Emotional Expression

1 | Someone's true self The ideal version would be, that everyone has perfect morals. These morals are supported and ensured by laws. The fact that the laws of different countries and states are never fully the same and rather often show severe differences , reflects that there is no consent about the perfect morals. Someone's true self includes everyone's actions, opinions and traditions. So what about the actions and tradition you might not regard as morally acceptable e.g. forms of child abuse like the circumcision of boys (in the Jewish tradition) or girls (a very painful process often found in African tribes [1 http://www.who.int...])? Promoting perfect freedom to express and do anything you want is just lawlessness. Bullying and Exclusion due to someones habits and actions is never meant to be abolished - just controlled in the way it is beneficial for society. Putting someone in jail or in a mental institute is an action that excludes said person from their society he or she they cannot live in it. The lines here are very difficult and controversial, like many debates here on DDO show: Is a pedophile that never touched a child "bad" and needs to be excluded? Or the other way round: Is it wrong to call a convicted child molester "bad"? 2 | Bad Bad is vague judgment that we loosely apply to many things. So far Pro has not provided any form of definition for it, which would have been useful. Just the average FreeDictionary [2 http://www.thefreedictionary.com...] provides 16 different ways to interpret and use the word bad, and Pro cannot claim that all of them apply to the act of making up your mind about someone according to his preferences and actions. Just quoting for example things like "vulgar" or "severe". Bad or good are concepts that are neither fully defined nor do people genuinely agree over them. Stating that it is "bad"/wrong if someone is called a "bad" person is basically an argument that draws a perfect cycle around the individual morals of the person using it. Means: it never means the exact same to two people. In conclusion does Pro's individual perception of bad not even contribute to solve any existing bullying or exclusion problem in schools or workplaces. 3 | Preferences are information Shared Interests are one central key to functioning friendships [3 http://www.telegraph.co.uk...]. If the other persons does not share neither your morals (e.g. concepts of a "good" friendship) nor interest you are very unlikely to develop a functioning friendship. Therefore putting effort into it would be illogical and exhausting. A lucky thing is, that there is no such thing as "everyone else thinks". There is always someone who does not agree with those you might subjectively regard as the majority. 4 | Therefore - Excluding someone from your life, because you don't have shared interets or morals is valid - Excluding people from society is valid, especially when it helps to secure said society - "Bad" is a vague and morals based adjective that does not provide the clearness needed for this debate [1] WHO, Female genital mutilation, http://www.who.int... [2] The Free Dictionary: Bad http://www.thefreedictionary.com... [3] The Telegraph: Shared interets key to friendshiphttp://www.telegraph.co.uk... Personal Note | You might want to have a look into basic debate introductions in the forums section. I've seen this is your first debate so I'll try to explain: Debates are a bit like chess and if you don't know the difference between a queen and rock, everyone has a hard time playing with you. Please don't take this personal :) As far as the topic goes: We are not primarily talking about bullying. As far as I can see is this only a further step of your initial statement, that it is wrong to judge people because of their likes and dislikes. You might use it as an argument but the Con-side does not obligate me to argue that bullying is "good". I am just showing that your concept of "bad" is incorrectly used in this context.