rezzealaux and The_Devils_Advocate are the same people

To my esteemed Rezzealaux...I thank you for this wonderful debate and wish you the best of luck. Truly. Let us begin with the resolution. Your understanding of what the resolution should be is correct. I apologize for the mistake. So from henceforth we shall indeed be debating "Rezzealaux and The_Devils_Advocate are the same person." I would like to point out here that even though you say that I am one of your schizophrenic personalities, this has yet to be proven. You say that because I proposed the topic than I have the burden of proof. But I am not the only one with the burden of proof. You too have one. On one side I must prove that we are not, and on the other, you must prove that we are. To only have one with a burden of proof is extremely abusive and destroys what intelligence one might recieve from a debate such as this. If I were the only one with a burden then you could speak total jibberish and still win since I hadn't met my burden. Instead...I would like to posit to the judges the possibility of voting for who upholds their burden the best. That is who they should vote for. Now for the real meat of the argument. Your main point is that we are the same person/body, but different personalities. I would like to say that even if we were to share the same body, the fact that we have different personalities makes us different people. The definition of person ranges wildly from the actual physical entity, to the social interactions that one has, and even to the thought patterns one has. All of these make up what a person is. You meet only one of those criterion. You admit that we have different thought patterns as you say that I dislike your administration. This has significance also in my social interaction with you. So this meets two criterion on what a person is. According to this argumentation, we are two different people even though we may share the same body. Not only that, but you say that my not capitalizing your name shows my disrespect and dislike of your administration. If that were the case, then I would have continued to show my dislike by not capitalizing it. But I have changed it because I did not know there was a preference. I apologize. Now for discussing what schizophrenia is. Schizophrenics are extremely hard to diagnose. In fact, in order to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, you must be showing symptoms for at least six months. Seeing as this is our first encounter and you say that you haven't known about me, shows that you clearly haven't been showing enough signs to be diagnosed with schizophrenia. Not only that but schizophrenics have severe depression, apathy, they may be mute for extremely long periods of time, they may become extemeley agitated meaninglessly, social withdrawal, and many others. (facts obtained from wikipedia. please don't argue legitimacy unless you absolutely must.) Let's go down the list. 1. Depression - you claim that by ridiculing people you may get a "mental orgasm." Depression is the period in which happiness is rarely found if ever. 2. Apathy - if you didn't care about anything, then you surely wouldn't have accepted this debate as it wouldn't have mattered at all to you. Apparently there is something that you value in this and therefore must not be apathetic. 3. Mute - you may not talk in real life, but I imagine that to be false. Not only that but the reason a schizophrenic becomes mute is because they don't want any social interaction. Debating someone involves social interaction. 4. Meaningless Agitation - You are an extremely calm person when debating. Looking at your past debates, you have yet to lose your cool in them. You show no signs of agitation meaningful or meaningless. 5. Social withdrawal - evenn online interaction is considered social interaction. All of these symptoms you are failing to show. And you definitely do not meet the timeline of these symptoms. All of these show that you are not in any way schizophrenic. Now let's discuss something that I feel will be in the next round of argumentation. You will say that we share the same body so are indeed the same person. But by making the claim that you are schizophrenic doesn't even apply here. Most often, alternate personalities in schizophrenics take on a new body posture and facial expressions. They change everything from their voice, the way they speak, the way they interact, the way they carry themselves and who they are friends with. They become different people. Often times they are polar opposites and hate the other identity. So even in schizophrenia we wouldn't be the same person. But you aren't schizophrenic as I have already proven. So we can't even share the same body. Another argument proving my point is your usage of the english language. You say that you use "he" because it is less confusing. But from the very beginning you have talked about me in the third person. You find it natural to speak about me as a different person. Because I am. I'm a 6'6 male, brown hair and eyes, and single...ladies...;) The fact that you correct my spelling of Rezzealaux while claiming that I do that on purpose is contradictory to your purpose. If I was another identity of yours and you realized this, then you would not have corrected it as you would have known I was doing it out of dislike for you. But you correct it in order so that I may know how you want it spelled. This shows me that you know we're not the same person.