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The black Knights in Code Geass should not have betrayed zero

With that said, let us proceed. ====================== Zero did many atrocious things as leader of the BKs ====================== We must keep in mind the primary reasons as to why Zero was betrayed. It wasn't necessarily about his geass ability and that he was a former prince of Brittania. Rather, it boiled down to the fact that that he was constantly using the Black knights and the Japanese as pawns to bring about the result he desired (that the world be a gentler place for Nunnaly's sake, that he could avenge his mother's death and that he could protect everything/everyone he cherished). His deplorable actions consisted of him killing off many of the japanese as well as members of the black knights whether it be through geass or explosives. This is very much comparable to you waking up one morning, only to find out that Barack Obama (or the leader of your country, assuming you don't live in the USA) was not only directly the cause of the terrorist events that occured during 9/11, but that he been responsible for the death of your entire family and that he would continue to commit similar atrocities. If you had found out that Barack Obama was responsible for this and that he would continue to be responsible for similar actions in the future, would you still want him to be president of the US? ============================== Zero getting betrayed worked out for the best | ============================== Considering how the series ended, the betrayal worked out benefitting the entire world. After all, not only was it the betrayal that lead to lelouch having the incentive to quickly locate his father and stop him from achieving his plans that would result in the world forver being in an unchanging state, but the hatred which Lelouch managed to gain from the Black Knight learning of his past deeds went towards putting Lelouch in the perfect position to bring about true world peace. Ergo, it is rather clear that the resolution was false. For all intensive purposes, the Black Knights should have betrayed Zero.
Counter Strike is better than Call of Duty

Hello, If you are referring to Call of Duty in general, I agree Counter Strike would take the crown. But if I may, I would like to focus on the older games of Call of Duty (MW2&3, Black Ops and Black Ops 2). I feel that these games are what what made Call of Duty such a huge brand and as successful as it is now. Recently Call of Duty has been slacking and I have avoided it. But the older generation games are what got me into gaming and professional gaming. The original games are hands down better than the newer versions and had a lot of new mechanics to the gaming community. A wide variety of things were capable and it was revolutionary in a way. Professional gaming became very large due to Call of Duty and the vast majority of players. While counter strike is limited primarily to PC, COD is available on all consoles and older games are becoming reverse compatible. This means that players who have played COD since the beginning or close to it, will have an opportunity to play the games that they started on but with better graphics.
macroevolution more likely than not is true

I'm sorry but good evidence for change over time, especially evidence easily explained via natural selection is good evidence for evolution. The idea that you can take small steps but cannot take a large series of small steps is an anathema to rational thought. You can walk ten feet going right foot left foot... but never ten miles! Evolution certainly happened and good evidence for macroevolution is support for the theory at hand. What is typically referred to as macroevolution is really just evolution. The use of two different words is to suggest that there is a different mechanism involved... but it's the same mechanism and a lot more time.
macroevolution more likely than not is true

given the transitional evidence, which ironically is usually what is attacked by antievolutionists, evolution more likely than not is true. links for things on traisitional fossils look for the chromosomal stuff, and chapters six and five in the PBS link below, read or watch the video. http://www.talkorigins.org... http://www.talkorigins.org... http://www.talkorigins.org... http://www.pbs.org... http://news.softpedia.com... http://en.wikipedia.org...
macroevolution more likely than not is true

this doesn't really seem like a substantial debate, but really one of those silly semantical debates half the people here do. i am not looking to debate someone who wants to say "microevolution" is what should be used to describe it, when "macroevolution" is just a way of saying essentially the same thing in another way. ie, money ancester to human is macroevolution but it occured with mircro. etc etc. i think it's pretty clear that i'm looking for creationsists etc. in fact, the the only real reason i said "macroevolution" instead of evolution, is because i was trying ot avoid people saying "oh, i believe in micro evolution for things like bird colorings etc, but not large evolution like humans from monkey ancesters", but apparently there's someone to point out semantical thigns everyday. semantical debates are not wise; they are silly. they waste time talking about what is is, instead of talking about the substance of the debate. to top it off, your first post is making pointless distinctions, and the your second post is contradicting the first. now, apparently, you're arguing for macro evolution? (unless you're just trying to show me how to debate... but if that's teh case, i still stand by my semantical point)
which Jojo is better( jojo's bizarre adventure)

how could you possibly ask this question? the greatest jojo of all time is the one which treats others as it would like to be treated. that is how a jojo should act. i also like the jojo that is like george washington, but for jojos. now there's a good jojo. he has integrity, and he is the founder of jojomerica. he has those sterling qualities that a leader should have. then, of couse, there's jojo lincoln, who freed the black jojos. he is a good jojo. i wonder what you think.
Quote Debate

1: "As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it. " -Will Durant 2: "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. " -Bertrand Russell 3: "Only the dead have seen the end of war. " –Plato 4: "The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. " -John Ruskin 1819-1900 And in honor of this day, September 11, 2009, eight years to the day that this country was attacked and the men and women fighting overseas. 5: "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. " -George Orwell
Quote Debate

"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready? " -Johnny Carson "An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. " -Edward de Bono "It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. " -Herbert Hoover "The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. " -Henry Miller "The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. "
Quote Debate

1: "I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." – Voltaire 2: "Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one.... cities will never have rest from their evils-no, nor the human race." –Plato 3: "He who fights monsters should see to it that in the process, he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - Nietzche 4: "It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own." -Malcolm Forbes 5:"For me as emperor, my city and fatherland is Rome; but as a man, I belong to the world." -Marcus Aurelius (180 A.D.) Emperor of Rome
Quote Debate

"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself." -Gore Vidal "I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood." -Audre Lorde "The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out." -Stephen King "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." -Aldous Huxley "Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system." -Bruce Lee
Quote Debate

1: "I have had my solutions for a long time, but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them." -Karl Friedrich Gauss 2: "A thought which is not independent is a thought only half understood." -Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) 3: "We have to live today by what truth we can get today, and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood." -William James 4: "History is written by the victors." –Machiavelli 5: "Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms." -Will Durant
Quote Debate

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." -Jackie Robinson "The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important." -Bobby Knight "The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown." -Carl Jung "Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, but the harm does not interest them." -T.S. Eliot "The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence." -Ron Paul
Quote Debate

1: "The best antidote to fear is knowledge." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 2: Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide 3: "Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier." -CHARLES F. KETTERING 4: "Teachers open the door; but you must enter yourself." -CHINESE PROVERB 5: "As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's llife will be gone. I have other affairs to attend to. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad." -Henry David Thoreau
Quote Debate

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is. " -Oscar Wilde "What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. " -Thomas Merton "Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. " -Martin Luther "Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do. " -Will Rogers "We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. "
Quote Debate

As is required by the instigator and by myself, insightful quotes shall be posted and the voters will decide who posted, in their opinion, the better quotes. I shall begin. 1: "What's the point in living if you let people walk over you? " Hank Greenspun. 2: "Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. " - Tony Robbins 3: "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. " - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 4: "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. " - James Baldwin 5: "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. "
Quote Debate

Although this debate essentially lacks a resolution, the meaning of what will be discussed is relatively clear. My opponent and I will post a maximum of five quotes per round. The judging shall be based on which side presented the more significant or insightful quotes. Let us begin: "What you get by achieving your goals is as important as what you become by achieving your goals. " -Henry David Thoreau "The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. " -Peter Drucker "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. " -Norman Vincent Peale "The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. " -Dwight D. Eisenhower "Life is too important to be taken seriously. "
Abortion

Having Abortion is pretty much the same thing as killing. Why do either? We have rights and yes from the comments maybe if she is raped but that doesn't mean she needs abortion. She could simply give the child up or give everything she owns just to take care of the child. Mother's everywhere in the world have sayed they wanted abortion but never did it. That doesn't mean we should give up. Abortion is not fair and you lose a child in the matter doesn't matter how it came.
Abortion

Yes but abortion isn't decided by the government is it decided by the parent. And most moms don't have enough money to take care of children so they have to give them up or have no baby in the beginning. My argument is that a lot of parents with new born kids or coming they can't take care of. If u have a poor mother and a child coming what will you do. You can't do anything except abortion to keep you from having. My argument is weak but it is what I believe.
American Gun Control

Thanks Con. Since it's the last round, I'll just refute Cons argument. My advocacy will come from responses and turns on Cons arguments. ==Con Case== Con says guns are "created for killing". First, lots of inventions including the internet we're using were originally developed for the military so this warrant doesn't really stand. Secondly, it's the use of the tool that matters. Are guns generally used to kill people? Absolutely not. In fact, the FBI reports[1] that from 2005-2009, there were 72,828 murders using firearms[2].Since Obama has taken office, there have been 65.4 million background checks for firearm purchases[2]. This means that EVEN IF we assumed that these were the only firearms in the United States during this time period (not at all) barely one in one thousand (.11%) of firearms were used in homicides. Taking into account the greater number of firearms and the greater number of aggressive crimes unnaccounted for, we can assume that the percentage of weapons used for aggression is roughly the same if not lower.Third even if you buy Cons argument it doesn't justify keeping everyone from having weapons because they need to defend themselves against criminals. In fact, Gary Kleck estimates that there are around 2.5 defensive gun uses in the United States per year[3].Con also claims (without a source) that criminals often steal weapons. Frontline tells us that only about 10-15% of criminals use stolen guns[4], and to assume that they wouldn't commit their crimes without this is just foolish. Even more foolish is to outright ban all civilians from bearing arms just because a small percentage of their weapons (which are prolific in the criminal underworld) get stolen. Con then bizzarely claims that a gun is a "cowards weapon" and apparently would prefer for people to fight with hulking, seasoned criminals using knives. I don't think I really need to explain why this point fails. Con hasn't met the burden to change the status quo, thus you negate. 1. http://www2.fbi.gov...2. http://cnsnews.com...3. http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu...4. http://www.pbs.org...
American Gun Control

Guns are weapons created for killing & don't belong in general public! The 2nd highest way criminals obtain a gun is by stealing from licensed gun owners. Clearly some gun owners feel no concern of repercussion for failing to ensure these weapons are kept secure. Which is proof out gun laws are way to loose with way to minor punishment for not taking it seriously & keeping them secure. The general public is obviously not able to keep such dangerous items secure or it wouldn't be the 2nd highest way they are obtained. A gun is a cowards weapon & if he can't get a gun he may not have the nerve to use a knife which is a much closer form of combat. He's certainly not running into a school & stabbing 20 kids to death. Many more of those kids would have lived in that scenario. I feel that if we tighten gun control we can save lives, yes people will still die but I believe that we can reduce the consequences.
Fornication should be illegal

To start this debate, I would also like to set a few "Rules." - We will use this definition of fornication: sexual intercourse between people not married to each other. - Because there is no concrete evidence that anything in the Bible has existed on this Earth, you are disallowed to use the Bible for any argument or reference. If you use any reference to the Bible, you have broken your own rules and have established that you cannot fairly win this debate. - Obviously, if I show evidence that contradicts yours, you must accept your argument as faulty. If I contradict your evidence that is contradicting my former argument, you must accept that your argument is still faulty. Now that we have both decided on our rules, I am pleased to begin this debate with you!
Fornication should be illegal

Fornication should be illegal for reasons on which I will elaborate in the next rounds.RULES: Use actual, logical, evidence-based arguments. (i.e. nothing emotion-based like, "But I have the rights to my own body!" or "But you'd be depriving people of happiness!") You can't rely on the Quran or other myths. Follow the "app" rule: always post promptly. If I show evidence that contradicts yours, you have to accept that your argument is invalid. I look forward to your response. God bless.
Fornication should be illegal

I hate to inform you that you have broken your own rule of "Use actual, logical, evidence-based arguments." I say this because you do not have any sources in your argument and the arguments you have used are not strictly for fornication. I do hope you realize that fornication is between unmarried individuals."STDs""More than 50 percent of sexually active people will get HPV at some point during their lives [1]." "STDs are really common -- every year there are more than 19 million new cases in the U.S [1]." In neither of these facts does it mention that unmarried peoples are the only victims of STDs. In fact, it mentioned that 50% of sexually active people will get HPV, not exclusive to any country. Not sure if this source ([2]) is exclusive to a certain country, but it states that 59% of the population is married, a number higher that 50%, meaning that at least, although I am positive that this number is higher, 9% of married peoples catch an STD."Unplanned pregnancy"Once again, not exclusive to unmarried peoples. [3] shows that more than half of the pregnancies they have put into this study had been unplanned. "By age 45, more than half of all American women will have experienced an unintended pregnancy, and three in 10 will have had an abortion [3].""Contraceptives are artificial and no good for oneself."I am assuming that you believe only unmarried peoples use contraceptives, much like you have stated in your other arguments so far. However, I do not need a source to prove this to be untrue. I would also like to question the negative effects on someone of a condom. Do you use "contraceptives" to mean only the drugs that the people take, such as birth control? Also, by this, would you also say that other medicines are not good for yourself, or would you not include contraceptives in the medicine category although you buy them in pharmacies? (Please do answer this, if anything)"People who fornicate are more likely to get divorced."Although I find it boring to refute all other arguments by using actual sources, [4] shows the divorce rates of countries worldwide and shows that 50% of American marriages end in divorce. I would need evidence to show that fornication leads to divorce, please."Teens who have sex are more likely to be depressed." By this, do you mean before or after the intercourse? Please follow your own rules and use evidentiary support for your claims.Sources:[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com...; [2] http://www.meninmarriage.com...[3] http://www.guttmacher.org...[4] http://www.divorcerate.org...Your go!
Voting is worth my time

It is. It only takes 15-20 minutes of one's day to vote. If people have time to do hobbies, play video games, etc I think that it is possible to take 15-20 minutes of your day to vote. You have all day to vote, and honestly, why is it so hard to drive to the place where you vote, fill in what you think, and be done? The majority of people claim that they're "busy" yet they can do stuff such as watching TV after work. I'd add more, but you limited typing.http://www.youtube.com...
Voting is worth my time

It is worth it. Even if you think that all politics are corrupt, that doesn't mean that voting is bad. As I said, voting brings the community, and can also help promote mental health, and also, since when are all politics bad? Yes, politics currently aren't the best, but some care about you. What proof do you have that ALL politicians are bad. There have been good politics such as JFK, FDR, and Lincoln. http://www.webmd.com...
Voting is worth my time

http://www.youtube.com... Yes but in our deepest humanity, is it really worth our time? Which is the topic of the debate. Comparing with other countries and the desires of other countries does not show why it is worth an individual's time in the grand scheme of things. One might say the opposite of your claims saying that "having a say is important but that doesn't mean that it should be worth your time as my politician is corrupt and pretty much robs members of society."
Voting is worth my time

Why do I only have 500 characters? Well anyways, voting is important because not only does it bring the community together, and it lets you have a say in your nation. Would you like somebody who you don't like to govern your nation? Probably not. Also, your Capitalism statement is mere opinion. Some nations would love to be able to vote on what their government does. Believe it or not, democracy isn't every wheres. Change the max characters please. http://www.youtube.com...