Any given person should do debate

Thank you for responding to my arguments, and I look forward to this last round. First I would like to clear up what I meant by my resolution. I would have thought that my opponent would have enough common sense to draw from my argument that I am meaning an average american kid (not adult). Of course it's ridiculous to think that this given woman would debate. She has important things to do. My opponent has created a false dilemma and basically an appeal to pity: a woman with no time on her hands, so on and so forth. By not fully understanding what I meant by my resolution, he has created a false problem with debating. It would be impossible to debate based on ANY person in the world seeing as you could bring up any number of examples, as my opponent has done. Let's look at the bigger picture: do most average american kids have so much work to do that they couldn't spend a few minutes of each day debating? Of course not! Most kids do their homework quickly and jump on the Xbox as quickly as possible. These average americans have the time to do debate. The last few paragraphs have completely ruled out my opponent's ideas, but let's go point by point where he has exaggerated. "Debating takes significant amounts of time. " Not necessarily. It depends how much you get involved. You don't even need to study debate to debate on this site. It could take as little as a few minutes of your day. "Psychological study after psychological study has shown that one does not change behavior after just learning. " Care to reference any? Plus, as I mentioned, it's common sense that I meant PRACTICING debate as well, not just learning it. Do = practicing. 1. Hardly so. You're not stressed right now. Yet you're debating. It's stress, yes, if you're so busy that you can barely squeeze debate in, but for the average american it's no big deal at ALL. Plus, any school will mean a certain level of stress. Debate is no different, it just doesn't have a significant amount of stress 2. Since when does typing up a page or so of arguments make you so tired out that you can't even do anything? This was clearly exaggerated by my opponent in his wish to win this debate. 3. Yet another exaggeration. I learn about the terrible conditions in Russia every day. Am I depressed? Not one bit. It's as if someone told you to stop reading the newspaper because it tells you about the world. You can't just shut your eyes and be oblivious. 4. Ugh. See a pattern yet? Another exaggeration. A few minutes of your day does not mean you have to skip events. Secondly, you might skip a few things to go to a debate, but that is your choice. Thirdly, skipping a couple of events does not mean skipping church, and it DEFINITELY does not mean community rejection. As you can see from these 4 points, my opponent clearly is jumping to huge conclusions and exaggerating blatantly. And as he conceded that the average american will have the benefits I showed, there is clearly a net benefit to debating. Don't be blinded by his false dilemma of a woman trying to debate. Common sense will lead you to the conclusion that I did not mean some bum in India should take up debating. Also, I would like to remind my opponent that he may not bring up new arguments, only respond to the arguments I have started, because if he brought up a new argument I would not be able to respond to it and that is unfair. If he creates a new argument of any sort, I would ask that you take disciplinary action and vote for me as a consequence.