Ban Tipping!

I conceded that many people do tip the same regardless of service - but not all, nor the majority. Additionally, I think the majority of people, rather, tip with a black or white tip approach - meaning that if the service was bad, they tip “x” or do not tip, and if the service was good (no matter how good), they tip “y”. My argument about paradoxes did not refer to tipping as my opponent would wish it did, but rather to my opponent’s argument: my opponent claims that all or most people tip regardless of service. P1: All people tip the same regardless of service. P2: Tip starved waiters perform worse. The average tip in the United States is 15% (source below), which is not an immodest amount. So, if all people tip the same regardless of service, then how could a waiter ever be tip starved? If all people tip 15%, then a waiter would never be short on tips unless there is a shortening in the influx of customers. And if there is a shortage in customers, then logically there is no need to rush faster. So, henceforth, the remarks about a paradox were referring to my opponent’s argument being logically impossible, not tipping in general. Tipping can therefore not decrease service quality under my opponent’s logic, and it is the Federal Tip Credit that is subsidizing restaurants - NOT tipping. There is a major difference between the federal tip credit and tipping, as I will demonstrate below.2 - My opponent claims that when a server makes a mistake, all other servers should have to account for them, and that individual mistakes do reflect the system and show that they are immoral, yet he simply fails to explain how. How does it show how immoral and unjust tipping are? 3 - “Tipping” is defined as: Giving a small sum of money to someone for performing a service; giving a gratuity. The Federal Tip Credit is a reduction in the minimum wage of Waiters/Waitresses. Therefore, banning the Federal Tip Credit is not equivalent to banning tipping. “Individual bonuses that are courtesies of the customer” are still small sums of money given to a waiter for performing a task, are they not? Banning Tipping would constitute banning the transmission of funds from a customer specifically to a waiter and assuring that the only funds the waiter receives for their services are their wage, which I disagree with, and with what the Pro is advocating for - as long as ANY money is being transmitted from customer to waiter for the services involved, it is tipping.4. Here, my opponent demonstrates his desperateness in attempting to correlate tipping to racism. Citing three individual cases of racism associated tipping proves no correlation between tipping and racism whatsoever. This is a classic example of a “Texas Sharpshooter” fallacy, and of a lack of understanding of what racism is. Racists exist, and they will use whatever platform necessary to exhibit their racism. Refute A to Argument 4) Blaming a platform because a racist exploits it to develop opinions is unfounded. If my opponent claims that tipping should be banned because it can be used as a platform to perpetuate discrimination, then he must also support that usage of the Internet should be banned because it can be used as a platform to perpetuate discrimination. “Blame a racist for his racist writings; not the pencil he writes them with. ”Refute B to Argument 4) By all technicality, under the protection of the First Amendment of the United States constitution, racists are protected and thus there is nothing that can be done to prevent them from doing so. According to the law, one must pay the fine and thus the worker being discriminated against’s wage, but he is not legally mandated to pay anything additional, and if his reason for that is associated with race/sex/etc, he has the legal right to say so no matter how vulgar or ugly it is.5. Since the federal tip credit is NOT tipping, by banning tipping you would have to legally enforce waiters to deny tips. The only possible way to insure that additional funds are not transacted from customer to waiter would to literally set up an “anti-tipping enforcement system”. How do you plan from preventing pro-tipping waiters and businesses from stopping their conduct, other than investing millions/billions in forcing them to stop? Conclusion:1. All non-mandated transferring of funds from customer to waiter ARE tipping.2. The Federal Tip Credit can be banned independently of banning tipping, they are not one in the same. It is the Federal Tip Credit that is subsidizing tip credit.3. My opponent has failed to provide facts that were not paradoxical or manipulations behind his assertion that the bad outweighs the goods.4. A tipping ban will not make scumbag restaurant owners rightfully increase well-deserving servers' wages, it will only lower the amount paid to the server to $2.34 an hour, the minimum wage. A ban of the Federal Tip Credit would do this, not tipping.5. Racists promote racism, sexism, and biases, not tipping. Since Pro has failed to uphold his burden of proof as to why a non-tipping system would be better than the one we have now, other than with paradoxes and misconceptions about what the Federal Tip credit is, I believe I have won this debate so far. Back to you! Best of luck! Sources:. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com...http://www.tripadvisor.com...;http://www.thefreedictionary.com...;