Playing high school football is better for a man than playing high school baseball

Rebuttals/Evidence: 1. My opponent contradicts himself with an oximoron in the first few sentences of his argument. "Playing football is better for a man ad does more for a man than playing baseball. " However, later on he goes to say "Football turns a boy into a man faster than baseball could. " Aside from this circular logic, I must remind my opponent that becoming a man has nothing to do with extracurricular sports. 2. "There are more lessons in football than baseball for a man to learn. " This logic is also flawed. The lessons learned about any aspect of life is subject to ingenuity of the metaphor and perspective. If one can not know all the lessons that something has to teach, they can not make this informed judgement. It can also be hindered by inability to understand the philisophical lesson. There are simply too many factors involved to be able to make this judgement and it is subject to a person-to-person basis and can't be catagorized into a mass informational tid-bit; it's what you make of it. 3. "The men battle on the lines forms bonds with other men that last a life time. Men are always talking about their old high school football stories and their friends from the team. " This isn't always true- not at all! I have been on 'team-building' assignments and I couldn't stand the person. Sometimes, I could. I'd either talk about some of the stories or I'd let them fade into the background of my subliminal consciousness. Again, this falls into 'it is what you make it. 4. "Baseball does not give the same feeling of team as football does. There is no locker room like there is for baseball. " A locker room does not mean you're going to have a "wondif-erous! " of a time (snarf, snarf). It simply is a place to store your things. I disagree again with the feeling tid-bit because it is, again, what you make of it. If you want to have a good time, you'll more than likely have a good time. If you want to pound everyone into the ground to prove yourself the better, you may be happy with yourself, but you're not promoting teamwork and your peers may not work as cohesively with you. It's all about how you carry yourself, what you learn, and how you apply that knowledge to create a better reality. CONTENTIONS: Now that I have effectively rendered my opponents arguments invalid, I will move to affirm my case and to negate the resolution. 1. Most people in high school are not men; therefore, the majority of the student body does not apply to the resolution. Assuming the resolution is to include all high schoolers participating in football, then the resolution is flawed logic. 2. Assuming that better is dubbing to the relation of character-building experiences and ethos, either sport can be used to demonstrate the continuities of virtue, establish ethos, build teamwork, etc. It is up to the inginuitiy of the person to recognize these experiences and apply them. CONCLUSION: My opponent has not presented any valid information to support his thesis. His argumentative contentions must be reinforced with a more appurtenizing approach in order to effectively administer a valid defense of this resolution. Constituating this debate, my arguments are simply lain, but in perfect logic. I invite my opponent to entreat me with another round of intriguing responses and challenge the CON standing. Thank you.