If a person wants to live in a good world, he should ACTIVELY do things to make the world better.

Excuse the smaller font; I have no choice.My opponent is correct in his interpretation of my position.To sum my argument up into one sentence: We have zero influence._______________________________________________________My opponent attempts to name actions in which I can gain influnence, but he is wrong about the nature of humanity.The "oil companies" have an impact - well, get an electric/hyrbrid car (they're around!).Is it worth it to spite the the bosses by getting poor-effeciency, higher-priced (depending), anduglier looking (IMO) cars?I say no.Also, we would still be paying a boss, a company whose interest is money. We are still beingcogs in capitalistic clockworks.The "greedy bosses" have an impact - well, don't buy their stuff!I am sorry, but I want electricity, water, food, gas, cars, houses, internet, heating, cooling, etc.If we refuse to buy corporations' stuff, then we would literally have nothing.Take Paula Dean, the women who was recently accused of calling black people who worked underher the n-word. It's quite obvious right now that she's feeling the impact of her attitude, of her un-restrainedmouth.How many bosses haven't treated their employees wrong at one point or another. Indeed, for everyPaula Dean we catch, there are a million we don't.We have no power to change society - except for the fact that we do. Slavery. Slavery. Iremember reading aboutslaveryin my U.S. History text as a kid. Where did that go?Oh yeah...a bunch of abolitionists (those offended by the practice) got to together andconvinced the 16th President (Abraham Lincoln) to eliminate it should the North win the Civil War against the South.Oh, slavery. Let me talk about Slavery! That "bunch of evolutionists" were old rich men. They were not ancient versions of "us". They were corporation owners, orpoliticians. They were not "us".But even if they "us", Abraham Lincoln only ended slavery in the Southern states. It stayed legal in the North.Even if he did completely abolish slavery, he crippled the Southern economy by doing so. The Southern economics wasbased on slavery, and without it, poverty spread throughout the south. People surely starved as a consequence.Martin Luther King Jr. had an impact when he helped to organize the Million Man March on Washingtonand when he gave the "I have a dream" speech, which motivated the country into passing Civil Rights Legislation. He had an impact when he marched through Southern cities to stop segretation and to recognize African Americanrights.If you get millions of people to march, call me. It was not an individuals striving to get equal rights, it was millions ofpeople campaigning, with King as a figurehead.Rosa Parks had an impact when she refused to give up her seat to a white person in a city bus!Hundreds of people before her did the same thing. Hundreds. Why don't you rememeber them?Even if she was the first, she did nothing. If she did change something, that would be like me refusing to show up toshow up to court because I didn't like the justice system.Her courage caused the U.S. congress to act!Why would the Congress listen to her? They didn't! It was other factors, such as the Millions of Women protesting,not one person, or Millions of Blacks protesting, not one minister. Cesar Chavez had an impact when he organized boycotts of the fruit industry, to bring attention to the dismalworking conditions of farm hands and farm workers.A boycot doesn't work unless millions of people cooperate. He did nothing alone, and the leaders only listened becausehe was affecting profits.Mahatma Ghandi had an impact when he led India toward National IndependenceOnce more: Ghandi changed nothing. Millions of Indians protesting did. Not one person.South African President Nelson Mandela, now 95, had an impact when he and his reform-minded country men convincedthe nation to put an end to segregation and the practice of apartheid,1) The President of South Africa, not you or me.2) and his reform-minded country men. NOT YOU OR ME!_________________________________________________________________________________________________My opponent attempts to show my influence, but fails.I am not a South African President, nor am an army of millions of like-minded country-men. I am not angry former-slave, or a senator. I am one person.In all instances you mentioned, one person was a figure-head that changed nothing. If it weren't for millions of peoples'protests, nothing would have change!No matter how much I do, I can't change a thing unless millions of people protest.And so, I don't have to do a thing. I can let an army do it.You know. I imagine the day, I dream of the day, where the world is a utopia. I wish I could create utopia, but I have towait for millions to join the cause. And they will. One day. http://www.youtube.com...