People Should Be Allowed to Have Cell Phones in Public Movie Theaters

I will begin this round with addressing my opponents rebuttal. "However, in Regal Cinemas for example, guests are asked to refrain from using cell phones, but not banned. [1] Employees have no legal ability to remove someone for a ringing cell phone during the movie. I believe they should have that ability, which is what I am arguing on the con side of this debate. " . http://www.huffingtonpost.com... ^ This link proves my point of employees having the ability to remove distractions within the theater grounds. No need to ban phones when someone can get up and walk outside the movie into the halls, away from everyone, to answer your phone. Implying phones should not be allowed in theaters means their must be some legal recourse for not following that rule, however, that is not needed. Refer back to my link. "My opponent also says phones can be set to vibrate. However, as I have pointed out again and again, just because people have the option to set their phone on vibrate does not mean that they will take it. As I cited in my rebuttal, phone ringing incidents do occur. This also applies to screen-dimming. " He is implying all his "incidents" occur when the persons phone is in fact dimmed, and ringing. However, again and again, I repeat myself stating that the persons phone will be set to vibrate, and if it goes off, his removed to avoid further issues. The phone doesn't even have to be dimmed, the person can choose to answer it by simply getting up and leaving the area. "By turning your phone off, you implicitly say that you are busy without interrupting the movie. Leaving the theater distracts other movie patrons as the phone's owner must stand up and fumble around in the darkness, blocking the view of the screen in the process. " Again, making the assumption every theater is going to be filled with people. "At the end of this debate, all three of my contentions stand strong. My opponent tries to deny that there is a problem with cell phones in movie theaters, saying silencing and dimming can fix everything. However, I have given specific examples in my rebuttal showing that cell phones are a clear problem in theaters, aggravating moviegoers and ruining the entertaining purpose of movies, while putting the phone's owner at risk of embarrassment or physical assault. The harms of allowing cell phones far outweigh the meager benefits my opponent has offered. " Basically, my opponent bases his case off of assumptions of what will occur, but I have provided a link to negate these and provided a source where theaters do remove people for causing distractions. I never said silencing and dimming fixes everything, but they also have the ability to get up and walk out, which is not a huge distraction to 100% of all the viewers. Apparently, my benefits are meager. However, to implement a cell phone blocker in every theater would not be cheap, you block a persons ability to respond to emergency situations appropriately, and allows people to be in contact with their business if on a break of some sort. Although you can not keep everyone 100% happy in a theater, these things can reduce the "anger" of many viewer and can resolve many issues created, and is why people should be allowed to have cell phones in theaters. To address my opponents source on the "paint blocking" for cell phones. He fails to tell you voters that, "It allows emergency calls to go through while stopping general-purpose calls without jamming the full spectrum of cell calls. (Melamed is tight-lipped about the technology, saying only that it has a "patent pending. ") In other words, it hasn't been developed and is not as inexpensive as my opponent appears to make it.