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Debate.org should have a prom round 2!

Ok here are my arguments:Sense of communityHaving a prom here on DDO would increase the sense of community and truly unite the members into a (dys)functional community. This would decrease personal arguments and feuds. Also, a prom would help aggravated members calm down and would reduce tension already built up. A prom could be useful to help smooth ruffled feathers that eventually happen on this site.Fun!Who doesn't want to have fun? Aside from chatting and getting your groove on, we could play Party Mafia. Basically, it would be a mafia game and a murder mystery party mixed together that would go along with the party theme. (For example, if the theme was Lord of the Rings, there would be wizards and orcs and trolls assigned to the players.) We could also come up with some other games that I'll leave to the imagination right now. A prom would be a lot of fun and would attract a lot of people to the site. Which leads to my last argument...MORE MONEY!Who couldn't use some more money? They way I see it, a prom could increase revenue substantially for this site that lets us on for free. If we have a prom, people here on DDO would go blog/facebook/twitter/talk to their friends about it. Their friends would think about it, and say, "Hey, that sounds fun. I wonder what else I've been missing out on?". Five minuets later, they have an account and are looking at all of those beautiful ads. As this nifty diagram explains:More People + See Ads = MONEY!!!So, as you can see, the increase in advertisement hits would help to raise revenue and save the puppies, fix our education system, allow us to invest in infrastructure, create more keyboard-ready projects, and make us all proud to be on DDO!(Patriotic music plays in the background)Good luck to the Con and thank you for reading!
Debate.org should have a prom round 2!

Hey, you all! Since I'm new to the site, I thought a prom would be a great idea to meet people and talk debate stuff. (Of course, this isn't my idea, imabench originally debated the idea in [1]http://www.debate.org...) First round is to confirm, unless con wants to go first. In that case, he/she will post their opening in round 1. As always, DDO rules apply (No trolling or semantics, if you can even use semantics). The theoretical prom would basically be a giant forum where people could pick up dates, hang out, and even break it down with some funky grooving'! Anyway, good luck!
Socializing some industries will/can/do improve the economy and society.

1)Prisons. Private prison run by private companies are more expensive and costly than socialized prisons and result in lower wages for prison workers. This is because private prisons are more concerned with producing profits then providing worker benefits. In America there are a lot of privately run prisons, which are more expensive then socialized ones, in fact if all of Americans prisons were socialized it would save the country 20 billion dollars of 10 years while increasing workers' wages by 5%. http://www.npr.org... http://146.142.4.24/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=15&year1=2000&year2=2010 http://www.afscme.org... In Arizona private prisons can cost as much as 1,600 more per inmate per year. This is despite private prisons having more riots, human right abuses and poorer working conditions. http://www.dailykos.com... 2)Insurance. Socializing insurance companies would result in lower costs and better benefits because the government wouldn't have a need to have profits and has consistently shown that it can run insurance programs with lower administrative fees/costs. For example the administrative cost for government unemployment insurance is less than 5%, and government flood insurance has administrative costs at 7%. http://www.kowaldesign.com... http://www.coffi.org... Private insurance administrative +profit costs make up to around 40% of total insurance spending. Meaning that socializing all insurance companies would result in near 30% lower costs with the same benefits. Basing this loosely on how much Americans pay for insurance this means that socialization could save the country upwards to 300 billion dollars every single year. http://www.bls.gov... http://www.stretcher.com... 3)Private colleges compared to public universities. Government controlled universities provide a better education at a lower cost than private colleges because government universities are in the business to education rather than to make a profit and get rich off of students. The evidence supporting this is as such: Senior students and private colleges are 3 times more likely to have debt over 40,000 compared to similar students with similar degrees. This is because private colleges are more expensive. http://www.usnews.com... Also private colleges have a graduate rate of 22% instead of 55% for state colleges. Private colleges also account for 26% of federal student loans yet 43% of student defaults; this is because private colleges are less likely to make sure their students have good job prospects and less likely to provide degrees that will result in prosperity for their students. http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org...
Socializing some industries will/can/do improve the economy and society.

Questions from Con: "Does he/she believe that the prison industry, the insurance industry and the education industry must be completely socialized- eradicating every privatized company that exist in each industry he/she mentions? " Yes for the prison/insurance industry and partly yes for the college industry (only for profit colleges) Would you be willing to support a semi-privatized system? Be specific. What I am willing to accept is irrelevant to the debate. The debate is on if socializing some industries can improve the economy/society. 1)My opponent isn't making an argument. Increases in the prison population have nothing to do with how efficient private or public prisons are. The facts are undisputed. Private prisons are 5% more expensive even though they have 5% lower wages and worse working conditions. 2)A/B) My opponent's link doesn't even support the things she says all the link does is show the wages of certain medical professionals. My opponent then goes on to make a few unsupported claims that are actually completely false. These claims include long waiting lists, and poor doctor patient's relationships for socialized programs. These two claims are false given that: ===People who've had private and Medicare health insurance find Medicare to be better. http://prorev.com... ==37% of Americans don't get care, compared to 5% of people in Canada. American number is also deflated because sometimes you have to have Care to know you need more. http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com... America has less medical professionals than countries with socialized health care systems ==America has 26% less doctors, and 4% less nurses http://assets.opencrs.com... C) My opponent is again ignoring my argument. The fact is that government insurance provides the same benefits as private insurance only at a much lower cost. The fact that people get benefits from their work is irrelevant. 3)A) Now my opponent is lying. This is the data. I already proved that public universities are better than for profit private universities; if my opponent were to read my posts she would know this already. Senior students and private colleges are 3 times more likely to have debt over 40,000 compared to similar students with similar degrees. This is because private colleges are more expensive. Also private colleges have a graduate rate of 22% instead of 55% for state colleges. Private colleges also account for 26% of federal student loans yet 43% of student defaults; this is because private colleges are less likely to make sure their students have good job prospects and less likely to provide degrees that will result in prosperity for their students
Allowing prisoners to vote

1: G2;plājəG6;rīz/ verb gerund or present participle: plagiarizing take (the work or an idea of someone else) and pass it off as one's own. synonyms:copy, infringe the copyright of, pirate, steal, poach, appropriate; More copy from (someone) and pass it off as one's own. A not plagarizing if I give full credit to who wrote the story. I am not taking these ideas for my own. 2: Well these inmates have broken the law. Yes I give you points for nosing what an image is. The fact still remains however that they should still be able to vote on what their life will be like when they get out. 3: ""People need to stop thinking about themselves, thus prisoners should have the right to vote!" "This is a baseless assertion that actually goes against the entire philosophy of democracy. [http://dictionary.reference.com......] In a democracy, where people vote on certain matters to reach a conclusion based on what the majority wants, it is supposed to be every person looking out for themselves (or what they believe to be best) and what the majority wants will inevitably become the conclusion." From your own rebuttal. This just supports democracy. Prisoners get to vote. So this is not against democracy. 4; yes I have all these as original thoughts. The next round will be a combination of my thoughts and others' thoughts. Yes. Will give them full credit on their part. So therefore it is you, v.s. me and other people in this world. I have the strength of numbers and professionals on my side. So therefore seems like you haven't won yet.
Allowing prisoners to vote

Issue of PlagiarismThe entire R2 was pretty much copy and pasted. Regardless of the fact that Pro admitted this and provided links to the places he pasted from, it is still a shock that not a single argument of Pro's was his/her own.My Rebuttal"People need to stop thinking about themselves, thus prisoners should have the right to vote!" This is a baseless assertion that actually goes against the entire philosophy of democracy. [http://dictionary.reference.com...] In a democracy, where people vote on certain matters to reach a conclusion based on what the majority wants, it is supposed to be every person looking out for themselves (or what they believe to be best) and what the majority wants will inevitably become the conclusion."Prisoners are still members of our society."A prisoner, in the context of this debate, one in custody for doing a crime that relinquished their rights to be a citizen (http://www.thefreedictionary.com...). Thus, they are not functioning as members of society until they are freed."Give me one good reason why prisoners shouldn't be able to vote?"If you have proven that you fail to understand the law by breaking it, or that you care so little that you'd be willing to do so then you have no right to be voting on who runs the show regarding it."So why shouldn't they decide on their future when they come out?"This is debate is about convicts only. Ex-Cons were never mentioned in R1 or the resolution.The majority of your remaining debating is aobut Ex-convicts... This is not the debate at all.In actual fact unless you make a single original argument of your own, I have won this debate since I'm the only one actually debating my own thoughts.
Make the funniest story ever.

I ate... wait for it... NOTHING! That's right. I ate nothing like a boss. I usually don't eat lunch, but yeah, I ate nothing. I'm a winner! I'm a beast. I can eat nothing and run like a champion. I can feel the wind when I run! I can run 500 miles, and I will run 500 more! Just to be the man who walks 1000 miles to be coming to your house would be seriously weird. It doesn't matter when I get no adenine triphosphate, glucose chains, proteins, and carbohydrates with fat as my energy source to fuel my amazing, rock-hard body. Yes, I have a six-pack. I'm also a homo sapien. I'm just a regular human being but awesome!
Make the funniest story ever.

I would like to say "Good luck! " to my opponent. Let's say that this story debate doesn't have to make sense and doesn't have ti be true. )I ate some curry, I farted out chilly. Boy, did that feel good. I picked up the chilly and I ate it. I WAS hot! !! I tried almost everything to get rid of the chilly taste; jelly, vegie curry, strawberries, apples, pineapples, pears, passionfruit, kivi, jackfruit, salt, sugar, taking deep breaths, but then, I found some milk. Without a moment to waste, I grabbed a glass and poured in some milk and drank it. Boy, did that feel good. And it got rid of the chilly taste too! Then, to celebrate, I invited my strawberry friends over for a party. The strawberries danced and sang. When the party was over, I ate them. They were delicious. I ate some beans, then I farted. No wonder why people said that beans make you fart. ..
The existence of the christian god.

No offence, but your argument seems bigoted. You said and i quote "The reason God hasn't been dismissed is because He is real. If he wasn't real he would have been dismissed just like the others. It's just like a court. If a false story is told, it is dismissed as NONSENSE. If a true story is told, it is kept as truth. Same case with God." This isn't an argument. If anything, you helped me. What makes your god true, you give no evidence, you just give faith. And that is my argument, they believe just as much as you do, maybe more, and you just say they are wrong. That is offensive, you have no proof they are false, unless you want to use my proof, which would hurt yourself. As for your next point, when i say answering maching, first off, im using a metaphor. I understand the answer would be no sometimes. But it is no all of the time. When have your prayed for something, other than a simple things, something big and important, and it happened. And i don't mean that a football teams wins a game or you get a day off work. As per your so called "evidence" ever heard of continental shift. It says the way the Earth looks today is not the way it looked thousands of years ago. So obviously the water would be in the soil, besides soil is porous. Meaning has wholes ,that rain leaks through. The so called ark, was a hoax, if you read the news, as per the Bible, if that is all you need, then read it again. Because if you go by the Bible, if you work on Sunday, you are put to death, and if you disobey him, you will eat the flesh of your sons and daughters. Leviticus 26:27-29. As per the ressurected Jesus, the Bible is an unrealible source, and should not be used. Concrete evidence, not words written by some goatherd. As per you so called responses, first off, you ignored the Holocaust, and how is AIDS proof of God? Also, I don't remember saying this "Next, you say the Bible would be up to today's grammatical standards." I said it was uneducated words. Supposedly it was written by God, don't you think, being onniscient, it would be smart? From here you start to make some sense, and i can't argue your chain metaphor, although i don't agree with it. I will give you that. But as for this "Now you're saying that what I say doesn't make sense. Is that because you don't want it to make sense? It makes perfect sense if you think about it." Its not because i want it too, it is because it doesn't. I shouldn't have to think about it just to understand.For my closing argument, I would ask that you please show respect for my beliefs, by not assuming you are right, at least humoring me. Notice how I say things from the Bible and other such stories like they happened, yet you just tell me im wrong and don't even humor me.
The existence of the christian god.

First of all, you say that the Bible was written by uneduated men in the Middle East. That is not true, because the book of Luke was written by Luke, who in fact, was a doctor. Doctors are educated, aren't they? Also, the Bible is legible. It has not even changed through the years. True, grammatical editing to fit the times was in order, but no matter how many versions of the Bible you go to, the whole story is the same. Next, you claim that a God who is loving would not kill people like he did, and send plagues upon them like he did in the times of Moses. Psalms chapter 89 v. 14 says this, "Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth go before Your face." NKJV. To explain this verse, if you were a judge, and someone was convicted of a crime, would you punish them? Only if you were a just judge. To God, disobedience is an act of sin, and punishable by eternal death. He repeatedly gives mankind an opportunity at life by giving his only Son to die on the cross. In Joshua, the people of Jericho were wicked in God's eyes. They were disobedient, and disobeyed God's every law. God used the Israelites as a means of punishment. Now on your seeming contradictions, in Genesis chapter 1 it is obvious that the trees were created before man. But did you happen to read the very beginning of verse 8 of Genesis chapter 2? It says this, "The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Edenand there He put the man whom He had formed." Also, earlier in this chapter, in verses 5-7, "before any plant of the field was in the the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground, but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the earth. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground..." so as it shows here, it is not a contradiction, vegetation clearly came out of the earth BEFORE man. I am sure that what you are referring to as the contradiction appers in verse 9; "And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food." This simply means that He made the trees grow, not that He created them after man. And you obviously did not notice the beginning of chapter 2 of Genesis, verse 1. It says this, "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished." The Bible does not contradict itself. It says at the BEGINNING of the chapter that THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WERE FINISHED. If you would like to know more, debate further.
Free will vs. Determinism

atheism is belief, belief is theism, religion. a(theism)=dis(belief)=belief=theism know=Physical experience of now be,lie,f=false=mentally enslaved knowledge=truth=free will for perfect balance, as they stand in contrast saying cause, is implying another cauase, as they can not exist without each other, therfore i also dont have to mention the 2 effects i already proved why cause and effect can never have a beginning
Free will vs. Determinism

To say "I have no beliefs" is like saying "I don't use words when I type online." It's illogical, and therefore it's impossible. You probably mean "I am an atheist, and don't have any religious beliefs. Ok. The question is whether the conceptual model of "free will" or "determinism" best explains the evidence we find in the real world and in human experience common to all. What are your evidences that human experience of free will is an illusion at best, and that nothing but bodies exist? Why? If you say "I don't know." Then I would respond with another question: explain why there appears to be so much design in the universe and in life around us. If you say evolution, then I would respond, "Fine, but how did it get started?" If you say you don't know, then I would respond with this question: at the end of the day it is illogical to have an infinite chain of cause and effect things going back forever, especially nowadays with so much evidence for the Big Bang Theory that all matter, space, and time came into existence at a single point in our past. Therefore, our experience of free will rests firmly on a strong foundation of a Free Agent, Mind, who imbued us with minds like His own, able to stand separate from the physical universe and manipulate it.
Free will vs. Determinism

As Socrates in Euthyphro (and many others since) argued eloquently, the Prime Reality from which everything else comes must be perfectly holy. The gods of his day failed the test, big time (back stabbers, lairs, adulterers, murderers). The God of Calvin and Jonathan Edwards is no different. A control freak who (in the name of his own Glory) blames men for the evil they do, yet who destined them, even caused them to do it, is logically the author of the evil he planned and insured they did in fact do. This is logically inescapable. As you mention the existence of God, and refer to his sovereign control of man's wills ("Destiny"), what is your evidence that God is such a control freak that he destines every good and evil act of his children, mankind?
Aliens don't exist

First of all an incredibly advanced race would probably view us like ants and wouldn't bother making his presence known in order for us to achieve our own development in order to insure we are ready for them (why you don't give a 4 year old a car he cant drive). And secondly whose to say these aliens are technologically advanced at all what makes you think its space faring the alien could have the complexity of an amoeba but its still an alien for its not of this world and its foreign therefore alien. Oh and I forgot to add you have a petri dish the size of the universe to have life therefore alien life.
Games played at school for educational purpose

The main reason games should be allowed at school and the reason school will be easier for kids i because school is suppose to be easy for kids education they have school so kids will be able to live and be able to use what they have from school for the real life educational games are just a way for school to help them more no matter how long they are it takes school will be able to help kids with other things then just telling them and showing because some kids need to be able to do hands on work not sitting their and copying what the teacher does. Games are apart of life and they will never leave school can use games to help kids learn different ways.( this is for kids who really need help and can understand no matter how many tutorials they go to) School helps kids also games help kids, That is why games should be allowed at school and you can change my opinion because this is something that schools should do because kids need help and cant get it. even sylvan can use it for kids so they can help the kid more.
Games played at school for educational purpose

"If kids play games then school becomes a lot easier for kids they can have fun and still be able to learn all of their basic needs the only things is that kids will be able to play the games and still be able to have fun" When kids play games in school even if educationial games, then they will lose focus. they will make you not do your work right, they WILL make you FAIL. During my final debate I will give voters on why you should vote for the Neg
Proving Jesus is the Messiah

1. Alma means young woman, not virgin, as a matter of fact this same word was used 7 times in the Tanakh and these same translators translated the other six as "a young woman."2. Anyone can be born in Bethlehem, Jesus still hasn't provided his birth certificate that he was born there, and that is not a messianic prophecy that the messah would be born in bethlehem.