America should switch to the metric system

First off I’d like to say I do agree that the metric system is a better system than the imperial system. However this debate is not on which system is better but on changing systems. Pro is arguing that America should change from the imperial system to the metric system. I wish it was that simple, but unfortunately it’s not; the reasons for which I will show. Since I don’t think the our current system is a better system I cannot find too much to refute of my opponents arguments as most of his argument has been on which system is better. I will argue, though against my opponents claims of miscalculations and such, as that would pose an argument to my arguments. The main problems with changing systems are complications, inconveniences, time, and it probably would not work anyway. Hundreds of millions of people would have to suddenly change their thinking. Problem with this is the majority of these people are out of school and would not be able to learn it very easily. Then theirs the older people who don’t like to change their way of thinking, and don’t learn knew things easily. And when I say the older people I don't mean old people. People as young as their 30s would have difficulty in learning new ideas, or changing their ideas. The outcome of this would be that the majority of the people would just stick to the imperial system. Which is one reason why it would not work. American’s are lazy (I’m American just to let you know) their not going to be committed to carrying this out. Of course I am not saying all Americans are lazy, but many Americans are a bit spoilt as they are generally well off and never have had to suffer. If America tried it change it, they would fail. It just wouldn’t stick no one would want to use the metric system after being used to using another system for so long. For America to change systems students would have to be taught different. It would be hard for teachers who are often old to suddenly learn a whole new system. Many would have spent a large degree of their lives learning the material they teach. But now they would have to change a large portion of it over a short period of time. Also many school books would have to be discarded and replaced. *Note* when I say teachers in the above I'm mostly talking about teachers of young students, as more advanced teachers probably know both systems. While I agree that the metric system is a more logical system; using the imperial system isn’t terribly difficult. You don’t have to go through great pains in doing conversion. Mainly it’s just learning how to do conversion that is the problem. It would take a considerable amount of time before the transaction was fully completed. And during this time you have young people who know the metric system and then older people who don’t learn as easily and wouldn’t want to learn anyway. And so the result would be much confusion. So basically America would have to use both systems for a long time before the transaction was fully completed. It would likely be only after a whole generation had died off before America could fully adopt the metric system. http://hubpages.com... Science - Mars Orbiter thruster miscalculations lead to a collision with the Martian surface. That was a while ago as I guessed it would be before reading the link. Science is always improving and mistakes like that haven’t happened in a while. “Medical – A child is written a prescription for medication at the wrong dosage. [5]” What does that even have to do with this debate The pharmacist put down 3 quarters of a teaspoon instead of 3 quarters of a milliliter. The article doesn’t even mention anything about her making the mistake because of conversion mistakes. She simply made a stupid mistake. Transportation – “Gimli Glider,” where unit conversions lead to an airplane being under fueled and running out. “[Fuel] loading was miscalculated through misunderstanding of the recently adopted metric system, which replaced the imperial system.” [6] First thing wikapedia is an unreliable source. And like the other example that was a long time ago (the 80s). Commerce – A quantity of rice is purchased in kilograms without the understanding that the price quote is given in pounds [7] That is not big enough a problem for the solution to be to change to the metric system. The solution to that problem is to better train their workers so that mistakes like that don’t happen.