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EVERYONE takes life for granted, even religious people at some point in their life.

I'm not saying that I don't. when I say everyone I mean myself as well. I have just learned to look at life a little closer, be lucky enough to be debating right now on the computer. be able to go home to a family after school. snack on whatever I want before bed. ok I admit, I dread school but when do I always think about those who would do anything for a proper education. When my parents are arguing I have the ability to go on a bike ride to escape it all. I hardly ever think about the advantage of having running water and indoor pluming.
Abortion

C1. Sometimes, an abortion is neccessary to save the woman's life. -Sometimes, to give birth to a child would mean killing the mother. At times like this, it is perfectly justified to abort the fetus.C2. If the fetus was concieved through rape, the woman should be able to get an abortion.-She didn't want the fetus in the first place. If born, the child will be a constant reminder for her of the painful experience she had when she was raped.-Furthermore, rape is illegal, therefore the fetus was illegally concieved.
Concerning Gun Control...

Absolutely no problem, thank you for making this an accessible and welcome debate. I'm here to learn and teach, not to offend. I agree that a premeditated murder, with or without guns, would be carried out. There's no avoiding this. However, one thing we have to realize is that most murders are not premeditated. Often times, the person pulls out a gun and then decides he's capable. As would be expected, the states with the most guns have the most murders. The main problems with owning guns is that they're dangerous. It's much harder to accidentally stab someone than in is to accidentally shoot them, hunting accidents happen several times a year. Unfortunately, you don't have to know how to use a gun to fire one. It's been shown that introducing a gun into your house makes it significantly more dangerous, NOT safer. According to comedian Jim Jefferies, you're 80% more likely to use that gun on yourself instead of anybody else. In Jackman's experiment, where boys aged 8-12 were placed in a room with 1 hidden gun, and 2 hidden water pistols, 1/3 of all the groups had pulled the trigger of the real one. 1/2 of the groups weren't certain or didn't know it was a real gun. The gun was a .380 caliber, heavy, different from the water guns. These kids are quite old, as well. Campbell's research shows that women who are abused by the spouse are 41 times more likely to be killed if the abuser brings a gun into the situation. If the abuse continues but the gun use stops, this effect is no longer significant. In general, abusers that own guns, even if they don't use them, test to deal the most serious abuse. If the boyfriend owns a firearm, it is slightly more likely that he is an abuser. Guns, in general, would work better if everyone was armed in a self-defense setting. Unfortunately, according to a 2011 poll from Gallup, only 34% of Americans own guns, and on average, they own 10 guns each. If you own a gun, you are more likely not to have an education past high school. This is novelty collection, not self-defense.
Concerning Gun Control...

Hello, Kaynex. I do agree that gun-related crimes, injuries, etc. would be decreased, simply because no one would have them. However, how I see it, if a man wanted to kill a man and didn't have a gun, the murder may be a bit more gruesome. This may not mean much to you, or it may mean a lot. But simply put, Guns are as needed as they are unnecessary. Much like technology and the internet. They can be of great assistance, to gather information and such things, but can also be abused.
Resolved: That justified acts of vengeance ought to sanctioned by the government.

Thanks much for taking up the Con, Pat. While my opponent's brief history on trial-by-jury was interesting in and of itself (and I thank him for supplying it), it only seems to constitute an attack on my case in the sense that it illustrates the historical precedence of non-revenge punishment. I assume, though, that this was not his intent in posting it, and only respond as a way to hedge my bets. Justifying the status quo is not as easy as presenting it, and mere historical precedence is not enough in my opinion to negate the resolution. To respond to my opponent's arguments: "A civil society cannot create a justice system where life becomes secondary to vengeance. Revenge pits neighbor against neighbor, and family against family. The Justice system gives them a means to settle their grievance without bringing greater harm to the society." My intent in affirming is NOT to hold vengeance higher than life, or to do away with the neutral party system of arbitration. I simply prefer the execution of vengeance to the almost arbitrary assignation of debts to specific wrongdoings. Keeping the justice system in place, yet changing the punishments assigned to ad-hoc, per-incident determinations rather than using what amounts to a huge book of fines attains intellectual honesty (and the obviation of the 'holier-than-thou' attitude of the judicial system) as well as keeping fairness. "What one person merits as a reasonable punishment, may not merit the same with their peers. The injured may not be of sound mind to exact equal punishment. Anger often results in escalation rather than fairness." This is why arbitration is still necessary. While the injured party must have a say in the punishment based on the crime, anger or the inability to judge warrants an impartial third party. This is why I use the word "justified" in my resolution; I'm thinking about it as an action performed on the sentence (it was MADE JUST; that is, the elements of escalation are removed). The presence of a third party in determination of justice is unavoidable, but the high and mighty attitude isn't. In creating a system that acknowledges a person's natural thirst for revenge while maintaining the trappings of the golden rule we've come to know and love in civilized society, we gain honesty with ourselves. As my opponent says, tit-for-tat is the only way to run a justice system. Let's equate not only the magnitude of action and reaction--but the realm of the human psyche they spring from. Justice is not from the superego. It ought to be from instinct itself.
Resolved: That justified acts of vengeance ought to sanctioned by the government.

The current paradigm of the lawsuit is, at its core, a "tit-for-tat" system. A person makes an accusation on another, both persons are shepherded into an impressively constructed building, and ungodly amounts of time and money are poured into determining the veracity of the first person's claim. If the claim is found to be true, a massive set of rules is consulted, which in theory allows for any possible Bad Thing someone could do to someone else. The recompense for this Bad Thing is laid out, and the accused is mandated to supply it. This is simply a way of translating offending actions into cash, as an attempt at "justice"--as Socrates stated it, "giving to each man the exact measure of his due." Why not make that measure more substantial by allowing the offended party to wreak an equitable action on the other? Attempting to supply money in balance to crime is intellectually dishonest. No rational person can claim to know the precise value of being hit by a car; otherwise, a business would have sprung up by now. Using revenge as a response to crime places control in the hands of he who deserves it--the plaintiff--and removes any preconceived holier-than-thou airs the government has adopted. How about fairness for a change?
College football players should receive a form of payment for what they do.

In my communications classes I have repeatedly debated the topic of paying college football players because they are unable to work. Due to how much time is spent in the off season as well at in season. I am a college football player myself and find it hard to support my personal expense. Toiletries, clothes, food other than the dining and even a night out once and a while. Having school paid is indeed a big burden off my shoulders but school alone is not the financial issue of any college student. Theres also the fact that university's make so much money off the athletes that a portion of should go to the players. After all they are the one's people come to see. College coaches make allot of money, just half their salary without incentives would be more than enough to help out the players.
College football players should receive a form of payment for what they do.

That is true that nobody forces a college football player to take the scholarship and go to college. But in many cases the athletes has no other choice, meaning it's either play football in college or work a regular job out of high school. Which would not pay for necessity's needed to live a comfortable life. A scholarship covers tuition room and board and a meal plan. There are no others ways of eating besides the dining hall. Football players do not see any of the thousands of dollars that they are compensated for. A week in the life of a college football player is more time demanding and also physically demanding. At my university the average time spent per week exceeds the time of any campus or off campus job. While they work less hours they choose what happens with there money. The money that is used for uniforms, equipment, traveling and tutoring comes from somewhere and that's football. If there were no players to play then no money would be generated. Football and the assistance of men's basketball not only pays for its itself and its needs but a football program funds most of the non profit sports like tennis, softball and women's basketball. The other sports on campus do not in fact demand as much time as football. A college football player must stay over the summer to train unlike, basketball, and baseball and soccer. Football is also the only sport to have a season in the off season meaning spring practices and the spring game that thousands of people once again pay money to come see the players play. When I argue this issue I asked myself allot, how come people never bring where all the money goes? College football bowl games bring in over a billion dollars in profit alone. The president of the NCAA was paid a million dollars in benefits alone last year. The biggest issue is if the state has the burden of paying the football players tuition, what does the NCAA pay for? Or why do college football coaches made over 5 million dollars a year. Like the college football chose to go to school and play football, you as a student chose to go to a university with a football. Though you may not have thought about it you risked a tuition increase at some point if the university decided to expand on any sports facility. There are many forms of payment also when it comes to sports, the equipment sponsor pays for traveling and equipment so it can be advertised. It does not cost the university a cent.
Obviousley, I don't care about my future.

To be honest, I have no idea what to say. You know you better than anyone else. If you say you don't care about your future, who am I to question that. I will, however, argue that your future matters a great deal and you SHOULD care about it. I am really just doing this so I can complete the debate requirements on here to become an official member. As for your link, I do not understand the purpose of it and I assume you just included it out of pure boredom/to troll/to promote your video.
ucla vs usc ucla FTW!!!!!!

My opponent states statistics about degrees given out by USC and UCLA, which is irrelevant, considering that UCLA has far more students compared to USC. For statistics of student satisfaction [1] 87% would attend USC again compared to 85% at UCLA 83% were satisfied with their overall academic experience at USC (same as UCLA) USC didn't survey the students in the other two categories. "The average highschool GPA of UCLA has to be at least 4.2 while the average GPA for USC is only 3.7" This is an unweighted GPA compared to a weighted GPA (4.0 scale vs 5.0 scale). A more accurate, unweighted (4.0 scale) number from the university websites show that the average GPA for new undergrads enrolled in fall 2009 was 3.59 for UCLA [2] and 3.8 for USC [3] for those admitted. For GPA, USC has a higher standard than UCLA. "UCLA has a larger campus compared to USC. (419 to 155 respectively). There is room for buildings that can help improve one's education. UCLA has 870 registered student organizations, USC has 676. " USC has a campus size of 226 acres [4] according to it's official website, a more accurate source than The Princeton Review. Even though UCLA's campus size is in fact 419 acres [5], this is irrelevant to one's education. Looking at Harvard, for example, the size is 210 acres but the quality of education is much higher than USC or UCLA. ASU has a campus size of 625 acres, but again, the quality of education of USC and UCLA is much higher than ASU. In terms of student organizations, USC's website shows a more accurate number, 725+ [6], and UCLA reporting 800+[7] on its website. When comparing the number of students to student organizations [8][9], the ratio is 48:1 at both USC and UCLA. For sports, even though UCLA has more options for it's students to participate in, the overwhelming majority of the students will be the ones watching the sports, not playing. A sports fanatic would much rather be part of a school whose sports teams win games than a school whose team plays a lot of games, but has a losing record against its rival school. Looking back at the rankings, USC is ranked 23rd overall in the country, while UCLA is 25th. In sports, USC beats UCLA constantly, with an overall record of 891-842-10 vs UCLA. For these reasons, I urge a Con vote. [1] . http://sait.usc.edu... [2] . http://www.aim.ucla.edu... [3] . http://www.usc.edu... [4] . http://www.usc.edu... [5] . http://www.ucla.edu... [6] . http://sait.usc.edu... [7] . http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu... [8] . http://en.wikipedia.org... [9] . http://en.wikipedia.org...
ucla vs usc ucla FTW!!!!!!

Thank Con for taking up this debate. As I have mentioned, UCLA is located near Westwood, while USC is located by Exposition Park. Westwood is surrounded by many affluent communities such as Beverly Hills, Brentwood,, and Westwood. (Wikipedia). In 2009, 11000 degrees were given out in UCLA. 10000 degrees were given degrees in USC. Of all the students who attended UCLA, 85% Would choose to attend this institution again 79% Were satisfied with the value of their education for the price they paid 83% Were satisfied with their overall academic experience 83% Reported that their campus had a strong commitment to undergraduate education http://www.aim.ucla.edu... UCLA also has higher standards for admission. The average highschool GPA of UCLA has to be at least 4.2 while the average GPA for USC is only 3.7. This means that it is harder to get into UCLA than it is USC. However, 10,000 more people applied to UCLA instead of to USC. UCLA has a larger campus compared to USC. (419 to 155 respectively). There is room for buildings that can help improve one's education. UCLA has 870 registered student organizations, USC has 676. (Princeton Review^^^^) By comparing from the UCLA website and the USC website, I found that the professors of UCLA have earned many more awards than the professors of USC. Now to sports :D UCLA; USC baseball; Baseball gymnastics(women only); basketball rowing(women only); football softball(women only); golf swimming and diving(women only); swimming and diving basketball; tennis cross country; track and field football; volleyball golf; water polo soccer; cross country(women only) tennis; rowing(women only) track and field; soccer(women only) volleyball water polo (sorry, debate.org wont let me make two columns. The ones after the semicolon are USC's sports and the ones before are UCLA's :D) So if one is a sports fanatic, then UCLA is the place to go. There is more variety and more choices http://www.usctrojans.com... http://www.uclabruins.com... In conclusion, UCLA is more preferable because of its overall academic performances and because of all the different opportunities that are available there. "Fiat Lux!"-let there be light in English!:D (UCLA'S motto)
ucla vs usc ucla FTW!!!!!!

As my opponent said, USC is better than UCLA in football. Even though UCLA is first overall in sports championships, that is irrelevant, because we're comparing only USC vs UCLA, as the resolution says. All time, for every sport, USC leads 891-842-10 vs UCLA. [1] As for academics, USC (23) also ranks higher than UCLA (25) overall, for 2011. [2] USC also has a lower student faculty ratio (9:1) vs UCLA (16:1). [3][4] In terms of money, USC provides need-based financial aid to 62% of its undergraduate students, compared to 50% provided by UCLA. [3][4] [1] . http://www.great-sports-rivalries.com... [2] . http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com... [3] . http://www.princetonreview.com... [4] . http://www.princetonreview.com...
Post 9/11 security measures

The resolution is Resolved: The benefits of post-9/11 security measures outweigh the harms to personal freedoms. I am negating. A post 9/11 security measure will be defined as a measure enacted after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 with the intention of preventing or mitigating a future attack.Round one is for acceptance. Round two is for constructives, no rebuttals until round three. Debaters are permitted to create a seperate "debate" to place sources in (such as (http://www.debate.org...)
embarrassing story contest

When I was 13 and lived with my grandparents. I had a terrible migraine on day that just wouldn't go away... I looked in the medicine cabinet and there was nothing for a headache. so I figured hey maybe my grandpa has some. so I went looking through his stuff trying to find an aspirin bottle. sure enough I found one! I was so happy that I immediately took it without looking at the pill. about 15 minutes later my headache wouldn't go away and I had an erection... I thought this was normal so I waited about 30 minutes. my erection still wouldn't go away and my headache was worse! so I thought the pills were out dated. so I go into my grandpas room grabbed the bottle of aspirins in his top drawer. the expiration date wasn't yet expired so I opened up the bottle and took a pill out. I studied this pill and saw that there was one v on the front and back of it. I immediately realized this was no aspirin... But in fact Viagra. I was in terror because I had taken 2 of them instead of the usual one! I was so embarrassed I went to bed and turned on my side so my dad wouldn't see what I had. and also since all of my blood was in my penis, I had a worse headache than before! I could hardly sleep and woke up in the middle of the night to go to the restroom. (I forgot all about my "problem") on the was there I ran into my grandma who started laughing. I asked her what? she then pointed and said I wish your grandpa could do that... That was the worse night ever-_-
embarrassing story contest

This is a compitionto tell a TRUE story on your most ebarassing moment. When I was 12 years old i had somebladder issudes after a bad cuncussion.This meant that i started wetting the bed and peeing my pants during the day. As you could imagine this was very embarrassing but that is not the story. my parents felt that it was an act of rebellion against them so they made it humiliating for me. They imformed everybody, and treated me like a baby. They changed me and said i had to wear no pants at home to make it easier to change me and one night i started crying. That was a mistake. Automaticly they brought some of the stuff i used as a baby too me( Pacifire, bottle, and said that if i wanted i could sleep in a crib.) Finally i stopped but then school started. Now is when the worst happens. WHen i get to school i am imformed that i must wear diapers all day and the clothe desighned for them. this meant i was wearing a smallish shirt and sweat pants. Because of the small shirt the diapers were slightly noticable. One day I noticed rumors that this kid Ernie was mad at me for talking about him. the next day he started bullying me. not bad though just some names and pushing but a week after this started me and him got in a fight. we both began wretling when my pants began to sag. Then my entire diapered but was exposed without me nowing. Ernie did notice and pinned me to the ground, then he had his freind take my pants and threw them up a tree. i imediatly started crying. After that everybody saw my diaper and i waited untill the end of recess to tell the teacher and go get new pants. sorry about all the misspeled words
Harry Potter is better than Twilight

Harry Potter is an ingenious world created by the goddess of writing herself, JK Rowling. It is simply marvelous how she created a haven for millions of children like myself to escape through the hands of a book. She was a genius, Who created amazing characters we saw grow up. We lived with them. We went on adventures with them. Some we loved (Hermione! ), Some we hated (Umbridge), Some we had mixed feelings for (Draco), And some we even had to watch die (Too many to count! ). And through all the crying and laughing and brilliance of it all there remained the fact that this series is an absolute classic. Not only was Rowling able to create such a successful book series, But she was also able to convince many to learn to love to read, Many to keep going no matter what, To learn strength and magic and wonder. As the characters grew up, So did we. And we at the end were able to look back and realize, We will never be the same again. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend. Who's brave enough to challenge this? :)
Rap Battle 5 Cheesedingo VS Lannan

I see your all talk and no action,But your the reason we have a fvcked up nation,You see my rhymnes are settin' your cremation,Yah I here for your enternal damnation.You're goin' to here the rap tap tapin' on your door,I'm goin' to break it down and rape your sister like she's my whore,All the stuff your spittin' is just folk lore,After your dead my ego will soar.I'm winning cause I got a royal flush,It's over now just like Orange Crush.Man I'm only evil when I need to be,But I'm beating you so easily,I can see the sh*t you be spitting,I can see now that you're quittin',But you just be a hatin' b*tch,Man you just need to Vote to Lynch.You think your the best in America,I'm the best in the world, huh,Yah you didn't know that sh*t didn't you,Now your screwed,Yah see your sh*t ain't even new,I'm going to murder your crew.You say that I'm drunk and it kills,B*tch, being drunk like this takes skills,I down 48 just for thrills,I'm show awesome that, for me they need tornada drills.In this world it's kill or die,And you think that your better than I?Back up before I bust a cap in your @$$Forget it your @$$ is grass.You don't know what it's like to fight the storm, It's goin' to rape you inside your dorm,You know all your skills are a hoax, Just as Porky Pig said, "that's all folks."
Rap Battle 5 Cheesedingo VS Lannan

Set match, you say? Hey that ain't true. This rap ain't over till i've mown you through. You'll be beaten down fast by and my crew you'll be cooked up by homeless, mulligan stew. Your raps are lame and pretty low class. Talkin' bout chris beatings? That's pretty crass. I've learned from Red on that 70's show cause my foots ready to kiss your a$$. You sayin' Kasas life and weather is tough. In Alaska it's still in the negatives, and we can't get enough! Freezin' our a$$'s off in the tundra rough You sayin' life for you is harsh, but that's just a bluff. You think you ahead, but you so afar from my tight rap skills, cut you and give you a scar. You must be drunk off your a$$, just went to an open bar. Go drown yourself in swimming pools, call you Kendrick Lamar. I can't believe you think you're good. Get out, you just insane. You know I'll always be "Right Above It", you can call me Lil' Wayne. Your done. Demolished. Just give up. Broken like a window pain. I'm outta hear, this rap is won, but at least you know my name. Your turn, Lannan.