Cats are the greatest animal known to man.

Alrighty then. I will be going point by point and then offering a conclusion. I will be paraphrasing my opponents points. 1). Point: Cats are quick. Opponent: Skydiving humans move quicker than Cheetah's because it is doubtful a cheetah would attempt to nose dive while skydiving. Also humans can drive cars which should be attributed to them as humans invented cars. Myself: You concede the skydiving debate to me by saying "it is doubtful" thus there is still a chance that a cheetah will nose dive while skydiving thus succeeding in being just as fast as man. On your car point you are wrong. Humans did not create the car Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot did. Humans cannot take credit for one genius's invention. You are arguing for mankind as a whole here not the genius's of mankind. As I am arguing for cats as a whole not genius cats. Note: My opponent also says humans will call ahead and tell people they are coming down but unfortunately speaking on a cell phone will not work with 120 miles per hour of wind rushing by. Honestly has anyone tried talking on their cell phone while sticking their head outside the window on the interstate? Thus your point falls. P.S the cat roaring will give everybody time to run away and not be eaten. 2). Point: Cats can roar, this is amazing. Opponent: Humans can use a microphone = more amazing. Myself: Once again you are trying to take a genius's invention and attribute it to humans in general. Thomas Edison created the microphone we know today not humans in general. Notice the resolution states "cats greatest animal known to man" thus you are looking for a species to counter this not 3 genius's to disprove my points. Cats still roar, its amazing. 3). Point: Cats can kill things easily. Opponent: Humans can shoot things with guns = better/easier. Myself: Yet again you attempt to steal one mans invention and attribute it to mankind in general. Roger Bacon is credited with having created gun powder and the first in fire arms. We must let Bacon keep his invention. A cat vs a man in general would result in the cat winning most of the time. 4). Point: Cats are intelligent. Opponent: Humans are more intelligent (round 1) to I will not trust your data (round 2) Myself: I spend round 2 giving you information that shows there to be no conclusive studies between brain mass and intelligence in order to disprove your round 1 point. You simply discredit me by saying that my source is bad, yet you offer no counter evidence at any point. So as it stands I have offered you more evidence, thus at the very least we must discredit your point that humans are more intelligent. One way or another however this still leaves me with my point "cats are intelligent" in tact. As they are. Also you say cats have never created a great invention or added anything to this earth. Once again I must point out that humans as a whole have not invented great things or added to this earth. In fact I would be willing to bet more humans have destroyed great things than have created great things. Thus on an average humans destroy which makes the cat better because it does nothing. However! Cats can communicate to each other and this is where their greatness comes in. It is more than possible that when they lie around all day they spend that time thinking/discussing philosophical thoughts among their species. Cats have just become so advanced that they see nothing worth it in this world but philosophy and dedicate almost all time to such 5). Point: Cats are independent creatures. Opponent: Cats are dependent on humans. We see them as a hobby and can get rid of them at any point. Look to all the times cats have been burned or destroyed. Myself: It is a sick human indeed that burns a cat, a low, sad, degraded human being. Once again we are not talking about sick humans but humans in general. However for your indulgence look back to my point where I said the Egyptians, a great society, worshiped cats. This proves that cats are indeed great, for one of the greatest cultures ever worshiped them. The sick degraded humans burn cats out of jealousy and resentment for the cat using them. You also say: "No, we are using them for companionship and when the need for them expires, so do the cats." The second part of this sentence is wrong as I have proved that the cat can leave and become an alley cat if it so chooses. The first part however proves my point. We are dependent on cats for companionship. Cats on the other hand simply use us for food, water, shelter, petting, worship. Comforts of living that they do not need from us, as they can become an alley cat, but take from us because they are great. You attempt to justify by saying humans are actually the great ones because we feed animals to eat them yet you are only pointing out how the cats are exploiting our own system. Truly great. 6). Point: Cats are evolving and can think on their feet. Opponent: Humans are more evolved look to our technology. Myself: In my second speech I answered my opponent by saying the cat uses us for our technology they are more evolved. My opponent counters by saying we could get rid of the cat at anytime but this is simply not true. Look to the large number of stray cats. Yes humans have enslaved some cats but this is certainly not all or even a majority. The majority of domestic cats live comfortably exploiting humans technology every day. Of course large cats don't have the same benefit but this brings us back to my third point. The reason large cats don't have this benefit is because they can easily kill anything they want. Thus humans are afraid and avoid them. 7). Point: Kittens are cute and cuddly Opponent: You answer me by saying that baby humans are even more cute and then when I point out the flaw in your logic (being only adult humans find babies cute while adult humans and baby humans find kittens cute) you respond with: "Kittens do not find other kittens to be cute either." Myself: However your point is at the very least unprovable. Secondly the point gets you nowhere as I have still proved from your logic that humans (as whole, not some subset) think cats are more cute thus my point stands. Also you never argue cuddly so I win on that as well. Furthermore you state puppies as a counter advocacy. This falls however when we cross apply my argument from my second speech stating that cats are the end-all most amazing animal to babies because they cannot be caught and humans love chasing things. The puppy is easily caught and therefor is not as interesting. Even if you could somehow prove puppies to be more cute and cuddly cats still have the other 6 benefits over any puppies. Random points: 1.My opponent also tries to prove humans more graceful by saying ballerinas are but cats as a whole are still more graceful. 2. My opponent also concedes to the drawbacks of humans, while attempting to twist them to show how humans are greater than cats. Above 7 points disprove. Preemptive strike!: In my opponents last speech he is going to attempt to convince you that he can go with all the genius inventions however I would like to draw note to his advocacy in round 1: "For the sake of argument, I will say that MAN is the greatest animal known to man" notice he said MAN here and not "genius men" therefor you as a voter must go with MAN in general. The average man. The average man did not invent all these great things, it was geniuses who did such. There have been a select few men who have done great things, but so many more who have done horrible. Thus on average man has done horrible things. The average man. The average man gets owned by the average cat. Note: My opponent changing his advocacy in his last round where I have no chance to rebuttal is extremely unfair to me and he should be voted against.