Having bad table manners makes you a less liked person.

(Intro)>>> Perhaps you are amazing, but being amazing doesn't necessarily mean you understand table manners and their influence on society. Some of the things you said in the last speech could be seen as "rude"… but it actually makes me like you more… Having bad table manners can be funny, thus making you more popular and more liked… I.>>> Instances of no effect MUST continue to stand. If after this round, "no effect" was proven, who would the judge vote for? It's kind of like this: If the point in the round is to prove what a certain number is (out of 5) and you have to split it down the middle (assuming that there isn't any decimals)… Pro has to prove it is either 1 or 2 while con has to prove it is 3, 4, or 5… So in this instance, all that I have to prove is that table manners don't make you less liked, they either have no effect or a positive effect… both of which HAVE been proven within this debate round (which I'll get to in my voters)… A1.>>> You have challenged the credibility of my "witness" (haha)… SO… I decided to actually ask the lunch lady that I thank nearly every day what she thought… I asked her, "Do you think less of people who don't say thank you"? She replied with, "Well… I don't think less of the ones that don't but I do think better of the ones that do."… This is EXACTLY what I've been saying this entire time over and over again. Having good (table) manners makes you more liked, but failing to do so have NO poor effects on your character whatsoever. All my opponent has proven is that manners COULD have an poor effect… specifically, he says it "might"… but nowhere does he say it will such as the resolution asks… (plus the common citizen still stands since that is who we are talking about) A2.>>> Here, you have to see that manners are so foggy that you can not enforce them… My opponent contends that some manners have more weight than others but we aren't debating some, we're debating ALL. Again, he has yet to prove which ones have more weight and which ones make you less liked. A3.>>> When someone cuts in front of you in line, what is it that you don't like… the person, or the act of cutting in line? This argument simply proves that bad manners themselves are looked down upon, not the person. My friends and my friends of friends ALL cut in front of each other in the lunch line. Single file has NEVER existed. Them doing that frustrates me, but does not make me think less about them… B.>>> Thank you Mr. LaCroix……. times… they are a changin'… NO MORE, do people care if your utensils are in the right spot… NO MORE do people care if you let out a burp (it's usually pretty funny)… NO MORE do people force you to say thank you… all of these things are GREAT ideas but don't make you a bad person if you don't live up to these "non-existing" rules. C.>>> All that you said is true… but if you look back to your Rnd 2 argument, you never said that you think less of them if they don't say thank you… you said it's nice, but you never said that you hated them if they don't. These days, people don't judge other people simply by their manners. Sadly, it's usually the way they look. *>>> I'm sorry but I can't resist… Just out of curiosity, did you just skip showing my HOW your bad manners make people less liked? Judge(s), think about it… when someone has a bad manner, is it the bad manner you dislike, or the person? I.>>> Ok… here's the problem with the whole first impression argument… 1) How can you think less of someone if you don't even know who they are? First impressions don't show you who that person is, so how can you like them less? Also, you never liked that person to begin with, so if you don't like that person, you simply don't like them, not because of their bad manners. Also, that man was on the phone, if he wasn't on the phone, he very well could have been a nice person. SO, it's not the person who is being less liked, but once again, the bad manner. And the little girl… her attitude makes her less liked, not her not saying please/thank you… I'm sure you had other people in McDonalds that day that didn't say please/thank you… the only reason you brought her up was because of the attitude… The bad manners didn't help, but it also didn't make things worse. II.>>> haha… this argument made me laugh… If you would have walked into our first round with food in your mouth, I would have died with laughter… I'd remember you as that funny guy with food in his mouth. But of course, we thought better of each other because of our respect of asking each other if our parents could watch our round (in that really small room too)… We are friends, but if we wouldn't have done that, we very well could have still been friends. The worse that would have happened would have been us not being friends. BUT we wouldn't think less about each other because of that. It would have just been another debate round. Again, with the thinking better of someone with manners and having no effect (or a positive effect) if someone has bad manners… That is what has been proven within this debate round and I urge the voter(s) to see that. Thank you Mr. LaCroix for this great debate round. Only debaters can have a 6,500+ word debate about table manners and their effect on people's opinion. I'm sure we will debate again, it just seems that way… Until then, see you at Student Congress!