Everything a Person Does Is Influenced By Society

Thankyou for the fantastic response.=======REBUTTALS ========1st: I would like to point out that my opponent agrees on with me that societies from different cultures pick up on the same things (actions) that were completely unknown to each other. So how can a specific action be influenced by societies, if humans on the total opposite side of the world learned their actions naturally, thus conforming into a society?Natural instinct has influenced humans to form societies, thus the resolution is succesfully dis-proven.The Asch Conformity ExperimentsMy opponent provides that the asch conformity experiment suggest that humans are in fact influenced by society. To this, I agree. Humans are extremely succeptable to being influenced by one other. However is this a sufficient enough argument to prove that ALL human actions are performed as a direct results of a society? I think not. This just proves that there are alot of people who are easily manipulated by their peers. However there are PLENTY of examples to prove that every action done is not influenced by society.When we rebelled against the british and caused the revolutionary war, we broke off the chain of influence of society, and conformed a new society. So again, it is impossible for this argument to prove all actions are influenced by society.Psychology argument "You said that we are independent in thought and action, but it appears that we are connected more than it seems! The reasons we confirm to the expectations of others is for our need to be liked or to be right"The argument here is a contradiction however. I agree there is a need to be right, and there is also a need to be liked. Humans will naturally choose between the two instincts and react on one of them.Take GodSands, inferno, and izbo for example. None of these folks cared about being liked, and will always be supportive of their opinions, no matter the horde of people who oppose them and their beliefs. So while some people do choose to be influenced by society, there is a vast plethora of people who don't care, and will follow their own repective beliefs.Learned actions from society"For example, language. We learn vocabulary from hearing it from others as soon as we are born."This is actually a very interesting point and I am glad you brought this up. How was it that when columbus traveled to the americas, the natives he meant happened to have their own language? Also how is it that are over 6700 recognized languages in the world?http://wiki.answers.com...This proves that humans naturally and instintively develop speech as a way of communication. We can assume based on this fact that if a human were to grow up independent of a society, that they would more than likely learn a language of their own. Lastly:"you said that society influences behaviors slightly, and I have proved that this varies on the size of society and other factors."So I have succesfully accomplished my side of the debate in proving that that all actions are not influenced by society. Even depending on size and "other factors" my opponent still admits that society doesn't neccesarily influence all actions. This means that the resolution has succesfully been negated. ========MY CASE==========Now I would like to go over and re-strengthen some of the points that I ran out of characters on, and wasn't able to efficiently expand upon. C1: Natural InstinctAs has been proved several times, humans have developed basically every single action that know based on their own influences. For this argument, I would like to focus on what a society is, and how exactly is it formed. A society as my opponent has defined, is a "cooperating social group". How are the cooperating social groups formed? Let's deduce here how exactly someone can form a society. At the head of every society, is a leader, or someone who originally defines what is accepted by a society. Let's go back to the revolutionary war idea. After winning the revolutionary war, George washington formed Ideals that were agreed and signed up in the "declaration of Independence". This society was conformed of a man who had an idea. This idea, then turned into an action. This action was the agreed with upon by many other people. So how George washington's Ideas influenced by a society? No. But they succesfully formed a society. So while Society definitely does influence all human beings, all human beings definitely influence a society. Which leads me to another sub point.http://www.mesacc.edu...;Sub Point A: A person influences everything a society does. Our societies and laws are always changing. So contrary to the resolution, do we in fact influence a society? We here in america, are always ammending laws, changing religious beliefs, and debating with ourselves with "what is moral". Given that Society always changes due to different beliefs, we as humans Have a tremendous effect on society. Riots, rebellion, voting, politics, it is all constantly changing. We as humans have always influenced society, and will continue to influence our society forever. That is how things are, and always will be.C2: The scientific ApproachNext we have to see the logic in the scientific aspect of human evolution and the skills and abilities we learn through the natural process.Humans are hard wired to survive and commit actions natural to they're survival just as any mammal.http://adventure.howstuffworks.com...;No matter how much society influences its participants, participants have always influenced their own actions through the use of their instincts of survival. Eating food, bowel movements, and breathing, are all actions that can be in no way influenced by society, because scientifically humans need to do these things to survive.======Conclusion====== I feel that I have succesfully disproven the resolution.1. My opponent agrees with me on several points that Not every single action is influenced by society.2. Natural instincts are not influenced by society.3. Scientifically I have proved that humans must perform actions to survive, thus society has not influenced these actions.4. I have proved that People influence society.Thankyou for reading, and I look forward to hearing from my opponent! Good luck!