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Armenian Genocide, is Turkey Guilty

Your arguements are based on emotion, that is never a good thing. Turkey doesn't pretend like nothing happened.It admits that 800,000 to a million and a half Armenians lost their lives. But Turkey also states that half a million Muslims were killed by Armenian gangs trying to carve up a homeland for themselves in what was Ottoman territory. To quell the Armenian uprising the Ottoman government deported all ethnic Armenians from Eastern Anatolia to what was then Ottoman Syria and Lebanon.
Armenian Genocide, is Turkey Guilty

Do you mean to say that murdering millions of innocent men, women and children should be denied and forgotten? Let me remind you that forgetting is what caused the holocaust, "after all who remembers the mass killings of the Armenians" - Adolf Hitler on a speech to propose the extermination of the Jews. Forgetting, denying, and not fully acknowledging facts will lead humanity no where, not today nor in the future. We have already seen the horrifying effects of forget and deny in the holocaust and the Rwandan genocide. Turkey and the world must never forget nor deny the facts. Reputation is not more important than people!!!
Armenian Genocide, is Turkey Guilty

I disagree, what your suggesting is Turkish Shame, the same thing that has been done to Germany. The holocaust has been rubbed into their face so hard and so offten that they are now ashamed of their heritage. What is the point of forcing the Turkish people to be ashamed of themselves for something they had no part in. I do not belive that the Turkish government is denial of the Armenian events, they may not call them a "genocide" but they do admit what happened.
Armenian Genocide, is Turkey Guilty

The Turkish government is guilty of their crimes against the Armenian population. Even though it has been almost 100 years since the genocide of more than 1.5 million innocent Armenians, the government continues to deny the fact that a genocide ever occurred. It is important that Turkey recognizes the crimes done by their government in order to educate their next generation. Today in Turkey, schools, newspapers, and the media are not allowed to mention genocide taking place. If people are not educated about the facts how can we be sure tragedies like the Armenian genocide, or the Holocaust will not occur again in the future.
Muse: The Best Band Ever!

About a year or two ago I was first introduced to Muse and I immediatley began to like them. It was like something that i had never heard before. I loved Muse so much that everytime I wanted to listen to something it just wasn't the same. Everytime I listened to something other than Muse it was uncomparable to Muse and I had to listen to Muse Right away. Muse is made up of Matthew Bellamy (guitarist/vocals), Dominic Howard (Drummer), and Chris Wolstenholme (Bassist/backup vocals). First I want to start with Chris. Chris is one of the most amazing bassists i ever seen. There are many songs that are very bass oriented like "Hysteria", "Time is Running Out", and "Feeling Good". Without Chris most of Muse's songs would not be the same. Second, there is Dominic. Also one of the best Drummers I have ever heard play. He can take just about any song and come up with the most complex beat that no one could ever figure out. He has great interdependence of each limb and can play complex beats with ease. Finally. The great Matt Bellamy. With out a doubt the greatest guitarist of this age. With the fuzz factory solos and the drop D hard rock riffs at the end of songs he is one of the greatest. He can play anything he wants to play. Great guitar parts like "Plug In Baby", the galloping of horses on "Knights of Cydonia" and wicked solos on "New Born" and "Hysteria". All the three of these guys are the best of the best and they make up a great team and most likely the best band ever with a combination of hard rock riffs, bass grooves, and complex drum beats. Good luck to whoever challenges me and may the best man win.
Muse: The Best Band Ever!

"Yes in fact this is an opinionated debate most debates on this website are opinionated. " - Thankfully we live in a world where fact trumps opinion. The fact in this debate is, you are trying to say that Muse is the best band ever, that includes history. The bands I presented before, have either changed the course of music, or have presented art of music with much talent, more talent than Muse. "They have a lot of time left in their career and they will most likey be as big as The Beatles one day. " - My opponent admits that The Beatles are currently larger than Muse, hurting his argument "Muse is the best ever". 1) My opponent has failed to prove that "Muse is the best ever" 2) He admitted that The Beatles are currently better 3) He admitted his debate was based on opinion. Mine was based on the evolution of music. 4) He failed to prove that Muse was better than the 10 bands I presented, which should end the debate.
Muse: The Best Band Ever!

Yes in fact this is an opinionated debate most debates on this website are opinionated. I would just like to say Yes Muse was nominated for all those things but they did in fact win the Best Live Act 9 times. And they won the best international live performance. Not just nominated they won them. Muse may not be changing the way people play today but they are certainly taking music to a whole new level. Also Muse is still playing and selling out concerts everywhere. They have a lot of time left in their career and they will most likey be as big as The Beatles one day. If such awards weren't out back then then how do you know the beatles were the best. Also i doubt the beatles could have a best live act award. Don't get me wrong they are good but they just don't move around and rock like Muse does. Thank for your time and may the best man win. Good luck to you.
Muse: The Best Band Ever!

No problem, that's what I'm here for! "Muse set the style for this age", this is a totally opinion based argument of which, is totally false. My opponent must realize that he is debating that they are the best *ever. Even if they did set the style for this age, they wouldn't be playing the way they do if the bands I listed didn't exist. Therefor, those bands are much better. Muse hasn't changed the way bands all over the world play, the Beatles did. 1) I refute with this Brit Awards 2008 - Winners List British Live Act: Take That Critics' Choice: ADELE British Breakthrough Act: Mika International Male Solo Artist: Kayne West British Male Solo Artist: Mark Ronson International Female Solo Artist: Kylie International Group: Foo Fighters British Female Solo Artist: Kate Nash International Album: Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace British Group: Arctic Monkeys British Single: Take That - Shine British Album: Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare Outstanding Contribution To Music: Paul McCartney *Note - Muse is not on this list (Didn't win anything), but was nominated (Was beat) 2) Opinion based 3) Muse will never be as big as the Beatles, by the way, the Beatles did much better than Muse in globalization. 4) Irrelevance, such awards were very scarce when the Beatles were making history. 5) Total Opinion.
Muse: The Best Band Ever!

I would just like to say thank you for accepting the challenge. There is no doubt in my mind that all of those bands are fantastic, but Muse set the style for this age and they have been where no other band has been before. 1. Muse has the most exciting live show out of anybody I have ever seen before. Their performance is awesome and the fans go nuts. They were awarded with "The Best Live Act" in 2005 the BRIT awards. 2. Muse has their own sense of originality by just jamming on an amazing drop d hard rock riffs after a song. Also Matt always has something special for the crowd that he has never done before, For example, a fuzz factory solo like no one has ever heard before in "Supermassize Black Hole" in the performance at Wembley in 2007. 3. Muse has sold out concerts in 4 continents including the United States. And they have the biggest show up to date two nights in a row at Wembley Stadium in Europe. If you are still not satisfied with Muse's Globilization then just give them a few more years and they'll be just as big as The Beatles. 4. Muse has been awarded Best Live act Ten times in the past 5 years. They also won the best International Live Performance in 2005 and 2008. 5. Muse Owns the rock world today.
Muse: The Best Band Ever!

Hello and welcome to debate.org VoodooChild. The Title/Topic of this debate is: Muse: The Best Band Ever! The title suggest the Resolution to be: (For Pro) "No other band is, or has ever been better than Muse" (For Con) "Their has been or, are currently better bands than Muse" To win this debate I will use a very simple argument. 1) The following bands are better than Muse: 1. The Police - Best known for their amazing live performances, The Police quickly became a huge hit. 2. The Cure - Best known for originality and the ability to create any mood. 3. The Beatles - Best known for changing the evolution of music, and are international superstars. 4. The Rolling Stones - Best known for their Title: "Best Rock And Roll Band Of All Time" 5. Led Zeppelin - Best known for dominating the rock world of the 70's 6. The Who - Best known for being the masters of concept album. 7. The Beach Boys - Best known for putting you in a good mood. 8. AC/DC - Best known for being back in black. 9. Elvis Presley - Best known for setting the hearts of the lady's on fire... And modern day conspiracy. 10. Queen - Best known for... Bohemian Rhapsody
Hunting should NOT be illegal.

It is important to note that my opponent NEVER ARGUED against biopower ; and this is our judging standard for ethics. I. Ethical Moral My opponent has offered no justified reason for hunting being an ethical stance. Because we must respect right to body in life, we must also extend that respect to animals. Our interference with their lives, especially by taking life, is not justified. Because the human race is to blame for our extraordinary encroachment on their land, it is not moral to 'help' them survive by killing them. Animals have rights, too ; we are not gods ; we do not decide what lives and what dies. II. Survival I've shown why we do not need to hunt to survive ; in fact, the killing of animals, and the ingestion of meats with our current lifestyles is a detriment to our society, because our lifestyles do not tend to meet the amount of calories we consume. We can be significantly better off without meat at all ; thus this argument is invalid. In addition, we do not need animals to survive ; this is just an excuse to continue an OLD, OUTDATED, and CRUEL tradition. III. Safety My opponent asserts this is an argument. It's blatantly obvious that hunting is NOT safe for the animals ; and because we do NOT have the moral right to take their lives, it's obviously intentionally unsafe action. Dropped arguments _________________ I. Tradition This argument stands ; it is a tradition, and as I explained in the safety closing argument, it is an outdated tradition that we should do away with. II. Biopower My opponent attempted to do away with this ; however, if we do away with this, we are left with NO MORAL STANDARD. Without this, we cannot judge if something is moral. Biopower is a vital aspect of life ; in order to respect anything in this life, we must FIRST respect that an individual's life is their own. Because of this, biopower is a strong argument ; this is why my opponent dropped it. III. Species superiority The idea that humans are superior to other animals has been shown to be wrong ; We may be smarter, but wolves are faster ; bears are stronger ; birds can fly ; and etc. We are equal, and my opponent says this is not valid to the debate ; IT just further proves there is NO REASON to allow the SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS to continue. I'd like to finish by saying my opponent provides NO REASON as to WHY we shouldn't criminalize it ; where as, I have shown that we have no reason to allow this barbarous tradition to continue. Our laws are based on morals ; I've shown how there is moral ground AGAINST hunting ; yet there is NO MORAL GROUND IN FAVOR OF. This ALONE justifies the banning of hunting. My opponent uses many arguments throughout the debate as justification of voting CON ; yet these reasons are insignificant and don't justify allowing hunting to continue. For example ; The definition of genocide. To keeping hunting legal is to encourage species superiority, to concede that the right to body is NOT important, and that even when there is no valid reason to keep hunting legal, my opponent says we should.
Hunting should NOT be illegal.

Hunting should not be illegal because it is ethical, traditional, and morally correct. First of all, it is morally correct because the quick death from a bullet or cloud of shot is much less painful or cruel than the long miserable death of starvation or disease caused by overpopulation. Hunting is also traditional. We, as a species, have been hunting for thousands of years, and it is not right to take away our tradition because you disagree with it. I am by no means saying that you have to approve of hunting, in fact I respect your decision not to hunt. All I ask is that you respect my decision to hunt. Finally, hunting is ethical because in the hunter trapper education class, hunters are taught to be respectful of both landowners and animals, to kill as quickly and effectively as possible, and to not disrespect an animals carcass. Finally, in the aspect of ethics, those who truly deserve the right to hunt will make a quick end to any animal that may have unfortunately survived the bullet/shot cloud, but not without injury. :( As a last little side note, even though I hunt, I do NOT agree wih every aspect of it. I agree with you non-hunters in some areas. I don't agree with trophy hunting, baiting, or camera traps. I beleave that those are unethical and/or immoral reasons/ways to hunt. I await a response. Any and all information can be found in some form in "Today's Hunter and Trapper in Pennsylvania" or at a hunter trapper education course.
We should drug test all people on the benefit

There are already regulations in place to limit the amount of money a person(s) receive from the government. This fat guy would in no way be able to spend money on drugs and fill his necessities of everyday life with the small amount of money given to him. As we know drugs are fairly expensive and if this person were to be a druggie, they would not be able to survive. For long, anyways.There is also no practical way to do drug tests efficiently and timely. One drug test monthly allows a person to do drugs the day after the test, and no traces will be in their system next month, people are smart drug-wise and know how and when to get their high, how long it lasts and t's effects on them. If it is this easy to avoid these monthly tests, I can only imagine the people that would be taking them tri-monthly. (Only four times a year) They could get twice as high, binge smoke, for twice as long, spend their money on more drugs within a months time and still be 100% sober the next test.People would have to be checked more often, that is a given, however the money required to test daily, or weekly would be immense. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands on said benefits would have to be checked which is even more money.
We should drug test all people on the benefit

So imagine you work for a super market, 12 hours a day you stack the groceries on the shelves making just short of minimum wage. After these 12 hours of work you go home to your family that you struggle to feed, supply with stationary for school, work your hardest so they can have a phone etc, and you can barely afford the rent for you house. And on top of that he has to pay the government TAXES. However down along the road we have a lazy fat guy smoking drugs, he lives a happy life with hes own house he owns and gathers income from the government every 2 weeks that goes directly into his drugs money. Now where on earth did the government get that money from??? Oh wait a minute the hard working poor guy down the street. This then because one big cycle of the hard working person paying the government, government giving the money to the drug people, drug people giving it to the dealers, and the money gets nowhere. Shouldn't this money get somewhere, like help the people claiming to be struggling get a real job and move out into the real world. At the moment the benefit is not being used how it is supposed to be so maybe spending the extra money to drug test these people, which is minimum is only going to cause good not bad. And as rebuttal I question your statement of the people would feel untrustworthy if we made them do these tests because, that poor guy working his butt off is giving these people money who just sit around and do nothing. Literally why would they deny and get upset about the drug test anyway if they have nothing to hide? If they had any respect they would know where they stand. Ladies and Gentlemen yes I do understand some people really need the benefit and use it to help their lives, but to establish who's properly and improperly using the benefit money, we need to imply this moot.
We should drug test all people on the benefit

Presumably you are talking about welfare and those peoples on it. Keep in mind I am playing Devil's Advocate, just something I enjoy doing. What is the point of this? It's just a pure waste of time. These people are trying to better themselves with money from the government, to be able to make a living in this disgusting capitalistic country and you are going to do them a disservice by tri-monthly making the government spend more money on testing these people? Why would they buy drugs with the money given to them? No one wants to stay in poverty forever and by buying drugs that is what these people would be doing. They would feel untrustworthy if we came in and made them test, ruining their ego and respect for themselves.
Agnosticism and Atheism are mutually exclusive

Thanks to Pro for challenging me to this debate today; I hope it will be enlightening.However, I feel like I must warn the audience:THIS DEBATE WILL, MOST LIKELY, REVOLVE AROUND SEMANTICS (AT LEAST IN PART).Therefore, I hope that the audience can overlook this fact for the debate. I understand that normally, people tend to reduce points for semantics. Still, this is an exception.I will also be providing some definitions:Agnosticism - "the belief that the truth values of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, as well as other religious and metaphysical claims, are unknown or unknowable."[1]Atheism - "disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods."[2]Mutually exclusive - "contradictory, not-compatible"[3]I eagerly await my opponent's first argument(s)!Thanks,JSource(s):[1]http://en.wikipedia.org...[2]http://www.oxforddictionaries.com...[3]http://www.thefreedictionary.com...
Funny Quotes

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are made for. " -Unknown "You're alright, but you're only half as good a singer as I am a drummer. " -John Bonham "I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally. " -W. C. Fields "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. " -Woody Allen "I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. " -Fred Allen Again, thanx for the debate.
Funny Quotes

Your quotes are just wrong, dude. Just plane wrong. "I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was You'll never find anyone like me again! I'm thinking, I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you." "It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly." "Welcome to the suicide hotline.....Please hold." "I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender." "I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell." That last one is something to think about.
Funny Quotes

"I went to a meeting for premature ejaculators. I left early." -Jack Benny "I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming." -Jimmy Carter "I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor." -Joan Rivers Chef: Hello there, children. Stan: Chef! What would a priest want to stick up my butt? Chef: Goodbye. "Thank God I'm an atheist." -Luis Bunuel. Another one you might need to read twice. Good Luck!
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"If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?" "When people ask me if I have any spare change, I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet." "If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door." "In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity." "Joan Collins unfortunately can't be with us tonight. She's busy attending the birth of her next husband."
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I will post five quotes like the instigator has allowed. Hope you like them. "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, oh man....I could be eating a slow learner." -Lyndon B. Johnson "When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car" -Unknown "I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio." -Rodney Dangerfield "The latest new dance craze is called, "The Politician." It's two steps forward, one step backward, and then a sidestep." -Unknown "Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." -Albert Einstein Good luck!
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I dedicate this round to Chuck Norris (my hero). You may also use five quotes if you wish on this round. "When Chuck Norris was born, nobody cried...except the doctor. Nobody slaps Chuck Norris." "It is a well known fact that the fastest way to a man's heart is not supplied by a woman, but is instead the fist of Chuck Norris." "You know how children pee thier name in the snow so that they look cool to thier friends? Well, Chuck Norris pees his name in concrete and he does it because he damn well feels like it." "There is no such thing as evolution. There is only a list of animals that Chuck Norris allows to live. The endangered species list is any body that owes him money." "Chuck Norris can punch you so hard it alters your DNA. Generations from now your decendents will suddenly keel over in the street, clutching thier head, and screaming 'WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!!!!!'"
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"By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation." "Jeff: How do you spell your name? Achmed: Oh, let's see, an A... C... phlegm... (audience laughs) Silence! I kill you! Jeff: So Ahmed, if you're a terrorist, I'd suppose you have some sort of speciality. Achmed: Yes, I am a suicide bomber. Jeff: Ah. So, you're finished. Achmed: What? Jeff: You've done your job. Achmed: No I haven't. Jeff: But you're dead. Achmed: No I'm not. I feel fine. Jeff: But you're all bone. Achmed: It's a flesh wound. Jeff: All right listen, Ahmed, I have something to tell you. Achmed: What? Jeff: You really are dead. Achmed: Are you sure? Jeff: Yes. Achmed: I just got my flu shot... Wait, if I'm dead, that means I get my seventy-two virgins! (looks at crowd) Are you my virgins? I hope not! Jeff: Why? Achmed: There's a bunch of ugly-#$% guys out there! If this is paradise, I've been screwed! Jeff: Well, is there anything that said there'd only be female virgins? Achmed: Holy crap!" "Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." -Winston Churchhill-