Society is Getting Worse

The reason I limited my argument to only American society is because how often do we hear about all the sickness from things being poisoned and gas pricing issues and people losing their homes in other countries like we do in our own country? Not near as often. 1) Rudeness Actually I never said anything in my opening argument about rudeness putting our society in "crisis." I merely said it was getting substantially worse. As stated from dictionary.com, crisis means "a condition of instability or danger." I never said that our society is in "a condition of instability or danger." I said that it was getting "substantially" worse, meaning it is increasingly getting worse. No our society is not in a state of instability...yet. If we do not get things under control, however, then yes, we will be in crisis. But just to clear things up, I never said we were in a state of crisis about anything. The whole slavery topic, I have to agree it was wrong. BUT, you have to look at the fact that that was how people lived. That is how this country functioned. Look at ancient Egypt. The empires were built on the backs of slaves. It does not mean it was right, but America was not the only country to ever have slaves. Another thing I would like to point out is that the con practically just threw out my ENTIRE argument about rudeness. He did NOT attack my arguments about the phone surveys, in which I presented actual EVIDENCE to prove my case. I provided had evidence and included the links to the exact place I got it from about rudeness and he never even attempted to attack ANY of the topics I brought up. He simply threw in slavery as an example of rudeness, when in reality it was not rude, it was inhumane and wrong. Then he said and I quote, "Surly, the progression from slavery to bad language is a sign that we've progressed considerably." So seeing as he never even brought up ANY attack arguments against any of my evidence about rudeness, he is basically saying that he agrees with what I said. If he did not agree with me he would have at least attempted to argue back. He did not do that so therefore jude, you and I can only come to the decision that he agrees and therefore it is a dead subject and I win on the subject of rudeness. 2)Stupidity Actually warning labels are "a good judge of intelligence," because you know what? There would be no reason for companies to be afraid of lawsuits because of not putting a warning label on something if people would use their brains. How stupid do you have to be before the fact of the whole McDonald's coffee thing does not make sense? In other words, you would have to be pretty stupid to have a thought like, "Oh well, even though I am in a car and a car has cup holders, there will be no danger in me putting a steaming hot cup of coffee in my lap while driving." Seriously, what is wrong with this picture? Steaming hot coffee + it sitting in your lap + you driving in a car while having to move your legs to push the gas and break peddle. If you cannot see the stupidity and how something like this could go terribly wrong, then I feel sorry for you. About the whole labels factor. Did you know that there is actually a label on a vacuum cleaner telling the consumer "this hose is not to be used on testicles?" And why do you think they put that? Yea, so they did not get sued, but it is because some IDIOT tried putting his testicles in the hose of a vacuum cleaner. The companies do not just come up with things off the top of their heads and put the labels on there just because. There had to be an incident happen because of someone's stupidity that made them put the label on there. Judge, please tell me honestly. Do you really think that this is a smart country if warning labels like the one described above have to be placed on items? I surly don't and I see nothing but a pro ballot on this argument as well. 3) Government Yes, they were recalled. But wouldn't you think that if the government really cared, after the first 2-3 recalls they would start checking the toys for the lead poisoning BEFORE distributing millions of them throughout the country? That would be that smart thing to do. Just as more of an example to further my argument, here is a link posting EVERY toy recalled up until October 9, 2007. http://www.usrecallnews.com... This is to give you an idea of just how many toys have been recalled from China. if the government truly cared, then they would have learned to NOT buy from China. They knew full well the issues behind it but did they stop buying from China? No. I would also like to point out that Darth_Grevious also never even attacked my argument about pet food. He instead brought up cars. Again I say that if he did not agree with the whole pet food argument of mine that he would have brought it up and tried to argue against that instead of bringing up cars which I did not bring up at all. Therefore, once again, the pet foods subject is a dead subject and should not be brought up again seeing as he obviously agrees with my point of view. So all I can see on this subject as well is a pro ballot. 4) Gas Prices Um actually that is happening all over the country. Do you not watch the news? Everyday people are losing their homes and everything they own because things are getting worse. Again, here is the scenario in a nutshell. Gas prices go up but hourly wages at work do not. The money people use up mostly goes to gas now days. Because people need to pay bills to live in a house they need a job and money. If money goes mostly towards gas, they either have to give up the car to pay the bills at home, or give up the job and stop running around everyday in it. Either ways you spin it, no car means no job which means no house, or no job means no money which means no car or house. So yes it is very possible, and in fact, happens all the time. How do you think people are losing their homes and becoming poor and homeless? If this is not evidence enough then I do not know what is. All I see here judge is a pro ballot because the evidence is in our everyday lives and if can cannot see that then that is not my fault. 5) Living Conditions Even though I will openly admit that the log cabin theory may be true, today's living standards are not improving. If everything I have said in this argument and my opening argument has not proven that point already then I really do not know what will. So just a few thing I want to point out to you judge is that 1) Darth_Grievous has dropped many of my arguments which practically means he either agrees with me or just cannot debate against them. 2) He has brought up some subjects I never even brought up. That in itself is ok for examples against me, but he brought them up and dropped some of my arguments in the process. 3) I have given much more hard evidence than he has and in turn can prove myself true that I am not lying or making things up. All he has is 1 picture of a slave, whereas I have multiple sighted sights with the links in my debates. Given all of this judge, I see nothing but a pro ballot.