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The legal drinking age in the United States should be lowered to 18

Okay, so it goes into thirties. You previously stated, and I quote, "Brain development is relatively done by 18 as well". Now, if I were right and it ended in mid 20's, would it be better for the starting age to be 18 like you want or 21, which is closer to the full development? Even if it does go into thirties, 21 is closer to full development, and should be legal instead of one further away from the full development. Now you said people drink before thei legal, which could be anywhere under the age of 21. With that said, why don't we legalize it at age 15 then like other countries? The kids will eventually get partied out and don't have as many responsibilites as college kids. <- That was your logic for 18 year olds. Why doesn't it apply to 15 year olds? Because of brain development like we talked about previously. If it goes into thirties like you said and we legalized it at 15, that's double of when the brain develops. 3 years added to that seems like a small amount now doesn't it? Even though I'm straight edge and am against drinking all together, I feel getting as close to full development as possible is when it should legalized, and whether it be mid 20's or thirties, 21 beats 18. Also, here's a surgery talking about how partying and drinking in college students has DECREASED in the past decade, The 2014 survey of over 153,000 students showed that 33.5% of college freshman reported drinking beer occasionally or frequently during their final year of high school. That was down 26.4% over the last decade, 15% over the last five years. The percentage of freshmen who drank wine or spirits fell by a similar 25.4%, over the last decade. The same students were asked how many hours they typically spent partying per week during their senior year. The percentage who said none jumped by almost 75% to 41.3%. And the percentage who spent 3 or more hours per week partying fell by 40% during the decade.
The legal drinking age in the United States should be lowered to 18

Research shows that development continues in the brain past ones thirties. Even if it does not, you even stated yourself that development continues into the mid 20's, and the current legal drinking age is 21, which is below that. Out of pure experience, many people around the age of 21 will drink whether they are busy or not, with many social interactions ending up in inebriation. This includes college students, and those who are working full time living on their own. Many people not of age already drink as it is. With more time on their hands they also do not have to worry about alcohol effecting their life as much. As they party more by the time they get to an age of responsibility, they will be mostly partied out. The 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey6 found that among high school students, during the past 30 days "35% drank some amount of alcohol. "21% binge drank. "10% drove after drinking alcohol. "22% rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol. In order to do harm to your body with alcohol a substantial amount must be consumed. The legal limit for consumption is 0.08. To reach the legal limit takes as much or more drinks than most people end up drinking anyway. Which means little to no harm is even done.
The legal drinking age in the United States should be lowered to 18

While all major development may be complete, not all development will be complete. This means they will not be reaching their full potential. Also, large amounts assumed of alcohol can affect the brain processing. In a small town, you have nothing better to do than to drink and party. While 21 year old may have more responsibility, that does not mean they have as much time to drink. Since they are living on their own like you stated, they will have a ton of responsibities to take care. They'll be hammered with projects and assignments, they'll have to clean, cook, and other chores parents did for them they will now have to do. They'll have jobs so they can shop and buy necessary equipment. They'll have to fit in hobbies, like working out or video games. They'll have to have a social life, and keep in mind not all social gathering have to contain alcohol. They'll have to sleep. With all that factored in, you don't have so much time for partying and drinking without the case of 1.losing sleep 2.losing your social life 3.losing your job, therefore not being able to buy the alcohol so businesses won't have as much costumers as it potentially could have 4.failing classes and dropping out If 18 year old have less responsibilities like you said, than they'll have more time to drink and party. With more time to party, that means alcohol will be consumed more frequently and a higher chance of each of those sessions consisting of a large consumption of alcohol, they can become physically and mentally sick.
The legal drinking age in the United States should be lowered to 18

While not all brain development may cease at 18, major development does. The difference of effects of alcohol between a 15 year old and an 18 year vs an 18 year old and a 21 year old is going to be substantially different. This also effects more than just the brain since even less has been developed as a whole in a 15 year old than in an 18 year old. As for responsibilities, a 21 year old does have more than an 18 year old, on average. A college student has relatively the exact same things on their plate, along with the fact that this is the first time that they live away from home, having to make their own major decisions, unlike an 18 year old who is probably still in high school and has other people helping them with decisions. I am also not saying that starting to drink at 18 makes you drink slower, what I am saying is that over time people do slow down their drinking habits. If they start drinking at an earlier age then the point they start to drink slower will be sooner than if they start at 21. The getting a job to support the alcoholism was more of a quip at our economics and health behaviors.
The legal drinking age in the United States should be lowered to 18

Many countries have made the drinking age 18. However, multiple countries have made the legal drinking age 15. Do you support that? No? Why not? It's only a 3 year difference, Just like it's a 3 year difference between 18 and 21. Do you disagree with it because a 15 year old is less intelligent than a 18 year old therefore an 18 year old will know how to act? In that logic, a 21 year old would be smarter than an 18 year old, so the drinking age should be 21 as they would know better than an 18 year old. Besides you talked about the brain development stopping at 18, which is false. Brain development doesn't fully stop until mid 20's, and even then alcohol can have serious effects on children's and adults mental health. Saying an 18 year old has less responsibilities is also false. They have clubs, sports, college applications/visits, homework, ACT, ect. Besides, most of them have jobs already. If a person were to solely get a job for the purpose to buy alcohol, that means they most likely have a problem. That sounds like something a craving alcoholic would do. Also, I don't believe 18 year olds slow their drinking habits. If unsupervised, I believe they'll drink as much as they want. They feel like they are grown up, and they can make their own decisions, including how much they drink and when they drink it.
The legal drinking age in the United States should be lowered to 18

There are many countries that have instated legal age limit for drinking laws deeming the legal age for all, or some types of alcohol to be 18. At 18 people normally have less responsibilities, so drinking will not effect their day to day living any more than some one who is 21. At a younger age people will also start to slow down their drinking habits. Brain development is relatively done by 18 as well. It will also bring in more spending for businesses, and possibly causing people to get jobs at younger ages in order to pay for their booze. While alcohol is not good for you, or necessarily safe, neither is smoking, which is legal at 18. If you can fight for your country, you should be able to drink a beer.
Jesus fulfilled no prophecies on earth that only him could have fulfilled.

That prophecy needs to be fulfilled only by Jesus. Hebrew Scriptures (old testament) are the only authoritative scriptures. New testament can be use, but is not consider authoritative to prove the claims of the New Testament. Please note that Isaiah 7:14, Psalm 2 and Isaiah 50:6 were talked about in the previous debate. Because I don't see those prophecies fulfilled by Jesus, I ask another debate for an Christian to show at least one prophecy that Jesus fulfilled. . http://www.debate.org... The basic life of Jesus will be considered true, but the New Testament will not be considered authoritative. Serious debates only.
x-x/=0

"I didn't reply because you used the wrong logic, therefore making it impossible to make my point. Vote for whoever you choose, I don't really care, nether of us won, my opponent made totally irrelevant arguments. " I made no irrelevant or illogical arguments. My opponent laid out a set of equations which apparently proved that (x - x) doesn't always have to equal zero. My opponent's equations used infinity as though it were a real number, which is a basic mathematics fail. I provided links to show that my opponent's equations broke the laws of mathematics and were therefore invalid, and he failed to rebut.
x-x/=0

No, it's not a load of crap, your set of equations is a load of crap. We can't use infinity like a real number, that's it, case closed. The very fact that you can say nonsense like '1+infinity = infinity' means that infinity is not a number. ===== "Since infinity does not follow the rules laid down for numbers, it cannot be a number. Every time you use the symbol {infinity} in a formula where you would normally use a number, you have to interpret the formula differently. " [1] ===== This is why you appear to have proven that (x-x) does not have to equal 1, because you have broken the rules of mathematics. For my opponent's future reference, (infinity - infinity) = indeterminate. [1] Thanks. [1] - . http://en.wikibooks.org...
x-x/=0

Ok, I'm going to set up a series of mathematical equations to prove that x-x does not equal 0 all the time. Some quick terminology: /= does not equal. 8 infinity. x variable. - minus. + plus. = equal to. x-x=0 a number minus itself equals zero x=8 x equals infinity 8-8=0 because a number minus itself is zero, 8-8 is 0 as well 8+5=8 because infinity cant get any bigger 8+3=8 because infinity cant get any bigger 8+5-8+3=8-8 because of the last two lines 8+5-8+3=8-8+5-3 either the commutative or the associative property of addition/subtraction last line=0+2 0 from 8-8, 2 from 5-3 therefore, 8-8=2 sometimes at least, infinity can equal 2. therefore x-x/=0 all the time Don't accept this debate and tell me "infinity is just a concept, you cant do anything with it" because thats a load of crap. Good luck to my opponent.
Christianity supports the health care bill

Now, to continue: 1. I will forfeit the notion that Christianity's stance on free will can help me in this debate. 2. I will challenge the idea that the U. S. poverty line is an adequate measure of whether or not a family is "poor. " Poor is most basically defined as "lacking material possessions" [1]. However, to be considered "impoverished," one must make less than $10,000 per year [2]. $10,000 is a considerable amount of money, which can buy a considerable number of things. In fact, 90% of the people in 1900 in America lived under the poverty line of today [3]. Had we not increased our standards, we'd have no poverty. Additionally, helping the poor through government subsidization is hardly as beneficial as it sounds. As the poor are subsidized, being poor is encouraged, so there is less incentive to work harder. This leads to a decrease in the overall standard of living and the overall GDP. 1. My opponent is correct in that Jesus supported charity donation to the poor. However, if He were in support of forcing people to pay taxes to support the bill, he would have forced people to do so Himself. He is, after all, omnipotent. He could have forced every rich man in the world to empty their pockets, similar to what this health care bill would do now. However, He didn't. If He would support Himself redistributing the wealth of the world, there's no way He'd support Washington doing the very same thing. As for the article that claims that the poor will be helped, it really doesn't support itself with facts. It claims that the poor will be insured, but it doesn't say HOW. This is a key problem that needs to be answered before the discussion can move on. I do believe that this response covers Point 2 as well. Good luck. 1. . http://www.merriam-webster.com... 2. . http://www.irp.wisc.edu... 3. "Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science", Charles Wheelan
Christianity supports the health care bill

My opponent brings up two important points. They support his argument rather well. However, their main flaw is that they are not backed up by anything. I suggest using a source (the Bible would be nice) to show where Jesus showed any inclination to support something like the health care bill. Now, I'll make two points: 1. Jesus wasn't really into political coercion. As God, he would support the free will of the people. http://en.wikipedia.org... Note that different denominations have different opinions of free will, but it is false to say that all of Christianity would be against the exercise of free will. 2. The bill does not help the poor at all. The bill requires health insurance companies to accept people with pre-existing conditions indiscriminately [1]. This means that they must raise premiums for everybody to be able to afford to insure those who will cost more to care for. This rise in premiums will turn the healthy people away from buying health care, resulting in adverse impact [2], driving health care prices higher and higher. When a healthy person suddenly becomes ill, he can apply for health insurance anyway, calling his sudden disease a pre-existing condition. The company would be forced to accept him and pay for for his health care. This would make profits for health insurance companies practically impossible in the long run. This in no way benefits the poor, the rich, or America as a whole. With these two points, I will turn the debate over to my opponent. Remember, sources! 1. http://www.csmonitor.com... 2. http://en.wikipedia.org...
Christianity supports the health care bill

Thanks mongeese for taking this discussion and for the welcome. I have been on Debate.org before just not in a long time. As I said, I don't care who wins and I will vote for you. Also I am not too worried about the semantics about debate. Just as long as we make arguments and counter arguments. I guess this begins with the fact that a lot of my friends are Christians and because they are Christians they feel they have to be republican. Which I completely understand. However, this seems to carry over into the debate on health care. The jest of my argument is this: 1. If Jesus were here, he would support universal health care. Since Christians are followers of Christ, they too should support health care. 2. Jesus would also support social programs as in the health care plan proposed by the government. Thus if anyone is a follower of Christ, they should in fact be in support of the health care plan that was accepted by the Government. If they don't they are a hypocrite. I now this is brief but I can expand it in future rounds as the discussion develops. Also please feel free to expand the debate as you see fit. In other words, it doesn't have to stay around these two claims. Feel free to expand the debate to , politics etc. Let me have it, have fun and remember you already get my vote.
Christianity supports the health care bill

This is for those Christians who believe that because you are Christian you have to be against the health care bill. I don't really care much for the actual debate, you can win I don't care. I will vote for you to win. What I care about is a good honest discussion. Traditionally, Christians are against universal health care because traditionally Christians are republican. I however believe that if a Christian is against the health care bill than that person is a hypocrite and going against the teaching of Christ. This of course presupposes Christianity is true and the Bible is true. We don't need to get into all the deep definitions unless you feel it is necessary. Good luck
Rap battle part 2

You'll be sleepless, Not knowin' my secrets, needless to say, my flowin' is ceaseless. Try to piece this, into a sequence, expose your weakness. Now who's speechless? My lyrics are projectile, come try and beat this. You're a little pedophile, just like a priest is. I adapted a new style, and a new beat list. You can try for a while, but there's no way to keep this. When my rhymes collide, I'll make you cry from 5 lines, I don't know why I'd try to grind you down with my mind. But it's time to fry your pride, you can't hide, just say 'bye bye' I'm your guide, hi! At least you tried, at least you have god to try and confide. I'll be kind, and bide my time while you try to get by. I feel that fire in my heart, I aspire to try hard, To inspire with my art, prespire on my part, Rewire to sound smart, I'm too tired so why start? (Basically, I'm going to a party tonight, so that's all I'm writing. Hope you have something worth responding to tomorrow)
Rap battle part 2

You think I jerk off and that your raps are dope? Man your a homosexual just like the new pope With those lame raps you'll never have any hope Your raps are so sh!itty they need a bar of soap Dude just stick to your talent which is jerking Cuz your crappy raps just ain't working And you say that your not trying? Man you and me both know your lying And don't you dare talk sh!t about Jesus Cuz even he wished you were aborted as a fetus Your so stupid lil Wayne compared to you is a genius And I know that failure is your weakness But you gotta face the fact you can't compete with my uniqueness Cuz I'm barely trying and my raps are leaving you speechless With all of my raps and my flows sleekness I'll leave you having to face your weakness Cuz you never had a chance and you never will My raps will burn you like a foremen grill They'll leave hurt and mentally ill Making you want to take that suicide pill So you should seriously think about quitting Cuz after you read this you'll start tripping You can't compare to the raps I'm spitting Cuz when it comes to raps your just plain out unfitting
Rap battle part 2

You're just one of many, Who might like to fight me. Probably because I can't Say "fuckk you" politely. I'd give you my ten cents, My styles too intense. Hence, there's no defence, From the rhymes I dispense. Light up an incense, I see that you're still tense, And it makes sense, 'cause I left you in suspense. You say I like to jerkoff, See you at church on Sunday, So I can announce to a crowd: When you get layed, it's a one way. You hide with your Christian alliance, Worship a story of incest and violence, You use god as a source of reliance. Confide in these lies, because you're too stupid for science. In this battle, I'm fuckin' excellent Don't look surprised, You should've expected it, You're a chump, in my eyes. I can't believe, You called yourself eminem, You should just leave, Your raps are weak and feminine. I'll stop right here, Give a last chance to quit. Because you're pushing me near Actually trying at this.
Rap battle part 2

You think your so mean Call me a child but your only sixteen Beating chumps like you is my routine So your a child too cuz were both teens You can't beat me cuz I'm like a rap producing machine You say would hold me by the throat But in a fight you would be beaten Cuz your nothing but a pathetic cretin I'll break you to pieces Each rap I say my skill increases And with each blow you confidence decreases I'm in your head , might as well say I have telepathy Your helplessly trying to compete with a godly entity Presently you can't compete with my raps complexity Restlessly you trying to say something but your raps are so bad there felonies Pleasantly I'm beating so bad I am scaring you mentally Eventually the intensity will potentially shorten your life expectancy Your bad raps are nothing but contamination My raps are so powerful ill shaken your whole foundation You can quit cuz there still a chance for cancellation But if you don't I will leave you in eternal isolation
Rap battle part 2

I have to admit, That's the first time, Your rap wasn't shitt, And it wasn't your worst rhyme. But don't take this, As a form of flattery. It's not even a diss, It's assault and battery. You think I beat you, Because of just one vote? I wish I could meet you, And hold you by your throat. Smack you twice, Upside your fat head, grab a bag of ice And beat you with it, instead And show you at last, It was my rhyme style That kicked your a$$ And made you a crying child. But You're right, goodnight. You're up past your bedtime. I don't know why we fight, Nothing you said rhymes It's the middle of the night, And I'll stop now, to be considerate. Because there's little you can write, When your opponent's illiterate.
Rap battle part 2

Let me just finish so this problem will be complete You have no chance, you can't compete My raps will hit you like reinforced concrete You suck so bad I don't even had to look at my own rap sheet Your gonna lose so put the raps back on the shelf There so bad your that your insulting yourself After this you'll rethink your life and be back at square one This was the battle of your life But for me it's just for fun One vote for you and it's like your super confident I'm a dope rapper but your the complete opposite Don't even try cuz you ain't competent Even calling you a amateur would be a complement
Rap battle part 2

I'll break right through, to fight you. I'm quite new, but I'll tell you what I might do, I'd make the right moves, just to spite you. Alright, you might Not like the lines I write, Since you're up all night, trying to recite, After you rewrite, to my delight, you're up all night. Just sit tight, I invite you to test my might. On the Mic I'll insure you're fright. You say I'm doo doo? We both know I get layed more then you do. But who knew? Here's a clue: Everyone, 'Cause it's true. In this battle you deserve less then my minimum, weakness and your name is a form of a synonym. Anyways, That's all I'll write. I'm sick of dealing with a spoiled little brat. You took my challenge twice, and both times I crushed you flat. (Not my best, I know. But I just realized I had 20 mins to write this before I forfeit. Anyways, props, since you're still the only contender who actually battled back)
Rap battle part 2

Well that's it, I'm done And I have to say I'm impressed But I'm not worried or stressed You raps were not total scum But your raps are still as dumb as Souija Boy's and then some Cuz I'm not hurt or dented You shouldn't have attempted and repented Your beating would've stopped and been prevented Man you raps should've never been written or presented Cuz there so bad they make people wish rap wasn't invented Why would you say your intellectual? That's like saying to girls your delectable And obviously your not cuz to them your doo doo Who would date the male version of honey boo boo So I guess I have to be aggressive It's the only way to get to you which is my main objective Dude your the opposite of successive Your such a failure it's actually impressive After reading this you must be in pain Your brain is about to make you go insane I beat you so bad its not even considered humane I am now a slayer cuz you got slade Making you wish battling me was a decision you never made