It is better to light a cat on fire than a dog.

Also thank you for reposting my YouTube video (even if it was just to repurpose it for your own means), I did try to embed it in my argument and while I don’t know why it wasn’t working I suspect the cat internet overlords had something to do with it. Final Rebuttals: Last round my opponent proposed that the burning of cats allowed rat populations to thrive and hence contributed to the spread of the bubonic plague through Europe. In contrast to this, my opponent claims, societies such as they Egyptians and the Chinese respected their cats and hence were less likely to succumb to the spread of such diseases. However it is a commonly held belief among scholars that the black plague actually originated in central Asia, with many placing its origin somewhere in western China. The very source con cited last round ([14]) mentions this. In 1334 an outbreak killed 90% of the population of Hebei province and from 1200 to 1393 the population in China halved, the main causes of which were famine, unrest and, you guessed it, the bubonic plague. The plague then proceeded to spread east to India and the Middle East along trading routes such as the famous Silk Road. [1] More populated cities and poorer hygiene standards then allowed the plague to rampage through Europe. Bodies were simply dumped in the streets and people whipped themselves in the hope that it would show their devotion to god. [2]If cats really where the disease preventing machines my opponent makes them out to be then they should have preventing the disease from spreading out of China and across the world in the first place, as well as preventing it from affecting Chinese populations. As far as cats on the Internet goes, I don’t see why this should prevent cats from being lit on fire. In fact, given the great popularity of cats on the Internet, posting a video of you lighting some up would be sure to catapult you towards YouTube stardom and the bucket loads of money that comes with you. Flaming dogs would just not attract the same kinds of Internet stardom. The fact that cats spend so much of their time grooming themselves is also one of the reasons why they are better to burn than dogs. Cats sleep for around 16 hours a day, so if half that time they are licking themselves then that leaves a window of arond 4 hours for your cat to something intersting. [3] Dogs on the other hand are always up for a play, walk or cuddle. Furthermore the ability of dogs to produce a seemingly endless supply of poop is what makes them such good animals for couples to own before they consider owning a baby. They prepare people for the non-stop diper changing crap storm of early parenthood and teach people about responsibility and caring. A note on double dipping: I dismissed the hell hound arguments because hell hounds are often depicted already on fire, so attempting to light them on fire to destroy them is pointless and the puppy monkey baby because it is more not a dog than it is a dog. That being said, I was using Lions not as an example of a cat but more as a ‘character witness’, to show the killer instinct that cats must also harbor since, as the study I cited showed, cats are very psychologically similar to lions. Brief summary of my arguments: - Feral cats are an invasive and environmentally destructive pest species and should be destroyed. - Cats provide a more pleasurable fire lighting experience, with a greater surface area to volume ratio and a greater proportion of highly combustible fur. - Dogs fill more roles, such as security and police dogs, sniffer dogs and guide dogs and are far more useful to society than cats are. - Scientific studies have shown that all cats are evil and if they could kill you, they would. - Cats make for much more effective Combustion and Arson transports than dogs. [1] . http://asianhistory.about.com... [2] . http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk... [3] . http://www.catster.com...