The House Regrets The Rise Of A 'Hookup Culture'

Sorry i meant this round to be closing statements/rebuttals! i hope that's okay, sorry for the inconvenience. A few major clashes have arisen in this debate, which i will try to address in my rebuttal, before finally summing up my arguments and finishing my contribution to the debate. In rebuttal i stated that students require 'a balance between healthy relationships and sexual pleasure'. For we need healthy relationships to survive: to get the best out of ourselves, and out of others. If not, we become confused, and lonely.' The opposition has refuted this by arguing that this statement was formed purely by my opinion. Is it not true that we should obtain healthy relationships throughout our lifetime? Do the relationships we form when we are young not important? The bond between father and son, mother and daughter, between two best friends? Not according to the opposition. And he cannot simply dismiss this as opinion only. Healthy relationships help to sustain us, for that is what we require as complex beings with a conscious. Maybe the New York City's public Schools code of conduct does not include examples of the ways students should act purely because they do not want to remain accountable for any instances of misdemeanour. I'm sure the principal would not attempt to argue that 'relationships are completely unimportant' as the opposition has done so tonight. Actually, i'm sure he would encourage students to bond with each other, spend some time together. This is not the essence of the hook-up culture. I stated... 'Students are no longer looking to find long-term lovers' and in response... "Of course the students are trying out whom they would to have as long time lover. Why should they be confined the first few choices? Why not find someone perfect or at least satisfactory? The opposition has completely missed the point of my argument here. Students ARE NOT looking to find long-term lovers'. They are desiring physical pleasure only. They are not simply searching more people to find the perfect couple, they are disregarding the option of relationships, and desiring pure physical pleasure. The opposition then went on the say he will await on me to provide evidence regarding how physical pleasure is wrong. I did not say physical pleasure was wrong (as the oppositions seems to have believed). I said the oppositions point was wrong regarding physical pleasure. Physical pleasure is not wrong. But we need healthy relationships to accompany this pleasure. "No women are not being vilified by society as much at all. That is why it is easy for them to divorce in today's society. It is consider acceptable to be sexually promiscuous. " This is misleading. Women are still vilified in society today. They may not be more vilified surrounding the area of divorce, but regarding promiscuity they are being vilified equally as much even more so. As i stated, women are not dreaming of promiscuity anymore, they are being promiscuous, which leads to vilification. Another statement, this time regarding divorce "I disagree profusely, this is inherently false claim on the part of Pro. It was difficult for women to divorce in the past. So they were stuck with someone whom they might not of liked[3]. Just because one dated them does not mean anything. Human beings behave more honestly when you become more intimate with them." The opposition says that 'Just because one dated them does not mean anything'. So a date does not mean anything? Is it not a chance to meet a person? have a genuine conversation? found out their personality? test your compability? it is all these things. My claim was not inherently false, and divorce rates nowadays can be contributed to a combinations of reasons, including the fact that people are making irrational decisions and going into so called 'relationships' with a person who they have experienced sex with, and have not gone on a date. "Pro has attempted to throw out that sex is exercise. It is whether he likes it or not. That is unequivocally a fact that is undeniable." I did not throw out that sex is exercise. I admitted it was a fact? I said that ghe opposition cannot use the fact that the culture encourages 'exercise' to defend the argument. We obtain exercise in many ways, and going for a fews run has many less negative implications. I did not say sex wasn't exercise. Exercise is not a reason to have 10 one night stands in the space of two weeks (the negative implications i was talking about). "Pro has committed fallacy that is incomparable to anything else so far Pro has offered. Murder is an action where a person normally decides to kill someone else. The hook-up culture is voluntary by all parties. That is why they both assume responsibility for the aftereffects. A victim in a murder does not choose to die in most cases. The two are incomparable. This is a fallacy. Participants in the hook-up culture are not destroying their lives either. That is merely Pro's opinion." I have committed no such fallacy. The opposition stated in their opening arguments 'that the hookup culture is chosen by those that chose to engage in it' and used this as core material. This by no way means that the hook-up culture is not regrettable. Do we not have systems in place to try and stop a person from murdering another person? yes, we do. But at the end of the day that person possesses free will and can chose to do what they please. Just as one person can chose to have as much sex as they like (through influences of hook-up culture'). Does this mean we should sit by and say "they chose to do it, they can suffer", as an excuse for this poor behaviour? no we cannot. it is by no means an argument of any stature whatsoever. "In a world made up of billions of people, we should not be bound by one relationship with one person." I have never stated that we should (although 59% of the world think it's ok to marry?). I stated that we need many healthy relationships to survive, and the students who are effected by the hookup culture do not simply gain access to these MANY relationships which are necessary to live a healthy life (not one single relationship). A hook-up culture is physically dangerous, as casual sexual encounters encourage careless sexual behaviour amongst students, a key argument to this debate which the opposition has completely disregarded. i talked about the increase of STD's such as gonorrhoea in the 18-25 age bracket, and how this is a direct result from the hook-up culture. I then went on to talk about how casual sex heavily impacts mentally and physchologically on students. I talked about 'long-term loneliness', and the deterioration in mental states of the students in this culture. As human beings, we rely on sustaining many healthy relationships, with out family, our friends, and the girlfriends/boyfriends we have. These can please us entirely: mentally and physically. Unfortunately, students are only experiencing the physical aspect of these relationships, and they are often left feeling empty, and lonely. This is simply why i regret the rise of the hook-up culture.