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Homosexuality is a mental illness

Hello, this is my first debate, so I figured that I'd start off my time here with an extremely controversial debate that will challenge both my opponent and I. My argument is that, by definition, homosexuality and other forms of sexual deviance are mental illnesses. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, mental illness is defined as 'health conditions that are characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior (or some combination thereof) associated with distress and/or impaired functioning'[1]. Furthermore, I will clarify that the phrase 'normal person' is defined as 'a neurotypical heterosexual male or female', as heterosexuals represent the majority of humans. To start, I will be ensuring that homosexuality meets the criteria listed by the above definition. Thinking: Homosexuals and other sexual deviants think in such a way that deviates from the 'normal' person's thinking. They are sexually attracted to those of the same sex, which is a form of thinking not experienced by the heterosexual. In addition, they may identify with the opposite sex, which goes against the neurotypical thinking of their sex. Behaving: By their very nature, homosexuals engage in sexual deviance, which goes against the neurotypical behavior for their sex. Distress: According to the APA, homosexuals have higher rates of additional mental disorders, and homosexual teenagers are slightly more likely to commit suicide. Specifically, there is a higher rate of depression among homosexual teenagers, higher rates of recurrent depression among gay men, higher rates of anxiety disorders and suicidal thoughts among homosexuals aged 15 to 54, and a higher frequency of mental health service use by homosexuals [2]. This, I would argue, classifies homosexuality as causing distress. Impaired functioning: Homosexuals (and some other kinds of sexual deviants, not all) are not sexually attracted to the opposite sex, therefore impairing their biological functionality by deterring homosexuals from seeking out mates and reproducing. So, in accordance with the above definition of mental illness, it can be shown that homosexuals (and other sexual deviants) experience alterations in thinking and behavior, which cause distress and impair functionality. Therefore, by the definition listed by the CDC, homosexuality is a mental illness. I will await your rebuttal, please argue against all of the points I have listed and good luck! 1. http://www.cdc.gov... 2. http://www.apa.org...
Convince me I do not want to debate you

The pro did not say what he meant by "without arguing" ,therefore I will give the definition I assume he is going by. Arguing-"exchange or express diverging or opposite views". [1] This means I can say what ever I want, since the the pro didn't put up an argument that I could oppose. The pro didn't expect anyone to find such a loophole that could, decrease his chances of winning. Therefore he does not want to debate me/would rather debate someone else. Reference(s) [1]http://www.google.com...
Texting and Driving Should be Illegal

The main concern I have with texting and driving, and why I still stand by the opinion of making it an illegal act, is that it not only (no matter how slim the chance) puts the texter's life in danger, but it puts my life in danger. To me, the act of texting and driving is no different from driving under the influence. Of course DUI is much more dangerous and the statistics show, but what I am saying is it is the same principal. Driving under the influence inhibits a person's ability to drive. There is no debating that texting doesn't do the same. Maybe less, but it is 100% true that it is still an inhibition. As I mentioned before, what is stopping the driver from quickly pulling over to check their phone? Con made mention of doing other things like changing or eating to be the same principal, therefore those would have to be considered illegal as well (based on the argument I am making). I do agree with this. I think there is a grey area here, but you can't argue that eating a bowl of cereal and driving is incredibly dangerous. A banana or an apple may be a much safer alternative (hence, grey area), but the simple fact of the matter is preforming these distracting acts is a danger to all drivers on the road. Con also made mention of such a law being a suppression of freedom. I will disagree with this, by saying that texting and driving is a harmful, threatening act to society. It is an act that can very well take lives, and therefore, should not be considered a freedom. We have the freedom of speech, until it becomes a hate crime, or an act of violence, endangering others. I think the same situation applies here. The evidence clearly shows that texting and driving is a danger to drivers.
Texting and Driving Should be Illegal

There may be a small percentage of accidents resulting in cellular use, but there is no denying that there is an amount of accidents caused by cellular use. 0.6% may not seem like much, but it is still a worthy statistic. There is also no denying that texting and driving does distract a driver, and poses a significant threat to themselves, along with others. I'm a man of statistics, and these are very surprising to me. On the contrary, there simply is a percentage of accidents caused by cellular use. This is non-arguable. Why should something that causes accidents be tolerated when it is completely unnecessary? There is no issue with briefly pulling over, out of harm's way, to send a text or make a phone call. This irritation with texting and driving absolutely does translate to other distractions. Any distraction while driving is dangerous. I have witnessed people reading while driving. How can anyone with an ounce of common sense possibly think this to be okay? But with this general frustration for irresponsible driving comes an equal frustration for texting and driving. I do believe driving is a responsibility. Why else would a person be required to pass a written, and driving test prior to receiving their license? Yes it is somewhat of a privilege. But in order to achieve and maintain that privilege comes a very large amount of responsibility.
Texting and Driving Should be Illegal

Nothing infuriates me more than seeing a person with their eyes glued to their phone, while also attempting to operate an automobile. Driving is a responsibility, not a privilege. It is something to be handled with great care and respect. Texting while driving is a death sentence. You are deliberately diverting your attention from the road, endangering your life, along with the lives of others. Put down your phone and drive.
Resolved: Abortion should be legal.............................................. On DDO

Accepted. This is regardless whether the motion refers to the abortion of pregnancy, or abortion of on-going debates in DDO as may be implied in the resolution. However, DDO has no legal jurisdiction, hence the "legality" of aborting debates does not make sense unless the proponent intends this to mean "allowing abortion of on-going DDO debates". The proponent is expected to be elaborate on the motion on round 2.
the minimum faith needed for salvation, is not clear

you apparently took the dogmatic approach. you listed a bunch of stuff. why is your formula the magic one? why not someone else's? and what about the bible's formula? once it said "believe on the lord and you will be saved" once it said "believe in your heart he was raised from the dead and confess w your mouth tha the is lord and you will be saved". your conditions are much higher than even these biblical commands i like what was said in either the comments of this debate or the other one i most recently started on this topic... there's really no minimum that can be established for a "true friend", and there's another comment about "peripheral" and "mandatory" beliefs and the blurry nature of it all. you apparenty are trying to argue against the more sage points, and also set yourself up for not adhereing to simple bibile conditions.
the minimum faith needed for salvation, is not clear

what the absolute minimum needed to believe is not clear. this debate is beyond the "faith v works" debate and is simply in the realm of what faith is required to be saved. i am not saying this in terms of seeking to do or believe the minimum such as to "do as little as i have to to get saved". i ask christians and they say "believe in jesus". then i point out that the devil does as even the bible says. so they say believe he's your savior. then i point out that some believe that different people see that differently... a good message or atonement etc. a fundamentalist would say a good message is not sufficient. so... you have to believe in atonement is one element. but then there's various beliefs in atonement, "christus victor" v "substitionary" etc. but then the bible has lots of places where it says what to believe. "confess with your lips that he is lord and believe that he has risen and you will be saved". that doesn't really define what "Lord" is though, thoug h in any case all this atonement stuff may not be necessary after all. but what if they do beleive in atonement and all this other stuff, but dont' know to believe that he was risen? or what if they find that piece of evidence insufficient for belief but believe everything else? most christians just say "believe he's savior and you're good". and what if you don't like this "savior" stuff given it's a loaded word. what if you just "relied" on Jesus instead, and acknowledged that you're a sinner, wouldn't that be enough? well it's not confesing and beleiving all that stuff, though no one said that was teh end all be all of what's required. some don't believe he's god... is that okay? a dogamatic would start to list things you must believe. then i point out that that's dogmatic, and most would shy away from that. if it's too short though, they don't like the vagueness or the possibilities they are forgoing for the sake of an easy answer... it's a brutal issue when you get down to it. they want to have their cake... easy answer... and eat it too.. not giving a clear answer. you have people who are new to the religion and one wouldn think couldn't be held responsible to everything to a T, and you have those who have honest disagreements over what doctrines should be belieeved and what shouldn't. and even if they knew of one doctrine that is considered standard and rejected what tehy knew... what is the minimum they'd have to believe? they can do the "confess with your mouth" stuff and reject say the trinity and be condemned for it? basically everyone is at different stages. it seems the right conclusion is it depends on hwere you are in your walk. so... beyond the whole faith v works debate.. even in terms of faith... what one must believe is not clear or taught very well.
Rap Battle.

Alright, your ship's sinking and unmanned, but I'll play on like the band I'm giving it to you firsthand, but you just don't seem to understand It's not just that crude grammar or diction But that the attitude you're putting on is just fiction You can come in with a grand demeanor And act like you're leaner and meaner But when it comes to doing dirt you're always the cleaner You're trying too hard to get that gangster brand But you sound canned, your lines are too planned and bland Trying to act a ghetto rapper, but you're just tanned And attitude-wise, well, your comments show you've got serious vagina sand You have no command so you're about to get fanned Get banned from this land, Lwerd's fans disband As I expand, the Flash is in high demand I drive folk wild like Hideo Nomo And might I say, it's pretty gay that you joke about being homo Because, A., you're a lesbian and B. you're straight wack with this fake culture Trying to act black, but it's just deceit, Machiavellian This moment's a juncture cause your lies are punctured You know nothing of the street So you cheat to try and compete with the elite But as an MC, you're incomplete, you just weren't discreet I'll greet you with my lyrical heat And you try to retreat but nonstop, I excrete rhymes With my flow so fleet, beyond replete Rinse and repeat, this message is concrete You're depleted, mincemeat The last thing you hear will be this verse's beat Then I'll give Vi_Veri a sweet treat (In case you don't know, that means eat my meat) Then pass on some of my gamete While she shouts skeet skeet skeet Once I'm done with that screw I'll come back to bombing you Remember this, I enumerate hip-hop commandments My words proliferate and incinerate the illiterate When I iterate literal visceral verses My integral rhymes accelerate through time Where they reverberate and temper hate Heavy doses of my lyrical douses when I deuterate Some say my slayings are immoderate Too bad I'm inconsiderate, beasting's really imperate I'll give it you straight, with no adulterate I don't need to act the delinquent, it's evident I'm grandiloquent My eloquence is heaven sent, dominating frequent Never relinquent and of consequent MCs become obsequent Magniloquent altiloquent but I keep it real, veriloquent Crown me the rap consular I bring rhymes spectacular past your cellular into the molecular My style's irregular, jocular but vocabulary above the vernacular Blow tracks up into nebular, leave MCs incapacitated Debilitated with my verbal acid like acetate Made minds agitated when I cogitated Mental flux, rhymes deluxe bring me mad bucks My style's a crux, an unending conundrum Momentous when I spit lyrics tremendous and stupendous I ensure it's never a humdrum I blind this with my allure After enduring your manure Demure with hip-hop, so lyrics complex I procure Sure to cure the impure This battle's over, rest assured A PRO's victory's been secured.
Rap Battle.

Excuse me, that verse just made me sick–as in, bad First thing's first: untitled_entity needs to get off that d-ck you wish you had I'll burn you before you even realize it, like a corona And you should really ditch that wack a-ss persona Spare us your histrionics, you're fake, rhyming with ebonics I spit phonics at speeds sonic and rock tectonics With turbine flow while yours is saturnine, slow This sh-t you spit makes you the hypocrite I don't need to misspell words or use fake grammar When I drop lexical hammers, you grew up in the glamour In a real battle you'd do nothing but stammer Maybe brag about surviving the slammer That time you were a teen, but like any young white chick It was just for some stupid sh-t like shoplifting Then you talked about how you grew up a thrift Be honest, harshness you've never even sniffed So quit thinking you're dapper, and acting like a gang rapper Stop "witcha" "ain'ts," "cuz" really "man," "ya" just "ain't" And don't call me unoriginal, when you're just straight phony Pretending you aren't the virgin, the only time you rode a pony Was growing up rich, so I'm sorry, but just stop being a fake b-tch And just watch as I bring it and get crowned the king Call me Basilic cause I rock every civic All around the Pacific, dropping mad physics It's beyond high school, these laws define you and me See, the root of my E is being an MC I guess they don't teach that at your third-tier university So let me educate you again: Check it, I defeat MCs for breakfast Eat up, crack the neck last Hack ‘em up in a sec fast, no casts all pieces I blast Raise the skull and bones on my mast Notches on my cutlass all kills I amassed Through my system they all passed Excretory through my emunctory the Flash'll slash ‘em all with perfunctory I knock two birds with one stone and tell my story alone With multiplicity of my personality duplicity I'm schizophrenic Bringing rhymes carcinogenic pathogenic back from times Hellenic Purely authentic purely eugenic, straight serious imperious and furious Mysterious leaving fools delirious, haters whip out the calculators To figure out my style but my mental trips ‘em all into the dead pile So I'll catch ‘em later, I'm the greater creator run circles round the equator Master debater nailing verbal craters, hip-hop vindicator Curator, all rappers I assailed impaled exhaled On this tour of my mental stylings So let me wrap it all up: Just remember, I always bounce back elastically Then I drop bombastically, drastically, flurry spastically From my rhyme book scholastically I school MCs ecclesiastically and monastically Oh, PS, I didn't know Vi_Veri was into beastiality
Rap Battle.

You think you're so bomb but all that you're dropping are deuces Say you're uniting Arabs but I ain't heard of no truces So you're useless; empty words like Confucius And your whack rap's the same crap as the rest of them douches Talking bout how your rhymes are so dangerous, like a cold blooded murderer But I ain't afraid of this cuz I ain't never heard of ya You're another wannabe rapper who's never gonna make it Disagree? Post a challenge, I'll take it - let's debate it You're wasted. All you're gonna do is fake it. The proof? Your last verse was clearly copy and pasted So congratulations. You got yourself a thesaurus Prolly figured it would help you out witcha chorus But here's some advice and don't consider it provisionary I think you oughta look up 'creativity' in the dictionary Your originality's slacking, and, it's lacking man Content so tired I swore I took an Ambien Quick, 911, someone call the ambulance I'll be the doctor that somehow tries to salvage this You gave me nothing to work with but don't worry I will manage this Dissecting your last bad verse like a determined surgeon Man you d1cked it so bad I almost cried like a virgin But this was worse so I curse this - your brain must be hurting Trying so hard to sound smart and I dunno that it's working You think you sound clever with your physics and chem But here are some real lyrics, Tesla, why don't you study them Cuz I think you need to if you don't wanna fail out This battle's like the economy: you gonna need a bail out You wanna talk about math? Alright check this equation: You + your boring rap equals my subtraction of patience Meanwhile I burn it up like a triangle: 180 degrees And my words aimed to hurt consume like a disease E = MC squared? Really, you must be Einstein himself Now go put your Physics For Dummies back on the shelf I feel like I'm back in high school with the way that you're testing me Clearly you're the class clown if you think you're impressing me I know my homophones are better, my homonyms are wetter See: I'll weather the stormy weather like like Rihanna's umbrella (ella ella) Man you gotta weather the weather whether you like it or not So is that all that you got? If so you lost your shot Now my advice - Listen when I'm talkin to ya Go get that glock and make that shot count like Chocula Put that bullet to your head cuz your originality is dead or was Never even there like Santa Clause on Christ-a-mas But don't fret - he's just busy in his factory And maybe next year he'll bring you a verse that's satisfactory See I know you want me to bring it but you'll never get it outta me Cuz once I start then I won't stop like an Energizer battery So here are some final words straight from me to ya Strop trying to sound like the damn encyclopedia And come at me with something worthy of multimedia Cuz right now you're spent like a burned out meteor
Rap Battle.

I Unite Arabs, the Emir of Rhyme Words rich, never the miser The cold Kaiser, my rhymes create rime Put you deep in the mire, that cold abyss I freeze the earth's core and pour from every orifice Your words remiss, mine bring bliss Slash you like a Swiss, lyrical Flash all fans reminisce Language strains I enlist, flow with no qualm Drop a bomb like ‘Nam while I'm calm Aplomb, sitting with the trees that's palm Breeze from my thought, a prophet seeking profit Crafting phrases sublime, a cellar door seller My verse blazes, sends fans into crazes Raises verbal maize to flourish and nourish the mind Razes your field so to you this art won't yield So grab your books for my psychedelic styles And I'll leave you shook while my intellect accumulates in piles So watch and look: E=MC squared, in my path no mass fared Nuclear fusion, bringing massive intrusions beyond your contusions My lyrical bombs hit, profusion Preclusion, when you bring your attack Sittin' back, talkin' smack, I dominate the track leavin' you wack Never static, my joules are kinetic, yours are synthetic, purely cosmetic Heat like enthalpy I'm frenetic, beasting's my genetic Prophetic when I bring this arithmetic through this poetic Leave you pathetic apologetic with no anesthetic Open my lyrical box, like Pandora, a plethora of rage Building my utopia with this cornucopia of skill Bringin' the heck out, got a knife at your neck, don't shout Now you're just someone I... "fought."
Rap Battle.

Hopefully this one turns out to be just as fun and less controversial. I personally find it odd that Pro does not want meter to be considered in a debate that takes place in the form of a RAP BATTLE, since meter is defined as the basic rhythmic structure of a verse, which one would essentially assume is a critical judging point. However, I will accept the terms. .. I guess. Good luck, Pro. I look forward to the first official round.
I will win this debate.

Con asserts that I'm cheating because he thinks that I am taking an illegal medication of testosterone to bolster my ability to win this debate. He says that in many competitions, this is illegal, and that it is unfair. There are a few problems with this: No. 1, all of my testosterone is natural. I have natural testosterone at unnatural levels. Kind of like a super power. Also, when has it ever been said or written that testosterone medication (which I don't even take) is bad for Debate.org? My dog is not abused, he love all that testosterone, he gets a lot of bjtch dogs daily. In conclusion, I'm not cheating in this debate. My opponent says that I am because he feels that he is losing. So he needs to calm down and accept the fact that you will, in fact, LOSE. I have the testosterone to win, and I have the confidence to win. You, however, lack the confidence. My win is inevitable, it has been predicted in the Peruvian ancient calendar that I will win. So, you're kind of toast. WIN.
I will win this debate.

Notice that he said that we both don't have evidence of winning. If we both had evidence, we would still be in this debate, but notice the Pro states that he thinks confidence = testosterone. Confidence is the belief that you can rely on something, but what is Pro relying on exactly? The definition of testosterone is a medication that can be used in many ways, but most importantly to my argument is used to increase athletic ability in the form of doping. This means he dopes every day. In many competitions, doping is banned because it is unfair. So why should we even have this debate if it is unfair? Pro also mentioned his dog has 100% testosterone levels. If you give your dog this testosterone, doesn't that make him an animal abuser? This and other evidence leads me to believe that you are cheating. If so, I will win. Another thing to note is that dog has three letters. Do you know what else has three letters? Win. So if you abuse your dog, you will NOT win. To conclude, I will win.
I will win this debate.

I will break down my opponent's argument and show why I will, in fact, win this debate, and he will lose. First off, the Con states that I have no evidence that I will win, but the problem is that HE has no evidence either! Here is his direct quote: "I will win this debate because I feel as if I could win. " Notice that he says he feels he COULD win. Could is a very unsure word, much unlike will. Notice that I use the word "will" (Con does too, but I do it a little more.) Will is a much surer answer than could, and if you are sure of yourself, that means you have more confidence. Confidence = testosterone. Also, Con points out that he has a high level of testosterone, but he does not know MY levels. I will tell you that I drink testosterone for breakfast lunch and dinner. I take a bath in testosterone. Even my dog has testosterone levels above 100%. Posters and videos might help you win this debate, but my opponent has failed to say WHICH ones. I will watch Rocky and get a trophy.