Resolved: English should not be the official language of the United States

Thanks for responding so quickly! I will defend and attack ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st off DEFINITIONS He did not attack my counter definition, which therefore means my counter goes through -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now to defend. Values and Criterions My opponent did not defend his value, nor his criterion, which therefore means I win those points 1) "My opponent's criteria is utilitarianism (The greater good for the greater number of people) but,what the greater number want isn't always the greater good,the people of Nazi Germany wanted to follow Hitler's Final solution,and the outcome was 12 million killed my the holocast" I am well-aware that this happened, but there is no reason for this to happen again. The language is not as serious as what happened. Worst case scenario, people don't follow the rule, but it will not get to the point where people will kill. There are official languages all around the world. For example: Britain, english is it's official language, and the Holocaust didn't happen 2) "My opponent's value is similarities,but he doesn't give any examples/ That is not a reasonable attack, since he is not attacking it with counters, therefore I win this point ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Defense time! :) 1) "His contention1 he says "English being the official language is beneficial",you might think that might be good in the beginning but in the long run,it is bad because people will get frustrated and leave and the US will suffer. " This is again, not true. Official languages are all around the world, and what he's done hasn't happened. Some states from the United States use English as the official language. Guess what? They haven't suffered! < source: . http://www.us-english.org... > 2) "His contention2 he said"What's there to loose in using English? Nothing, but much more to win. " If we do trade with another country who doesn't speak english then we won't be able to do trade and the US will suffer" Arbitrary argument again. We are focusing on what the citizens will speak. This is not an international official language, so there is no reason as to why the country would suffer. 3) His contention 3 he said "States that have English as the language, don't only speak english. " But the laws are in english and non-eglish-people won't understand it. That is where learning English comes into place. Another arbitrary argument. Translators are available! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEFENSE time 1) "Cross-apply my attack to his criteria to his attack towards my contention 1. His attack wasn't really an attack. All he said was "he didn't give examples", which isn't an attack, and wins that point to the CON side. 2) "I never said leaving a country is treason,I said going against their homecountry's law is treason. Not a defense at all. He is clarifying what he said, and not attacking -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOTERS: My opponent did not attack successfully. In LD, he has the burden of proof, and his defense was very weak. All he said was that I didn't give examples, not worthy of a point. I have attacked all his points, and proven successfully that English should be the official language. My opponent's defense was weak, and not good. I believe that the CON should win, because of the amount of better arguments presented.