Resolved: Musicals are very important to society.

It is odd to say that punishment will be determined later. In response to his rebuttal tomy critique of point A, my opponent says, "A. Not necessarily. You can be part of the crew. " However, for something to be important it has to have a substantial impact, and the musical play industry is not very important. Statistics cannot even easily be found about the economy of musicals because they are so decidedly unimportant when it comes to the job market. In response to my critique of the importance of role models, he responds, "A. It is important to have role models because it may lead us to our life. For example, my mom was going down a bad spiral at one time. The musical, GODSPELL, saved her. " However, he didn't respond to my point that just because something provides us with role models doesn't make it important. For instance, my performing a small skit with my classmates at the talent show may bring in a miniscule amount of money and hardly stimulate the economy, and I may at the same time be a role model to someone, but that doesn't mean my skit is important. It is, in fact, not. In response to my critique that role models are not needed, as one should develop his own person, he says, "A. As I said above, they provide good role models, even the bad ones. The bad ones show what is not good and done in society and turn away from it. " Not necessarily. Typically, bad role models are the ones that glorify indecent things that are bad for society. If someone is a role model to you, then their role is one you would want to fill. So, it does not show you to turn away from it. It glorifies it. He does not respond to my questioning of why it is important for a musical to show societal pros and cons, and instead says same answer, which is, "As I said above, they provide good role models, even the bad ones. The bad ones show what is not good and done in society and turn away from it. " This does not answer my questions. That essentially him answering the question, "Why is it important for a musical to show societal pros and cons? " with the answer, "Because it shows societal pros and cons. " He then responds to my point that musicals do not substantially effect the economy with, "A. Giving money to actors/actresses does benefit us money because they will be less in debt. Yes, it would impact society because people would lose jobs and the economy would just get worse. " This doesn't prove that it benefits the economy. He doesn't link back and explain why this is helpful to the economy. Why does a musical actor/actress having less debt impact our economy? And why would that be important? He is not proving it is important. To my argument that a person buying the rights to a musical or liking it a lot is not important: "A. One person could a musical tell it to another person, which could tell another person, which all three will tell another person, and then it will go onto face book. That pretty much is society today. The part about buying a musical was what I was trying to say, but it came out wrong. It would be important to us if another country would buy it because we could buy it back. " I really don't understand the point of this. I don't understand what this argument has to do with what I said. A country can't buy a musical, a country wouldn't purchase a musical if a country itself could own one, and musicals aren't important. Facebook is not the world. I await my opponent's response.