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Dictatorship transforms national policies into irregularities

The opposition point about: "Dictatorship does not hear the aspiration of the people; it only relies on their 'wisdom'. Because dictatorship rules without the people's consent, there is no urgency for them to hear their citizen" gives us a chance to repeat what we have said all along. That too unpopular or disturbing decisions on part of the dictator carry an insurrection threat. Sometimes people don't aspire necessarily to development or don't know how to get to it. And then it's a good thing to impose them the changes. Turkish ruler Kemal Ataturk, decreed his way into modernization and development for his people. Those were no popular changes. They ranged from the abolition of the Califate (Islamic Papacy) that were purely about modernizing to others that were a push for development as the one that happened in "1930—Ford assembly plant opened near Istanbul and President Kemal launched a nation-wide program of building roads on which U. S. cars of all price classes predominate."[[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,746241-2,00.html]]. By stating that "dictatorship does not hear the aspiration of the people; it only relies on their 'wisdom'. Because dictatorship rules without the people's consent, there is no urgency for them to hear their citizen." the try to say that because there is a dictatorship, the ruler cannot know what the people need. But we have talked about incentives of dictatorships to have objective information for good decisions. This objective data includes number of hospitals, mortality rate, etc and excludes popularity rate. Its perfectly possible to know the economic, health, education, income and productivity indicators and they can evaluate their policies using (performance indexes.Of course if they were to need it, dictatorships are specially apt to extract information from people because they don't have to care about privacy. We surmise that by irregularity the opposition means variability which is really flexibility. And we have explained in our yes point no. 7 that dictatorships have more flexibility on the subject of economic policy because "dictatorships can define and establish a pro-investment legal and institutional framework (e.g. Low taxes, subsidies, ensuring economical liberties) without facing the boundaries that a Democracy encounters on it's political process".
Dictatorship is a more economic institution: elections are a luxury reserved for developed countries.

The resources needed to maintain democratic institutions and regular elections -the costs of electoral process, and electoral propaganda, political patronage, the interruption of long term government plans and projects- are a unnecessary expense that developing nations can't fork over. For example, the most recent US presidential election had a price tag of US$ 5 billion[[http://ibnlive.in.com/news/us-presidential-election-could-cost-more-than-5-bn/76556-2.html?from=search-relatedstories]], with that money an NGO such as Brad Pitt's "Make It Right" project could build more than 33.300 houses, (at $150,000 per house)[[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/arts/design/03pitt.html]] for the people of New Orleans that were affected by hurricane Katrina in 2005, and house approximatelly 150,000 people in total (5 people per house), which is by far an important aspect of life for those affected by Katrina, than presidential elections could ever be.
Development is not possible when there is no succession in the government

Dictatorship has no planned succession period. Since a dictatorship relies on the dictator 'wisdom', chaos will follow after the death of the dictator. This is true in every dictatorship country (applies to popular and un-popular dictators). A perfect example for this case would be of Yugoslavia. A country that was lead by a communist dictator after the second world war, Josip Broz Tito, under his command Yugoslavia managed to rebuilt itself from the ashes of war only to find itself disintegrated, overwhelmed with civil war and ethnic cleansing after the death of their dictatorship leader. [[http://books.google.co.id/books?id=Bgr7BTA5Gt4C&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=yugoslavia+economic+success&source=bl&ots=fdZah4C9gc&sig=LhxVoAB_dMWiFLY_2xfHtNGOEKQ&hl=id&ei=_YSGSrmBD4b_kAWg_aGhBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=The%20Economic%20Structure%20and%20Failure%20of%20Yugoslavia&f=false]] It comes to show that dictatorship operates a very dangerous form of government that cannot guarantee stability and safety for their people. That a personal rule is unlikely to be sustainable beyond one generation [[Ndulu, Benno J. , et.al. The political economy of economic growth in Africa1960-2000, 2007]]. This is the then same problem faced by dictatorship country such as Cuba, North Korea, Burma, and Libya.
The loger lasting and biggest economic miracles have ocurred under dictatorships

When talking about economic miracles, as in the Chilean miracle, academics are referring to states where there has been registered unprecedented growth. The comprehensive list includes: The Baltic Tiger (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Brazil, Ireland, The Asian tigers (Taiwan, South Korea, Hong-Kong and Singapore), Italy, Greece, Japan, Massachusetts (US), Chile, Spain, Austria and W. Germany after WWII and France after WWII. We contend that the economic miracles of greater magnitude and with longest lasting effects have occurred in countries under a dictatorship: “The most rapidly growing country in the 1970’s was the military-ruled Brazil. The economic tigers of the 1980 were the dictatorships of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. In the 1990’s the leader was China. And those spectacular successes repeatedly sowed the minds of even committed democrats.” [[ Prezworsky, Adam; Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and well being in the world, 1950-1990, p.2)]][[http://books.google.co.ve/books?id=uiFH5dh12p0C&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=%E2%80%9CThe+most+rapidly+growing+country+in+the+1970%E2%80%99s+was+the+military-ruled+Brazil%22&source=bl&ots=xij96Vxvmy&sig=OC7DpzEu4Mvut--VE7JrwlDaElo&hl=en&ei=P9mESrD5PKKNtgfAluiuCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false]] Is undeniable that in number most (11 of 17 countries) of these miracles happened under democracies but if we look closely, France, Japan, Italy, Austria and West Germany were already developed when the growth happened. Spain was a dictatorship that wasn't fully modern when the miracle happened. The Celtic tiger miracle lasted from 1995 till 2007 and know Ireland, a democracy is now almost in a depression. [[http://money.asia/2009/05/13/news/international/tully_ireland.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009051409]] Meanwhile, the most radical changes and the longer lasting happened in Chile during Pinochet dictatorial rule, which is still buoyant and the Asian tigers, where three of the four were o are dictatorships. The radical dimension of this growth is shown in the following quote: "In 1950 South Korea was the economic equal of Kenya or Nigeria, while Taiwan was comparable to Egypt. But during the next 30 years the economies of Taiwan grew by leaps and bounds. By 1983, economists noted that 18 million people of Taiwan exported more goods than 130 million of Brazilians or 75 million Mexicans." [[Schaeffer, Robert K. Understanding Globalization: The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change]] [[http://books.google.co.ve/books?id=bSTqbu7dWSYC&pg=PA289&lpg=PA289&dq=CHIANG+DICTATORSHIP+in+Taiwan&source=bl&ots=LaDTTxgoi_&sig=_xZFRUyrMXbUIzveLOBDLyFZ-uQ&hl=es&ei=m3mESofRLor-M_7KpdwL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=&f=false]]
Dictatorship is a good breeding ground for personal discipline and order

All ruling government needs discipline, disregard the form of the government. It is true that dictator may breed personal discipline, but dictatorship itself is not a good breeding ground. Discipline is a description of the way we act in pursuit of our goal. Dewey put discipline as “A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.” [[Dewey, John. Democracy and Education. 1926]] Three key words/phrases in disciplines are, consider, deliberate, and “an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty”. These three keys refer to one main points, that the disciplines comes from the person itself, not by the pressure of the government. Disciplines is the backbone of any constitutional countries to exist. Disciplines made an order that came from public awareness, not by public security. Thus, the obedience of the citizen will comes from the consent of each citizen, not by a pressure from the dictator. The evidence of this argument is Taiwan, a democratic country who put Confucianism value as the moral value of the country, to sustain its democracy. It resulting in a productive based society triggering the continues economic growth showed in the last years. [[http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod4.nr0.htm]]
Dictatorship transforms national policies into irregularities

How can we determine the result of a dictatorship? The possibilities spread from the Hitler who started the Second World War to Tito who led the non aligned movement, or from Gomez who sold the national resources to foreigner, to Chavez who nationalize the foreign companies. The needs of the citizen is ever changing (the world is ever changing!) but how is this met when the dictator cannot accelerate with the people's needs? Dictatorship does not hear the aspiration of the people; it only relies on their 'wisdom'. Because dictatorship rules without the people's consent, there is no urgency for them to hear their citizen. On other words, being bad or good is only determined by the dictator itself, no form of control that can guide the dictator's policies or enlightened the dictators about current and future conditions. Dictators don’t listen and doesn't act based on people's aspiration. A good development cannot bear on these irregularities, development needs a system that has good mechanism that implements the people aspiration, legislating the law to regulate it, having a body that execute it, and examining the process of execution. That is why because we believe that the essence of development is sustainable development, we do not believe that this can be achieved by Dictatorship - a form of government which is not stable,l doesn't have a succession and shows irregularities in its policies.
Dictatorships regimes can be a path for countries move on from civil wars and focus on development

This is clearly an example of the usage of the ambiguous interpretation of Dictatorship. If a civil war has two side of an opposing government (e.g. Between the status quo and leftist guerrilla) and is won by what may or may not be at first a Dictatorship regime/organization, it is not proof for Dictatorship as the BEST PATH to development. For example; The overthrown of Cuba’s Batista Dictatorship regime was only continued by Fidel Castro's Dictatorship regime. Although the opposition has stated a good example of human development in Cuba currently, it doesn’t prove that life in Fidel’s time is better than Batista’s time. Therefore, this argument is only valid for the motion “Dictatorship is the best path to end civil wars”
Dictatorship outperforms democracy in growth and economic develpment

We INSIST not to categorize one party system to a dictatorship. This isn't because we are playing safe and try to promote definition that is give more advantage to us, but more to serve clarity on our evidences. The proposition always confronts dictatorship with democracy, which is by nature, focusing the differences that dictatorship is ruling without people’s consent, while democracy is ruling with people’s consent. When the example goes to countries like Singapore and China, the role of dictatorship method is questionable, because those are categorized in grey area. For example, the success factors of Singapore’s economy is unclear, whether it is because of the dominant party system (which is promoted as dictatorship by the proposition), or because of the liberalization of the economic system. We should see that the economy of China on its classical age had slow growth. It is after Deng Xiao Ping took office, the economy of China is moving fast. Deng Xiao Ping is famous for the quote “It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice”. By this point, it is clear that the proposition is trying to contest between the black cat with the white cat, but bending it to become “A black and white cat that is smart in catching mouse” to win the case. EVEN IF we put ourselves in their shoes and follow their dictatorship model, their deduction is still unclear. It is a big question, is dictatorship the MAIN ingredient of China’s success? We believe that dictatorship DOES NOT outperform democracy, because in fact, to ensure growth and development, the (so-called) dictator amputates its authoritative power and giving it to the market. Deng’s recipe of success has nothing to do with dictatorship, and it is also cannot be compared to the India. The root of the problem of the economy was not about whether it is dictatorship or not, but more on its economic view. Yes, india was politically democratic, but it was also economically Leninist. Only in 1990s did India begin to reform its Leninist economy. China, however, began reforming its Leninist economy already in 1978.The standard contrast of china as evolutionary, democratic, and stagnant obscures what is clarified by understanding India as a political democracy with a largely Leninist economy. (Friedman,2001:102 [[http://books.google.co.id/books?id=gAj81vmbQvwC&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&dq=china+economy+and+dictatorship&source=bl&ots=ggeVZ0FCmB&sig=cWPqHwIrurPjuxsYKZ50EODjhEk&hl=id&ei=aUSGSqaREImOkQW5uJmjBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=&f=false]] India's economy combined a logic of centralization with extensive state regulation, which included the control of inputs, financial resources, and key prices, thereby becoming the largest employer in the country. This socialist economic policies that is adopted in Nehru-Gandhi era that virtually bankrupted India by 1991.[[ Burns, John. India's Prime Minister Wages Uphill Campaign. New York Times, April 5, 1996 ]]
Dictatorship is a good breeding ground for personal discipline and order

Dictatorships better control the elements of discipline and order in society. They enforce personal discipline because they promote a State founded on patriarchal and hierarchical value (Carl Henrik Knutsen), through the implementation of strict policies based on personal security and global respect on a community basis. Evidence of this argument, is Taiwan, where Confucianism is the primarly ideology promoted in the society. This ideology focuses on the importance of interpersonal relationships based on the performance of individual roles in society and also based on fixed principles of authority. Trans-cultural nursing by Madeleine M. Leininger and Marilyn R. McFarland. [[ http://books.google.co.ve/books?id=Bp9QQvEn_9gC&pg=PA420&lpg=PA420&dq=patriarcal+and+hierarchical+values+TAIWAN&source=bl&ots=82RFVGQrjK&sig=LVZQTPRYFq9QBymL7q0Rarpslo4&hl=es&ei=pWaCSu_qJOavtgeK5_3KCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false ]]. Resulting in a productive based society triggering the continues economic growth showed in the last years.[[http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod4.nr0.htm]]
Religion's Net Impact On The World Is A Positive One

Whenever atheists try to cast religion in a bad light, they cite a long list of bad events connected to religion - war, terrorism, priests abusing their positions, religious "indoctrination", et cetera. However, religion is also responsible for much charity work across the work, and in the past almost all hospitals and hospices for the old or homeless were run by religious organisations. Religion is also beneficial in the day-to-day impact it can have on people's lives, the way it helps people through times of bereavement or other hardship or simply brightens their day. Coming back to charity and altruism, while it would be unfair and downright false to say that religion is necessary to bring out the moralistic spark in people - obviously atheists and agnostics are as capable of being generous and selfless - religion provides a motive force to channel that innate goodwill, and to remind people to exercise it. Religion also acts as a definitive authority on morality.
Religion & Science Are Not "At War" (Indeed It Is Logically Impossible)

Religion and science are both dedicated to seeking the truth, but they are very different sort of truths. Science and maths - rather obviously - seek scientific and mathematical truths, while religion seeks moral, spiritual and theological truth. The two are quite different. You wouldn't look in a biology textbook if you wanted to know whether if it was right or wrong to kill someone, just as you wouldn't look in the Bible, the Torah or the Koran (or any other religious text) to find out how many electrons a fluoride ion has. It is ridiculous to apply scientific principles to matters of religion, spirituality and philosophy, just as it is ridiculous to the apply the principles of those three to science. Seeing as religion and science occupy quite separate fields within the grand corpus of human knowledge, it is ridiculous to say that they "at war" over anything. It is therefore ridiculous for people like Prof Richard Dawkins, the most prolific atheist of our time, to suggest that we have to make a choice between religion and science. That would be like telling people they have to make a choice between maths and english, or between art and science. Both of those latter choices would be ridiculous ones to impose on people, as the two things both serve different purposes. The same is true of any choice between science and religion. Evolution Evolution is in no way contradicted by the Judeo-Christian creation story outlined in Genesis. The latter does not explain how God created humankind, and seeing as science suggests that evolution is the most plausible way to explain our origins, it would seem that would be the most likely way to interpret God's creation. To take the argument opposite, actually the genealogy in the Bible does stretch back more than 6000 years: to the year 4004 BC (6013 years as of 2009). The genealogy could also be stretched back beyond that, as in ancient times terms such as "son" and "father" could be used metaphorically to talk about descendants and ancestors as well as immediate family members (Jesus, for example, was sometimes referred to as the "Son of David", though the two were separated by dozens of generations). Any genealogy could thus be stretched indefinitely. Anyway, the story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden is not always taken literally by Judeo-Christian theologians; Adam is used throughout the Bible as a synonymn for humankind as a whole, and the story of the Fall can be interpreted as a metaphor for the rejection by humanity as a whole of God (stretching through time to the present day).
This isn't even arguable: one valid "against" point destroys the argument.

To say religion's a purely positive force in the world is implausible. With one valid "against" point, the argument is in shambles. To say it is net positivity would be arguable, overall positive would be a little less arguable, but to say purely positive is to ignore man unjustly dead because of religion, every failed scientific discovery because of religion, and every family torn apart because of religion. So your argument is as follows: If you take out the bad bits of religion (which are clearly caused by something else - although what that is I'm not going to say) religion is all good. I'm convinced!
Religion Does NOT Cause War.

The hypothetical argument offered here seems to counter it's own logic. It is true, people would not follow a person to war if they stated it was for the purposes of satisfying their own ego. If however, they gave a passionate reason for going to war, people would follow that leader into war. Ergo, religion causes war by giving people a uniting reason to fight. If everyone were acting for their own interests war would not occur. It is when people see themselves as fighting for a higher cause than themselves that wars occur. Religion gives people cause to go to war, this is the same as saying that religion causes war. for if there were no religion, no unifying reason to fight, wars would not occur. In addition to this why should something that does not cause wars be positive. I don't cause wars it doesn't mean I'm positive. If it prevented wars (which it clearly doesn't) then it would be posistive. At best your argument suggests that it is medicore
Religion Does Not Condone Destructive War

Whilst religion may state that war and violence is not condoned, this is nonetheless what religion 'causes'. The logical argument that can be used to support this is a comparison with alcohol. Yes, the manufacturers of alcoholic beverages state that drinking should be done 'responsibly', yet the media attention they create and the hype around their products nevertheless 'causes' irresponsible drinking. The disclaimer in both religion and alcohol producers as to what they do and do not condone do not reflect what they actually cause. Put in the exact context of this debate, whilst the words maybe a purely positive force (deceptively so) the effect of religion as a whole is not a wholly positive force.