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Incest is NOT Wrong

I accept, and hope this will be a respectful debate. I disagree with you argument for a few reasons. 1. Your argument rests on the fact that "kids" will not be born, therefore the harm factor is out. if you think most teenagers or even young adults wanted kids, then you'd be wrong. All it takes is a slip up once, and you have just ruined a child's life. 2. You believe Marriage is completely safe for incest couples. Making incest Marriage legal will completely change society, in a very very bad way. Teenage pregnancies are already insane, to make incest moral in society is to change everything. I know your argument relies on the fact that they don't have children, but making Incest marriage legal, and morally acceptable will do absolutely this. If you don't believe this, then go back a few dozen years ago when gay marriage was saw as disgusting and Immoral. Today it is acceptable, same with race. In short, nature intended for Incest to be completely wrong. This is why birth defects happen, and the child is hurt. Gay marriage is acceptable because no one is hurt. Not the youth, or adults.
Incest is NOT Wrong

Edgy opinion coming through! My argument is as follows: 1. Morality, as in what is considered good or bad is based on harm principles. 2. If there is no harm to be found, that means something is not necessarily wrong, and thus there should be no reason to not let someone do it. Although, this doesn't necessarily mean it is right, but then, being straight/gay isn't necessarily "right" either. 3. There is no harm in two (or more, lol) legally consensual persons having a relationship or getting married. 4. Thus, if there is no harm, then it is not immoral or wrong to commit incest, and it isn't okay to stop people from doing something that is harmless. I will now list probable counterpoints and show why they don't have much ground. 1. Inbreeding & genetic defects. There are alternatives such as birth control, vasectomies, surrogate pregnancies, abortion and adoption available. That said, this is a discussion about incest, which refers to sexual relationships with family members, NOT having kids. That is a separate issue entirely. "But they may have a child by accident!" They can't. If they don't use the previously mentioned alternatives listed to avoid having a child, then they are making a conscious decision to have one and it is no accident. 2. It is psychologically damaging. If anyone takes this stance they need some statistical evidence of psychological/personality disorders developing where a person being in a consensual incest relationship is the cause. I don't see any evidence of it. 3. More people will commit incest if it is legal. Ah, the slippery slope fallacy. Homosexual people are still a small minority in populations where it is legal, so that means something being legal doesn't necessarily mean more people will want to do it. 4. More people will groom children as sexual partners if incest is legal. The slippery slope strikes again. If people are willing to manipulate their children into being sexual partners, then chances are they would have done it anyways because incest being legal DOESN'T make statutory rape legal. People often conflate incest with pedophilia. They are not synonymous, as they can occur independently. If you say that they will be more likely to groom them for when they are of age if it becomes legal, then refer to the paragraph above under point #3. 5. *points out religious text that says it's wrong* Let's not make this a discussion about religion, please. Pretty please? 6. Possible power dynamics between child and parent could be harmful. If two legally consenting persons want to have a relationship knowing (or not knowing, doesn't matter) that power dynamics between them could cause issues, that is their decision to make, not yours. 7. Why get with a family member? There are billions of other "fish in the sea." "Why get with a member of the same sex? There are billions of other 'fish in the sea.'" Sounds ridiculous doesn't it? It's probably because it is. If I'm wrong I'll happily admit it. Come at me!
I can't wait for my parents to die

I can't wait for my parents to die A lot of things happened over the past time I was usually going out in the town to molest some children But one day police raided my house And my parents found out that I am sick Now they won't let me outside alone This has slowed me down in molesting children Police didn't care much but my parents did I can't wait for my parents to die So I can once again molest children like usual I know how people say that you should love your parents But I really hate mine, I can't wait till they die They want me to get a job and stop being so sick Don't they know parenting is a gamble Some manage to raise good children, Some manage to raise bad I sometimes still manage to molest children But the rates of molestation are so low now I am not a free wandering pedophile like I used to be I blame my parents for that I can't wait till they die I am grateful for the food and shelter they provided But now they have become obsolete Useful to me no more, Holding me back It is time for them to die I will not kill them, I am not a killer But I hope they get sick and die soon So I can live my life to the full
The Dance Dance Revolution Tops Guitar Hero

"You are right there are some who know how to play the real guitar and play guitar hero but you admitted you play guitar hero but don't want to learn to play the real thing and I'm willing to bet a staggering majority of these people are like you and don't want to play the real thing." its not that im too lazy to learn how to play the guitar, i just dont have any real interest in playing an instrument outside the triangle family (not really) "You said foreign music wasn't that popular but that's not true with the growing popularity of anime the popularity of the music grows along with it." Note the word GROWING which means it isnt that popular YET, but we arent talking about the future, we are talking about the present day. "Though both games are obviously great the DDR is the obvious winner the perfect combo of gaming and exercise there's no beating it." No, Guitar Hero is the obvious winner because it is the perfect combo of video games, instuments, popular music, and finger coordination And that ends my final argument (and now time for the polls)
The Dance Dance Revolution Tops Guitar Hero

My opponent has stated some valid points but there are just two things I want to discuss before I close: < > You are right there are some who know how to play the real guitar and play guitar hero but you admitted you play guitar hero but don't want to learn to play the real thing and I'm willing to bet a staggering majority of these people are like you and don't want to play the real thing. You said foreign music wasn't that popular but that's not true with the growing popularity of anime the popularity of the music grows along with it. Though both games are obviously great the DDR is the obvious winner the perfect combo of gaming and exercise there's no beating it. Your turn (good luck in the polls)
The Dance Dance Revolution Tops Guitar Hero

"Secondly you know and I know when I said weight loss I meant a substantial weight loss so moving your fingers wouldn't cut it. I mean have you ever seen an already obese person get skinny by playing Halo 3 hours a day don't think so but I guess it's my fault for not being specific enough. And as the Wii goes I never mentioned it we're talking about games not game systems but just to remind you the Wii has a DDR to." Haha, i guess ur right, you dont see any obese people getting skinny from playing Halo. Well yes you didnt mention the Wii, but you said DDR is fun because its addicting and you lose weight which the Wii also is with many of its games (like Wii Sports.) "Third on my list the music sense every body has their own opinion I won't stay on this to long but I my self like hearing foreign music if i wanted to listen to American music I would turn on the radio." Well yeah, everybody has their own likes and dislikes, but what im saying is American rock music is more popular than the foreign music in DDR. Most of the songs in Guitar Hero are not on the radio, but if you wanted to listen to other music than you can listen to the radio, but we're not talking about other music, but Guitar Hero music, which is not on the radio for the most part. I mean seriously, have you ever heard the some Through Fire anf Flames on the radio? "Also just to disprove the lie that you can't play the DDR a long time I'm going to tell you how I stay fit 1) Weight lifting 2) Push ups/ Sit ups 3) 1 and a half hours on the DDR on heavy 2and a half when the weather is bad and I can't run." Well if you really do that often, then you are in good shape, but most people in America arent, so many people cannot play it for long. (I actually like play it for and hour to an hour and-a-half too) "And as for the people who don't want to work out only people who want to have a workout would buy the DDR just like the only people who play guitar hero are people who don't want to take the time to learn how to play a real guitar." Thats not true, you claim that people on play Guitar Hero because they dont want to take the time to learn to play a real guitar. I play Guitar Hero, and i dont want to learn how to play the guitar. I have tons of friends who know how to play the guitar, and they still play Guitar Hero. Your Turn (is it just me or is this more of a "Post Your Opinion" thing than a debate?)
The Dance Dance Revolution Tops Guitar Hero

First off of course my comments was purely opinionated I stated that they would be in rounds one and two. Secondly you know and I know when I said weight loss I meant a substantial weight loss so moving your fingers wouldn't cut it. I mean have you ever seen an already obese person get skinny by playing Halo 3 hours a day don't think so but I guess it's my fault for not being specific enough. And as the Wii goes I never mentioned it we're talking about games not game systems but just to remind you the Wii has a DDR to. Third on my list the music sense every body has their own opinion I won't stay on this to long but I my self like hearing foreign music if i wanted to listen to American music I would turn on the radio. Fourth on my list < > theses are the words of a couch potato and not only is this line not true but it is lazy. This is why they have levels you work at the level that you think is just slow enough for you do it right and you'll just feel like you went for a long walk. Also just to disprove the lie that you can't play the DDR a long time I'm going to tell you how I stay fit 1) Weight lifting 2) Push ups/ Sit ups 3) 1 and a half hours on the DDR on heavy 2and a half when the weather is bad and I can't run. And as for the people who don't want to work out only people who want to have a workout would buy the DDR just like the only people who play guitar hero are people who don't want to take the time to learn how to play a real guitar. (and I think DDR is much more fun) Your turn
The Dance Dance Revolution Tops Guitar Hero

You want an argument? You got one! First of all you claim that DDR is better than Guitar Hero because it is addicting and because you lose weight. Well, that is purly opinionated, for a game which some of us might say is the best game ever where some of us might think its the wort game on Earth. Actually, if you think about it, you lose weight in any video game you play, because you are moving your fingers constantly (well mostly your thumbs, but you get my point) The Nintendo Wii actually helps you lose weight because it makes you swing your arms around, and if i do say so myself, Wii games are pretty addicting. Secondly, I would say, being a master at them both, that Guitar Hero would probably be the better game. Both games have music, but the songs in DDR are short and most of them are kind of weird songs, and some of them are Japanese. Guitar Hero on the other hand, has full-length songs that we all know and love. Plus, they are all in English. Guitar Hero, i believe, is the better game, because you can play it whenever you want. The thing with DDR is when you play it you have to be prepared for a workout, which not everyone always is, and you cant play it for too long because you will get to tired. Guitar Hero you can play anytime you want for as long as you want (but you may not want to for the sake of your fingers not falling off) because it does not require any physical workout. And personally i think Guitar Hero is more fun.
The Dance Dance Revolution Tops Guitar Hero

You claim that DDR is better than Guitar Hero, but you put no reasoning, no proof, no anything. You just say that you want to debate with someone who is good at them, and i would like to say that I am, in fact, a master at them both. This is where the burden of proof falls on you, for now you have to prove why DDR is better than Guitar Hero, and they are not equals or that Guitar Hero is better. You said that you dont want to bring the sales, but they do play and important factor in which one is better, and Guitar Hero has better sales. But since you insist on not bringing sales into this, i will not press onward with this part of the debate. Now is where i have a question for you, Why do you think DDR is better than Guitar Hero? They are both along the same lines of a game. Both with moving notes that you have to hit at the right time while a song is playing, but DDR you hit the notes with your feet, and Guitar Hero on a guitar with your fingers. Since my opponent has not really said anything more, i will leave my argument at that, and await my opponent's reply.
Boxing Fantasy Match: Muhammed Ali Vs. Your choice of any boxer. 15 rounds.

Muhammed Ali Vs Your Choice of boxer. 15 Rounds.Pro: Muhammed Ali Con: Your choice of boxer Premise: Undefeated Muhammed Ali in his prime faces his next challenger. You are the fight scheduler and can choose any heavy weight boxer in history. This fight will take place in Madison Square Garden and will be sold out.Rules: -You cannot choose a boxer that has faced Ali already.-Boxer can't be below 200 pounds.-Only boxers. No mma, kickboxers, or karate fighters allowed.-The fight will be in the ring, not on the street.
Blacks should be lynched

"This picture speaks volumes to Africas rather niggardly IQ performance." You make this almost too easy for me. Africa is a continent that thoroughly lacks efficient education resources because of virulent corruption, lack of industrialization, and a sustained multicultural tendency like no other peoples on the planet. A map of Africa split up by its cultures would include almost 5,000 different countries, many of which have had hundreds and thousands of years of tension and strife that they have not yet overcome. This is the result of many civil wars in which religion, ethnicity, and culture fuel civil conflict that regresses Africa's ability to sustain an effective education infrastructure. Your argument is so thoroughly mediocre so as to jump to the conclusion that "since lots of Africans are black, and Pro thinks blacks are bad, Africa must be bad and it must be bad because it's a black continent". "Is it any surprise that a group of people descended from Africa would be so deficient? " Every group of people ever descended from Africa. "Of course, there are several parallels with regards to GDP and most other metrics here as well." Stark ones, at that. These aren't close comparisons here. You're comparing countries that have a $900 per capita GDP with countries that have $50,000 per capita GDPs. " In such deprivation, depravity hath spawned thusly." Sure. But the source of such deprivation isn't the fact that they're black. You've failed to prove that consistently throughout your argument. You've also not shown why the blacks should be lynched, which was the topic of the argument in the first place. The depravity and dilapidation from which Africa has resulted is a consequence of post-colonial-independence civil wars and decreasing resources like food and water and oil, as well as a lack of stability that their European counterparts tend to enjoy in a great amount. Pro has failed to establish his claim, has failed to prove that the blacks are the way they are solely because they are blacks, failed to prove that such a behaviour is exclusive to blacks, and failed to prove that lynching all blacks solves any issue regarding the crime he supposes they commit, or the gang violence that results thereof. As he has done so, I humbly instruct the voters to choose the argument which was the most effective and thorough.
Blacks should be lynched

You can just google the stats on everything I've mentioned about which you've enquired. They're cancerous because they've spread across the west with all their violent genetically informed culture. One last thing: however "vibrant and distinct" those other brown countries are, look at this picture: This picture speaks volumes to Africas rather niggardly IQ performance. Is it any surprise that a group of people descended from Africa would be so deficient? Of course, there are several parallels with regards to GDP and most other metrics here as well. In such deprivation, depravity hath spawned thusly.
Blacks should be lynched

"Go to an area of London where nigs are the majority; go to Detroit or Baltimore. The evidence will be right in front of you." This doesn't mean anything. You have yet to prove that the reason they are the way they are is BECAUSE they are black rather than because they are culturally disposed to violent behavior, and that such a culture is exclusive to blacks and cannot and does not occur in other races. "Blacks have an average IQ of 80, 20 points below the average! It goes beyong culture, blacks are genetically inferior to other races (esp. whites)." Not only have you no sources (reputable or otherwise) for such a statistic, you cannot prove that blacks have an average IQ of such BECAUSE they are black. Your initial claim was that we need to "lynch the blacks", but that claim involves all black people of all ranges of intelligence, wealth, and behavior. You have attributed as your reasoning for why we should "lynch blacks" as "the cure for the cancer is to lynch 'em all", but not only is that realistically unfeasible, you have not once in your argument proven that blacks are the way they are solely because they are black (if we are to believe that all black people are truly the exact same or even similar, which they aren't). "They're 'superior' in testosterone levels, which is part of their innate voilence and by extension gang culture. " No evidence to point to the idea that black people have higher levels of testosterone, or that they have higher levels of testosterone BECAUSE they are black, or that such a higher level is innate, exclusive, and without exception in blacks, or that such a higher level thereby causes violent behavior and "by extension gang culture". "They are a cancer to the west" You'll have to define what you mean by this. "...and I pooped my pyjamas" How unfortunate. "However many affirmative action programs the western world tries to implement, blacks are inherently unable to assimilate to white society because of genetics." This happens to be thoroughly untrue. The reason why we call people "black" in the first place (rather than Moroccan, Sudanese, Somali, or West African [in general]) is because blacks these days are so ethno-nationally homogeneous that their is no longer a distinction between people who came from former like Mali and Jolof and the Funj and Ethiopia and the Congo. Those regions, which all had vibrant and distinct cultures which would rival that of Europe (see: the differences between Polish, British, and Spanish culture), have descendants who no longer can identify with such cultures because they've assimilated to an entirely different, humanistic culture founded and developed in the west by descendants of Europeans. To say that they are unable to "assimilate to white society", especially "because of genetics", is unequivocally false.
Blacks should be lynched

Go to an area of London where nigs are the majority; go to Detroit or Baltimore. The evidence will be right in front of you. Blacks have an average IQ of 80, 20 points below the average! It goes beyong culture, blacks are genetically inferior to other races (esp. whites). They're 'superior' in testosterone levels, which is part of their innate voilence and by extension gang culture. They are a cancer to the west and I pooped my pyjamas. However many affirmative action programs the western world tries to implement, blacks are inherently unable to assimilate to white society because of genetics. The cure for the cancer is to lynch 'em all.
Blacks should be lynched

I accept the argument. I will posit that blacks should not be lynched. I am supposing that lynched, in this instance, denotes the forced rounding-up and public killing of a person or persons. As Pro has given a short overview of his argument, I will do same. Blacks should not be lynched. Pro's argument states that "[blacks] have caused irreparable damage to western society...Everywhere you go in the west, be it America or Britain, there prevails the same gang culture all over." Pro's argument doesn't stand up to reason or fact, and it has a lot of ground to cover logically for him to prove it to be true. First, he would need to prove that not only are blacks solely responsible for gang culture, but that they have a propensity to commit gang violence or participate in such a culture BECAUSE they are black, and for no other reason.
Best education in the world debate.

I am arguing that Finland has the best education system in the world, not South Korea.(1) The Finnish education theory is that most learning comes from outside of the classroom, and intrinsic motivation and the pursuit of personal interest is of the upmost importance. Finnish school days are short, but filled with school sponsored extra curricular activities. Despite the fun filled days, and the seemingly non existent academic rigor, every Finnish student is motivated to be the best they can be because they are surrounded by super powers, not including their country. Every student is bilungual, and the students who want to be the most successful can learn English or German, which are readily available in Finnish schools.For Finnish students, the exams are limited, and students can even choose their matriculation exams. In South Korea, the education system is centered around exams, and nothing but exams. These students are being pressured so much to perform the best on EXAMS, that they are not focusing on the developing factors of a child, such as extra curricular activity and having fun.In Finland, the teachers work, on average, 600 hours per year, while in the usa, teachers average 1,080 hours a year. While teachers are earn the 3rd highest pay in the world, they are often not feeling overworked, and find their job to be very fufulling and satisfying.Thank you for the debate!http://ideas.ted.com... (1)
Best education in the world debate.

It has been prove that South Korea has the best education system in the world. They score the highest on standardized tests. http://www.weareteachers.com.... South Korean students have been shown to study the most out of any other country.http://worldtop20.org... Also, according to worldtop.org South Korea has the #1 educational system in the world while Finland has the 4th best educational system in the world. I don't know what my con is trying to get at since the stats prove that South Korea is number 1. Also South Korea scored highest on the international PISA test for 15 year olds around the world to take. South Korean kids have a motto of that education is the number 1 thing in the world even over there own family's. Education is highly valued all over south Korea if there children don't do well in school there whole entire family will suffer. South Korean schools give a lot more homework than the states. South Korean children study almost every day. In south Korea you start learning a language as soon as you start school. Which is English.