For air travel, passengers must be put to sleep for the entire journey

//Even if it gets addictive, as long as there are no harmful effects, it does not matter. // So my opponent is saying it’s okay if they become drug addicts (which will have harmful effects. ) //The added benefit, of course, is that people will have frequent health check-ups, which cannot be argued to be harmful at all. // Too expensive. It costs a lot of money to see the doctor now days. But to have frequent health check-ups just so that you can fly on a plane? The plane trip already is expensive in itself. //But all this is assuming that drugs are needed to put people to sleep. I will list some alternates other than the one I already gave of my history teacher. We have Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (I've yet to find anyone that did not fall asleep 10 minutes into the movie, and even after 4 attempts, I've not been able to finish it), asking them to read the safety manual completely, so on. [1]// As my opponent gives no other options than drugs, I am assuming drugs is the only way. //Bunkum, I say. I have a nice comfortable chair, in my own cubicle and I still find it difficult to get any work done// etc… Well for one thing that’s only you. Many people don’t mind flying, or are so used to flying it’s easy for them to do work. First class passengers have plenty of space and comfort. If the plane's not full lots of others will as well. //My opponent argues that something might happen to the passengers, such as a heart attack and countless other things. I wonder what they could possibly do if these countless things happen while the passenger is awake that they could not do while the passenger is asleep? // First my point was no one would know that it happened to them and therefore no one would be able to help them. //If it helps, passengers can be monitored. // VERY expensive. To monitor every passenger in the plane would cost way too much. //My opponent also says that passengers might not be able to tense themselves in case of a crash. But I already said that the passengers will be woken up before such situations. // I’m not convinced that the passengers could simply be woken up. And like I said the effects would take a while to ware off. They would be all drowsy and light headed. //4. Cannot eat, will piss or s**t Do we do all these things while we sleep at night? // 1. We don’t do these things at night because we wake up before it happens. I don't need to used the bathroom at night, but other people (especially older people) do. 2. Some people do, like little kids and babies and people with diarrhea. And it would be infinitely worse to wet/soil your pants in a plane than in your bed. 3. A plane trip can be up to 14 hours long. If you are asleep for that long without going to the bathroom you will probably wet your pants. 4. Yeah no problem if someone doesn’t eat for 12 hours straight at times during the day where their body is used to having food. //5. Terrorists might find a counter to it. And do what? Blow up the plane with their bare hands? Anyway there will be some person monitoring the passengers, and they would know if anybody showed any signs of waking up. // 1. Take out a knife or scissors and slit as many throats as possible before being stopped. 2. Put your hands around the man in front of you's throat and hold him as hostage. 3. My opponent says some person. If only one person is watching he would easily miss someone waking up. 4. There are many objects that could be used as weapons. Even something from one of those monitors my opponent mentions could probably be used. Just break of something and shove it deep into someone’s eye. Terrorists will do anything to be with those 100 virgins they are promised. //My opponent misunderstands when I said no security check. Passengers will be checked for anything on their person, which can be easily done. As there won't be any bags carried into the plane, that's all that is needed. The bags they check in will of course be checked, but the passengers need not be troubled for that. // Sounds just like a normal security check to me. //No passenger will be handled while asleep. They can lie down on their seats, which will be on a conveyor belt and be slotted into the plane. It would be like a factory machine floor. It'd be just a one-time investment and can be easily recouped with all the savings and the extra passengers ferried// Sounds expensive. //They need not be put to sleep, if you want. So long as they don't cry in the most annoying manner, or I don't get to hear their crying. The monitoring person can take care of the babies. // 1. The resolution states passengers must be put to sleep for the entire journey. Passengers includes babies. My opponent cannot change the resolution and therefore my point still holds. 2. Now the monitoring person has two jobs. Tending babies and watching for terrorists. Doesn’t sound like the safest plan to me. //My opponent just repeats "take a sleeping pill" again and again. Well, they certainly can. I don't care how they are put to sleep. Regarding passengers having a choice// etc. .. My point is if you want to sleep the whole plane trip you can. It doesn’t have to be law that everyone has to sleep. //I already said that drugs are not the only way. Even so, passengers can be asked to provide for their own drugs, or as my opponent keeps saying, bring their own sleeping pills. Just like nowadays, airlines announce that passengers are welcome to bring their own food (but only bought inside the airport). // My opponent provides no other method of how to wake them up.