A disembodied afterlife would involve more downsides for the consciousness than biological life

I apologize for being absent during the last two rounds of this debate. I had experienced a death in the family and simply did not have time, nor patience to debate on this topic. I also thank Pro for forfeiting Round 4. However, I am back and will refute Pros arguments and present my own. Again, I apologize for not giving the Pro the chance to answer my arguments, but I will not present too many, and they will not be a large voting issue, as the voting issue in this debate is whether or not I can take Pros arguments and refute them. Essentially, but refuting his points a draw will be cast, which is why I will present a few arguments myself, and the vote will be based on the quality of the arguments themselves, not how they are answered. Pro tries to claim I will need to replace his arguments with upsides, whereas instead, if his are refuted, I will only need one argument to prove the resolution wrong. Now I will begin with a quick road map of what I will be going over. On Case: 1. The absence of reproductive organs is a good thing. a. No sexual harassment can occur. b. STDs will be unable to spread. 2. The absence of taste buds is a good thing. a. There will be no bad tastes if there are no taste-buds. b. Taste-buds do not serve any purpose except to, well, taste. 3. The absence of music is a good thing. a. Bad tastes in music can lead to the end in relationships. b. There are too many explicit ideas in music. 4. The absence of roller coaster is a good thing. a. The death rate on roller coasters was overlooked. Off Case: 1. Spelling and Grammar are voting issues. a. Though not large ones, Spelling and Grammar are still voting issues. Con Case: 1. Freedom to manifest yourself without the boundaries of time and space. On Case: 1. The absence of reproductive organs is a good thing. a. No sexual harassment can occur. It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or employee) because of that person's sex. Harassment can include "sexual harassment" or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature. Sexual harassment is a misfortune that anyone can endure. Sexual harassment is a problem, and is most definitely not an upside to actual life, but with the absence of a body in total, it will not be able to occur, so, it is, in fact an upside to a disembodied afterlife. [eeoc. gov] b. STDs will be unable to spread. Simply enough, if we do not have sexual organs, as stated above, we are unable to have sex, as Pro states. However, this is a good thing, because though it may feel good for a short amount of time and please us, there are extreme risks when having sex. One of them being that STDs are able to spread. STDs, like all other relatively serious diseases require medication and trips to the medical office to get rid of. It is a good thing to eliminate theses diseases because simply enough, we don't want them. This too, is an advantage to a disembodied afterlife. [cdc. gov/std] 2. The absence of taste buds is a good thing. a. There will be no bad tastes if there are no taste-buds. Have you ever had something taste so awful that you immediately spit it out but could not get the taste out for days? Taste buds are receptors in your mouth that allow you to taste such vile things. And although you may not be able to taste the good things in life, you will also never have the risk of tasting anything awful. All you want to do for those long days is cut off your tongue or take away all sense of taste. Even when you are sick you taste bile in your mouth. When you throw up you are tasting stomach acids now lining your mouth, and it's one of the most awful tastes you can imagine. Not being able to taste these vile tastes is an upside to no having taste buds in a disembodied afterlife. [library. thinkquest. org] b. Taste-buds do not serve any purpose except to, well, taste. In the same article that Pro provides in his own case, it says nothing about taste buds serving any other purpose than to taste. Unlike other receptors in out body that can do multiple beneficial things, taste buds are purely used to taste food. This includes the vile tastes I explained above. They do not warn us of predators, they do not kepp us warm, they are strictly there for us to taste. [kidshealth. org] 3. The absence of music is a good thing. a. Bad tastes in music can lead to the end in relationships. "Ever wondered why a relationship may have ended on the wrong note? The answer could be quite simple: it's because of your taste in music. According to a new study music actually predicts sexual attraction. The most recent issue of Psychology of Music takes a close look at the connection between identity, music and what makes people 'click'. " We can see that sometimes, even music, what we listen to almost daily, and love, can lead to our own demise. Essentially, what my point is, is that music, though nice to listen to, can also be a downside, as it can ruin our relationships. Not only with friends and significant others, but families as well. All relationships can suffer due to our music preferences. Though extreme, the study in the source I've cited says that it has been scientifically tested, and is valid. [dailymail. co. uk] b. There are too many explicit ideas in music. Music has always had the power to strike fear into parents' hearts, which is why it is so attractive to young people. This hasn't changed since the days when the Beatles shocked the world. What has changed is that popular music lyrics have become much more explicit. If we look into the history of music, we can see that this trend of explicit music lyrics will never come to an end and this will always be a problem in the living society. However, without music, in a disembodied life after death, there may be no music, but that is also one less factor in rebellion against superiors. No matter what kind of life is after death, there is bound to be a leader. And this explicit music would only cause rebellion. [media-awareness. ca] 4. The absence of roller coaster is a good thing. a. The death, injury, and health rates on roller coasters were overlooked. A German study of 37 men and 18 women volunteers -- average age 28 -- found that some people who rode a roller coaster had an increased heart rate that could cause arrhythmias -- an irregular heart beat -- in some individuals. Roller coasters, while they may be fun, are a health risk. And who's to say that they won't break down leaving people hanging upside down, or break and let these people die. If you die because of a roller coaster, is it really a disadvantage for you not to be able to go on that roller coaster again? Roller coasters are fear invoking, deadly, and can cause multiple health related issues, if anything, they are a disadvantage to regular life. Off Case: 1. Spelling and Grammar are voting issues. a. Though not large ones, Spelling and Grammar are still voting issues. Spelling and grammar should be valued in any debate because simply enough, in the real world when debating future laws, a plan would get rejected immediately if there was a spelling or grammatical error. Now, though this obviously could not be debated professionally because no one would have evidence as to the afterlife, it is still a voting issue in today's mock debate. For a few examples of specific spelling and grammatical mistakes that the Pro makes are as follows: In Round 3 Pro misspells "interacts" to read "interects. " Also, in Round 4, Pro misspells "forfeit" to read "forfiet. " Con Case: 1. Freedom to manifest yourself without the boundaries of time and space. a. I would like to point out that living a disembodied life after death would allow us to stretch beyond all time and space, assuming we can make this assumption, considering this entire debate is based on an assumption itself. I turn it over to the voters, as I have run out of characters.