Tradesmen and Laborers Are Subhuman

Well, to start us off, whether or not I'm subhuman is not up for debate, therefore it is pointless to bring it up. I would ask you to please stop using pointless arguments, because it doesn't help your point at all. The same applies to my IQ.I was looking forward to an interesting philosophical debate on the humanity of those less fortunate than us, but clearly I won't be getting that, so I'll just have to make do with what we've got. Also, when it was said for me to refrain from using ad hominem, I didn't expect pro to start firing it at me from every direction. Nevertheless, I'll continue to refrain for the remaining duration of this debate.I'm not arguing that subhuman's definition isn't a "lower order of being than humans," what I'm arguing is that tradesmen and laborers aren't subhuman according to that same definition. So far, I have yet to see any actual evidence from pro to support his theory. I, on the other hand, do have evidence. According to Oxford, the definition of a human is (in zoological terms) (1) "belonging to the genus Homo." According the the definition of subhuman provided by pro, a subhuman is a lesser being to a human. Here you can see a discrepancy. A subhuman is one who is lesser than a human, and a human is a being that belongs to the genus "Homo." Even if we go with the name given by pro back in the first argument, that tradesmen and laborers are "Homo Tradiens," they would still classify as full humans according to the Oxford Dictionary. I can go further. According to research published in the Journal Nature referenced in this article (2), All humans have a similarity of 99% to everyone else classified as human. This means that the difference between you, me, and the man who makes shoes for a living is less than 1%. Your statement about the United Nations being a "weak and deluded pack of fools" might very well be true, but only because people don't respect them enough. The fact is, the Universal Deceleration of Human Rights is a document that exists to stop some of the events that occurred during World War II to occur again. By ignoring said document, you undermine its power, which leads to more powerful people ignoring it. If the President of the United States of America stopped caring about Human Rights, the US could simply suspend one's citizenship rights under the pretence of terrorism, and they could spy on you, kidnap you, torture you, gas you, etc. The Holocaust happened because Hitler ignored what have become the basic rights of all humans, as I've defined above, everywhere. Not only this, but the UN is the only organisation stopping the world entering a Nuclear apocalypse on the outbreak of war. In fact, the US and the Soviet Union were so close to destroying each other, the UN was the only thing that kept everyone safe. I'm not sure if you've ever played the game Fallout, but the society in that is what I would call a best case scenario in the event of worldwide Nuclear war, and if you survived into that society, the people who would be valued the most are those who can make things, build things, wire things. The tradesmen and laborers would be the only reason society lives on. Respect of the UN is what will eventually either keep many people alive, or doom them all.You call all tradesmen and laborers worthless, and you say that they'll all be replaces soon anyways. The Buggati Veyron is often called the fastest car in the world, and is highly respected by many many people. That car is completely hand-made by tradesmen. The reason why so many people like cars like that is because they are often handcrafted, and that gives them prestige. Many people would look upon the jobs of those few men and women and wish that they could be apart of something like that. I would ask that for the remainder of the debate, pro refrains also from using ad hominen. It doesn't help prove your point, and can be seen (when used the way it has been used already) as bad form. I would hate for you to lose the debate in such a way.(1) http://www.oxforddictionaries.com...(2) http://www.independent.co.uk...