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The TRAITOR Imabench MUST be banned from DDO!

Report: Hundreds of documents have recently been uncovered that support a startling truth: the traitor, Imabench has been conspiring with members of the Nazi Party to overthrow the President of DDO and replace him with a Fascist dictatorship.The DDO secret police,led by Stalin's most trusted official, Lavrentiy Beria,made many investigations to see if there were any others involved in this plot.For the moment, Imabench is in police custody. Under torture, Imabench has revealed where he had hidden his documents, leading the DDO secret police to make another arrest. After a lengthy investigation, police concluded that Imabench was not conspiring alone; PatriotPerson[1]was found hiding these documents and under torture will soon reveal more... For now, Imabench awaits trial. If found guilty, then what should happen?Considering the depth of his crimes, many people believe that Imabench should be banned from DDO altogether. _________________________________________________________ I agree with this report. The only way to deal with this crime is to ban Imabench from DDO. Anyway, round one is for acceptance only. Round 2-5 is for arguments. Sources: http://www.debate.org...
The TRAITOR Imabench MUST be banned from DDO!

I have reported Con's argument. Somehow Con aquired a picture with Stalin standing in front of a bunch of British, American, and Jewish banners. Most likely it was stealing. Clearly Con needs to rething his life... Sources: http://www.americannaziparty.com...... http://www.americannaziparty.com...... http://www.americannaziparty.com...... http://www.americannaziparty.com...... http://www.americannaziparty.com...... http://www.americannaziparty.com...... http://www.americannaziparty.com...... http://www.americannaziparty.com...... http://www.thefreedictionary.com......
The TRAITOR Imabench MUST be banned from DDO!

I can confirm that I was never tortured, I would have a large problem with that (look at my big issues). However, someone here is most certainly both a Fascist and Nazi sympathizer... https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com... Stalin has provided absolutely no evidence towards my alleged Nazism, and if anyone would try to break a Nazi (which imabench isn't) out of prison, it would be him. I suggest STALIN's Nazi friend, ADreamOfLiberty, was in trouble. The DDO secret police found some documents about their illegal behavior, and STALIN got pulled in. STALIN showed them some pictures of ADreamOfLiberty's sexual activities, heavily traumatizing the police. They then forgot the details about what had happened, but had a basic idea. STALIN was the first to get to them and the documents, and convinced them that the ones who had committed the crimes were imabench and SeventhProfessor, which was simply untrue. Now some of you may be thinking, "Why would he do this? Is DDO really that important?". `To some of us, almost. To one of us, yes. Enough to commit ACTUAL crimes? Ask STALIN. The evidence has already shown he is likely guilty of perjury, what else will it reveal?
The TRAITOR Imabench MUST be banned from DDO!

Report continued: The DDO secret police release more startling news. "SeventhProfessor" was caught a few hours ago trying to break Imabench out of prison. Under torture, he has admitted to being a Fascist sympathizer. What is to be done with this criminal? Do not listen to what SeventhProfessor's has said in the past. All of the sources he ever put up are untrue. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ok guys, you hear what the report said? Don't listen to Con. VOTE PRO!!! Sources: http://www.americannaziparty.com... http://www.americannaziparty.com... http://www.americannaziparty.com... http://www.americannaziparty.com... http://www.americannaziparty.com... http://www.americannaziparty.com... http://www.americannaziparty.com... http://www.americannaziparty.com... http://www.thefreedictionary.com...
The TRAITOR Imabench MUST be banned from DDO!

"So you think that Imabench's crimes do not deserve the punishment of a banning. Notice that I said CRIMES." Crime- an action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law [1]. It is not against the law to troll or swear on the internet, and I have never seen imabench bully, so I would like sources. As you said in the comments, this is "the REAL trials", so lying as you just did IS a crime. Just one look at your profile shows you don't accept messages from people outside of your 28 friends, most of whom are either not very active or friends with imabench [2]. You also don't accept comments, which further limits your methods of complaint gathering. I would like to charge STALIN of perjury, and at least five years in jail [3]. 1. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com... 2. http://www.debate.org... 3. http://www.wisegeek.org...
The TRAITOR Imabench MUST be banned from DDO!

So you think that Imabench's crimes do not deserve the punishment of a banning. Notice that I said CRIMES. This is not the first time Imabench has done something bad on DDO. Imabench has trolled, sweared, and bullied others. I have received numerous complaints that Imabench has been trolling for a long time. He has scared off the 5-year-olds by saying bad words. In addition, he has bullied many people. What punishment do you think Imabench deserves?
should we have ipad for more than a hour

Hello, it appears as if you did not read the title of your debate correctly. The first argument that you posted has nothing to do with the actual debate itself, so I will respond correctly, and hopefully it will give you correct insight on what to talk about in this debate, since you were the one who created it itself. First off, touch screen applications have been the crazy of the modern millennium, and for good reason. They allow easy access to applications, and they allow others to communicate, even from long distances. I don't know a place where someone just takes away an iPad after an hour, but if you do, please respond to me correctly below. Touchscreen devices have been recorded to damage eyesight, but that is after prolonged use, and I am not saying that people should use touchscreen devices such as an iPad for prolonged periods of time. However, you should defiantly carry something such as an iPad or another touchscreen device around with you, as that it allows for easy communication between others, and makes life a lot easier. Please respond correctly below, instead of talking about football or whatever you were previously talking about above.
should we have ipad for more than a hour

teve Young is the better quarterback because he has a 96.8 QB Rating (1), whereas Joe Montana only has a 92.3 (2). Steve Young also has fewer career interceptions, more rushing touchdowns, and a higher passing completion rate than Joe Montana. After seeing both players perform in person and on television, it is clear to me that Steve Young is superior in his athletic capabilities, and his quarterbacking skil
Batman can defeat anyone when given time to plan

Given information on BatmanReal Name: Bruce Wayne Aliases: Dark Knight Detective, various cover identities: "Matches" Malone, Sir Hemmingford Grey, etc. Occupation: Multimillionaire Industrialist, Playboy and Philanthropist Marital Status: Single Base of Operation: Gotham City Group Affiliation: JLA; formerly Justice League International, Outsiders, Justice League of America Height: 6'2" Weight: 210 lbs. Eyes: Blue Hair: Black FFirst Appearance: Detective Comics #27 (May 1939)Abilities: No actual powers, just a vast supply of resources, as well as being in top physical condition for a human, can bench press 1000 lbs and leg press 2500 lbs. Net Worth over 5 billion allowing him to purchase whatever is needed to create tools for him to use in defeating his adversaries. Utility belt containing wide variety of different weapons for different situations, but almost always are batarangs, grappling hooks, smoke screen, sleeping gas, gas mask, kyrptonite ring. Batsuit made of kevlar and nomex fabric with fire resistant memory cape that can transform into a glider. He has 12 masters degrees, and great intellect that is extremely useful in planning strategies and tactics, as well as in aiding in detective work. He has trained with the masters of many different martial arts fields, and has himself mastered several martial arts techniques. He is a master escape artist and can escape from any imprisonment given enough time. Batman is a master of stealth. As well his costume is designed to inspire fear and uses this against his adversaries with a combination of theatrical tricks to play with adversaries minds. There already are 3 situations in which Batman could defeat the hulk.1. Batman has technically already defeated the hulk in the 1970's Batman vs Hulk, Batman Defeats the hulk by dodging hulks attacks and focusing on pressure points to cause Hulk to flinch, he is able to lure hulk into a confined space and uses a mixture of smoke bombs and sleeping gas to knock out the hulk2. Batman need only wait for Hulk to return to his identify as Bruce Banner, using stealth, he could sneak up upon Bruce Banner and knock him out with a sedative that would repress emotions such as anger, fear, sadness or rage.3. In a battle with the actual modern hulk, Batman need only avoid the hulk (Batman's advantage is his intellect as well as planning, hulk is just a large brute) and use a sedative repressing anger through either gas inhaled, or need be it injection through the mouth or other ways into hulks system (Ear, nose) Result in Hulk being knocked out, or return to Bruce BannerNow a counter argument could be the healing factor, however sedatives are not hurting hulk or destroying any part of him, thus his healing factors would not have anything to regenerate. And of course there is the possibility he can resist sedatives, but even if the hulk has the energy to be unfazed by the actual sedative, the repression of anger would cause the hulk to revert back to Bruce banner, at which point the sedatives could work on him.2 situations in which batman could theoretically overcome the hulks abilities1 in which he has succeed
Capital Punishment should be abolished in all 50 states of the United States of America.

I accept your challenge, I believe in capital punishment because I don't believe that because someone kills 12 people in a movie theater he should have the right to still be breathing after what he did. Capital punishment isn't a revenge tactic, it's about punishing those who have committed evil beyond reason, it's about justice. Are you saying that keeping them alive is cheaper? Sirhan Sirhan has been kept alive for 45 years now after assassinating Robert Kennedy, how do you think those prisons are funded? Not only do I lose my right to defend myself after a shooting occurs but I have to help fund that person's life until the day he/she dies So we allow these criminals to live after taking the life of others which is basically a death penalty for those victims who did nothing but just lived their lives as law-abiding citizens, they don't seem to be treated like humans but more like insignificant targets This isn't about how much capital punishment costs, it's showing that these criminals can't commit horrible crimes and be given a cell and taken care of the rest of their life, the second they commit that crime, they lose all their rights
Capital Punishment should be abolished in all 50 states of the United States of America.

I believe that Capital Punishment should be abolished in the United States. I also believe that it should be abolished in every country, but lets keep this debate refined to just the US. First of all, as a country, we spread a message telling others to not kill. Then Capital Punishment allows us to be completely hypocritical and kill others. Gandhi said "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." The death penalty constantly tops wrong onto wrong and we are not getting past this hump. Capital Punishment is such an expensive way to punish our criminals. Since 1978, California has spent over $4,000,000,000 just on executing capital offenders!!! -"If the governor commuted the sentences of those remaining on death row, it would result in an immediate savings of $170,000,000 per year, with a savings of $5,000,000,000 over the next 20 years." "Judge Arthur Alarcon and Professor Paula Mitchell (Assessment of Costs, 2012) That's crazy that we are still stuck in this awful situation of spending so much money on doing an inhumane act. The average cost of a death penalty case in Maryland is $3,000,000, and in Kansas, Capital Punishment cases are 70% more expensive than non-capital punishment cases. We could easily spend that extra money on more important things such as violence prevention! This is an inhumane way to treat other humans. Although they have made an incredibly bad choice by committing a capital offense, they are still human and we must treat them as one. Life without probation is a sufficient punishment for a capital offender, not killing them. That is why I believe that Capital Punishment should be abolished in all 50 states of the USA.
Jesus is not the Messiah as foretold by the Old Testament.

Jesus Christ is not the Messiah that is spoken of throughout the Old Testament. There are various tasks/qualifications for the "Messiah-ship" laid out in the Old Testament and, from what we know about Jesus and his life, he did not complete them. There is no legitimate reason to believe that Jesus is or ever as the Messiah, but there are many legitimate reasons to believe otherwise. My main arguments will be presented further in the next round.
Being a pedophile is not morally wrong

Thank you creedhunt. I do not maintain the position that an act must have immoral intentions to be immoral. I am unsure how this was conveyed by my argument, as it is a gross misrepresentation of my point. Immoral actions do not need to be intentional, and they can and often are committed by people who have mental disorders. The acts of killing, raping, and molesting are immoral (with some exceptions regarding killing such as self defense). However, this debate is about whether it is wrong to sexually assault anyone, let alone a child. There is no gray area there. My opponent uses Utilitarianism to justify why the mere existence of pedophiles is immoral. A world without pedophiles is a better one, after all. But if we accept that, as many might be inclined to, we leave ourselves asking many troubling questions. If the world is better without pedophiles, what other mental disorders should we eliminate? Pedophiles are more dangerous that the average human because they have a higher propensity to commit moral acts, but so are many other groups of people. Again, we come back to sociopaths. They, like pedophiles, have a higher likelyhood of committing immoral actions, should they be eliminated? What about religious radicals? The majority would agree that we would be better off without those who support, if not commit, violent acts in the name of religion. Do we eliminate them in the name of a better society? Where does it stop? Let's come back to the central question; is being a pedophile immoral? My opponent says yes, because they are more inclined to commit immoral actions. But this argument really doesn't make sense. It is akin to saying all pitbulls are dangerous dogs because they are more likely to cause harm to people, or all black people are violent because a majority of violent crime is committed by black people. Neither argument stands up, because even if someone belongs to a group that commits a higher percentage of immoral actions, it does not automatically make that person immoral. I'll use the example of Erwin Rommel, a general in the Nazi army. Most people would agree that the Nazis were a very bad group of people who committed many immoral actions, and we are better off without them around. But it doesn't hold to reason that someone is a bad person simply because they are a Nazi. Rommel was universally respected after the war for his conduct. His troops were never accused of committing war crimes, any POW he took were treated humanely, and when he received orders to kill or capture Jewish people he ignored them. Rommel, like a pedophile, belongs to a group that are more likely to commit immoral actions, but this does not make them automatically immoral. Rommel proves that it is possible to be a moral person in very bad circumstances, and proves once again that men should be judged by their actions, nothing else. We seem to agree that pedophilia is a mental health issue, and as such should be treated medically not punitively, so there's no reason to argue over that. I turn it over to creedhunt
Being a pedophile is not morally wrong

Thank you, Canuckleball. I would like to start out by saying that I agree that pedophillia is a disorder and needs to be treated as such. We should not create an environment in which pedophiles are not getting help because they are afraid of being labeled and treated as if they were monsters, before they commit horrendous assaults. Now to the debate: Firstly, we must clarify what a morally wrong act is. My oopponent seems to be of the opinion that there has to be immoral intentions in an act in order for the act itself to be immoral, but this idea falls short. Using the sociopathic example, we can see that people can murder without seeing the act as wrong. The implication here is that either such an act is not immoral, as there is no immoral intent, or that immoral intent is not a necessary component of an immoral act. Another component of acts that are morally wrong, according to my opponent, is that the acts themselves must be intentional. What I mean, is that my opponent sees an act with accidental or medical causes can't be immoral. This idea falls short as well, considering that sociopathy (and more relevantly, several other ilnesses, notably tumors) can cause a person to commit murder, and the lack of control that the purpetrator has does not make the act any less immoral. In fact, quite a large portion of immorality arises directly due to things outside of human control. The distinction between a bear mauling a person, and a person permitting a bear to maul a person is arbitrary, as far as morality is concerned. What makes an action immoral, is if the negative moral value it creates is more than the negative moral value its corresponding action would create. A murder is immoral because the death it causes (alongside whatever pain the person or family feels, and so forth) has negative value. Without murdering, the death is avoided, and so murdering is immoral. That is a simplification, but I hope it explains the basis on which I call beIng a pedophile immoral. Being a pedophile clearly brings more negative value than not being a pedophile. For starters, it greatly increases the numbers of abused children; without people being pedophiles, much less atrocities would occur of this nature. Ignoring that clear fact, being a pedophile causes harm to the pedophiles themselves, given society's treatment of them. While I agree that it would be very hard to find anyone that could be simplified to the point of being an "evil" person, that does not mean that It's rare to find people doing immoral things, with or without intention. Finally, once again, I think that the appropriate way to deal with this immoral action is to be more sympathetic towards those who suffer from the disorder, and to try to provide medical care.
Being a pedophile is not morally wrong

Thank you creedhunter. The definition of pedophilia is as follows: a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a sexual attraction to prepubescent children, generally age 11 years or younger. Many people think that someone who is a pedophile is an "evil" person, and I disagree. The key term in the definition is psychiatric disorder. Being a pedophile is not a choice, it is a disorder. It can be present from birth (although generally only emerges after puberty) or, in rare cases, caused by brain damage. Now, being a pedophile often leads someone to do bad things, and people who do bad things are generally bad people. The same could be said about a sociopath. A sociopath is a person with a mental disorder that causes a lack of empathy. This could lead a person to do bad things, however it doesn't have to. Sociopaths can and do live fairly normal, peaceful lives without hurting other people, and are even proven to be successful in the business world. The same is true for a pedophile. Studies have shown that the condition can be treated with therapy and prescription medications. Instead of demonizing pedophiles, much the same as society has done to homosexuals, AIDS patients, and the mentally/physically handicapped in the past, and is currently doing to drug addicts and other groups, I argue that to prevent child abuse we should be a better job of acknowledging that pedophiles cannot control who they are attracted to, and encourage them to seek help. We should praise someone who says "I have a problem, and I want to fix it,".
Being a pedophile is not morally wrong

I feel that being a pedophile is not inherently wrong. I would argue that it is a serious mental disorder that should be treated and hopefully cured, and would encourage someone who deals with these urges to seek professional help without fear of being shunned by society. Let me be very clear: ABUSING A CHILD IN ANY WAY IS WRONG. No one in their right mind would argue that taking any action that harms, threatens, intimidates, or discomforts a child, especially by a person in a position of power, is anything short of a terrible crime. However, many people feel that anyone who is a pedophile is inherently evil, even if they fight against their urges because they know they are wrong.