My parents should allow me to buy a cell phone.

I would like to debate this LD style. The best of luck to my opponent. Resolution: My parents should allow me to buy, operate, and pay for a cell phone that is fully functional and receiving connection. Value: convenience. Definitions: Cell Phone - a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver; Friends - acquaintances and or peers throughout society that may involve communication through cellular interaction; Detained - hold in custody: to restrain or keep somebody or something in custody Contention 1: My mother is always becoming frustrated with me for not telling her where I am going when I am out of the house. This is usually due to going one place but deciding with friends to go to another. A cell phone would create a connection that would be able of resolving this issue. Subpoint A: Mainly self explanatory, having a cell phone would provide a convenient way to inform parents of location while possibly in a situation where a land phone like may not be provided. Contention 2: My parents believe that I would text during certain events such as religious gatherings, public school, and family gatherings where they prefer a tranquil and participative environment. Subpoint A: I would not have any reason to be socially interacting through cellular activities at school because any immediate friends I have at the current moment that have cell phones would also be in class and they almost certainly would not text back. They would have the same risk I would have if I had a cell phone of having it detained until a parent/legal guardian over the age of eighteen would receive it from the authorities that detained it in the first place and possibly revoked privileges by the parent/legal guardian. Subpoint B: I do not have any desire or reason for bringing a phone to religious gatherings. If there is no cell phone at the gathering then there is no problem in the subject of texting at the gathering. Contention 3: My parents also believe that excessive texting will occur because of my older siblings reactions prior to receiving a cell phone. I protest this for two reasons: First, I believe that no single person's actions can be predicted from another person's actions no matter their origin, race, genetic inheritance, and/or admiration between the two persons; And second, I do not personally prefer the tenting method of communication. Subpoint A: I protest that no single person's actions can be predicted from another person's actions no matter their origin, race, genetic inheritance, and/or admiration between the two persons. Subpoint B: I do not personally prefer the texting method of communication. Contention 4: My parents, because of siblings' actions, believe that I will get a job for low wage to pay for this phone. They think that working to pay for a phone is wasting my youth and time. Subpoint A: I already have a job cleaning my fathers office for fifteen dollars an hour which I work at every Saturday for two hours. I receive a check for one hundred and twenty dollars at the end of every month although I periodically receive one hundred and fifty dollars because there is occasionally five Saturdays in a month instead of four. Being too young to have any bills/budget schedules to worry about as a high priority, I have plenty of money I could use to pay for a monthly cell phone bill while still keeping my regular schedule of activities without any alteration of activities having to be shortened. Subpoint B: While getting a low wage job may be seen as an obstruction to other activities, it can teach responsibility and educate an individual in the subject of financial, economic, and overall often required life experience/knowledge. This is the end of my case for now until rebuttals. I stand ready for my opponents case and cross examination.