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Water Boarding is an act of torture and is immoral.

Like any violent act, the morality (status as promoting rather than serving as an obstacle to one's existence) of waterboarding is dependent on the context. Waterboarding an innocent is certainly immoral, such serves to motivate all members of the class "innocent" to cease trade with you, and perhaps kill you-- trading with members of that class is of course necessary to enjoy many fruits of civilization, such as the fine devices we are viewing this debate through. Randomly waterboarding the guilty to no immediate end is probably mildly immoral-- it lacks the right aesthetic to be a good deterrent, for such things, stronger torture or lethality are far more useful. But for the gathering of intelligence (it's primary use) from known members of a guilty party, it can serve to save innocent lives, at the miniscule costs of water, a board, and a bit of pain to someone who is already an enemy. Thus, I reject the blanket application of the term "immoral" to such an act.
Water Boarding is an act of torture and is immoral.

I affirm the resolution : Water Boarding is an act of torture and is immoral. I consider myself an open minded person yet I am always shocked when glancing at people's profiles on this site when I see people saying they are pro-water boarding. This is especially true if their other opinions do not seem particularly extreme. I would appreciate if somebody who is pro-water boarding would like to take me up on this debate. If nobody does so, I will be forced to conclude that most of these individuals think that torture is a good thing. I hope I am proved wrong. Thankyou.
Why GOD is real

Well as you believe that there is no God. Why are you worried about your soul? Oh and since you don not believe in God don't say OMG or when something good happens don't say thank you God. The Bible did not say that gays would be stoned to death. Not every teen is rebellious. For instance I am 19. I go to the food bank every Monday, I graduated, I wasn't suspended ever in school, I just got done with clinicals for Phlebotomy. Oh lets not forget I have a youth group every Wednesday. My friend he is a senior in high school and he is building him a house, does MMA, he is going in the national guard in July, he is going to college as soon as he gets back. Oh and as you say that our country is not built on God, then how do you explain the Pledge of Allegiance? Look at the money. God has sent signs that he is real. Too bad you don't have a bible cause then you could read it and see that everything that is happening in these days was predicted all that time ago. Think again at Noah's ark. Animals had to come from somewhere. Who is the first person in your family tree? In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1 NIV) Matter could not have always existed since, based on the second law of thermodynamics, if it did all the stars would have all burned out by now. Therefore, the existence of an eternal, all-powerful God is required as the 'first cause' of everything that exists. The 'Big Bang,' of itself, was not the first or initial cause of the material universe we see today. Rather, God's choice (as the first true 'cause') brought everything into existence using the Big Bang. How was grass, trees; etc made? It has been determined that 99.9% of your DNA is similar to everyone's genetic makeup. Oh and since you don't believe in God, you don't believe in Heaven or Hell either.
Why GOD is real

The question truly is are they really Christian? Now let's take a look at our government. They've took out just about everything to do with God. They take it out and everything is going downhill. USA was built on God. If God is not real how was we made? theres a start to everything. There is a start to everything. If you read your Bible you will see that everything that happened in there is happening now. Homosexuality would be increasingly evident: Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good. 2 Timothy 3:3. Now before you say God is not real. I suggest you read your Bible and do your research. Just because you can not see him or hear him. Well it clearly means you're not saved.
Why GOD is real

There is no evidence for God. Plain and simple. The best clue that anybody has is a series of books written thousands of years ago by an unknown author. Just because many people around the world believe in a deity that controls everything going on, does not mean it is true. In fact, Mark Twain once said "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." If God were real, and could actually control everything that is going on, then why would he continue to let all of those people be killed in the name of Him and his son? If He was such a powerful being, could He not do something about the pitiful state of the world?
Why GOD is real

Why God is real! Matthew 24:9-10 ...'Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.' This is being repeated today in places like Iraq, Iran, China, North Korea, Pakistan, India, Nigeria, Egypt, where many Christians are being killed for their faith in Christ Jesus everyday.
Modern Day Society: Prayer and Practice of Religion in Schools

Sorry, I had computer problems and accept my forfeit with dignity intact. So, also my final stance ends with this. Like you said, it is not something to enforce (sorry to copy). If we were to allow it, the people who runs the majority will make sure that only theirs is passed. Next thing that will happen would be Bibles in schools and after that, there would be fights over trying to get everyone to read them who don't even want to. Children are unable to understand religion and the 1st Amendment fully. Adults try to get their view inside of schools because of this. Children will believe whatever you tell them and this is not the way we should try to get religion in schools. Religion is based on beliefs, not facts like the educational process is meant for. You can have a moment of silence, but you may not enforce it. You can have religious clubs, but the school may not allow it to be school-sponsored/directed.
Modern Day Society: Prayer and Practice of Religion in Schools

I'll end my stance with this. Religion is not something people should force upon. They can't and won't be able to due to our rights to practice any form of religion or view or philosophy. If a person wants to say prayer, they can. One wants to say silent time, they can. It's about speech. And if you take away the right of somebody's speech, then what good will that do? Atheists are tired of being told to be quiet by religious people, but should atheists people stoop to their level by doing the same later on? It's like Christmas. Nobody cares about it's Christian background. Only that kids love it when Santa is mentioned. They rarely notice Christ in Oh Come All Ye Faithful or Joy to the World.
Modern Day Society: Prayer and Practice of Religion in Schools

I never stated the majortiy can ever establish an official religion of the school. They can only say what the majority of the students are. The way to do that is by a survey they can state religious beliefs. The Constitution and Pledge was because some of our founding fathers were Christians as well as some to be secular. We are to respect other people for their beliefs. As the great Voltaire once stated, "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." Equality and tolerance is what we must establish. Our religious founding fathers had this in mind because everybody should have rights no matter religious views, political views, sexual orientation, skin color, or ethnicity. All men are to be equal. I am friends with a muslim who I respect for his views. I have studied the muslim culture and even Taqwacore, a hardocore punk rock music defined around muslim culture and rebellion against the muslim authority and the USA. I am friends with many non theists and agnostics who went to school with me and had no problem with the whole prayer in schools. They said atheists who complain are just looking for reasons to argue and complain about something that doesn't apply to them. Your making a conspiracy that the school will enforce a brainwashing doctrine onto you when they aren't allowed to and they aren't going to. If my God has told me anything, it is that we are to show kindness and love. If you know any biblical stories, Jesus took in Matthew to be one of the 12 disciples. And Matthew was considered a sinner by the majority of people. So if a Christian wants to shun you for your beliefs and cast you out, shame on them. God does not like the self righteous. Only the humble. God blessed the peace makers, the humble, the mourning, and the poor. He didn't bless the greedy, the corrupt in power, nor the fascists of America. And that's coming from my beliefs.
Modern Day Society: Prayer and Practice of Religion in Schools

You are in fact correct when you are saying that it is guaranteed by the Federal Constitution of the United States. But in the part that "Congress shall not endorse" is the part that public schools are run by the federal government, therefore abide by the Federal Constitution and statutes of the Supreme Court. However, the part that when a school says, "Lets all bow our heads for a moment of silence" is in fact an endorsement of religion since Christianity, Muslims, and Hebrews do so when they pray. Evolution can be taught because it is a proven thing to have happened. I may be Pagan, but beliefs and facts are different for a reason. You also claim only "a majority" can establish it, which is unconstitutional. And no they do not. In fact, when religious lawsuits have been taken to court, it is the majority that caused it to happen. The minority were not numbered enough to stop it. I respect you for your thinking of beliefs in conflict with your religion and political beliefs, but the part where religious rights are being robbed is wrong. Look at State Constitutions, the monetary system, Pledge of Allegiance.
Modern Day Society: Prayer and Practice of Religion in Schools

For my opening statement, I will point out that the freedom to practice religion is protected by the constitution due to our freedom of expression. Same applies to atheists and agnostics. When people practice religion, we must also be aware to seperate church from state as in the constitution. Pray can be allowed in schools, but religion should not be forced. For example. My high school didn't say "Let us all our pray.......... Good morning students. It's Monday and 70 degrees outside." Instead we said "Let's all bow our heads for a moment of silence........ Good morning." We said that to let christians and muslms and jewish people pray while letting atheists have a moment to themselves. It was more respectable. It won't cause harm to society since it didn't to others. We still taught evolution. Which is how I came across the belief evolution can be real and it also doesn't disprove my faith in God. Adam and Eve made by God, but where were they? Maybe in one area while Evolution took place everywhere else. Back to the point. We had christian clubs, but we can let other clubs be established. Atheist clubs. Muslim clubs. And the majority is not allowed to establish a mainstream religion, only a majortity. The majority is Christianity at the moment, but it is not what should be enforced. The minority has as much control in the school as the majority people. Your probably thinking people's rights are being robbed, but they aren't because of the country we live in where freedom is the symbol of our stance. I'm an anarchist and I don't believe in authority over our beliefs. I just believe Christianity is not a religion but has been abused by the majority to become one. So I practice Christianity far different from others. I don't speak hate, I don't preach violence or bigotry, and I definately don't believe gays are going to burn.
Nudity Should Be As Legal As Clothing

Pro -"(Bottom Line: If you can think of any reason why someone going naked in public should not be allowed the same freedom as a clothed person, please chime in. Nudity harms no one. Clothing harms no one. Both should be as legal as the other. Just not wanting to look at someone doesn't mean you should take away their freedom and a chance at life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. There are hundreds of people at Wal-Mart in clothing I wish I never would've seen. I would not, however, take away their freedom to wear it.") - With the exception of your first posted argument,I am comfortable with our answers and rebuttals from the first round. I also would like to move forward. We covered many points, however if there is anything you feel needs further attention, please make me aware of that.That exception being that of Gods intention for us to be clothed. As your first point of argumentation, it appeared that you believed that Gods will was for us to be clothed. With that, I formed my rebuttal in context to that.Your follow up seemed to go against what I thought was your own principle.As an atheist, I do not feel that God plays a role in this debate. Debating over the existence of a God would have taken us way off base.In either case, it seem that we align in our views.Although...you may wish to state what side of the argument you are posing for this debates purpose and for clarification.- Many of our personal freedoms and individual liberties are subject to our own personal and subjective beliefs, it seems clear that our debate will rest upon our own interpretations of subjective rules, laws what should and should not be. Contrary to our subjective views I feel it is necessary to post the guidelines that are currently in place and are in effect.Because it is too lengthy to post every states law on public nudity, I urge readers of this debate to visit his or her own states laws and regulations.My primary source:Hg.orghttp://www.hg.org...You will find that in each state, similar wording nd termonolgy is repeated. Here is an example of some preliminary content and guidelines.(a) A person commits the crime of indecent exposure if, with intent to arouse or gratify sexual desire of himself or of any person other than his spouse, he exposes his genitals under circumstances in which he knows his conduct is likely to cause affront or alarm in any public place or on the private premises of another or so near thereto as to be seen from such private premises.(b) Indecent exposure is a Class A misdemeanor.* Section 13A-12-130 – Public lewdness.(a) A person commits the crime of public lewdness if:(1) He exposes his anus or genitals in a public place and is reckless about whether another may be present who will be offended or alarmed by his act; or(2) He does any lewd act in a public place which he knows is likely to be observed by others who would be affronted or alarmed.(b) Public lewdness is a Class C misdemeanor.
Nudity Should Be As Legal As Clothing

Because of a quickly waning weekend, I oppologize for a somewhat sloppy formatted response in this round. All of this debating has now come down to where we can clearly identify the differences of opinion that we share. Law makers have put forth these laws because they believe that it would be in the publics best interest to not allow nudity. We too could consider that these, as a human rights law, will be drafted with the utmost care due to its sensitive nature. Making them much more susceptible to an opaque interpretation. I do understand your point of view but I do not feel you are any where near close to the majority in your take on nudity. If that were the case every state would not feel the need to put in place laws restricting nudity. There would also be far more people demanding otherwise We cannot make assumptions on what crimes would or would not occur about a naked society with no data to support it. We know these crimes do occur and if we are making assumptions, I would lean towards nudity making these crimes more prevalent. We don't live in a perfect society and this can be illustrated through many examples. In short, it is a relatively simple argument. I have seen my entire life scantly clad outfits that one would find attractive. The allure of this will never go away. Looking at a nude female to me is batter than a clothed female. Look at any television show. There is more nudity shown each year. It is what the public craves. But not for any reasons of freedom. It is lust. It is the law of attraction. It is a natural Why do Strip clubs do so well? Not because the subject matter is that people want their freedom. They want nudity, they want sex. They (we) have urges. Seeing nude people everyday would not make my own urges for the opposite sex any less. Nudity sells because of the urges we have. Don't you feel there are many people that would not exercise this right with caution and with good sense? I can think of how public nudity could turn ugly very quick in our natural everyday surroundings. Not because I'm conditioned to believe nudity is anything terrible. There is just good judgement to be made and a time and place for certain things.
Light Yagami is what the world needs

"BOP"? Still confusing...oh well.. To be honest, I haven't read that much since I was going through a coupon magazine looking for a good Chinese buffet. HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! Anyway...I understand that Light had many flaws and yes the Co-Creator wanted the whole story to be based on no one can play god. But from my PoV Light would still be a great leader...let me have a go at this. You say that many of the fan base say that he is cruel and what not, but there is also people who think he was doing everything for the right reasons. ALTHOUGH none of that was even what I wanted to bring in the debate. I more or less wanted to debate on rather or not he should be god of the world, if you can explain why he shouldn't use his keen senses and intelligence to to rid criminals than go ahead, unless you like that sort of thing. Even though he died, the worlds criminal population by the end of the show dropped majorly. Of course I'm saying what I know, I'm not going savaging through the internet like a fool looking for citations for anyone. So even if he were to die as being god in our world, the criminals would still retain a slight thought of, "What If"? I mean obviously when millions of people were being killed daily. He even having a whole organization of followers who also killed criminals was quite good/bad at the same time. ALSO, he should be god of the new world because HE HAS GOOD HAIR! You are a good Master DEBATER sir, but don't deny the hair. All I wan't is a solid statement on why he shouldn't be god to accomplish the goal of creating a justified world? He does bad things with good intentions. DO you support the criminals?
Light Yagami is what the world needs

Just saying that Light Yagami should be god of the new world, justice is well deserved to criminals who get away with things or do bad in general. Since you accepted thy challenge do you must grant me good reasons why he should not. Sorry if I'm quite new to this debating and maybe just need some inspiration on how this all works, but It's quite obvious we have a argument, but anyway......Type away sire.
(Death Note) L is Just as Evil as Kira.

Kira has obviously caused a significant amount of more harm than L Lawliet.It was all done for "justice". Kira did not cause more harm than L Lawliet. He stopped wars, ended crime, essentially ended the maffia, killed corrupt politicians, and ended terrorists. The "wrong" he did: killed FBI agents, lied to police, killed detectives. That would seem to be a pretty nice ratio of right and wrong.L tortured, lied, broken laws, etc. for "justice", too. The only difference is that Kira actually stopped criminals, while L only took cases interesting to him.
(Death Note) L is Just as Evil as Kira.

"The reason why their crimes are equal is because they both have the same motive: justice. Kira may have a god-complex, but that does not mean that he doesn't believe that he is justice. L does similar actions to preform justice." The pro side seems to assume intentions and results are equal. I disagree entirely. What one intends and what is the results of those intentions are distinctively separate concepts. The words justice and evil have separate meanings. Justice:the process or result of using laws to fairly judge and punish crimes and criminals http://www.merriam-webster.com... Evil:causing harm or injury to someone http://www.merriam-webster.com... I never denied that Kira thought that he was justice. What the other characters in the Death Note world thought was different. The other characters only payed attention to the results of Kira's actions. That is why they thought Kira was evil and that is why the authorities were pursing Kira. The crimes of Kira and L Lawliet are not equal. Kira has obviously caused a significant amount of more harm than L Lawliet. The Con side refuses to acquiesce on this point. "If the situation was reversed, L would likely perform the same actions as Kira, judging by how he already forgets the law when it suits him." What evidence is there to show that L Lawliet would become a mass murderer? Perhaps, we are forgetting L Lawliet was brought in by the authorities to pursue Kira. Therefore, the authorities of the law are on L Lawliet's side, not Kira's.
(Death Note) L is Just as Evil as Kira.

The reason why their crimes are equal is because they both have the same motive: justice. Kira may have a god-complex, but that does not mean that he doesn't believe that he is justice.L does similar actions to preform justice.If the situation was reversed, L would likely perform the same actions as Kira, judging by how he already forgets the law when it suits him.The pro has only stated an opinion not a fact. There are many places in the world where torture is permitted and legal. even in the United States officials have water-boarded terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.The UN is calling for it to be tore down, like they are for other torturous facilities.
(Death Note) L is Just as Evil as Kira.

Remember the burden of proof is on the pro side., "L was testing whether or not Kira could kill Tailor. If the answer was yes, then L would have let Tailor die. If the answer was yes, then L would have let Tailor die. But going further, after finding the Death Note, L intended to test the 13-day rule by using it. That would have been murder." Those are valid possibilities the pro side has made. But they are all theoretical. The point is L did not test the 13 rule. What is intended doesn't matter/ After all perception is really so only what he actually did mattered. "Torture is outlawed in the entire WORLD! He greatly stretched the law when he kept Amane for 50 days, though this isn't extremely illegal.:" The pro has only stated an opinion not a fact. There are many places in the world where torture is permitted and legal. even in the United States officials have water-boarded terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. http://www.infoplease.com... http://www.un.org... "Both men leap ofver parts of the law that don't suit them, like operating despite being order to be shut down, kidnapping, extreme torture (3 days straight), killing Lind L. Tailor, and violating civil liberties." The pro side has failed to point how L's crimes is equal to that of a mass murderer who slaughters criminals and innocents.