militia relevant in modern society.

Full ResolutionMilitias are not relevant in todays society. .DefinitionsMilitia: noun 1. a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency. "creating a militia was no answer to the army's manpower problem" Rules1. The first round is for acceptance.2. A forfeit or concession is not allowed.3. Debate resolution, definitions, rules, and structure cannot be changed without asking in the comments before you post your round 1 argument. Debate resolution, definitions, rules, and structure cannot be changed in the middle of the debate. Voters, in the case of the breaking of any of these rules by either debater, all seven points in voting should be given to the other person.
People Exist

I admire my opponent in taking up this challenge. Only a genius (or a fool) would accept this challenge. I warn you, this debate may get very intense. We shall see. My opponent said: "For all we know, we do not exist." He is saying that we may or may not exist. "We could be made up thoughts or a video game of a different intelligent life form." He is saying that we might just be a figment of someone else's imagination. In Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, EXIST is defined as thus: 'to have real being whether material or spiritual.' My opponent said we may be 'made up thoughts.' My definition said that to exist, you can be either physical or mental. Made up thoughts would be considered mental, thus my opponent agreed with my argument on the case of definition. Again, I complement my opponent on his choice to debate this topic. Also, I apologize if my opponent is not a he, but a she. Please correct me if I am wrong. I await my opponent's rebuttal.
YOU WANT SOME??!! VIRTUAL FIGHT TO THE DEATH (fun)

Time for death. Using superhuman strength, I rise from the flames and drag you with me, burning every inch of your body, and you feel the heat of the flames, licking slowly at every inch of your skin, and the fire spreads quickly. I die, or course, since gasoline is toxic, but you die too. We both have 0 power and 0 stamina. Also, you broke the one move per round rule.
YOU WANT SOME??!! VIRTUAL FIGHT TO THE DEATH (fun)

Right then, you turn around and its Masterful, he rapes 20 times over, I then manage to call my boy flatstanley, he takes me the hospital. 9 months later i return full strength again. I force u to drink gasoline and set u on fire. I watch on sadistically as u sink down to 5 stamina 17 power. Thus turning the tables.
YOU WANT SOME??!! VIRTUAL FIGHT TO THE DEATH (fun)

Well, you just broke the one move per round rule too- ah, well. I get off the floor and place you into one of these things which the Ancient Greeks used to torture people, one of these bull statues: https://en.wikipedia.org... And as you scream because of the searing heat, I enjoy the melody that emanates from the nostrils. However, since it's not the last round yet, and I can't finish you off, I remove you from it just before you reach one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit and burn to a blackened crisp. You're badly wounded, your lungs are short on air- you have 34 power and 23 stamina. It won't be long now.
YOU WANT SOME??!! VIRTUAL FIGHT TO THE DEATH (fun)

Right well because you violated the one move per round rule, i go home crying, and Poseidon the almighty lord n floods your home. But alas I return the next day at your flooded home fully revitalised, and smash you over the head with a glass bottle,temporarily causing you to faint. With me standing over you with pride, you now have 56 power n 64 stamina. WYD!?!
YOU WANT SOME??!! VIRTUAL FIGHT TO THE DEATH (fun)

Rules: One damaging move per round, death can only occur in round 5/comments depending on who is more convincing Like fortnite we both start of with 100 power and 100 stamina Weaponry is forbidden until the final round ------------------------------------------------------------------ I'll start, i'm comin at ya HARD, and i've just blitzed you with a low blow to the groin, catching you off guard, leaving you winded and breifly unconscious. you now have 80 power and 80 stamina, how will you respond?!
pros and cons of sites you can comment on: which ones worse

Ok so the hostility of youtube is can be very enormous. if you are a low rated user and you say something that is like a high rated user you get thrown down. the people curse more than ever with no censoring. also if you bring something from one channel to another you get thrown down. people just need to get that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. and again you can say basically anything. youtube is almost like a subliminal hostility steroid.
pros and cons of sites you can comment on: which ones worse

Youtube. Hmmm. (Thinks.) I try to avoid such sites. Let me see. Sorry. I'm having trouble of thinking of a bad site. If I could add a single PERSON it would be Devient Genie. Hmm. You're right. Youtube can be pretty bad. I'm going with this site. In my opinion, it isn't super bad, but I'm having trouble finding another site.
pros and cons of sites you can comment on: which ones worse

Ok my site is youtube damn now i have to look at the guidlines for my own debate already forgot. ok there are restrictions on what you are allowed to post like no hate comments, or racism, or sexual content but what needs to happen is there needs to be more cracking down. i once tried to report someone for hate commenting. they were calling americans subhuman. youtube found no violation. i think youtube should get off their buts and actually look at what they are commenting. the restrictions need to be tighter. ok dude your turn
pros and cons of sites you can comment on: which ones worse

wouldn't call this a debate more like a friendly conversation Rules 1: please refrain from insults revolving around race mental health or any other prejudice 2: Round guidelines a: round 1 will be opening on what site you are going to focus on b: round 2 will be the restrictions on what people are allowed to comment if they are enough or not enough c: round 3 will be the hostility of the commenters you can find on the site. d: round 4 will be the civilized commenters you can find on the site. e: round 5 will be the basic summarization of your selected site. i put the voting period to be at 1 week because i want voters read and reread our explanations and actually go to the site
pros and cons of sites you can comment on: which ones worse

True. As for hate comments, how about... Posted by devient.genie 21 minutes ago "Anyone who speaks a word against the son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the holy spirit will Not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." Matthew 12:32. That is far more important to talk about than scientific discoveries and advancement in medicine and technology, lets admonish scientific evidence and complex math conclusions that impact our lives in the absolute most important ways and instead, we should all suckle answers to the universe and life from the vile disgusting immoral and despicable rhetoric of a slave supporting sexist, who either whipped it all up in 6 literal days, or days meaning who knows how long a day is, its not relevant, the end result is littered with flaws, all knowing and flaws are antonyms :) Posted by devient.genie 16 hours ago The Genome Project, which was the complete mapping of the 6 billion nucleotide human genome, led the team led by a christian man, to demonstrate that homo sapiens have been around 100,000 yrs. So for 97-98,000 yrs, the reason for DNA looked down at the planet with indifference, and then decided in the middle east a couple thousand years ago is a good time and place to make an appearance and have a human sacrifice and resurrection :) Durr Dee DUrr Thats why brainwashed is a religious adjective, its that bad and sad that in 2013 this is even an issue :) Deism is the result of exposure to to theistic poison like stinking is the result of exposure to second hand smoke :) Without the disgusting, childish and immoral writings of religions, you have no definition or idea of a god. Thats why religion is such an a-s-s-hole zit or hemorrhoid on the best interests of Mankind. Maybe he was polite to you since you aren't sure about God's existence. However, we're both agreed about Sagey's conduct.
pros and cons of sites you can comment on: which ones worse

ok genie is more civilized than sagey. but yeah when you actually talk and sometimes pm people you can get the best. but it matters on the age a little kid tried to get me to subscribe to him. now this kid was hostile before but he calmed down. but it's just not my thing to subscribe to people younger than me. he went basically berserk. but when you find some common ground you get the best
Ronaldo is better than messi

Messi. Messi performs on big occasions consistently, he is the best dribbler in the world without a doubt, the ball sticks to his foot. Nobody has EVER been able to dribble like he does. Ronaldo's scoring record is amazing, yes, but look at how many were penalties or tap-ins, you will find that Messi's goals are often scored from difficult angles. Which proves Messi is also a better finisher. Ronaldo is the second best in the world, if only he performed on big occassions, he would be in the same category as Messi. But I think Messi is in his own category. I will put it this way: Ronaldo at his best: Game winner. Messi at his best: Unstoppable
Ronaldo is better than messi

When it comes to Lionel Messi and his national team, it rarely "works" " the polar opposite of the kind of impact Ronaldo has had for Portugal. This is most notably obvious when the goals column is compared. Messi has hit the back of the net 37 times in 83 caps and as you"ll find out, most of these have not been in games that count for much. Ronaldo, on the other hand, is one off his half century (49 goals) in 110 caps, and four of his most recent goals directly influenced his country"s path into the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. To be considered the best player of this or any generation, one must have a set of tools that makes you a threat in any position " something that Cristiano Ronaldo has when goals are concerned. This is especially the case when in the air, where he has developed a leap that an Olympic gymnast would be proud of. It has meant scoring SIX TIMES as many headed goals as his arch nemesis. As of the end of the 2014 La Liga seasons winds down, the Portuguese superstar has scored 60 of his goals with his head compared to Messi"s 14. t"s the eve of the biggest tournament on the planet and Messi still can"t profess to have scored even half as many goals as Ronaldo in major international tournaments. Across 24 games in either the European Championship or World Cup, Portugal"s favourite son has scored a total of eight goals. In comparison, the Argentinean has three goals in 18 games across the Copa America and World Cup. One of Ronaldo"s major assets is the way that he hits a dead ball, and it means that anything within almost 40 yards of the posts is fair game for the striker. This has translated to a total of 41 goals from free kicks over his entire career of 504 games at both club and international level, as of this writing. Messi, in comparison, has scored from just 15 free kicks and even though he still has a few years on Ronaldo, it"ll be some effort to catch up. Ever since Real Madrid splashed out some "80 million on Ronaldo in the summer of 2009, it has become a constant competition between the two to score more goals than the other. Now, even though Lionel Messi has a better goals to game ratio since Ronaldo arrived, the Portuguese has the superior record when it comes how many minutes it takes to score each goal. Ronaldo hits the back of a net on average once every 79 minutes, whereas it takes Messi 10 minutes longer to score.
Presidential elections should be decided by a popularvote instead of the electoral college.

Big cities are home to about 65% of the U.S. population. https://www.census.gov... An election by popular vote will make it so that candidates would be incentivized to only focus on the needs ofmajor cities while ignoring the rest of the country, while a delegate system makes every area important. If candidates ignore issues important to small rural or country areas, they will lose the election. The president of the United States should not be the president of just people in large cities. They should be a representative to everybody in the country. _____________________________________ In the United States we need a majority vote to elect the president. An electoral process insures they can get the majority vote and with less controversy. The last time Obama was elected he got just over 50% of the vote, but about 65% of the electoral college vote, and Obama was a very popular candidate. The first black president, very camer friendly and an excellent speaker, and he still barely got above 50% of the vote. The days when a president gets more than 50% of the popular vote is gone. People are more willing to vote Green party and Libertarian than ever before as a result of access to more information and growing dissatisfaction with government. Neither Hillary Clinton or Trump look like they will be able to break 45% of the popular vote, and one of them would need a huge surge to hit that. The days of winning the popular vote are over. An election using the popular vote will result in the decision for president going to the congress every single time. It is not something most Americans would be happy with, especially since we hate congress also, but mostly because going out to vote in a presidential election would end up being a waste of time. _____________________________________ The electoral college does avoid a lot of controversy and hassle. We all remember the hassle when the vote vount was close in Florida and the entire election was riding on it. That election came down to a few hundred votes and lawyers, judges and a bunch of fighting to clear up who was the victor. In a popular vote contest which takes up the entire country, even a difference of a few hundred thousand votes could spell disaster. The recount in Florida was hell, doing a nationwide recount would be hell. Delays and litigation in every state in the country, if it is close enough maybe every city in the country, and no matter what the result about half the country is going to feel cheated. The electoral system avoids this problem. ___________________________________ Swing states also become important. People in swing states know that their vote is extremely important. Those voters are likely to be more thoughtful about their vote. This puts us in a position where the most thpughtful and considerate voters have the most influence over who gets named the president of the United States. This is exactly what we want. Thoughtful voters having the most influence on the system.
Presidential elections should be decided by a popularvote instead of the electoral college.

Regarding United States presidential elections, the electoral college should be replaced by a country-wide popular vote because the electoral college is both unfair and un-American. The United States is a country grounded on equal rights, as shown by the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence. The electoral college gives US citizens of heavily populated states more voting power than US citizens of lightly populated states, and therefore Americans are not equal in this manner. It is also an unfair way of determining US presidency because there have been elections that have gone out of favor of the popular vote, and therefore goes against the interests of most American citizens. With a simple country-wide popular vote, all citizens of the United States would bear equal voting rights as well as a fair election.
The Jehovah's Witness religion is a cult

During this round, I will present my first argument, not rebut my opponent's first argument. After this round, my opponent will rebut this argument I am making and after he does that I will rebut his original argument. Again, thanks to persianimmortal for accepting this debate and God bless. JW's Practices of Disfellowshipping and Shunning Unfortunately, a common practice done by cults is "disfellowshipping" and "shunning". While engaging in this practice, the Jehovah's Witness cult is both denying Biblical scripture and Jesus's teachings. Throughout the Bible, God teaches us about His love and how we are to never to turn our backs on others who are in need. This is taught in verses such as Matthew 25:35. The practice of disfellowship in JW is not a rare one. In fact, over 70,000 Witness are disfellowshipped a year. [1] JW's Denial of the Trinity The Jehovah's Witness cult blatantly denies the trinity, calling it out as a false teaching and more. It becomes clear when you read verses such as Matthew 28:19 that the trinity is indeed Biblical and an important truth that we mustn't ignore. This is just one of many other Biblical principles that the JW cult ignores. JW's Opposition to Individuals Interpreting the Bible Perhaps one of the biggest give-aways to the the Jehovah's Witness denial of Biblical truth is the fact that the Jehovah's Witness group says the following about Witness intrepeting scripture: "Thus the Bible is an organizational book and belongs to the Christian congregation as an organization and not to individuals, regardless of how sincerely they may believe that they can interpret the Bible. " [2] We can tell, just by this statement, that they aren't open to other interpretations of the Bible. That's why they have their own altered version of the Bible, the "New World Translation". There are many flaws in their false and twisted interpretation of the Bible as you will see under the next subtitle. JW Cult Leaves Out Acts 8:37 Perhaps one of the most interesting parts of JW's cult legacy is that they leave out an important scripture from their "New World Translation" of the Bible. The verse is Acts 8:37 in which Philip is talking about who may be baptized. It reads: "And Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may. " And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. " Doesn't go too well with JW doctrine, does it? JW's False PropheciesThe Bible warns us in Matthew 24:24 and Deuteronomy 18:22 that there will be many false prophets in the world and that those who make false prophecies in the name of Jesus Christ are not to be listened to, but, to be ignored. The Jehovah's Witness cult is infamous for making false prophecies. In fact, in 1972 the Jehovah's Witness Watchtower claimed to be the prophet of God. [3] Moreover, they started their false prophecies legacy when their founder, Charles Taze Russell, predicted that the world would end in 1914. [4] Sources: [1] . http://www.jwfacts.com...;[2] . https://carm.org...[3] . https://carm.org...;[4] . http://www.jwfacts.com...;