Homosexuals should not be allowed in the military, even under the Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy

=Overview of My Opponent and His Case= My opponent is (and his picture states, for that is it's meaning) a green-anarchist, and also supports anarcho-primitivism, which is to say that he is concerned for the enviornment and believes we should revert to post civilized principles, which is more-or-less cottage home industries and small communities, like the Indians. =Video Notes/Comments= Video 1: "We have no tradition of shamanism, we have no tradition of, uh, of-uh, journeying into these mental world. We are terrfied of madness. If we fear it because the western mind is a house of cards and the people who built the house of cards know that and they are terrified of madness. .. LSD is a psycadelic substance which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have not taken it. " This is an excerpt from my opponents video "Terence Mckenna". I hear people laughing, so I believe that this is a 'funny-sketch', thus it should be discarded. If my opponent does not wish for it to be discarded, I will discredit it now. There is no such thing as magic or "shamanism". We do not journey into the mental world of "skitsophrenia", because, yes, we are terrified of madness. This is due to the fact that we have seen true madness, broken shells of people in their broken mental worlds, often times causing harm the themselves or others. I'm not sure about the video's comment about cards, but I know the last sentence that he is, with the connotation of his voice, irrational and possibly insane. I have no comment on the other videos, because they directly relate to my opponents case, and they are long to argue and watch. So, I will now move do clash my opponents case directly. =Opponents Contention 1= 1. As we all know war is not about fixing a social conflict rather it creates more of what it was supposed to fix. According to (SOURCE) The Oxford Companion to United States History, the U. S. military was created, pricipally, to defend against outside and domestic threats. We generally do not go to war unless our country's preservation is in danger, and we respond subsequently. My opponent paints that war creates nothing but more and more conflict. On the contrary, it does not. It eliminates conflict either through diplomacy, or if need be, violence. In WWII, the war actually created jobs, raised industries, and brought us out of the worst Depression of our history. So war does not always create problems, but fixes them. 2. "The only thing that the state has to do is convince its people that the people of another land are evil. " Actually, that is false. The states and support of the people, though idelistic, have nothing to do with declaring war. All that "power" resides in the legislative branch. I fear my opponents distate for large government prevents him from understanding it, and it makes him unknowning of the benefits of progressive government. In his source and the confines of the image he depicts for himself, knowledge and book-smarts is something that anarchists seek to attain. In this aspect, his ignorance of government, which I belive critical since this is his definition of himself (to not support large government), he has failed in his duties as an anarchist. 3. This is the goal of civilization, to separate us from each other so that we all become disconnected individuals who spend the majority of there waking hours working for some job and never truly living their lives. My opponent claims the proof of this statment is within itself. This is not true. The goal of civilzation is not to seperate us from each other, but to progress into a more 'civilized' culture. It draws us together to share ideals and information. One such example is the Internet, which my opponent and I are using right now. Through this, society allows us to commune and become more informed. If my opponent believes he is right and can discuss this to me and make me believe, then society has actually helped connect us. If not, then my opponent would not be debating. 4. Our social relations have been broken down to our family (if even that) and the people we work with. This is not true. People, including me, have friends outside of work and family. For example, my neighbor in 6th grade, who was always nice to me and we played without any "corporate" involvment. So, my opponents point must be conceded. 5. We our told to associate with the institutions that our ruining our lives. I'm sure your parents work to provide you with internet. If they didn't, you couldn't commune on the internet and, as I've proven, connect with me to not become a "disconnected individual". Thus, this point ties in with Point 3 and makes this point void. 6. We our told that happiness comes from some consumer product that was made by some kid who works 14 hours a day in a factory. Could you provide examples please? I never heard of this. 7. The military seeks a primitive form of domination with different ranks and orders to be followed. This hierarchy with strict rules breaks down their morality and makes soldiers irrational so that they will kill innocent people without thought for other people or themselves. What about Charles Manson? He was claimed mentally ill, and your videos claim the mentally ill aren't mentally ill. He killed several people through brainwashing and being psychotic. This is an example of a 'mentally aware' society you envisoned. The military is not about domination anyways, it is about self growth and is a path of life that, hopefully, you will take the oppritunity to shape into a better person. Furthermore, we do not kill for enjoyment. We kill for preservation, and we do not kill innocents. 8. "We have become so irrational that we don't think its wrong for a person to spend most of their waking hours working. " We work because people, some of which believe in what you do, decide to live on welfare and become a leech on society so we end up working and paying for their checks because they are too lazy to get a real job and contribute. If you think work is wrong, you think contributing to the betterment of society is wrong. 9. ". .. our culture has crafted our values and beliefs. " I craft my own values and beliefs on my own basis. 10. Our Culture is War. And this is my point. We go through war every day and we don't even realize it. Whether its listening to boring objectified facts in school or not having enough time to spend with the people you love. Oh, no. .. my opponent asserts that the most mundane, unimportant things are war. If you believe we can live in a Utopian society with no problems at all, then you are being irrational and crazy, not I, my dear friend. 11. (On my opponents conclusion) Our military does not use fear and exploitation on others. We act in self-preservation, something that you believe in, though in a much more intesified aspect. We do not "create" enemies to fight. If insane people want to crash into World Trade Centers and the like, then we do not create them, they declare themselves enemies. Just because our culture has a military, doesn't mean it's wrong. It creates competitve science, something that your anarchism believes and values highly. It provides knowledge, something else you belive highly in; it doesn't nessicarily create fear and death senselessly. Conclusion I have refuted all my opponents points effective. Subsequently, this leads to the conclusion that homosexuals should be allowed in the military.