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Religious Objective Morality is a Might Makes Right Argument

I would like to rebut in this Round and have a conclusion in Round 3 without rebutting in the same round to make it fair. If I am not supposed to do to this then you can count this as an acceptance round. 1. My God created the universe. 2. Therefore, He can't be wrong about morality. To me this is already flawed. First they have to prove the existence of God and then say we have objective morality. I can also argue that (I'll stick to the Bible) Christians cannot even accept what it says in the Bible. If they did why are there so many sects in the religion? Similar with other religions but I'll stick to Christianity. I am going of the assertion with religious folk go by which is that the Bible transcends time and is still useful to this day. From what I see either the entire book is full of straight forward instructions or it is filled with metaphor's, Figure of speech etc. I don't think I am out of line in saying it is better to have a Bible as an instruction book then a book filled with many literary techniques. Note that there is no mention that said quote is a literary technique it is only accepted by Christianity to be so. One example is this: "If your hand causes you to sin, Cut it off"(https://www. Biblegateway. Com/passage/? Search=Mark+9%3A43-50&version=NABRE)- After this the Bible explains why it is a good idea which I don't see how this is a literary technique. This I think someone would say it is a figure of speech and I would say it is clear instruction. My instruction is grounded in my understanding what instructions are and figure of speech is accepted by 1 or all sect as a figure of speech which I do not see. Instruction: a direction or order. Therefore, My God's morality is objectively true. This is flawed logic. Humans created the Bible. I think Christians would say humans are flawed so from that I would say the Bible is flawed even if it has divine intervention. Lets say God exists his objective morality would be true but it can't be from the Bible because followers of said Religion have so many Sects. They do not believe in the same things how is the Bible objective? I think my premise is in the first paragraph if you want me to clearly lay it all out again then I will do. Hopefully we both learn something from this debate.
Religious Objective Morality is a Might Makes Right Argument

Happy to think with you today. R1: Acceptance and Basic Arguments. Con can rebut if they wish. R2: Counterargument and Expansion R3: Counterargument and Conclusion. Clarification: The majority of religions will argue that they have an 'objective morality' based on the fact that their God, The supposed creator(s) of our universe, Said so. Their argument looks something like this: 1. My God created the universe. 2. Therefore, He can't be wrong about morality. It is easy for me to refute this along the lines of "Is it unimaginable that something could create the universe and be evil? " The answer to this is no. Others would say: 1. My God created the universe 2. My God, By definition, Is good. Therefore, My God's morality is objectively true. The is-ought distinction plays a big part here. Even if God exists, There is no argument you can use that we ought to accept its morality as objective fact. The only argument you can give is that he is powerful or intelligent. These are might makes right positions. I submit that most religious people should be uncomfortable about this. I'm happy to hear arguments to the contrary. May your thoughts be clear, -Thoht
Rap Battle

Aight hey there man, are you ready for this? Get ready to see blood next time you piss. My rhymes will kill you and send you down an abyss of rapping same where you won't be dismissed. You've made a mistake man. You played the wrong card. Get out while you can, cause you gonna be scarred. But chill I play it cool. My mouth's clean like my yard. I ain't using naughty words cause it's weak, retard. I ain't saying you got nothing. I ain't saying your squat. I'm just coming on hard cause I don't know what you got. But I know I'll survive, and you most likely cannot. So show me your worst. Take your best shot...
Rap Battle

Himilkyes I've enjoyed this battleBut now cry, baby, cry and shake your rattleCause, dude, I hate to say it but you're fallingMaybe it's that rapping just isn't your callingSo hey, deploy your parachuteYou're falling, I'm soaring, call me President Newt.Freddie Mac, get backLook out for my rap attackHey, take security measuresDon't assume something was left by leisureIf you see somethin' say somethin'But what if you are that somethin'?I'm it, I'm the hottest thing right nowMy rhymes are spicier than Chicken Kung PowI'm digging Chinese foodCause I'm in that Chinese moodMaking great threes like YaoMaking Great Leaps like Mao.You could say this is a small step for man,But by now I already got this rap in the can.It's over, it's doneJust accept that I have won.I told you in Round OneThat I'd be second to none.They say when a clock's hungry it goes back four seconds,But for you this is the end, I'm afraid to reckon.You don't have the chance to try againSo now we send it into the voters' hands.Now, as to not add injury to defeat,I decided to keep this last one fairly short and sweet.So Himilkyes, I've enjoyed this ride,And now that we're done let's let the voters decide. . .
Rap Battle

Wow mane, you're a wanna-be. A dreamer. You'll get no further in life than a flea-ridden lemur. Your rapping is nonsence. It makes me sick. These are our last raps, then the viewers will pick the winner. The champion, who I know will be me. You can bang on the door of rap, but you don't have the key. My rhymes don't go on forever but I can put the right words together. I don't care who wins, but still know It'll be me. But i'll shake hands with you man, my rapping buddy. The curtains are near and it's the end of this round. I hope you choose not to get up off the ground.
Rap Battle

Spittin' these rhymes, goin' a capella Skin so white like mozzarella I got a large fan base—girls, and lots of fellas Two words to describe me are hot and stellar. I'm electric My rhymes are hectic I'm getting kinda thirsty, can you fetch me a Nesquik? Chocolate milk is what I'm sippin' I'm Michael Jordan, you're like the sidekick, Scotty Pippin You're so naï¿½ve, you don't know what you're doing You ain't got skills like me, hell I'm Patrick Ewing Everywhere I go I be causin' ruckus We step up in the club and the ladies wanna f*ck us My lovin's like shrooms, my d*ck is a fungus like a giant portabello, my d*ck is humongous Hah, this is my Apocalypto Runnin' through the jungle killing all the Crips, yo I'm exiled—far away from home I've gotta live on my own like Tenzin Gyatso in the Tibetan Plateau That's right, a Dalai Lama reference I see no references is your preference But hey, I said you're naï¿½ve You didn't even read my last round, now you're gonna grieve Because even if you never even read the fine print Let me fill you in on a little hint: That print was large, but my rhymes were fine If I were you I would really read it this time. But that's alright, classic rookie mistake. What are you, only in Grade Eight? That's okay, no need to fear. The sh*t don't hit the fan until freshman year: You got high school drama like Zac and Vanessa Or you could drop out and make it like Ke$ha, you'll be strippin' down Poles like Lech Walesa Yeah, no one needs male escorts That sh*t'll just give you genital warts Sorry to paint a picture that you just didn't need But you may find it useful, like the Once-ler's thneed. Yeah, I speak for the trees My rhymes are a breeze Blowing away haters with a giant sneeze. Hey, grab me a Kleenex, Time to wipe it up before we hit the remix I could keep rapping from midnight to noon, Hell, I could rap from here to the moon Spittin' out rhymes like my name's Buzz Aldrin Conjuring verses in a f*cking cauldron Brewing like witches, wooing d*ke b*tches, Causing more problems than computer glitches Screw Microsoft ‘cause my office is my club, We pop bottles every night, till we're feeling dumb Poppin' bottles, Poppin' p*ssy, Orville Redenbacher would be Proud of us Down wit us For leavin' haters in a cloud of dust. They don't tolerate us, But they're the ones who made us. Did you hear the latest? We're the f*ckin' greatest. Huh? What you tryin' to tell me, Talkin' bout a fella named Muhammad Ali? You're going down like Frazier, R. I. P. Liver cancer's a b*tch, it really can be But at least you die with dignity. How'd you like to lose this battle, just like Moammar? Or beaten by a naked Asian with a crowbar? Ciao, say arrivederci, To Silvio resigning amidst controversy. Couldn't handle being in the Euro-zone Like a blind motorist in a truck's no-zone. Well I'm the one driving this 18-wheeler Teaching how to flow like Ezekiel Cheever You can take it from here, I need a breather But if you ain't quitting, then I guess me neither.
Rap Battle

Ok man I didn't even read all that. Aight less go... You talk too much. That's a feminine quality. Your mind is a system of massive-inequality. I ain't a tool. I won't go on forever. I know rap's more than just putting rhymes together. You call it an art, that's a pretty good start. But it's more than rhyming. It's about the heart. Take that any way you want; only the wise see through. I bet there's not an inch on you that's not under a tattoo. The skill isn't length, not, the rhyming, or duration. It's the very special words that make the rap's foundation. You don't know any more than rhymes, filth, and trash. You probably rob the innocent to get whatever cash. It's a shame you accepted. Your only gonna be smashed. You'll be flattened and squished. You'll be kicked and trashed. So make your next move buddy. You and your smell of mutton. I don't mean post again- just hit the forfeit button...
Teens and kids should wear school uniforms

Yes I had a source but I forgot it btw yes school uniforms can be a bit pricy but not if it's a buttoned shirt and tie that could be marry 60 or 30 dollars but most of that would come from the fact that it's the uniform also self experience people do pay attention to what you wear class and hall and uniforms show intruders they show pride and discipline in the school all schools should have uniforms.
Teens and kids should wear school uniforms

In reply to your previous pints made in the last round: 1. Do you have a source for this? I am just curious because the source I had listed the opposite; that clothing had no effect on behavior or academics. Also from my own personal experience, if there is any focus on fashion at all, it happens in the halls or outside of the classroom, rather then when the students are trying to learn. 2. It may make mornings easier, but unless a kid has a separate uniform for every day of the week, then it will be a hassle having to wash two or three pairs of clothing repeatedly. 3. It may be avoided partially, but staff often has to monitor students even more closely due to them having a strict dress code, and any students not dressing in an exact way will be written up. In my experience of going to both a school where a uniform was required, and when I went to one without, I saw way more students being written up for getting their uniform wrong, then when I went to a non-uniform school. 4. Where is the source for many experts? 5. This point is not valid because just as many normal clothes are required for school, as uniforms would be, so you would not actually be buying fewer clothes. Also uniforms often end up being a lot more pricey than normal clothing. People don't often find uniforms at goodwill or any cheap store like they can with clothing. This makes it an issue for lower income families. 6. This point requires your premise no. 5 to be true, which it is not.
Teens and kids should wear school uniforms

1. Well educators and experts who are pro school uniforms believe that uniforms contribute positively to students' behavior. They believe that when students wear uniforms, they feel more professional and behave accordingly. Many educators believe that students can become distracted by fashion trends and status symbol clothing. Therefore, when all students are dressed in regulation uniforms, there is less focus on fashion in the classroom and more focus on learning. 2. When there's no debate on what a student is allowed wear to school, then that makes mornings easier for parents and for kids. Everyone knows exactly what the kids need to wear, their regulated school uniform. This can lead to a decrease in morning arguments. 3. Schools without a school uniform policy still have rules on what clothing is and is not allowed in school. There are usually rules regarding modesty issues, visible logos, offensive text on clothing, gang colors and symbols and more. Teachers and administrative staff must monitor the students' attire. This is of course avoided when all students are in uniform. 4. Many experts believe that when the entire student body is dressed in uniforms, they develop a stronger team mentality. When they are all dressed alike, their all-for-one-and-one-for-all comradery is boosted. 5. Buying a few school uniforms instead of a new school wardrobe every fall is much more economical. School uniforms are designed to stand up to everyday wear and repeated washing so most parents find that they can get away with buying a few sets. 6. With all the money a parent saves by not having to buy day to day clothes, they can (if they so choose) let their children buy a few nicer and more fashionable pieces for weekends and evenings. Wearing a uniform five days a week might make students appreciate their weekend fashions more--maybe enough to even take good care of them!
Teens and kids should wear school uniforms

While school is most definitely for learning, it is also about finding out more about yourself and who you are as a person. Being able to choose the clothes you wear is important in the process of maintaining individuality. I do not believe that individuality creates a disruption in the classroom unless it is either very suggestive or inappropriate. Something as simple as being able to choose the color of your shirt is important in finding one's self. Also, you make the point of whatever you are wearing takes the focus off education, but rather, I believe it can enhance it. According to research done on the subject, there is no effect on academics, substance abuse, or absent days, when students are required to wear a uniform. Students tire easily of repetition, and it is necessary to create diversity in their schooling in order to keep them interested and to be ready to learn. For your next point, students will get bullied regardless of what they wear. Bullying can happen even in uniform based schools. For example, uniforms can often cost a substantial amount of money, and if the parents don't have the income to provide the same quality of uniform as everyone else, they may get bullied. Bullying will happen regardless of what they wear, and very rarely is bullying focused solely on clothing. Sources: https://faculty.unlv.edu...(1998).pdf
Teens and kids should wear school uniforms

Teens and kids should have to wear the same thing in school school might be for making friends but its supposed to be for learning discipline and manners and learning how to get a job with the things you learned having uniforms takes focus off of what your wearing and puts focus on whats really important...doing your school work so i think uniforms should be a law in schools mostly the uniform black blazer and red tie i think you should agree with me that school is for learning and not focusing on other things America could be one of the top smartest country's again if we learned our manners and focused more on school.
Resolved: Sexism is sexy.

Systematic oppression is a farmers dream. Remember back in the 90's, when all the farmers would systematically oppress women? Oooooooh yeah! Life isn't what it used to be like. Now you have all of these females frikin sayin shiz 'bout equality. Homosexuals. Remember when the world was pure? I do. None of you kids have any idea what we had. Including Con. What are you doing here anyways? Don't you have cattle to tend to?
Resolved: Sexism is sexy.

"Keep telling yourself that, cis gender scum. You make me sick. Also, sexism is not a women's issue. It is a people's issue. Thus, I reject your definition of sexism. Pathetic goat. " Calling me Pathetic and scum is clearly a conduct issue, therefore vote Con on conduct. Pro attempts to debunk my definition without providing a counter. That definition says TYPICALLY against women, iferring that it happens USUALLY against women. However, if you don't like that definition I can find a more inclusive one: sexism:unfair treatment of people because of their sex . http://beta.merriam-webster.com... Thus, under this definition, the killings of 12,000 women and the fact that women had low to no rights up to relatively recently is sexism.
Resolved: Sexism is sexy.

"Never have been a farmer. " Keep telling yourself that, cis gender scum. You make me sick. Also, sexism is not a women's issue. It is a people's issue. Thus, I reject your definition of sexism. Pathetic goat. "Nope. Prejudice does not equal attractive. Provide me some evidence, not just some anecdotes of your farming life. " Make me. "But a married woman, defined as being one with her husband, gave up her name, and virtually all her property came under her husband's control. " Ooooooh yeah misogyny! OOOOOOH YEAAAAAAAAAAAH! "It is not an attractive thing. " What? Since when has cocaine been attractive? Damn Druggie!
Resolved: Sexism is sexy.

"What are you doing here anyways? Don't you have cattle to tend to? " Never have been a farmer. sexism:prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex. sexy: sexually attractive or exciting. Nope. Prejudice does not equal attractive. Provide me some evidence, not just some anecdotes of your farming life. . http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com... Sexism, the prejudice and discrimination, is leading to negative results, definitely not an attractive prospect. ""More than 12,000 women were killed in the name of honor in Kurdistan from 1991 to 2007," report John Leland and Namo Abdulla for The New York Times. """Women cannot have a boyfriend, but it"s an honor for a man to have a girlfriend. A divorced woman is like a disease, whereas a divorced man is just a man. A free woman is a bad woman, but a free man is a righteous man. " But a married woman, defined as being one with her husband, gave up her name, and virtually all her property came under her husband's control. . http://www.wic.org... "During the early history of the United States, a man virtually owned his wife and children as he did his material possessions. If a poor man chose to send his children to the poorhouse, the mother was legally defenseless to object. " Conclusion Sexism leads to death and discrimination. It is not an attractive thing.
Mother Teresa was not so saint-like.

I myself have read several biographies on Mother Teresa, and I see no evidence that she may have been immoral. She joined the church at a young age, and it was a sisterhood with a good reputation. They were known to provide many humanitarian act in India. Mother Teresa decided to go to the city of Calcutta to serve God there. She taught for awhile, until she developed a case of tuberculosis, and she started on her way back to 'civilization' to recuperate. Shocking to many people, she instead decided to go back and live amongst the poor and desolate, the "untouchables" of India. I do not believe that someone immoral would be compelled to live in filth with no luxuries. If she were immoral, she would have been selfish, and instead would live in a more wealthy district, a place in which she could live in comfort, rather than sleep on a filthy alley floor. Mother Teresa drastically improved the living conditions of many poor. Not housing, but rather in health and education. She provided a free education for the children in Indian slums, children who would have no other chance to be educated, see as they were most likely considered as untouchables by the society, and the west at this point was still quite racist. She even took the expense of learning medical procedures and would give help to those who could get help from no one else. If you are able to provide evidence as to how she was immoral, I will hear it quite willing, as this topic intrigues me. But otherwise, I fail to see how an immoral person could do so many saintly things. At this point, it feels the same to me as if you were saying that Hitler just wanted to make the world a better place. Sources: http://www.ewtn.com... Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta by Mother Teresa and Brian Kolodiejchuk Mother Teresa: In My Own Words by Jose Luis Gonzalez-Balado
Mother Teresa was not so saint-like.

I have tried to debate this several times but I have had difficulty as a result of opponents forfeiting rounds, so I am looking for a good and thorough debate. Anyway: It's an Interesting topic as you don't hear it that often. I will be for the notion that mother Teresa was in fact quite immoral and unjust in her actions and ideas and therefore doesn't deserve the title of "saint". Round one is an acceptance round only, followed by rounds of back and forth argument/rebuttal. Good luck and happy debating.
Resolved: If possible time travel should not be researched and developed.

I affirm the resolution Resolved: If possible time travel should not be researched and developed. The ability to travel back in time opens the door for alterations to the time line. This would put the power to change the world in the hands of one person. But, changing the world would do far more than simply making a minor adjustment. Corruption of the time line could destroy the world as we know it. Point one: Time travel would be dangerous for the present. As previously established, time travel would open the door to changing history. Granted, one could rewrite the history books and prevent things like the Holocaust, and turn the tide of battles throughout history; there is NO telling what dramatic consequences it would have on the reality that the operator would be coming from. In the end, you could be causing the death of millions by so much as going back in time to save the person who has the cure for cancer. We simply do not know. Which leads me to my second point... Point two: Time travel would be dangerous and unpredictable. The only glimmer of time travel that we have is theories and the human imagination. This begs the question, what exactly will happen and how will we know that it's accurate? When Disney Land first opened it was a disaster, the pavement was wet and nothing worked as planned. This is because they weren't familiar with the idea. This is the same for almost anything, when one starts out one often needs to practice before one becomes proficient. Now, time travel is a thing of the imagination, but tomorrow who knows. All we can say for sure s that we can't say anything for sure, which is just the problem. We don't know. As my point one illustrates, the past isn't something that is safe to experiment and practice with, because the present and the future are at stake. Would you let a four year old make your eggs for breakfast? No, because you would probably get salmonella. Just the same, would you put the course of the present and the future in to the hands of someone who has little to no clue as to what to expect? Which leads me to my third and final point. Point three: Time travel could be dangerous to the operator. This is simple. Beyond the fact that we have no clue what biological effects it could have, there are also very real dangers. For example, where you time machine is now might be clear and unobstructed, but was it that way 20 years ago or 20 years in the future? Your body could form between two walls for all you know. this would be bad. For these three main reasons and for reasons unknown. I urge you to vote affirmative. Thank you.