We are all InSaNe

Thank you bluesteel for a truly engaging debate. Rebuttal My opponent argues that I failed to prove that humans spend hour pondering over the future. This statement remains to be 100% false. I provided multiple scenarios's that we can all relate to, as well as providing explanation to these scenarios. My opponent claims that I provided no prove as to my argument yet he failed to repute any of my scenarios. This can only mean that he accepts these scenarios to be true and as such making an argument that I failed to prove my argument is both false and contradictory. My opponent also mentions that thinking about the future helps alter the present. This argument fails for two reasons: 1. It does not address my argument about the distinction between pondering and thinking/preparing 2. It fails to address the problem itself. The problem occurs when we spend so much time thinking about the future, that we ignore the present. My opponents argument exemplifies the thinking and preparing mentioned in his previous scenario. In this scenario, the future works in hand with the present to better the individuals life. "And if people spend too much time fantasizing about the future, they are not normal" EXACTLY! We have all had multiple moments where we fantasize about our future. .. when we fantasize about that crush of ours. .. .when we fantasize about our birthday present. .. when we fantasize about our new job experience. It is almost impossible not to fantasize about a future experience that we are excited about. Competition "But pride also ties into social standing, which has actual value" This actually proves my point. It is insane to rank individuals based on whatever abilities they hold above others. This creates inequalities which leads to unfair advantages and so much more conflicts. We literally plunge ourselves into chaos everytime we rank people in our society based on individual abilities. Adverb vs. Adjective "We sometimes have mood swings, but not *always* (like someone with bipolar disorder). " This makes no sense. We are always undergoing mood swings. .. from the day we wake up till the day we go to sleep. Criminal: We are all unable to differentiate between right and wrong. .. always struggling with this dilemma. The difference now is that we know that killing is wrong, but a ill man does not know the difference. Emotions My opponent claims that some people do not care about social pressures yet he fails to provide any evidence supporting this argument. My opponent agrees that we are social creatures and as such subjective to peer pressures. Saying that some people do not care about peer pressure is absurd. The problem is not our subjective nature, it's our inability to focus our emotion in a more proper manner. We tend to let our emotion rule our lives constantly overshadowing our behaviors every time we feel pressure. "Lastly, psychopaths have an inability to feel emotions, which makes them fully sane under my opponent's definition of insanity. That seems to be completely backwards. " This was not my argument. My argument was that sane individuals have the ability to properly channel there emotions. Keeping your emotions locked in is not sane in anyway. .. its insane. "{{{ "Sanity is unattainable, like perfection" }}}" I don't quite understand your argument but i will try to make sense of it. I am not trying to redefine sanity and insanity to mean superego and Id. In my argument, sanity is not simply a state of mind, but a distinction of perfection. It is not limited to a state of mind, but in all physical attributes of our daily lives. Following the definitions presented in the beginning of this debate, all human beings are insane as they are mentally unstable. .. maybe at different levels but still insane. {{{ "Insanity is a spectrum" }}} My opponent argues that using a spectrum disintegrates the precision of the word. My opponent goes on to given an example in which a spectrum brings about issues. If insanity becomes a is seen as the norm, then there will be no need to call someone of mild insanity inane. In the more extreme cases, the word insane will be used to describe the individual as it is not indeed seen as the norm. This does not make the word meaningless as there will still be a clear differentiation between the mildly insane and the critically insane. Test i don't even know what to say anymore. I have explained this in my previous rounds. the question asked by my opponent has been answered in the above arguments.