Having bad table manners makes you a less liked person.

Round 3: (23) Having bad table manners makes you a less liked person. PRO: girr29 (vs) CON: Zakkuchan Alright, I look forward to a good round and I look for a good discusion about why having bad table manners makes you a less liked person. I will first start off by defining a few key terms from the Funk dictionary. Table Manners: conventional behavior expected of people while dining. Less: to a smaller extent, amount, or degree. Liked: to regard with favor; respect of character. Person: a human being expected to have good behavioral patterns as conditioned by culture. Now we will move on to my case. I: Indepth look into the wording of the resolution. A: Table manners as defined earlier, is conventional behavior expected of people while dining. So to have bad table manners would be to have bad behavior while dining. So the obligation of the pro in this round is to proove that if you have bad behavior while dining that you will indeed, be liked by less people. B: Just so there's less muttled debate in this round, I will go over what less and liked truly mean. Less, as defined earlier, is to a smaller extent, amount, or degree. Liked, as defined earlier, is to regard with favor; respect of character. So to be less liked would mean your respect or how people favor you, will be put to a smaller extent, amount, or degree. So if I can proove that people will like you less because of bad table manners, then the pro will win this round. C: I've had debates in the past where debates have surged over obvious words, and just so the round is less confusing and more about the resolution, I do believe that my definition of person, a human being expected to have good behavioral patterns as conditioned by culture, should be the definition that holds throughout the round. This argument is just to avoid arguments that may say a person could be an insect or something else like that. Now let's move on to the bulk of the case. II: Different examples of what bad table manners are and why people would less like you because of it. A: Burping, belching, and any other bodily noises such as "breaking the ice" would be viewed as impollite at a table. Anybody I know would tell you that yes they are insulted when somebody does make such bodily noises and that yes, they would think less of them and not favor them as much when they make these noises while dining. As a column in the New York Times said in July of 2006, "Not only do basic and fundamental lines get crossed when people decide to show off their bodily noises while eating at a table, but the person in question may be looked as a slob and a pariah amongst those at the table." So you'll just see from this column that people will be less liked if they committ a bad table manner such as burbing, belching, and yes even "breaking the ice". B: Eating with your mouth open is also extremely rude and another example of a bad table manner. If a man took a woman on a date and continiously ate with his mouth open, the woman would probably be insulted, not like him as much.....if not at all, and not want to associate with the man any more. So furthermore that once again shows why table manners will make you a less liked person and if a person doesn't work on them, they might cost themselves when it comes to impressing people when out at dinner. C: Picking your nose, sneezing without covering it up, or coughing without covering it up are also examples of bad table manners. When somebody sneezes or coughes around me without covering it up, I am personally insulted and I do think less of them. I think that my opponent would have to agree that if somebody was sitting next to him while dining and they kept on sneezing or coughing without covering it up, he would be disgusted and not like them as much. And as for picking your nose, I know many people that are disgusted when somebody does that around them. Not only is it viewed as a bad table manner, but a just flat out a bad manner that people hate, and I do believe people think less of someone when they do that. D: Laying back in your chair lazily, laying your elbows on the table, and loosening your belt while eating are also viewed as bad table manners. All of these show more slobish ways of presenting yourself at a table while dining. If someone is trying to impress another peron, like in an interview, a date, a work get-together, or many other things, they would not want to present themselves by laying around and acting like a lazy slob at the table. There are many more examples of what bad table manners are, but I think I've laid out a nice range of what bad table manners are and why people will be less liked if they decide to committ such bad table manners while dining. The rest of my case will just be basic contentions, that will show some analysis of how this resolution should be viewed and what should be voted on. III: Subliminal studies show people are less liked - A psychologist, David Adler, conducted a study in the 90s about subliminal messages and how things such as bad table manners can negatively effect the subconscious of others towards another. In this study he continued to talk about how if bad table manners are the first impression that one has towards another, it will negatively effect them throughout the relationship between one another because that person will view the other as a person with horrible table manners. So because subliminally and because the first impression can be destroyed because of bad table manners, I do believe that shows why a person is less liked if the have them. IV: Resolutional Analysis to consider - Although I don't think it's necessary to win this debate round, I can bring up the fact that bad table manners could imply any bad behavior while dining. So that means if I was sitting at a table with a man named John, and six other people, and John killed the six other people, I wouldn't like him as much and therefore his bad table manners of killing six people would led to the resolution being true. Although this may be viewed as extreme, I do believe that killing people is a bad behavior and that yes killing people can happen while dining, so that's why killing people can be a bad table manner. So I think that this resolutional analysis can be accepted. Whethere I win the argument on this resolutional analysis doesn't win or lose the round for me, it's just another reason that I do believe prooves having bad table manners makes you a less liked person. V: Observational Argument of the Round - Generally bad behavior leads to less respect, and that doesn't stop while eating. In society, you are expected to behave in an appropriate way. If you fail to act in such an appropriate way, you will not be liked as much, and you will be respected less. While eating at a table if you do such things as I listed in my 1st contention, you will obviously not be liked as much. If I saw someone breaking the ice, picking their nose, or laying back like a slob in their chair I would be insulted, and I would not like them more, I would not think of them the same, I would indeed think less of them. And that is why right there the Pro wins the round, because pure and simple if you have bad behavior at a table, they can generally expect that they will be less liked. Again, look to my points about the resolution, my points about bad table manners, how psychologically people view bad table manners, and look to my resolutional and observational analysis arguments that I have already made. Judges, think about how you actually perceive people who do disgusting things like this. The resolution implies that they committ multiple bad table manners with the plural in it and if people do committ bad table manners, I think you must agree that they will be less liked and therfore I proove the resolution true. If you read through the arguments you will see why the Pro wins the round.