All Human Acts are Selfish

Contention 1: Examples My opponent says my arguments are unrealistic, but this is how things are since my opponent is being vague and I have nothing to do but to fill in the blanks and cracks left by my opponent. Subpoint 1: Being Shot My opponent is incorrect here on Lincoln as Lincoln's main goal was preserving the Union. He went to great lengths like violating the Constitution to try to preserve what was left. Though Lincoln did not know what was happening that night in the Ford's theater he still died for preserving the Union and his death strengthened the bond between the North and South. His feeling and beliefs were both satisfied in Lincoln's death. The service video only shows him being shot. It does not show anything else. My opponent drops my argument about Mr. Wright harming the shooter or the shooter's family. Subpoint 2: Tripping on a Rock My opponent does not seem to understand the argument. You see the force of physics perpells you forward. The object is in the way and causes you’re foot to go from an L position to an l position. You will either trip or you’re acceleration will push you fast enough to break the ankle. Even when you do trip sometimes the ankle doesn’t go to the l position and is broken. (. http://www.mayoclinic.org...) Subpoint 3: Getting Punched in the Face My opponent states that the background story is irrelevant, but excluding it makes it harder for Con to actually prove anything. If you were hitting on someone you weren’t supposed to and were drunk then you deserved to get a tooth knocked out and you know that you shouldn’t have done that. In your own mind you know that your actions were selfish and this is punishment that, in your own mind or in the attacker’s mind, justifies it. Thus the action is selfish. Subpoint 4: Bob’s child Again we don’t know the back story. Here we can apply Karma and say that Bob did something God awful and didn’t get caught for it. He then is punished by Karma which is instilled in the Cancer in the Baby. Or you could apply the reincarnation belief of the Buddhist faith and this would reveal that Bob’s child did something terrible in their past life and deserve this life of misery and WO. Thus they’re feeling and personal beliefs are met and satisfied. This explanation fits for each and every one of the examples. Contention 2: Humans are like animals. Once again this is a vague example. Bob could have went in himself to harm someone and caused the fire. He being burned made him see the wrong doings of his ways. Thus justifying it. My opponent keeps ignoring this argument and it’s absurd. This argument of fear of punishment is that the citizens of a nation fallow the law and be good people in order to not be punished by the government it’s clearly on topic and the fact that Con dropped this argument wins the debate in my favor. My opponent is once again vague here with Bob. We don’t know how it got there or why it’s there in the first place. He could have been like the governor from the Walking Dead and got a fork to the ear instead of a shard of glass. This could have made Bob repent and feel sorry for what he done. Thus he justifies it in his own mind. Conduct My opponent claims that he should get conduct for being nice to me and say Dear Lannan and such, but this is false when you look at the rest of his debate arguments. He calls me illogical, off topic, and uneducational. All of these things are unsportsman like. Thus the Conduct point actually belongs to me if not a tie. Arguments I have batted down every example that my opponent has brought up plus he dropped my Freud argument and my Human Nature argument giving me the second Contention. Thus I get this point. Sources If you really want to get technical the score count for sources is 4 (Lannan13) – 2 (my opponent) Plus one of my opponent’s sources was from Wikipeadia so that really doesn’t count for much of a source at all. So I also get this point. Normally I don’t do what I did above, but since my opponent did so then I too have to fallow.