The handicapped should be given jobs on organic farms

"However, I do recognise that in any team there will be some slackers so in order to ensure everybody pulls their weight I suggest they are supervised by a burly gentleman with a whip, which is a tried and tested staff-motivation technique that I borrowed from ancient mariners:" [I agree that physical harm is a good motivator, but you have failed to address the issue of traction. You can beat someone however much you want, but if they aren't physically able to pull a plough it isn't going to get done. ] "Actually, I suggested that the spikes should be screwed into the bottom of the blind people's white sticks, but I see my opponent's point. However, he clearly isn't aware that blind people's hearing is far superior to that of sighted people and, like bats, they are able to make sounds that are inaudible to normal people, which bounce of fixed objects, animals and other humans that enable them to fix their location to within a fraction of an inch. Therefore, there is no risk of a collision, and as far as not knowing when they are done is concerned, the farmer will tell them – they are blind not deaf! " [ I apologize for misreading your point above, I read "socks," not "sticks," and in my defense I was on an iPod Touch. Human echolocation is not a common ability of blind people and to use it effectively one must be practiced in it [1]. This makes this point invalid. ] "I should have pointed out that the distribution of seeds by the mentally handicapped will be directed by the farmer who will use his shotgun to fire at the frothing funny-farmhands' feet. Of course, he will occasionally miss and hit their legs by mistake but this will be no problem as their legs will be protected by all the seeds in their trousers (pants) and the holes created in them by the shot will just let a few more seeds out. " [Here my opponent contends that taking a shotgun blast to the leg/shins would not be an issue. I say otherwise [2]. [2] is a picture of a chest wound caused by a shotgun. It would certainly mess up a person's leg. In addition to that it wouldn't just make little holes, it would make big holes that would cause the seed to pour out of the trousers too fast. My opponent's proposal is not ineffective and I have successfully refuted it. ] "I agree that seriously mentally disturbed people are a nuisance and a potential danger in the towns and cities but, as anyone who has visited the countryside will know, most people who live there are out-and-out, unmitigated nutjobs themselves. This is because they are all inbred – see entry under ‘NFN'. Furthermore, since these surrogate scarecrows will be securely tied to posts, the danger to normal members of the public will be negligible. " [You didn't advocate using your local nutjob, you advocated using, "those really mental ones that go about shouting incoherently and waving their arms about. " No matter how good you secure them no system is perfect and it is possible that some could escape. It is those escapees that would be a danger to the public. Hurting a member of society usually makes that member of the society hit you with a lawsuit. I wouldn't want to have to pay someone just because I wanted to use a crazy as labor on my farm. ] "I will elaborate with pleasure. As the wheels turn, knives fixed perpendicularly will cut the crops, which will be collected in bags by mental cases walking behind them. " [What I picture in my head is thus: [3]. The top wheel has knives attached around the outside of the wheel the bottom has one central knife that rotated, the problem I see is that the knives would likely just push the plants over, not cut them. ] ~ In conclusion I think that I have adequately refuted the idea that the handicapped should be given jobs on farms, organic or otherwise, by showing that they would be unable to do the work effectively. I would like to thank brian for the debate. It was very amusing. [1] . http://en.wikipedia.org... [2] . http://www.firearmz.net... [3] Be awed by the artistic ability of Korashk! !! . http://i48.tinypic.com...