The youth should be more involved in Politics, the Community, and World Order.

Wonderful! I hope I am an appropriate foe. Many remarks in Con's rebuttle were a little off the target. Allow me to explain... "This is an extremely broad argument on Pros part..." - Yes, yes it is. As I have stated many times before, the purpose and point behind my thesis is to get the youth out there, exposed to whats happening. No need to specify go to the NY Times or Wallstreet Journal, in fact, that'd be worse because we would be limiting them! He later went to say, "...at this point we believe what has been put in front of our face. Pro is saying that after our youth has been put through the system for 12 years, they are then capable of making there own decision. How so? In Kindergarten we are taught to stand in line and obey our teachers. We are never encouraged to think outside of the box; never encouraged to simply be natural and do what we feel like doing, think what we feel like thinking. The government puts text books in our schools." First off, "...we only believe what has been put in front of our face." I'm afraid con is wrong in his assumption here. Its human nature to question things. Additionally, this is why my topic is so important, because we have had a bunch of useless information put into us. "Independent thinking is quite the opposite of joining a church.." I AGREE!! Wow its a good thing I didnt say church! Lol, but seriously. I never said a religious organization. Obviously institutions press forward a direction of thinking. "..volunteering, joining a school club, contributing money to the poor, etc." I could not disagree anymore... Most school clubs, (Future Problem Solvers of the World, the Enviromental Club, Dance) all press forward another way of looking at things. FPSoftheW has students analyzing topics in their community and world, just what I am saying people need to get involved in, The Enviromental Club obviously teachs the importance of Earth and its properties, Dance even teachs people the creativity of music and physical motion. "... but at this point, it is impossible to achieve." - Above all, this is the worst arugment made by Con in the last round. Independent thinking is NOT impossible to achieve! He suggests we are ALL brainwashed. Yet we all are speaking about different solutions and consciously aware of it? His explaination..... "Pro says at the age of 15, we are starting to become mentally independent, if you will" - No no no, not mentally independent, but mental able to process a situation and to independently have a thought of whats right and wrong. "our society allows us to become independent at this time....It's a fact that we, as human beings, make more connections in our brain before we can walk than any other time. As soon as that phase is over, we're stuck in an institution." > Our society doesnt allow to become independent until we are 18... Though you are right, society RECOGNIZES we are mentally able to handle driving, soon voting, and alcohol. I agree with society, this is why we should educate out youth evenmore than what it is now! >Just because we make more mental connections does NOT mean we are brain dead all of our life, I have changed my beliefs more in the past 4 years then I have my entire life and I'm 18. "Pro argues that by increasing awareness, we will increase voting, and by doing so what will we achieve? We will be able to change our government, in to what? Either way we are educating our youth based on the conformity the rest of us have bought in to." -Ummm.. I plan to achieve a greater America. I plan to achieve a place where peoples voices can actually be heard because they realize they have one. We can change our government into what ever we want, into the RIGHT thing, NOT saying theres something horribly wrong with it, but we can always better ourselves. By telling the youth to think freely we are not having them buy into conformity. "I'm glad pro mentioned drugs. What are these apparently TRUE cases though? I'm assuming you are taking a negative stance against drugs because they are "cases."" - You've in fact just answered your own question. The REAL drug stories include both the ones of Jimi Hendrix and the Police reports on the people killed during drug smuggling from Cuba. I do disagree with use of some drugs, but not all. The band I had mentioned says "Drop the debt, and Legalize Weed", and I agree! I just wanted everyone to know the good the bad and the ugly. "...I'm simply saying that it is not a necessity. " - As earlier stated, less then 50% of the youth, 18-24, vote. Thats a failure of our system cobiader. It is a necessity, and I am dumbfounded why no one has taken action. "The key word here is SHOULD, which implies that being more involved is the CORRECT thing to do. Who determines what is right and wrong? Our culture, not the individual, and by buying in to propaganda the institution has thrown in our face, we are teaching our youth quite the opposite of his argument." - As of now, I am saying the correct thing to do is have the youth more involved. I have provided my reasons, poor voting percent, a disconnect on world news. He later says our culture determines it, I disagree, perhaps our society (making laws etc), and yes, if we live by our culture, adopting its beliefs and traditions. Though this is why I argue my point. People of all cultures should be aware, allowed to have a chance to think outside the box. Information should not be limited to the lucky. The individual has a voice, and can change a society or culture, free will is in all of us. Which is why this wouldnt get voting to 100%, but it would increase it nonetheless. Achieving this: a better system or all of us to live by, more voices can be considered, more solutions presented. Thanks for the debate cobiader! -Olhando