Ban Divorce & Interracial Marriage

================================================================ INTRO: Before I start, I would like to ask my opponent to use some sources. His arguments are nothing if he cannot back them up. I could say that biracial children live three hundred years longer than the average white child, this does not make it true. My opponent has said things about biracial children that I laugh about. Simply because I know he gets it from the media. As a biracial child myself, I rarely am subject to racism. I am six foot four inches, so I never really face bullying. Anyway, being a biracial child has many benefits that people who are just one race will never experience. I can hang out with both races without a problem. I can joke, and take jokes about racism without getting offended. I do not feel out of place anywhere I go. I think that my opponent has been raised with the mentality that biracial children have a bad life. Maybe things are different for him in Kentucky, with a 9:1 ratio of black children. What my opponent must realize, is that the world is changing. Racism is dying out, and limiting personal freedom is dying with it. We don't want to "turn back the clocks" as you said. Well, let's continue with this debate. As a side note, I would appreciate it if you would write words of your own instead of simply quoting me. There is no need for it, and it just fills up your characters. The readers don't want to have to read the same debate twice. ===================================================================== ARGUMENT: In your first argument, you originally said that interracial marriage should be banned. I went back and checked, and nowhere did you say that it did not affect those who are already married. You are not sticking to your original resolution. You must keep to the resolution "Ban Divorce & Interracial Marriage. " Therefore, your refutation of my first argument 1A is useless. If you wanted it otherwise, you should have stated. In your attempt to refute my 2A argument, you again contradict yourself. You say that the biracial children would be fine, and then in the next sentence you say biracial children are often the targets of teasing and bullying, and often victims of hate crimes. Do you think that all the biracial children born from interracial marriage are just going to disappear? Do you believe that they just do not matter? Turn a blind eye and look towards the next generation? No. This refutation is weak and unsupported. I again ask for sources. Refutation on argument 3A is just a dumb idea in general. I think I would rather go with the one drop rule. Do you know how sad that sounds, a judge telling a woman that she cannot marry the man she loves because his eyes are not the right size? Also, judges cannot always tell someone's race simply by looking at them. I am black and white, if there is a girl who is Hispanic and black they will probably look like me. What separates me from marrying her and marrying this girl who is Hispanic and White? Are you saying that I am not good enough to marry a girl with some White blood in her? Appearances do not last, so it is not a good idea to marry on appearance alone. Forgive me for saying so, but that argument fails. You say that the people who are dating just could not get married. This is also a bad idea. The moment we do that it the moment we put others high than others. A white couple can get married so why can't the mixed couple who is in love get married too? I know you say that your resolution is anti-racist, but I can't help but to laugh at that. It is extremely racists to tell a mixed couple they do not have the same marriage rights as the white couple. You simply brush over my argument about big government, yet it is a big point. My conclusion is that you cannot accurately refute my points about the matter. You say that since it is good for society (which it is not) then it should be put in place. Let me ask you this, there are more black criminals in the world than whites. Because of this, it would be ultimately for the good of society to kill every black man woman and child in the world. So, should we kill every black person since it would help society? For once these black people are gone, the whites would be society. Obviously not, but that is the side you are arguing from. You must step out to see the big picture. You also ignore my argument about everyone being equal. Since there is nothing that separates a White man and a Hispanic woman from each other except their skin, they should be allowed to marry. I need not say anything more on that matter. I also find it amusing that you talk about human rights, when you are the one who wants people to try to take those rights away. As I said before, as a biracial child I never went through any hardships due to bullying/racism/hate crimes. On the other contrary, many people from both races get along with me and me with them. I feel no hostility from people I am around. Yes I admit every now and then I will get a mean glance from some old white guy. But only because I am not white. My self-esteem's very high, and I do not think of myself any lower than you. I do not think that you should have the right to marry someone of your race, but I would have to go beg a judge to let me marry this girl because she looks like me. Now, on with your attempts at refutation of divorce. I cannot stress how much I hate the subject of being "mentally ill. " So, if I simply decide to pull out a gun at a police officer, I can blame it on being mentally ill. Well, I will for once accept this argument of yours. Let us say that they are mentally ill because they "have a chemical imbalance in their brain. " You say that banning divorce would force families to deal with the problem. I cannot stress how wrong this statement is. Not all women who want a divorce would simply want to get the guy help. Yes, there may be some, but there are plenty who do not. Also, you must realize the costs. Many women do not have the money to get their husbands mental help, that kind of treatment can get up to the thousands of dollars. You say that a "good wife" would visit her husband in the mental hospital once a week to start the healing process. You must realize that not every wife is a "good wife" as you would say. After my father hit me, the police had to hold my mom back from going to beat up my dad. The last thing she wanted to do was get him help. If things were the way you wanted, the wives would be the ones who need physiology! Same goes for the rape example. What if an eighteen year old marries a nineteen year old, and few years later when they have a kid the husband rapes the child. The woman would have to stay married to a rapist who is in prison. She could not get remarried and get the child an actual dad who loves her. Could you really look in a woman's eye and tell her she is stuck with the man who raped her son? It is unethical and cruel. What you must also look at is the mental part of it. If a woman realizes that the only way she is going to get out of marriage is for the man to die, what do you think is going to happen? I find it funny how you are always talking about King Henry VIII. Since he could not get divorced and marry another woman, he simply had his wives killed. Men and women would start killing if things got bad, which they obviously would. I asked for some up-to-date- proof interracial marriage leads to marrying your pets, and you simply went even farther back in time to King Henry VIII! You must give me some hard proof to base your arguments on. I will stop here, since I am running out of Character spaces.