Resolved: Musicals are very important to society.

Hey! You were not supposed to rebuttal until this round. Punishment will be determined later. (response to A) While it does make more jobs, there aren't that many made. In fact, there are very few. The only difference between the number of jobs for a regular play and a musical is about one, and this is the vocal director. A. Yes, there may be one more job between a play and a job, but the economy is so bad these days, people will do anything to get a job. I am glad that musicals are continuing to come out because it gives more people jobs. (response to 1)This argument is false. If you cannot get a job in another field, that does not mean you will automatically be able to work in a musical. Being in a musical means you have to be able to sing and well, at that. Not everyone can sing. To be in an orchestra, talent is required as well. So, technically, the dependent clause would only be correct if it said, 'if you have musical talent.' A. Not necessarily. You can be part of the crew. (response to B) Many things provide us with role models, though this does not necessarily make them important or very important. Why is it important to have role models? A. It is important to have role models because it may lead us to our life. For example, my mom was going down a bad spiral at one time. The musical, GODSPELL, saved her. (response to 1) This statement leaves a lot to be desired. Yes, actors could be good role models, but this doesn't mean they are. However, this still does not prove role models are important to society. What role does one want to play? Shouldn't one develop one's own person? A. As I said above, they provide good role models, even the bad ones. The bad ones show what is not good and done in society and turn away from it. (response to 2)My idle and offhand conversations also do this, but this does not make them very important to society. Even if they show what is good and bad in society, most things do that. That doesn't make them important. Why is it important that a musical shows societal pros and cons? Why would it make a musical very important to society if it did that? A. Same answer as response to 1 (response to C) Now, this statement is wrong. While it does give the musical actors/actresses money, this doesn't necessarily benefit us as a society. The musical play industry isn't big enough for it to horribly impact the world if it were to disappear. If it were the automobile industry, maybe. But musicals? No. They are not very important. A. Giving money to actors/actresses does benefit us money because they will be less in debt. Yes, it would impact society because people would lose jobs and the economy would just get worse. (response to 1) While it might be important to one person to listen to a musical everyday, that doesn't make it very important to society. Also, a country could not buy a musical. A certain company within the country may buy the rights to perform a musical but the country wouldn't buy it. Also, why would it be important to our society if a business in another country wanted to buy it? A. One person could a musical tell it to another person, which could tell another person, which all three will tell another person, and then it will go onto face book. That pretty much is society today. The part about buying a musical was what I was trying to say, but it came out wrong. It would be important to us if another country would buy it because we could buy it back.