For air travel, passengers must be put to sleep for the entire journey

As foreseen, the major argument was that it would have a bad effect on people. Also, if you notice, my opponent has said that it is his GUESS, that any other method would be harmful. I request you to keep this in mind. I'll bunch my opponent's responses in a group according to their uniqueness and respond to them one by one. 1. It will have bad effects. Addiction to the drug used. Allergy. If my resolution is passed, people will have no option but to have an up-to-date health report that will list all their allergies. With close interactions with their physician, they can find out if the drug used will affect them adversely. If so, alternatives can be used. As my opponent said, they can also bring their own sleeping pills. Even if it gets addictive, as long as there are no harmful effects, it does not matter. Every child has to go to school. One cannot stop a child from going there just because it might be addictive (Yes, there are children like that too. Shocking, I know. ) The added benefit, of course, is that people will have frequent health check-ups, which cannot be argued to be harmful at all. Also, I'd like to direct the attention of the readers to the movie Inception, where all the passengers wake up hale and hearty after a 10 hour drug induced sleep. If you can't trust Hollywood. .. .. . But all this is assuming that drugs are needed to put people to sleep. I will list some alternates other than the one I already gave of my history teacher. We have Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (I've yet to find anyone that did not fall asleep 10 minutes into the movie, and even after 4 attempts, I've not been able to finish it), asking them to read the safety manual completely, so on. [1] 2. People can get work done. Bunkum, I say. I have a nice comfortable chair, in my own cubicle and I still find it difficult to get any work done. I completely refuse to believe that anyone can get work done sitting in a cramped seat with Kevin Smith sitting on your side and the passenger in front of you sleeping on your lap. Please disregard this point of my opponent. 3. Emergency situations My opponent argues that something might happen to the passengers, such as a heart attack and countless other things. I wonder what they could possibly do if these countless things happen while the passenger is awake that they could not do while the passenger is asleep? If it helps, passengers can be monitored. Anyway, passengers will have a health checkup, so the occurrences would be rare. My opponent also says that passengers might not be able to tense themselves in case of a crash. But I already said that the passengers will be woken up before such situations. Oxygen masks don't drop down just before the plane hits the ground. There will be ample time for passengers to wake up and put the masks on. 4. Cannot eat, will piss or s**t Do we do all these things while we sleep at night? 5. Terrorists might find a counter to it. And do what? Blow up the plane with their bare hands? Anyway there will be some person monitoring the passengers, and they would know if anybody showed any signs of waking up. Rebuttal //Of course they would still have to go through security check. Bombs don't have to be set off manually every time. // My opponent misunderstands when I said no security check. Passengers will be checked for anything on their person, which can be easily done. As there won't be any bags carried into the plane, that's all that is needed. The bags they check in will of course be checked, but the passengers need not be troubled for that. //Plus theirs always the chance that terrorists would find a way to counter the drug. // Already addressed. //And many people would not want to be handled by other people while they are asleep. // No passenger will be handled while asleep. They can lie down on their seats, which will be on a conveyor belt and be slotted into the plane. It would be like a factory machine floor. It'd be just a one-time investment and can be easily recouped with all the savings and the extra passengers ferried //And would this be a safe and healthy thing for babies to be put to sleep? // They need not be put to sleep, if you want. So long as they don't cry in the most annoying manner, or I don't get to hear their crying. The monitoring person can take care of the babies. My opponent just repeats "take a sleeping pill" again and again. Well, they certainly can. I don't care how they are put to sleep. Regarding passengers having a choice, I wonder which world my opponent lives in? The passengers' so called choice has been consistently curtailed to a point where I feel in the near future, everybody will have to travel naked and the total number of bags they can carry will be zero and the maximum weight allowed will be zero pounds. I would like to disillusion my opponent from the idea that the passengers have any choice in the items they are allowed to carry. They can't even carry a water bottle, so that puts paid to any choice. As always, the safety card can be used to do away with protestations of choice. Again how will they go to the bathroom? Already addressed. And during that emergency how can they easily move around if the entire space of the plane is being used up? I'm not sure which planes my opponent is talking about. But the ones I flew in do not have any space for all the passengers to move in, let alone easily. They need not use up every square inch. As there would be no more carry-ons, the overhead compartment space becomes available. They can have a double decker, like in trains. The walkway would still be there. And they wouldnt save money in the way that they would have to provide drugs capable of putting numerous amounts of people asleep for long periods of time. I already said that drugs are not the only way. Even so, passengers can be asked to provide for their own drugs, or as my opponent keeps saying, bring their own sleeping pills. Just like nowadays, airlines announce that passengers are welcome to bring their own food (but only bought inside the airport). And what about an emergency how will they be woken up? They could be asked to bring a recorded nightmare or any such assorted wake-up-quick methods and could be plugged into the monitoring devices and in an emergency be activated. If this does not work…[2] (It's the embedded video) With this rebuttal, I feel that I've adequately responded to the objections raised by my opponent. I encourage you all to vote pro. [1] . http://www.escapistmagazine.com... [2] . http://www.youtube.com...