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Lorde is the best idol singer for children

I disagree. When you say Lorde does not sing about drugs or partying, just take a listen to her most popular song and you'll easily find that is not the case. "But every song's like gold teeth, grey goose, trippin' in the bathroom Blood stains, ball gowns, trashin' the hotel room (Royals)" This one stanza includes drug use in the first part of it and partying in the second part of it. I would definitely not want to hear any kid repeat that stanza. Also, she has publicly dissed many celebrities, setting another bad example for kids.
Transgenderism is Unhealthy

I appreciate you continuing even while pressed for time, so I'll match you by posting like 12 beers deep and watching cartoons. About race discrimination, I assume you mean black people in America. In this case you would be talking about roughly 13% of the population. With transgender people you would be talking about less than 0.5%. And people don't get rejected by their own parents for being black. If you look at the suicide attempt rate in the last link I posted, you might notice that rejection by family created up to a 30% increase in suicide attempt rate. Very similar rate increases were seen in transgender people experienced violence from coworkers or police. Being singled out is a huge factor, just like in bullying. But in this case, it even extends to family. As a coping mechanism, I think that you probably have a valid point for some cases. The utmost consideration should be taken before any surgery, and there is no going back from such a decision. But I would say that people make all kinds of bad decisions when they are mentally unhealthy and transgenderism could be a misguided path for some, but unhealthy people take any number of misguided paths. Transgenderism would be a coping mechanism, as you say, not a disease. I can see how you are concerned about this and it was interesting to see the point of view from you side. I hope you will also consider the increased rates of suicide by people who been singled out and victimized. Even if transgenderism is inherently unhealthy, it does even more damage to discriminate, harass, or otherwise harm transgender people.
Transgenderism is Unhealthy

My last argument, by sadly necessity, will be rushed. While it is true that discrimination and adverse experiences must play a role, it cannot account for all of them. The reason that adverse experiences cannot be the only cause of suicide is seen with race. White people have the highest suicide rate among race groups, if discrimination were the major factor in suicide we would see black people having higher rates of suicide than they do. The way that transgenderism is unhealthy as coping mechanism, is because making yourself another person means you are not directly dealing with the trauma, making long term recovery more difficult. It's denial. Also, it has the potential for more mental health struggles if someone goes through with gender change, and regrets it in time. This is more common then some think. Fully rejecting someone's birth sex, is not a small feat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.newsweek.com... https://afsp.org...
Transgenderism is Unhealthy

There is no denying that the suicide attempt rate is higher among transgender people. There are also higher suicide attempt rates among people who use prescription antidepressants. But in any examination of statistics, we have to be careful to separate correlation and causation. The statistics you linked seem genuine. Your stated 32%-50% may not be wrong. I will now point to the Williams Institute statistics that were cited as the source of information in the first link. The stats provided find the greatest increase in suicide rate were experienced by those who faced discrimination, rejection and violence from the community. http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu... In fact, it seems all the links provided cite discrimination/harassment/violence as very significant factors in transgender suicide attempt rate. To me, this seems to speak to the health of society as a whole every bit as much as it speaks to the health of transgender people. The rate of children identifying as trans in the foster system was interesting. Slightly more than doubling the outside rate. But again, we have no strict causation defined. It could be, as you say, a coping mechanism. It could just as well be that children are more free to make that choice as the foster system is in no position to force a gender identity on them as parents often do. This also does not indicate transgenderism in itself being unhealthy. Common statistics on bullying indicate that victims are between 2 and 9 times more likely to consider suicide. There is no denying that transgender people face far more aggression and discrimination that cisgender people. With an average suicide attempt rate in America of 4.6%, well, multiply it by 9 and see what you get. It is riskier to be trans, no doubt. But suicide attempt rate is not a reliable indicator that transgenderism is unhealthy. It can be shown to reflect the problems in society in large as easily as it can be shown to reflect an unhealthy state in transgender people. I'm not going to try to say that it is more healthy, but in order to empirically state that transgenderism is unhealthy, we need clear causation, as anyone familiar with statistical analysis knows and has been very annoyed by, statistics are easy to manipulate. Causation has to be established in order to link rates to a specific factor. The use of statistics in your last argument shows certain correlation, yet causation is elusive and can be called into serious doubt by outside factors such as discrimination.
Transgenderism is Unhealthy

Transgender people are more than two times as likely to experience mental illness.People who are transgender, even after surgery, are far more likely to commit suicide. Infact, the amount of them whom attempt suicide is between 32% and 50% depending on country.In india, half of transgender people attempt suicide before their 20th birthday.These grave statistics alone show that transgenderism is detrimental to someone's mental health. Transitioning doesn't fix it.Transgender, and other non typical sexual orientations, are over represented in the foster care system.This shows me that transgender very well could be an unhealthy coping mechanisms for abuse. It is a way to separate oneself from the person who was abused, a way to dissociate from the situation.Unlike simply being gay, being transgender is a complete rejection of ones own gender.This will be my starting point.https://www.mercatornet.com...https://www.hrc.org...https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...
Transgenderism is Unhealthy

I don't see transgenderism as unhealthy in itself. If it is an issue of mental health, the "healthy" or "unhealthy" is not as clear as it would be concerning physical health. If we want to define "unhealthy" as something causing damage to the mental heath of the individual, transgenderism isn't necessarily detrimental to an individual. An identity crisis can cause problems, but if they come to a certain conclusion that they do not feel the gender they were born, transgenderism is the cure. As far as physical health, it is more risky to have the hormone treatments and surgeries. I don't see any larger harm in lacking reproductive ability as Earth is getting pretty crowded. As far as the mental health of non-trans people, I think it forces some of them to look in a different sort of mirror than the ones they are used to and it makes them uncomfortable. But when more people try to understand, more people will grow. We can broaden our perspective of what people can be. We will have to if we are going to progress.
Transgenderism is Unhealthy

Transgender: "A person (as a transsexual or a transvestite) who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person's sex at birth."This does not include a person who just:Enjoys things the opposite sex tends to likeDresses like the opposite sexIs gayIt is someone who wants to be, or sees themselves as, the opposite sex.Health refers to both physical and mental health.Both sides must act with respect to the other, and the burden of proof is shared.I am arguing that transgenderism is unhealthy.
Interracial Marriage Should Be Banned

No my friend. Yes there are races classifying humans. Let's take the example of dogs. Dogs have several breeds such as the bulldog, puddle, pit bull, German shepherd, etc. Each race has its own characteristics, such as the puddle be more hairy and the pit bull to be stronger than others. And yes, humans are divided into races like the dogs, after all every ethnicity has its different physical characteristics of the other. For example, Asians are the only race able to have 100% black hair (scientifically), and usually only Caucasians can have blue/green eyes. Nobody is totally equal. If we scan an African American gene with an Indian gene, we will find many differences. Therefore, humans (in general) are divided into different breeds, like the cats, dogs, horses, etc. But everyone should have the same rights and the same freedom, independent of your race.
Interracial Marriage Should Be Banned

Hold on, you are con? I THOUGHT YOU WERE PRO! Oh well, I got to come up with something, here we go: There is no such thing as race, well, between humans that is, an African American is just as much a human as a Latino, Caucasian, Asian, native American, etc. This meaning that if you are referring to "interracial marriage", you are talking about a man marrying a horse, not a human marrying a human of another ethnicity, because a human cannot be a different race than another human, so if you are talking about "interracial marriage", yore talking about beastiality, not marriage consisting of two humans of a different ethnicity, which is, beastiality, which is gross. !PLEASE NOTE!: I AM NOT ARGUING AGAINST TWO HUMANS OF DIFFERENT ETHNICITY MARRYING, I AM ARGUING THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RACE, AND HENCE INTER RACIAL MARRIAGE MEANS BEASTIALITY. All men/women/hermaphrodites were created equal, I'm sorry for the confusion, I thought he was arguing against interracial marriage, because this debate was named "interracial marriage should be banned." I'm sorry.
Interracial Marriage Should Be Banned

That's it. Some people with extreme ideologies have discussing about the ban of Interracial Marriage/relationship. What is a Interracial Relationship? Is a relationship/marriage between 2 humans of different races/ethnicity's, like a Hispanic with an Asian or a white with an Indian. For me, there is no need to ban Interracial Marriage, cause in the end, everybody is human. Thus, the act of prohibiting a ethnic group to have relations with another is racial discrimination. I'm against the ban.
School is not important.

Good Afternoon/morning everyone, Rebuttal: My opponent states that you need to educate yourself in what you need in his first argument. Firstly, I'm sure at the age of 7 you will gain a disliking of almost every subject with the exception of sport, and let say you want to pursue sports at age 7. You will only be educated in sports and lack fundamental abilities such as reading and writing skills, this would make it immensely difficult for a child to change subjects further on if s/he decides to change subjects, this also would detrimentally affect a child's knowledge on general knowlage. My opponent states an example of his philosophy in practice in the second paragraph, a major flaw in this is being self-taught. He doesn't state any language skills subjects, this is fine for being self-taught on subjects such as web development and photoshop wold be fine since they are universal and can be understood by all. But self-teaching yourself a Business and lacking a fine language skills is immensely hard, since business is a language oriented course. Schooling is an essential part of modern life. It is something that persons in first-world nations often take for granted.Having a knowledge on a subject that you find unnesicarry currently may be a subject that you pursue in University. Being able to choose your own subjects without possessing core subjects would cause a person to have terrible communication/social skills. This would ultimately create a fail student, which may lead to homelessness. Now concluding what I've stated here; I've mainly rebutted but my major points are * People who are lacking language skills are likely to fail all subjects, and not learning some core subjects such as maths can be detremental to someones logical thinking. SOURCES: https://www.reference.com... https://www.education.gov.au...
School is not important.

Note: now i don't know if people in america can go to school as adults.. i am just talking out from experience from my own country. Now i have been wondering for a long time. And i don't believe school is important, but it's needed to get you on track. But people use school all wrong! Educate yourself, educate yourself in what you need.. if you don't need history, *Bip* it. If you don't need religion.. *Bip* it.. People educate themselfs in stuff they don't need, and will proberly be working after 10 years, building someone elses success. Lets say i have a talent for photoshop, lets then say i want to educate myself as a web-integrator (Web designs) well, i would have an advantage.. because i would make beautyful designs for the sites i would make.. lets then say i wanted to educate myself in euconomics, so i could get an understanding in the business, then i would have knowledge to make a design for websites, and i would a thing or two about business.. BUT.. Experience is the key, without experience school is *Bip*.. meaning.. if you dont experience what you learned in life from school, then you will forget it.. This is my first post, i just felt like sharing!
Are ghosts real

Ghosts are not real THE HUMAN BODY IS MADE UP OF NERVE SYSTEMS AND MUSCLES, NOT SPIRITS!!! I don't even believe that humans have souls, if humans have souls why don't animals, why don't we see animal spirits/ghosts. I also find it funny that ghosts mainly appear in creepy houses dressed in creepy costumes and weird faces. There is also a theory saying that only people that believe in ghosts can see ghosts, when we see things we see the light reflecting off of it not the actual object. So if it is light reflecting off of the ghost why can't everyone see them? It doesn't make sense.
God is real

Sorry I've been working for past two days. I hate delaying but adults have to do adult stuff so haha. The immediate point I could relate to this, is a theory by political theorist: Walter Lippmann , stated in his book Public Opinion, I believe- I'm reading too many books this semester! Here is my own account on reality as proposed by Lippmann. Reality, we construct our own, based upon experiences and beliefs. Inside this reality we are the center focus. People naturally create a world around themselves and base their world views and opinions off this world regardless of its validity. Unless you can 100% prove a concept true in your reality, then it is a false aspect of your constructed reality. You are living in your personal reality inside the REAL reality. So, if you think God is real, and cannot go out and prove specifically that he is with actual fact without regard to your personal faith and expectations.. Then no, God does not exist in the real universal reality but just in your own. And while many people consider that to be sufficient enough to say God does exist, because they believe it in their own personal reality--- it just means you're ignorant to understand there is another layer to the world, actual reality. Simply existing inside your own reality, INSIDE an actual reality doesn't count as proof of God. That's my opinion. . You want God to be real, but it's just not realistic.
God is real

The notion of 'if you cannot prove it false, it must be true' does not work and really is not a valid argument, as it has no points really. Find me largely credible sources of scientific background, with no religious affiliation that argue heavily on fact that God exists that has been tested timelessly and has enough backing to be deemed significant data? God is a concept, made by man- to console, control, and conspire against people. I am assuming you're a true believer, congratulations if you are, you can lead your life wherever you want with that but do not argue that simply because something is not proven false, that it is true. True faith in a God would be, accepting that God may or may not be real and still having faith even with question. Blind faith is believing without question.
God is real

Sorry. It is impossible to disprove the existence of god. He is living beyond our senses, and there is no way to prove otherwise. The evidence that there is a god, is more than there isn't. For an example, how are there so many religions and have that many interpretations of god? Many of the religious believe in a god, and many things cannot be explained by sciences. That means there is a chance of there being a god, but you cant prove otherwise.
God is real

Truly this is not a question of "God is real or not" but better, a question of "Is God realistic or not, given the current global situation, social standards, etc?" I would say no, God isn't realistic. While it's a possibility, there is hardly any suggestive evidence of an actual God beyond here say of people who believe or people 'turned to God'. The belief of God is also situational person to person. God is not a concrete concept with set rules and agenda. many different religions view God in many different ways, again making it less realistic.- harder to grasp. And while again.... That doesn't mean one or some do not exist, it just means it is not hardy enough to put faith into in my opinion and many others opinions. Some things you cannot argue in black and white terms.
Richard Petty is the best NASCAR driver is the history of NASCAR

You're welcome. This will be a straight-up debate, no semantics. RESOLVED: "Richard Petty is the best NASCAR driver is not the history of NASCAR" "Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937) is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. "The King", as he is nicknamed, is most well-known for winning the Nascar Championship seven times (Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat), winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races (ten of them consecutively) in the 1967 season alone. (A 1972 rule change eliminated races under 250 miles (400 km) in length, reducing the schedule to 30 [now 36] races.) Petty is widely considered one of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all time. He also collected a record number of poles (127) and over 700 top-ten finishes in his 1,185 starts, including 513 consecutive starts from 1971-1989. So as you can see, he has the most poles, most wins and is tied for most championships. He has the most wins at the Daytona 500, and is even nicknamed "The King." Kings are always the highest level and rule over everybody." -Irrelevant. This is the history, abridged at that, of only Richard Petty and not NASCAR. Better histories can be found here: http://www.nascar.com... http://en.wikipedia.org... Thank you for this debate. Britt
Richard Petty is the best NASCAR driver is the history of NASCAR

Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937) is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. "The King", as he is nicknamed, is most well-known for winning the Nascar Championship seven times (Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat), winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races (ten of them consecutively) in the 1967 season alone. (A 1972 rule change eliminated races under 250 miles (400 km) in length, reducing the schedule to 30 [now 36] races. ) Petty is widely considered one of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all time. He also collected a record number of poles (127) and over 700 top-ten finishes in his 1,185 starts, including 513 consecutive starts from 1971-1989. So as you can see, he has the most poles, most wins and is tied for most championships. He has the most wins at the Daytona 500, and is even nicknamed "The King. " Kings are always the highest level and rule over everybody.
Richard Petty is the best NASCAR driver is the history of NASCAR

"I appreciate your sportsmanship as well. It's nice debating someone who doesn't get angry at every arguement[sic]." - Indeed. "I will extend all arguments as well. This is relevant because the resolution is 'Richard Petty is the best NASCAR driver is the history of NASCAR.' In my first argument I stated a history of Richard Petty's NASCAR career. So it is a history of Richard Petty while he was in NASCAR. Therefore this is a relevant point." - To sum up, even if Richard Petty were the best driver (in NASCAR), this statement hardly comprises any semblance of NASCAR's history. Your resolution, differently worded, would read: "Richard Petty is the best driver; this is the history of NASCAR." Of course, I suppose it does depend on what the meaning of the word "is" is:) Britt
Richard Petty is the best NASCAR driver is the history of NASCAR

I appreciate your sportsmanship as well. It's nice debating someone who doesn't get angry at every arguement. I will extend all arguments as well. This is relevant because the resolution is "Richard Petty is the best NASCAR driver is the history of NASCAR." In my first argument I stated a history of Richard Petty's NASCAR career. So it is a history of Richard Petty while he was in NASCAR. Therefore this is a relevant point. http://www.racing-reference.info...... Here you can find the entire career of Richard Petty. That is my argument from the previous round. With that, I can see nothing but an affirmative ballot. Thank you.
Richard Petty is the best NASCAR driver is the history of NASCAR

Thank you for accepting the challenge Britt. This is relevant because the resolution is "Richard Petty is the best NASCAR driver is the history of NASCAR." In my first argument I stated a history of Richard Petty's NASCAR career. So it is a history of Richard Petty while he was in NASCAR. Therefore this is a relevant point. http://www.racing-reference.info... Here you can find the entire career of Richard Petty. Thank you for the argument. GAC3