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

I welcome my opponent to his first debate. Just so everyone knows I have flown 8 times in my life (not counting the connection flights). So I have ample experience with flying for this debate. Before rebutting my opponents arguments I will state some reasons as to why this idea should not be used. Although some of my arguments will be in the rebuttal section. Arguments: (1) Getting put to sleep can have bad effects if too often. Some people will fly around all the time for various reasons such as their job. People should not take sleeping pills too often. My guess is any other method they might use to put the passengers to sleep would also have bad effects if done too often.[1] And then theirs addiction. The passengers might get a drug addiction to whatever it is that is used. (2) In case of an emergency passengers would not be able to tense themselves in case of a crash or rough flying. And when the oxygen masks drop down out of the ceiling they would not be able to put them on. (3) Whatever method is used it is likely it will have bad effects on certain people. Just say a certain compound in the drug or whatever they use, gives a certain man a very bad reaction. If he is not aware of this serious damage might be done to his health or worse, as it is likely it would only be realized after he was awakened. (4) If a person wants to sleep during a plane trip he can bring his own sleeping pills. (5) Lots of people like to stay awake on the plane. In a say 14 hour plane trip a man can get allot of work done while flying. Plus some people might feel unsafe being put to sleep for often over 10 hours at a time in a plane. (6) Terrorists might find a way to counteract the drug. (7) Passengers WILL piss in their pants! Or worse if they have diarrhea... (8) How would they eat? (9) If anything happens to a passenger while asleep something might happen to him. Such as a heart attack or countless other things. As the drug would have to be quite strong to put him asleep for that long it is probable he would not wake up. Rebuttal: ///This way, no one has to undergo any security check. No need for carry on baggage check (everything could be checked in). One merely has to present one's ticket, receive a sleep-inducing device (whereupon they will be ferried into the plane, maybe using conveyor belts, and deposited directly into their seats) and then wake up at the destination airport baggage retrieval carousel, where they can pick up their bags and leave./// Of course they would still have to go through security check. Bombs don’t have to be set off manually every time. Plus theirs always the chance that terrorists would find a way to counter the drug. And many people would not want to be handled by other people while they are asleep. And would this be a safe and healthy thing for babies to be put to sleep? ///This has advantages for both the traveller as well as the airline. For one, no need to undergo the painful security, opening of our carryon bags, fussing over which book to read, what to eat, how to while away the time; no need to endure annoying babies crying for the whole duration, no need to sit uncomfortably, cramped into economy class seats, etc./// Then just take a sleeping pill. Why would passengers only be put to sleep if everybody is put to sleep. Pro is saying it should be law. But they always have the choice. /// During my innumerable plane trips, I've observed that a majority of the people in planes do nothing but sleep. Some of them read books, listen to music, watch movies, work on some important looking spreadsheet/notepad type program on their laptop, knit, or stare ahead like zombies/// Again they can use a sleeping pill if they want. They can also take advantage of this time be working. If taking a plane trip is incredibly boring then they always have the choice of taking a sleeping pill. Or they can simply just sleep as many people don't need a pill to sleep during a plane trip. ///Moreover, no electronic devices can be used during takeoff or landing/// Then why did my opponent mention laptops in the previous quote? ///Coming to the airlines, they can save money in myriad ways. No need for stewards/stewardesss, no need to provide for food/entertainment, no need for all the security check equipment, etc. Also, since the passengers will be asleep the entire journey, they can use the entire space inside the plane to fit in passengers. Thus, more passengers can be ferried per plane./// Again how will they go to the bathroom? And what about an emergency how will they be woken up? And during that emergency how can they easily move around if the entire space of the plane is being used up? 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. ///There might be issues with long term effects of such drug induced sleep (especially for frequent travellers), but this can be worked out. No need to drug most people. Making them listen to a tape of my high school history teacher for 5 minutes would put most people to sleep instantaneously./// This is obviously a joke so I think my opponent is saying their might be issues with long term effects. Thus helping me prove my point. ///In case of emergencies, the passengers could be woken up./// One: this suggests that drug would be fairly weak. Making it possible for terrorists to somehow find a way to get woken up in the plane. Two: earlier pro suggests all the space of the plane would be used up. In case they made a forced landing lots of people might die not being able to get out in time due to over crowding. Three: in some scenarios oxygen masks need to be used. The passengers would not be fully awake after being awakened and might be too drowsy to put on the masks. And that's assuming they could be woken up and in time before they completely ran out of air. You have to take into acount the old men and the little kids. Four: how would they be woken up? [1] http://www.darksideofsleepingpills.com/ch2.html