In a world where superheroes exist, THW force them to train and register with the government.

Refutation Accountability My partner and myself have discussed the cost of this project. GOV wishes to ignore this point by stating it"s less than replacing a destroyed metropolis but is it really? Let"s think about this in the event of say an alien attack on new york city, does GOV truly expect the 100 hours of training would result in no damage? On side OP we understand if you trained superman for a 100 years there"s is no way to prevent any destruction. IT"S A WAR ZONE! Military combat destroys its surroundings with trained combatants on both sides (better trained than these heroes). This is a fact. GOV is under the impression this training and registry will make the heroes more careful, but at the same time says they are heroes who are good people. They seem to believe heroes want to save the world but are just careless and that"s why after battles the city looks like a war zone. But in reality heroes are careful and try to reduce the damage in order to save lives you know "it"s in the name", the reason damage occurs is because it is a war zone. This leads into the GOVs plan to hold heroes accountable. Let"s think it through my partner said this accountability measure would negatively affect heroes by instilling fear and liability into their heroics. If I"m going to get in trouble if a building was destroyed while fighting a would be world conqueror it only makes me less effective. Because while I"m fighting a thousand henchmen I need to be worried of each broken street or building. We already know heroes care about saving lives and reducing damage but as my "partner" said adding liability only makes them worried while fighting which could put them in danger. A more effective system which is completely possible under status quo is to look at the actions of the heroes. If everytime superman comes to help everything is solved with very little damage you treat him as the hero he is. The damage would have occurred regardless so let"s just be thankful it was minimized. But what if everytime batman gets involved the city is levelled one need only mark him as a villain and an enemy combatants thus ending his career of "heroics". Accountability is possible without this program and even better under status quo as we allow our heroes to protect us without fear that we"ll come after them for damages. To build on the CPR point one is not liable for any damage caused when performing CPR unless it is the result of willful negligence this incentives action as there is no fear of repercussions for your good deeds our heroes need these protections too. This point falls. 2. Communication Let"s look at communication under this model the government knows who you are and can now contact you. GOV mocks the bat signal point my partner made while ignoring its spirit and tries to show how ineffective it is compared to calling your hero. The bat signal was mentioned as a case in which communication between police and a hero have occurred without this program and proven beneficial to all parties. This is not to say we need to implement signals for every hero but that communication can happen without the police knowing the identity of the hero encrypted phone lines could be used instead. The point here is heroes wish to protect their identity and with good reason as my partner has explained. Forcing them to be known to the police doesn"t increase communication it just makes it dangerous for the hero. Communication between batman and gotham PD exists and is effective, while not putting batman at risk. All that needs to occur is for the police to understand the benefits of a hero and understand the need for a hero to have a secret identity. These people are volunteers and GOV does not seem to understand this. We need to ask ourselves "do we want heroes?" if no then we mark them as vigilantes. If yes we accept them as heroes and accept that they may cause some damage while saving the world and would like to have a life afterwards. In short accountability is available and better in status quo without sacrificing secrecy. This point falls. 3. Stress for the heroes The entirety of our constructive shows this system will only put heroes in danger thus increasing stress. This point falls. Closing Let"s look at what we"ve shown you in the effects on individual actors. Villains They get easier access to heroes because this program ruins any chance for heroes to maintain secret identities. They may also have an easier time of recruitment given the government is outing budding heroes and forcing them to take a stupid course. Throw in the inevitability of government abuse of heroes, villains would be more easily able to talk them into joining their ranks. Or just force them to by threatening the heroes family which the government has led them to. Heroes and superhumans who don"t want to be heroes Their entire lives get ruined all for trying to help the world. Increased liability results in greater stress and danger not less. The loss of secrecy results in their families being at risk. Hell it even makes them accidental celebrities once it"s discovered peter parker is spiderman he can never have a normal life. We can say the odds of discovery under this system are nearly inevitable especially when parker has to tell his boss "I"m going to superhero training so I need the evening off" All this does is make their lives significantly more dangerous so much so that they may even decide not to be a hero. Not to mention as we"ve said repeatedly this makes them a target for recruitment by evildoers. Basically it makes their lives garbage. And as stated a draft will be inevitable so it may even cost them their garbage lives. The Government This just allows them to exploit heroes which is not good. This also costs astronomically more than status quo and will result in greater incidences of villainy given the fact that villains have been empowered. This results in a reduced number of heroes given how poorly they would be treated in this system. Essentially this creates more danger than in status quo and costs more but hey it allows the government to eventually turn heroes into weapons so why would they complain. Society as a whole Heroes are less likely to save you, villains are more likely to attack you. But hey now you know if you get saved by a hero they gave up their lives and underwent some useless training so YAY! In summation this comes down to will this proposal do what it says it will and is it better than status quo. We have shown that in every instance it fails to be better than status quo as each of our constructive points demonstrate the harms associated with the program and how status quo achieves the same results. If it isn"t broke don"t fix it. We are proud to oppose!