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The Death penalty is a just form of punishment for convicted murderers/killers.

I affirm: The Death Penalty is a just punishment for convicted murderers/killers. [Definitions] Death Penalty: execution; putting a condemned person to death. Just: in accordance with justice, i.e. giving each their due. Punishment: 1. the practice of imposing something unpleasant or aversive in response to an unwanted or disobedient behavior. 2. The act of punishing; penalty for wrongdoing, especially for crime. Convicted: declared guilty of a crime in a court of law. ================================================================================= Contentions: I. Kant's Scale of Justice Argument According to Kant, when one kills another person, then they themselves have sentenced themselves to death. The criminal has universalized the action of death and has tipped the scale of justice. Thus the government must give the criminal what he/she has universalized, i.e. death, and put the scale back into balance. The equality between victim and criminal must also be realized. The government must put equal worth between the victim and the criminal. Therefore, to maintain the balance, the government has an obligation to kill the criminal. Only then, has the scale of justice been balanced. II. Locke's Right Violation Argument/Social Contract Theory According to Locke, when one person kills another then the killer loses their right to life as well. The Social Contract explains that it's an imperative obligation of the government to give the killer the death penalty because he/she has lost the right to live in society. Essentially, the killer has broken the contract between himself and the government. Thus, the government has the right to remove this person from society. The government would be violating the contract if they did not because: A) They would be letting a killer keep the right that was taken from another member of society. B) They could possibly be putting other members of society at risk as well.
Animal Rights

The fact that they are not human definitely means that they can't be persons. You can't teach someone that can't totally communicate in humans ways how to think rational, that's something that humans are born with and develops over time. Monkeys are creatures that belong in the wild, they shouldn't be captured and forced to adopt to human ways. No matter now much training you give to a monkey it will never be able to get a job or sustain a real job, it would never be able to rational completely understand the value of money and what exactly its used for, and a monkey could never be charged or arrested or tried because the rights of America don't extend to monkeys. With those reasons in mind, it is not a good decision to make monkeys person. Monkeys should just stay monkeys, the only things that become persons over a period of time are children no other organisms would make sense.
Animal Rights

The monkey can have someone by their side for the first couple years of their life, just to train them and help them learn to think rationally. Then, just like an adolescent, the monkey can be left alone at a certain age to be an independent person. Just like children, monkeys will need training as well but once they are of a certain age they should be considered persons. Just because they are not exactly like humans does not mean they are not persons. With the proper guidance and training, monkeys can and should be considered persons, at least at a certain age.
Animal Rights

If the monkey needs someone, as in human supervision then how can it be a person? By definition a person is one (as a human being, a partnership, or a corporation) that is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. Monkeys can't be recognized by the law as the subject of rights and duties, just because they have feelings doesn't give them rational thinking. Monkeys don't have morals, they can't be punished when they commit a crime, they can't be held accountable to rules or laws because they can't rational understand situations. Just like a little kid that is also not considered a person, monkeys need a adult or another human to help its survival in a habitat that isn't their own. And even like little children the fact that they can communicate isn't enough evidence, or doesn't out weigh the negatives against monkey becoming persons. So in reality monkeys aren't fit to be persons.
Animal Rights

Yes its true that mammals can be trained to communicate, but that doesn't change the fact that they can not live on their own in a human environment. They can't be held accountable for their actions, and they can't hold down jobs, or pay bills, or anything of that matter. So in order for a monkey to become a person they would have to be independent in those aspects. Having a monkey, would be like having a child or having a disability adult, even though they can communicate, through writing or sign language, they wouldn't survive on their own without someone. With this, monkey should not be legally made persons.
Animal Rights

Some mammals do have the ability to communicate in human ways. Monkeys in particular can be trained to write and communicate through sign language because the formation of their hands is similar to the formation of human hands. If monkeys are trained to write and communicate, then they can also be trained to rationalize situations and assess information. When treating monkeys as persons, we need to consider not just their feelings but the fact that if they work hard enough they will be able to process information and communicate just as good as humans can. Humans are not born knowing how to read, write or communicate. We must be trained, or raised, to these things; so why can't we do the same for monkeys when they are born? It would be better to treat monkeys as persons then to shut them out from the world. A lot of mammals are kept in captivity for various reasons. If we treated mammals, particularly monkeys, with the same respect as we do humans, then these mammals would have a chance to learn how to function the way a human functions. Instead of harming certain mammals, we need to treat them as our own. In reality, humans are mammals as well, so why can't other mammals be treated as humans are treated?
Animal Rights

1) The rights of animals are protected by laws and if broken, the offender is penalized. 2) Yes, mammals and other animals have mental capabilities, but they aren't enough for that mammal or animal to be treated like a person. 3) Meaning mammals or other animals don't have the abilities to communicate in human ways therefore cant be held accountable to pay taxes, hold jobs, serve in court duties, et cetera. 4) Mammals and other animals don't have the abilities to rationalize situations, meaning they cant properly assess information or actions. 5) Therefore even though mammals including monkeys and other animals have feelings that isn't enough for them to be legally considered to be persons.
Animal Rights

1. The basic moral rights of at least some non-human animals are in no way inferior to our own. 2. Non-human mammals have essentially the same right not to be harmed or killed as we do. 3. Normal, mature mammals are not only sentinent but have other mental capabilities as well. 4. These include the capacities for emotion, memory, belief, desire, the us of general concepts, intentional action, a sense of the future, and some degree of self-awareness. 5. They are not only alive in the biological sense, but have a psychological identity over time and an existence which can go better or worse for them. 6. Thus, they can be harmed or benefited. 7. Therefore, monkeys should be considered persons.
Internet censorship is a good thing

May I point out that my opponent failed to stand by the format. He clearly made a rebuttal in his opening statement which went against the format which I made clear. By doing so shows misconduct in the contender in this debate now that is cleared up 1) No one has been killed because of wikileaks, and yes I believe that wikileaks should of been left alone. And if something so bad that we must fear that it is possible the country's enemies may get a hold of it then why put it on the Internet? That information may still be stolen, corrupted, misplaced, etc. 2) I said nothing about the topic freedom of speech that can be another debate to argue on. And also in some countries so much as saying that you are against the government can land you in prison or worse. So depending on the country the freedom of speech does not exist. 3) You are right about were do draw the line but a lot of governments go overboard on the topic. So it is better not to have the line at all.
Internet censorship is a good thing

1.) So you don't think the government should have shutdown WikiLeaks.com? Which exposed several spies through leaked documents who were then in turn murdered by the countries they were working in. Some secrets are kept for your own safety, my safety, your safety, and our "RIGHT" to Security. Some things need to be censored and protected, yes information is power, but what about in the hands of our enemies? In then becomes our demise. Freedom of speech is often misinterpreted. You can speak freely about any topic, in any forum or environment, and be protected regarding your opinion. However, if your freedom of speech infringes upon the rights of others such as putting them in danger, then it is our right to be protected. So the question is, how does the government balance between the two. Granting freedom of speech to individuals and on the other hand, protecting the right to security of the others. It is a tricky balance that often gets abused. So the real debate should be "Where is the line drawn, and who draws it?" because there has to be a balance. You also say the government shouldn't keep secrets, does that include releasing all of it's citizens social security numbers, military plans, intelligence gather, etc. Again, these are secret to protect us, if they didn't keep those securities then they would be infringing on my right to security and protection.
Internet censorship is a good thing

1) I do not believe that our government shall keep secrets from the common people. The government should have the best interest of the people, and why should they keep secrets? It's the right of the people to know what their government is up to. No matter what harsh truth it may come in, the people should be well informed. 2) The Internet is a highway of information ready to any one who wants to access it at any given time. Why should the government deny the people this right. 3) The greatest weapon of all in my opinion is not a nuke or a viral disease but information control. Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off. -Richard King cite sources: . http://www.brainyquote.com...
Evolution is scientific.

I would like to focus on one point in particular: observation. You state, "The idea of evolution was arrived at by examining nature. Looking at existing species, examining their characteristics and commonalities, and considering how they arose led to the idea of common descent". The scientific method does not say you must observe evidence that leads to a theory, or as you say, "led to the idea of common descent". It says you must observe the phenomenon! You cannot simply say, "Looking at existing species" because that is exactly what you are doing. Evolutionists look at present day organisms and get the "idea of common descent". Idea: "a formulated thought or opinion"[1] Therefore, evolutionists are formulating an opinion based on how they THINK everything came to be. My point remains you cannot directly observe evolution. You have the burden of proof. When has an organism been observed to have "large and complex changes (as in species formation)"[2]? Without any examples of this, your argument that evolution follows the scientific method falls flat. [1] http://www.merriam-webster.com... [2] http://www.merriam-webster.com...
Evolution is scientific.

My opponent insists that macroevolution is scientific. Macroevolution: "evolution that results in relatively large and complex changes (as in species formation)"[1] For something to be scientific it has to follow the scientific method. Scientific Method: "The scientific method has four steps 1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena. 2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation. 3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations. 4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments."[2] [1]http://www.merriam-webster.com... [2] http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu... I look forward to your response.
Yo mama joke battle

By forfeiting this round and indeed the debate/battle, my opponent is making it easy to win but hard to fight. Hard to fight in that he isn't giving me any inspiration and easy to win in that forfeiting normally means the opposition wins. I shall try to, for the fourth time, reach a greater climax than my previous arguments. And now, the greatest joke of all: "Your mother is beautiful. " Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to deconstruct this joke. Working within the infrastructure of a your mother joke battle, one makes disparaging falsehoods about the oppositions mother. I have gone beyond this and used the very infrastructure itself to create the most scathing joke of all. The challenge of saying something false as an insult has been taken to the next level. Thank you ladies and gentlemen.
Yo mama joke battle

It is a shame that my opponent has forfeited his round. The following is a narrative about your [his] mother. It opens with a rather snappy quatrain. "If ever there were a fall from grace, 'Tis writ across her twisted face. For as she glid, flowing and fair, Fate foretold her great despair." And now the harrowing story! "All newborn babes are engendered in beauty, and your mother was one whose irrefutably fair. Her twisted flaxen hair fell past the shoulders and rested across her full and wholesome heart. This she knew. She saw the watchful eye and returned her crafty smile. She used them for her own gains; for passion, for money, for good food and strong wine. Yet, while she ravaged the hearts of men, it was time who ravaged her. No longer could she demand passion. Money could no longer bring the simplest pleasures. Good food betrayed her lusty hips. And even the strongest wine could not dull her savage looks." And with this great tragedy upon our shoulders, we highlight the eternal truth in couplet form: "Time, the army, marches quickly forth, Not even the harlot could stop its course."
Yo mama joke battle

I haven't seen those before(!) The next set of jokes are meant to be intellectually entertaining. There are only 5 but for your cerebral pleasure, citations have been given such that you may appreciate/investigate the jokes. 1. Your mother is so fat, her weight can only be expressed concisely with Knuth's up-arrow notation. [1] 2. Your mother is so fat, her Schwarzchild radius exceeds that of the Andromeda Galaxy. [2] 3. Your mother is so fat, scientists use her to measure the effects of gravitational lensing. [3] 4. Your mother is so fat, a clock next to her ticks twice as slow as one on the moon. [4] 5. Your mother's ocular faculties are so weak, she cannot perceive the first line on a Snellen chart. [5] ----------- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org... [4] http://en.wikipedia.org... [5http://en.wikipedia.org...
Yo mama joke battle

Thank you. You seem to like the number 40 a lot. 1. Yo mama is so fat her bellybutton gets home 15 minutes before she does. 2. Yo mama is so fat the National Weather service names each one of her farts. 3. Yo mama is so ugly...that...well look at you. 4. Yo mama is so ugly she makes blind children cry. 5. Yo mama is so old her birth certificate says expired. 6. Yo mama is so fat she walked into the Gap and filled it. 7. Yo mama is so fat she has to put her belt on with a boomerang. 8. Yo mama is so fat she puts her lipstick on with a paint roller. 9. Yo mama is so fat that she was floating in the ocean and Spain claimed her for the New World. 10. Yo mama is so fat that she fell out of both sides of her bed. On to my opponent.
Yo mama joke battle

I thought this was a 'your mother' joke battle. Am I not making jokes against your mother? Without further ado, my next set of jokes! 1) Your mother is so fat, her BMI is greater than 40. 2) Your mother is so stupid, her IQ is 40. 3) Your mother is so old, her age is the square of 40. 4) Your mother is so short, her height in inches is 40. 5) Your mother's heart is so weak her bpm is 40. 6) Your mother is so promiscuous, her annual sexual partners number 40. 7) Your mother's house is so small, its square footage is only 40. 8) Your mother is so poor, her annual savings, in dollars, is 40. 9) Your mother's ocular faculties are so poor, her numbers are -40, -40. 10) Your mother's vocabulary is so constrained, the number of words she knows is 40.I hand over to my worthy and gracious opponent.
Yo mama joke battle

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Yo mama joke battle

Arguments 1. Your mother is so stupid that she told her child there was a single seat situated next to everyone in a movie theatre. 2. Your mother is so stupid she had a non-veridical auditory perception (i. e. hallucination) of Bob the Builder not using his catchphrase when in fact he did. 3. Your mother is so ugly she adjudicated the aforementioned ugly contest to which my mother allegedly attended. 4. Your mother's house is so small she could not sell it during the pre-2008-financial-crisis property boom. 5. Your mother is so stupid that she conflates physical characteristics with linguistic ability. Indeed her stupidity extends such that her son believes this too. 6. Your mother is so stupid she ascribes my mother with both the properties of 'fatness' and 'flatness'. This again appears to extend to her progeny. 7. Your mother is so big scientists must use the Gravitational Constant (G) to recalculate the value of the acceleration due to gravity (g) when objects fall around her in order to maintain accurate physical models. 8. Your mother is so stupid she taught her son that a thermostat was a cigarette butt such that, when he entered my mother's house and kicked the thermostat into the off position, inviting my mother's question as to who turned off the heat, he thought the erroneous account would be a successful your mother joke. 9. Your mother has such poor ocular faculties that she perceived my athletic mother to be fat and stuck after completing a successful jump. These ocular troubles are hereditary and her son shares the same issue. One recommends the duo use a 2 for 1 deal at the nearest ophthalmologist. 10. Your mother's ocular difficulties have extended to the point where she perceives frosted glass as transparent. She was perplexed when my athletic mother climbed over to see what was on the other side. I believe there is a good ophthalmologist in the Mayfair area.
Yo mama joke battle

This is going to be a Yo mama joke battle. These jokes are all in the name of fun so don't hate. The argument max is 2000 letters, because I don't want it to be super long. To whoever my competitor is please right no more than 10 jokes at one time. 1. Yo mama is so fat when she goes to the movie theater she sits next to everyone. 2. Yo mama so ugly Bob the Builder took one look at her and said I can't fix that. 3. Yo mama so ugly when she joined the ugly contest the judges said sorry no professionals. 4. Yo mama's house is so dirty she has to wipe her feet before she goes outside. 5. Yo mama is so hairy the only language she speaks is wookie. 6. Yo mama is so flat she's jealous of the wall. 7. Yo mama is so big she had to get her own area code. 8. Yo mama is so poor when I went to her house and stepped on a cigarette butt she said "Hey, who turned out the heat?" 9. Yo mama is so fat she jumped in the air and got stuck. 10. Yo mama is so stupid she had to climb over a glass wall to see what was on the other side of it. I await my opponent.
Rap Battle 5 Cheesedingo VS 0905845

I thank 0905845 for accepting. Hope your ready to lose! I made this breif, just a starting rap to get things flowin. I don't think your prepared to lose I'll break your heart like Taio Cruz I get the cheers you get the boos Once i'm done with you i'll take a snooze I just won't stop like Alaska's Snowing Soon the towel is what you'll be throwing I'll cut you like this lawn i'm mowing My mind isn't the only think that your blowing So just give up while you have the chance My sick rhymes got you in a trance Your rhymes you'll probably need to enhance There is no way you will advance You'll see my d!ck is sweet like honey It shines so bright, you'll call it sunny this aint no joke. You think i'm funny? I'm not Lil' Wayne but I am Young money Let's see what you got, 09!
Rap Battle 5 Cheesedingo VS 0905845

Well, This girl says she gots what it takes to take me on. WE SHALL SEE.RULES:1) Offend your opponent. That is the way rap is. If you can't put up with that, don't accept.2) While offending your opponent is necessary, try not to take it over the top and go out of your way to make your opponent feel like sh*t.3) Be good at rapping.First round is acceptance ONLY.THAT IS All.CHALLENGE OF THE CHEESEDINGO!!!!