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tellitubbies should be banned SHORT ARGUMENTS ONLY

Teletubbies should be banned by Anti-Teletubby cults not for the children, but for the adult members. Furthermore, Teletubbies themselves are noisy, nosy, and hard to take care of. They also frolic too much. They should be banned from government institutions, offices, hospitals, and other places, so that they do not disturb serious work. My opponent has not addressed the "short arguments only" part of the resolution.
tellitubbies should be banned SHORT ARGUMENTS ONLY

There are two parts to th resolution: 1. Teletubbies should be banned 2. Short arguments only I believe that Teletubbies should be banned for other groups except children. For example: Religious cults that find Teletubbies to be blasphemous to their religion. Furthermore, I believe that only sort arguments are acceptable in this debate as there is a 500 character limit. Thus, I have filled my burden. Thank you, vote
Anthropogenic Global Warming

PrefaceThis is a truly relevant issue, and a topic of major debate between liberals and conservatives. There is heated disagreement on the issue between the Democratic Party and Republican Party, and climate skeptics and modelers debate this over multiple studies based on empirical research. Due to this, I have decided to discuss this issue that is extemely relevant today. I hope for a great discourse. TheDebater_101 has asked to accept this debate. He is the only user with permission to accept this debate. Voters require a minimum Elo of 3000 to judge the debate. Full TopicOn balance, mankind is probably the main cause of global warming. TermsAll terms and definitions influenced by the Oxford Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, Encyclopedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster, and Wikipedia. On Balance - 'when all factors are taken into consideration'Mankind - 'the human race; human beings collectively without reference to sex; humankind'Probably - 'is likely to take place or be true'Main - 'chief in size, extent or importance'Cause - 'the producer of an effect' or 'a person or thing that gives rise to an action, phenomenon, or condition'Global Warming - 'the rise in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century, and its projected continuation,' and 'the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects'Rules1. No forfeits2. All arguments must be within this debate, but sources can be in an external link directed to within this debate3. No new arguments in the final round (except defending one's original arguments)4. Maintain a civil and decorous atmosphere5. No trolling or deconstruction semantics6. No "kritiks" of the topic (or any other "kritiks")7. My opponent accepts all definitions and waives his/her right to add resolutional definitions8. For all undefined terms, individuals should use commonplace understanding of them that fit within the logical context of the debate9. The burden of proof is shared10. The first round is for acceptance only11. Violation of any of these rules or any of the R1 set-up is a conduct violation, and any violating arguments (e.g. "kritiks," rebuttals in R4) should be discredited by judgesStructureR1. Acceptance OnlyR2. Pro's Case, Con's CaseR3. Pro rebuts Con's Case, Con rebuts Pro's CaseR4. Pro defends Pro's Case, Con defends Con's Case, both CrystallizeThanks......to TheDebater_101; I look forward to an engaging discourse!
What is the best football team in England? I think Chelsea

I did a different analisis and Chelsea won zero of them there isn't a single period of time that I analized that Chelsea had better results than Man United. You can't change the rules in the middle of the debate, like only the manager counts or something like that but if you had read my arguments you would knew that I did one for the last 5 years in terms of trophies. And mate this is a debate site where other people vote in the person that did the best arguments if you call me ignorant that is a personal attack to my person which is a sad moment for any debate. You can end it if you want xD just forfeit the rest of the rounds. Btw you don't make the rules you posted a tittle you said you were pro to it and I say im con to it simple as that!
What is the best football team in England? I think Chelsea

Well let me start by saying that I believe I can change the rules midway since you did not want to abide by them in the first place secondly I am glad you are still not listening to the rules by going off of years that are 5+ years away. I will say this, if we are talking about very early years of the EPL then you obviously will win. It does not take a genius to know that Man Utd have had some absolute legends play for them back then. Like Eric Cantona and Dennis Bergcamp. I might as well just end this debate because trying to debate with ignorant people about the rules is just not worth my time. But if you wish to continue then so be it.
What is the best football team in England? I think Chelsea

Ok first off I want to say that you didn't follow my rules. I specifically stated that you need to state what club you are saying is the best in England and therefore I think you have forfeited round one. I am also adding onto the rules that we are talking about current years not 5+ years ago But now I will continue with round 2 Chelsea is the best club in England because we have won the Champions Leugue in 2012 and we also have the best manager in the world as of now, The special one AKA Jose Mourinho. I belive we have the best midfield in the BPL with plenty of depth to the squad with players like Willian, Hazard, Mata, Oscar, De Bruyne, Schurrle, Ramires, Lampard, John Obi Mikel, Marco Van Ginkel, Essien, and Moses on loan Let me remind you that Juan Mata had the most chances created last season in the BPL. I know our strikers aren't in top form at the moment but in January we will pick up a big striker. Our defense is usually soild with John Terry, David Luiz, Gar Cahill, Ivanovic, Cole and Azpilicueta. Our goalkeeper is one of the best in the world in my opinion, Petr Cech
The fat should be made to buy two seats on planes

I feel really sorry at this point, for I may have said things that may have hurt my opponents or even you the readers feelings in an attempt to provide for a humorous mind, if this is indeed the case and I have hurt your feelings then I ask for my sincere apologies to be accepted. I never really took the debate seriously, but did manage to muster up some points which I thought to be valid as the remaining Characters permitted for the first round were nearing an end. The thing that pleased me most about this debate was having the opportunity to exercise and share humour, I was more than pleased to hear that Brian (opponent) was "highly amused", and if you the reader shared in the humorous side of the debate, then I'm pleased for you also. I was tempted to call Brian a "Master debater", in relation to the way he projected his stance in the first round but wasn't sure if the funny side would be seen as intended. I'm especially pleased that some of the real Brian shone through in his second round contribution, it gave the impression of him being a really nice guy, which put me on a guilt trip. I learned a lot from participating in this, so I makes no difference how the voting goes, I just feel that we should treat people the way we would like to be treated ourselves, I don't get anything out of judging others, and also feel it's not my place to do so, therefor if ever I find myself in a position to surrender a seat to someone overweight, I will do in respect of this debate. My thanks to you again Brian, for posting the debate and I wish you well. I have nothing to contribute further as far as the debate goes, but plenty to offer society. Ps, have you ever wondered why, "a fat chance and a slim chance have the same meaning"?.
The fat should be made to buy two seats on planes

He firstly picked me up on my use of "the" preceding "fat" but I would contest that this is not inappropriate. After all, we are often approached by charity workers who state that they are collecting: "money for 'the' blind" or "old clothes for 'the' homeless" or "spare cakes for 'the' fat". Well, perhaps not that last one so much, but you see the grammatical point I am making? Reading on, I was highly amused by my opponent's alternative suggestions as to the best ways to resolve the situation to my advantage. If only I'd have thought of them myself! I note with interest that my opponent is clearly familiar with the natives of Aberdeen, lovely people, but a tad cautious with their cash I think it's fair to say. I remember not so long ago was out drinking in Aberdeen with a Chookter (someone from the hills surrounding the city) and an Irish fellow who was rather fond of his glass, if you see what I mean. Anyway, we had been in every pub and bar on Union Street and me and the local lad decided to call it a night because we'd all had a skinfull and, anyway, run out of cash. But Paddy was having none of it. "No, no" he said "I'll lend you each a tenner and we'll get one more round in each". So we went to the Hen Hoose for one, had one in The Bridge and ended up in The Grill, downing pints of heavy chased by double nips of single malt. Unfortunately, this did for poor old Paddy (the Irish are good drinkers but they can't keep up with the Scots or Geordies, like me) and he collapsed. We took him to the hospital but, sadly, he passed away as the result of alcohol poisoning. Me and the Chookter went to his funeral to say our goodbyes and I placed ï¿½10 in his coffin and said "there's that tenner I owe you Paddy". Then the Chookter came over, took the tenner out and replaced it with a cheque for ï¿½20 and said "Aye, an' afar ye gaan an' caall m'athin, there's ma tenner aanall"! Sorry, I digress. My opponent made a very good point about the airlines' policies. Most are not willing to insist the fat pay their fair share on planes because they don't want to be depicted as "sizist". One notable exception is Southwest Airlines, who have very clear policy on the matter: "Why ask large Customers to purchase additional seating? We could no longer ignore complaints from Customers who traveled without full access to the seat purchased due to encroachment by a large seatmate whose body extended into the neighboring seat. These Customers had uncomfortable (and sometimes painful) travel experiences, and it is our responsibility to seek resolution to prevent this problem. " . http://www.southwest.com... I salute this airline's honesty and willingness to defend the rights of people of normal size and I contend that their policy should be adopted by all passenger airlines forthwith. Thank you.
Resolved: Quote Arguement Part Two

Brian Regan Transcript–The Bicycle Incident: One of our activities was making bike ramps out in the street. Cuz that's where all the cars are. Put a cement block out in the middle of the road and you angle a piece of wood up to it, and the object was for one kid to get on his bike, and ride as fast as he could and see how high he could go. And that's as far as we planned. It wasn't until the first kid was like flipping in the air, "What happens now?! We don't know!" He hit a mailbox. We had a bunch of nine-year-old paramedics running up–we didn't know what to do. Get up there "Aaahhhrraaaah! Get some leaves!" (You do what you can.) Hey that was the easy part. THe hard part was being the kid that got sent in first to calm mom down before you dragged in the actual banged up brother. You'd have to be the point man, ya know, "Go tell mom." "Uh-Uh-no-no." "It's your turn." "Uh" So you'd have to run in, "Hey, hey mom, uh OK, uh, uh, everthing's fine." Ya know she bought that–yeah. "Everything's fine, I just wanted run in, at full speed. And uh, ya know, say hi, and uh, and uh, OK, so . . . Oh! You know Kevin? Uh OK, of course, OK. Well ya know like how his right arm, usually, usually, it bends, usually it would bend like that? OK, it's now bendin' like that right now. And it's no big deal cuz we already looked at it but we were thinkin' since you said that you had to go get milk later, anyway. So we were thinkin since you had to go anyway, ANYWAY, then we were all thinkin' if when you go, if you just might wanna take him to the hospital." "And if you get peanut butter, get SMOOTH!" -Brian Regan http://www.brianregancomedy.com...
Resolved: Quote Arguement Part Two

People spell their name however they want, it has nothing to do with phonics or nothing. I'm not sure what phonics is, but I saw the girl that was hooked on it. She's got a problem with it apparently. Have you seen that commercial? "Hooked on Phonics worked for me" She's adorable, ya' know. I was thinking, wouldn't that be weird if she was applying what she learned and she couldn't get the commercial straight, ya' know? "Hoookid on puh-hhonicks wer-kid for meh! HHooookid on puh-hhonicks wer-kid for meh! Meh!". "Okay, CUT!!!" "You talk to her, man." "We ain't gonna move a lot tapes this way, I'm tellin ya' right now." Anyway I met his woman, her name was ah, Amy, you know, so I go "Oh, A-M-Y?" She goes "No, A-Y-M-I-E". "Ughhh... I have to take a nap! I'm Brian, B-R-I-V-O-L-B-N, the number 7, the letter Q, --'Brennemenahgah!!!' Look at my name tag, it's, it's big. -Brian Regan http://en.wikiquote.org...
Resolved: Quote Arguement Part Two

"If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them." -Jack Handy http://thinkexist.com... I apologize for not listing my source for Round 1. This is my source: http://thinkexist.com...
British Teachers Often Don't Afford Students The Credit Of Intelligence

Hello, hopefully I can help! =) I'm Steve, and I shall try to explain to you what exactly happened and why! Now the reason why I took this? Becuase I have gone to school with children who also have AS like you. It was tough at times, but rest assured, I do know if I put this in perspective for you, that you will better understand what happened, but work hard to prevent it from happening again! First, you will outgrow this stage in your life. The majority of people with AS do. The thing thats unique about AS is that you have a differing outlook on life than everyone else. So your normally isolated, not really into social situations all the time, and love the things you love; almost to the point of obsession. See? Told ya I know what having AS is like!Now, why did the teacher punish you for not getting your diary signed? Well there is a few reasons, but first of all, it wasn't because he was a jerk who hates you. I want to stress this, he wants to watch you succeed because it makes him as a teacher feel good knowing he can share with your parents watching you succeed in life too. I had a friend named Bob who I grew up with who had AS. He's in college now living on his own! But school was tough for him until he "out grew" AS by working with his teachers. Now, why did they punish you? First, they want you to think "well this sucks, next time I actually will have to get it signed so that way I won't have to do this again!" Other students have to do it, and maybe your parents asked your teacher to keep in touch with them about you. Second, having AS can mean you get disorganized really badly, and so when a project comes up, your going to get stressed out. This is really bad for people with AS, it causes depression, suicides, self-loathing, anti-social behaviors, etc... The key here is to take your projects, and homework step-by-step. They're trying to teach you about the "real world", and unfortunately what is fair doesn't always occur. Lets say I'm cooking hamburger in the kitchen and I accidently forgot about it, what could happen? Well the crappy part is now I have burnt hamburgers. So they want to show you every action has consequences, and they want you to develop a way of dealing with your duties as a student to help you remember. They didn't give you a detention because your a bad student, they gave you a detention because you didn't do what you were suppose to do. Your teacher probably already knows your a good student. But he needs you to keep focused, and he is trying to get you to find a way to remember what you have to do. It's nothing personal. Try leaving yourself some sticky notes to remind yourself of stuff you have to do, and I know it's scary for you, but try to hangout with lots of people, and try to work on not just seeing the way things happen, but understanding why they happened. Best of luck to you!Steve! Sources: http://www.webmd.com...http://www.myaspergerschild.com...;
British Teachers Often Don't Afford Students The Credit Of Intelligence

I am a 13 year-old with a rather uncommon disorder named Aspergers Syndrome, this means that I am able to challenge the modern psyche of children are inferior to adults, which some people take for granted and have never thought to challenge. Essentially, even when it isn't a smart thing to do, my brain makes me say things to teachers which I regret later. I first truly realised the extent of teachers disrespect for their pupils on the 21st of may at 2 o'clock. I had recived a detention based on the school's new "double removal system" which has evidently been set up to punish repeat offenders who have given up on school and think there is nothing left in education. I had recieved the detention for not having my homework diary signed. I immediatelly thought that this was unfair, on the whole, I behave impeccably towards my betters and I didn't see why I should recieve this for not finding time to get my parent's to sign my diary. Admittedly, I did spend time playing games that I could have spent getting my diary signed. I asked the teacher from whom I had recieved the detention why I had it, and all he said was that it was important to sign your diary so that the school knows my homework has been seen by my parents, and that the school uses diaries to communicate with the students parents. I knew for a fact that this wasn't true, in nine out of ten lessons, teachers write nothing in diaries. And here was where my Aspergers became a problem. I responded by saying that I didn't believe this was nessesary, I didn't speak my mind because of the precise reason I created this debate. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I want the school education system to be run by rampant youths and that I want to be exluded from justice, I am merely trying to help the education system understand it's pupils better.Teachers need to respect their pupils and give them the right to speak to each other as equals more often.Thank You for your time.
it is better to have never been/exist

It is my honor to conclude this debate. It has been fun. "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself" Without existence you wouldn't have suffering but you also wouldn't have art, math, history, science, poetry, love, and hope. These are things that are lost without our existence. While my opponent may say non-existers wouldn't care if art, math, history, science, poetry, happiness, love, and hope, didn't exist. By the same logic non-existers wouldn't care if suffering didn't exist. The good is on average more than the bad. If I posed the question to an exister "Would it be better if you were never conceived?", your average exister would say no. This is evidence that existence on average is more good than bad. This isn't a 'cheery' view, it is a fact. Even some pessimist believe it is better to exist than not, and those people aren't cheery. In addition majority of people on the last leg of their life, look back on it and are glad they existed. Life is potential. This potential is something worth existing for. For you have the potential to choose to try to reduce suffering. My opponent has given the example that if you got "everyone" to not procreate, you would end all human suffering. My argument of life being potential, shows that "everyone" has the potential to reduce suffering. In addition, if you got "everyone" to use their potential to reduce suffering, then you would completely eliminate all human caused suffering and you would greatly reduce natural caused suffering. So in conclusion existence is preferable over non existence. With existence you also have the potential to eliminate the downsides of existence. If you truly want to reduce suffering then use your potential for good and help people. Everyone trying to help people is better than everyone not procreating. In the end you should use the potential you get from existing and "Be the change that you wish to see in the world."- Mahatma Gandhi. Thank you for this debate.
it is better to have never been/exist

To avoid circular arguments I shall just conclude The view that coming into existence is a harm is pessimistic (but still true) in both factual and evaluative sense. I have shown that factually, the human life contains much more pain (and other sufferings) than people realize. Evaluatively, I have shown the asymmetry of pleasure and pain and suggested that lives pleasures do not make life worth starting, however life's pains to make life not worth starting.; and the longer sentient life continues the more suffering their will be. Pessimism tends not to be well received. On account for the psychological disposition to think that things are better than they are, as i previously discussed. When evaluating both arguments my opponent cannot be right just because his view is 'cheery', just as my view cannot be right because it is grim. Which view we must adopt must depend on the evidence, and as I have argued the grim view about coming into existence is the right one. There is nothing in my arguments that suggests we should not 'count our blessings', if by this one means that one should be pleased that one's life is still not worse than it is. But this injunction to count one's blessings is much less compelling when it entails deceiving oneself into thinking that one was actually lucky to have come into existence. I would say it is similar to being grateful that one is on the first class cabin of the Titanic as one awaits descent into a watery grave. Many may view my opening arguments ("coming into existence is a harm, procreation is always wrong, it would be better if as a result of there being no new people humanity became extinct") as depressing however I see them as rather enlightening, as it is the most effective way of preventing suffering. Not creating a person absolutely guarantees that the potential person will not suffer, obviously because that person will not exist. "Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." R13; Friedrich Nietzsche