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Persons convicted of a pedophilic crime ought to be treated and not incarcerated in all instances.

1. Incarceration should not be the only appropriate measure in order to deal with pedophiles. 2. According the Encyclopedia Britannica, the purpose of incarceration is to deter criminals. Despite the fact that incarceration is supposed to deter, criminals still commit crimes. Those who commit those criminal acts, and get arrested and are sentenced belong in prison. The mentally ill do not belong in prison. 3. According to the article titled "Mass Imprisonment and Public Health", the criminal justice system has mostly imprisoned the mentally ill and addicts. Prison is not the correct place for the mentally ill. If the mentally ill are placed in prison without treatment, the mentally ills' condition will worsen. 4. The mentally ill, in regards to a pedophile, they will continue to have sexual desires and thoughts if not treated. 5. Sexual desires can cause pedophiles to commit rape, molestation, and possibly murder. 6. Pedophiles who are declared as the mentally ill need to receive treatment. Treatment will help them to deal and cope, and possibly eliminate their desires and thoughts. Treatment can possibly help them from committing sexual acts towards children. 7. If you treat those diagnosed pedophiles, there will be a decreased chance of them committing sexually acts against children and also there will be a chance of reformed pedophiles. 8. Pedophiles who are diagnosed and then receive treatment are good. 9. The negative consequences of treating pedophiles is that they can commit to have sexual desires towards children and sexual thoughts towards children. Another negative consequence is that after receiving treatment, the pedophiles can possibly relapse after treatment and possibly commit an act of rape or molestation of a child, but these negative consequences are acceptable in light of a decreased chance of child molestation or rape and an increased chance of treated pedophiles. 10. Treatment cannot guarantee that all pedophiles will change, but it is a better strategy rather than incarceration. 11. Therefore, persons convicted of pedophilic crime ought to be treated and not incarcerated in all instances.
Persons convicted of a pedophilic crime ought to be treated and not incarcerated in all instances.

1. Pedophilic tendencies cannot be treated with psychoanalysis, because it"s an urge. 2. A pedophile may be well aware that having sexual desires for children is inappropriate, but cannot control the urge. 3. Unless there is a federal law put in place mandating treatment as a preventive measure, the problem will always continue to be that a mental illness such as pedophilia has no cure. 4. Treating persons with mental disorders must be a choice of the person. 5. Treatment cannot be forced upon an individual, not because of a violation of civil rights but because the individual must be willing to change their behavior. 6. Psychotherapy; talking about the problem does not necessarily cure it and make the individual restrain from erratic or uncontrollable urges. 7. Incarceration is good. 8. Therefore, the appropriate measure for pedophiles is to incarcerate them and seclude them from having accessibility to children.
Persons convicted of a pedophilic crime ought to be treated and not incarcerated in all instances.

A mentally ill person cannot comprehend things in the same fashion as a person who is not mentally ill. Therefore, the responsibility of choosing whether to or not to receive treatment should not rest upon the mentally ill person. Someone who is mentally stable should be responsible for the mentally ill person because then that someone can make rational choices that the mentally ill person cannot. We cannot risk having serious decisions made by a mentally ill person. A mentally ill person who has sexual thoughts and desires about the adolescence constantly can act upon those feelings. If they do so, then innocent children will be victimized. I agree that those children who are raped and molested will be very not well, traumatized and distraught, but the mentally ill person experiences those same exact feelings. According to the Merriam-Webster, the definition of ill means "not well or healthy: sick or unhealthy of health: not normal or good harmful or damaging." The mentally ill person is acting out on those feelings that he/she cannot always diminish and possibly get rid of. Therefore, it is up to the government to enforce a mandatory rule that once diagnosed, all mentally ill persons must receive treatment. As a result, the government will be able to determine what treatments are effective and which are not. With this in mind, treatment is the best solution for mentally ill persons instead of incarceration. Mentally ill persons are similar to alcoholics. The reason why I say this is because they both suffer from a mental and psychological disorder. The reason why I brought up alcoholics is because alcoholics receive one form of treatment by the name of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). This program was designed and created to help those who suffer from alcoholism. Although it"s not a hundred percent effective, it"s definitely a beneficial tool towards society. It is helping those persons who cannot control their urges to drink. Those who are mentally ill that have sexual thoughts and desires about adolescence should be able to attend a mandatory program similar to AA. Although AA is not a mandatory, some of these programs should be mandatory in order to decrease the harmful risks to society. Overall, treatment would be more effective than incarceration.
Persons convicted of a pedophilic crime ought to be treated and not incarcerated in all instances.

In order to establish grounds for incarceration and not treatment, let me begin by addressing your comparison of Alcoholism with Pedophilia. Medically, alcoholism is considered a disease not a disorder. I make that clarification because, as a disease it is more to affect the physical health of a person. The term disorder is used to differentiate and describe that "something" is not working properly and is mostly used with psychological issues. Alcoholism is an addiction. As a disease it can be controlled and treated if and only when the alcoholic recognizes there is a problem and accepts treatment. There is no medication to take that will cure alcoholism, the person simply stops drinking alcohol and will be cured of alcoholism. Therefore, proving that it is done at will and voluntarily. Alcoholism only affects personal relationships with those close to the alcoholic making this comparison in no way similar or even related to pedophilic behaviors and an adult"s sexual desire towards children. Pedophilic tendencies cannot be treated with psychoanalysis, because it"s an urge. This may sound like a terrible analogy, but it is like eating when you are feeling hungry. There are symptoms that will provoke you to eat, if you don"t your head will begin to hurt, your mood changes and your stomach gases begin to make noises indicating the need or desire for food. The pedophile is in a way hungry for touching children. The person may be well aware that having sexual desires for children is inappropriate, but cannot control the urge. You are arguing that the government should take responsibility for the treatment of a pedophile once diagnosed. I will remind you that a person only becomes a pedophile once they have committed an act. When it reaches that point, it is already too late to treat concluding that the appropriate measure for pedophiles is to incarcerate them and seclude them from having accessibility to children.
Persons convicted of a pedophilic crime ought to be treated and not incarcerated in all instances.

Persons who have sexual thoughts about adolescence, but do not commit sexual acts towards children should receive treatment instead of being incarcerated. The reason why the individual must receive treatment instead of being incarcerated is because treatment will help the person possibly get rid of the sexual thoughts. If not treated, this can lead to the person into committing sexual acts against adolescence. One form of treatment that can be applied to those who have sexual thoughts about adolescence is therapy. According to a New York Times article titled "Pedophilia: A Disorder, Not A Crime", Kaplan (2014) states that the government fails to properly with pedophilia. Kaplan (2014) says "our laws ignore pedophilia until after the commission of a sexual offense, emphasizing punishment, not prevention." What this means is that people who have sexual thoughts about adolescence, but do not act on them are being mistreated. Sometimes treatment is not introduced until after a pedophilic crime has been committed. That is unfair. Incarceration is not the answer to dealing with pedophiles. Treatment is the solution. Incarceration will only keep them subdued for a period of time and then release this now advanced pedophilebecause he/she has not been treated for the mental disorder.
Persons convicted of a pedophilic crime ought to be treated and not incarcerated in all instances.

Treating persons with mental disorders must be a choice of the person. Treatment cannot be forced upon an individual, not because of a violation of civil rights but because the individual must be willing to change their behavior. What kind of treatment can possibly alter and get rid of sexual thoughts? By Therapy I suppose you mean psychotherapy, talking about the problem does not necessarily cure it and make the individual restrain from erratic or uncontrollable urges. A pedophile knows how to distinguish the wrongness of having the desire of sexually abusing children. If a person is to be treated medically with prescription pills, the individual must be willing to comply with taking the medication on a daily basis. Guaranteeing an individual take the appropriate medication would require monitoring which in turn the treatment would become an expensive means for the provision of services. It would be much less costly to incarcerate an offender. We"ve already discussed the actual definition of pedophilia and its concepts, as well as what entails pedophilia. However, lets discuss the adverse affects a child molester has on the child. Not only does the offender deprive the child of its purity and innocence, the offender also causes distress. The child may grow up to have mental disorder as well. You say that not treating a pedophile or an offender is unfair, but how do you explain the fairness to a child who is being deprived. This is a matter of public safety and is as complicated as being raped. It is unwanted and unwelcome. As I see it the issue of mental illness is already stigmatized. I do agree that there are perhaps a few treatment procedures that would work on persons with pedophilic tendencies. I would agree that shock therapy would function. It would make the individual catatonic, making them unable to function as a productive member of society. Therefore, preventing any acts of sexual abuse on a child. Another version of therapy that might work is hypnosis, but this has not been researched or studied. Unless there is a federal law put in place mandating treatment as a preventive measure, the problem will always continue to be that a mental illness such as pedophilia has no cure.
Persons convicted of a pedophilic crime ought to be treated and not incarcerated in all instances.

1.Persons convicted of pedophilic crimes should be treated instead of incarcerated. 2.According to the American Psychiatric Association, pedophilia is perceived as a mental disorder. Based on this definition, a pedophile is a person who suffers from a mental disorder which causes them to be sexually and physically attracted to adolescent children. (Statement of the American Psychological Association Regarding Pedophilia and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). (n.d.). Retrieved November 18, 2014, from http://www.apa.org...) 3.In an article written by Ray Blanchard, an adjunct psychiatry professor at the University of Toronto, he states that "pedophiles would be diagnosed with pedophilic disorder either if their attractions toward children are causing them guilt, anxiety alienation, or difficulty in pursuing other personal goals, or else if their urges cause them to approach children for sexual gratification in real life." 4.Pedophiles have to be diagnosed in order for them to receive treatment. (Feature, W. (n.d.). What is Pedophilia: FAQ on Pedophiles and Pedophilia. Retrieved November 18, 2014, from http://www.webmd.com...) 5.According to the article Why Punish Guilty, Wasserstrom (1964) states that "treatment, however, must be believed capable of improving a present condition". (p.329). If a person who commits a pedophilic crime is mentally incapable of distinguishing right from wrong, it would be wrong to incarcerate that individual because he/she is mentally sick. 6.If you treat persons who have been convicted of pedophilic crimes, there will be less sexually committed acts against children. 7.If you treat persons who have been convicted of pedophilic crimes, there will be a decrease in the number of pedophiles in the world. 8.Pedophilic crimes are sexually committed acts towards children driven by a pedophile"s thoughts and feelings. 9.Examples of pedophilic crimes are the rape and molestation of adolescent children. 10.Less sexually committed acts against children are good. 11.The negative consequences of treating persons who have been convicted of a pedophilic crime is that they can continue to commit pedophilic crimes after treatment, which is characterized as a repeat offense, and that after treatment pedophiles will continue to have sexually thoughts about children. Therefore, the root problem is not dealt with, but is acceptable in light of less sexual crimes against children being committed. 12.Therefore, persons convicted of a pedophilic crime ought to be treated and not incarcerated in all instances.
Persons convicted of a pedophilic crime ought to be treated and not incarcerated in all instances.

1.Persons convicted of pedophilic crimes should be incarcerated and not treated. 2.Pedophilia is a recognized mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association. 3.Persons with mental disorders may have no self-control over their actions; some are completely oblivious to their behavior. 4.Recently, a number of studies have started changing the view that Pedophiles can be treated. It has been studied that one can be born with a brain predisposed to experience sexual arousal in response to children from a very early age. 5.Being born with a mental disorder such as the tendencies of Pedophilia makes treatment difficult, because genetic disorders cannot be eliminated by treatment, thus making incarceration a better alternative. 6.Incarceration is good. 7.There is no specific scientific study in which an alternative measure has been found to change the nature of a pedophile. 8.Although a person is not considered a pedophile wholly until he or she acts on the desire of sexually molesting a child. Once the pedophile has acted, incarceration instead of isolation and treatment is an appropriate method to prevent the child molester to act out any further desires. 9.To isolate as a measure of treatment, only allows for the offender to transgress building on the sexual desires evoked by the solitude experienced. 10.Solitude makes the offender dangerous to society and susceptible to the presence of young children. 11.Therefore, pedophiles should be incarcerated and not treated.
Geocentrism

My opponent claimed that I offered no proof. This is simply not true. As I said earlier, "The speed and rotation of the Earth causes the differences in rotation of air patterns in the atmosphere." To directly quote my source (source 2, Round 1; source 1, round 2,) "It takes Earth 24 hours to rotate one time. If you are standing a foot to the right of the North or South Pole, that means it would take 24 hours to move in a circle that is about six feet in circumference. That"s about 0.00005 miles per hour. Hop on down to the equator, though, and things are different. It still takes Earth the same 24 hours to make a rotation, but this time we are traveling the entire circumference of the planet, which is about 25,000 miles long. That means you are traveling almost 1040 miles per hour just by standing there...So even though we are all on Earth, how far we are from the equator determines our forward speed. The farther we are from the equator, the slower we move." Secondly, besides the ability for physicists to calculate the rotation of the earth in relation to probes or even just probes far away being able to watch as earth spins and moves around the sun (for instance the voyagers, or even the mars rovers communicating to Earth, the distance and timing of communications varies more drastically than if Mars orbited Earth[54.6 million km-401 million km, with 225 million being the average distance]) we have geosynchronous satellites. These satellites orbit the earth at the same velocity that the earth spins, causing it to orbit 24 hours/day, and therefore hover over a single spot on the Earth. If the Earth did not rotate, these orbits would continue like any other orbit. In addition, your argument refuting my first claim was a logical fallacy, I believe it's argumentum ad lapidem, or argument to the stone. This is when you refute an argument as absurd without proving its absurdity. I did provide proof, as I stated and reiterated in paragraph one of this current round. Your second point had more reasoning to it, and I hope that I cleared it up with my second paragraph on geosynchronous orbits. Sources: https://scijinks.gov... https://www.nasa.gov... http://www.philosophyinaction.com...
Geocentrism

Thank you for this debate, I am prepared to argue for the rotation and orbit of earth (but my spidey senses are tingling.) Firstly, on the news, there has been many stories about the recent hurricanes impacting North America. These are Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. What is interesting to learn when predicting and studying the movement of hurricanes is that the direction they head, as well as the directions they turn, are mostly impacting by the Coriolis effect. You may have heard of the urban legend of toilets in Australia flushes the opposite way, but while this is not true, this, when applied to larger areas, such as an atmosphere, it is true. The speed and rotation of the Earth causes the differences in rotation of air patterns in the atmosphere. The Coriolis effect has even been seen on Jupiter, and is even more severe (source 1.) Sources: https://www.nationalgeographic.org... https://scijinks.gov... While this is the most apparent source of learning that the earth rotates, another is the over 7,700 spacecraft, 530 astronauts, and the many countries that have had space programs and/or contain the ability to launch into space. http://claudelafleur.qc.ca.... Repeatedly, they have proven the movement of the Earth (by visual and by tracking means.) We also have launched the Voyager probes outside of the solar system, with the farthest being almost 13 billion miles, and they have turned around and captured Earth. This data, along with other probes, have proven the change in the earth, as well as the model of the heliocentric solar system. https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov... If anyone has questions on the rotation and orbit of the Earth, just message an astronaut. Here's a list of who is currently in space: http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com... Thank you.
Geocentrism

"It takes Earth 24 hours to rotate one time." This is a claim that Earth rotates, not a proof. I reply with my own claim: "It takes the universe 24 hours to rotate one time." It's very interesting that IF earth were rotating, we'd be traveling 1040 mph at the equator, but since you haven't proven Earth is rotating, you haven't won any argument."The speed and rotation of the Earth causes the differences in rotation of air patterns in the atmosphere." Actually if we were traveling east at 1040 mph at the equator as you claim, the wind should be blowing 1040 mph at the equator in the opposite direction.After all, you can feel the wind blowing if you stick your hand out a moving car at 60 mph, so why not if we're moving 1040 mph?Ironically for you, the calmest winds in the world are where they should be the strongest if Earth were spinning ... the doldrums at the equator."The distance and timing of communications varies more drastically than if Mars orbited Earth."This is a claim. Prove it. Draw a picture or something. The reality is that the distance between Mars and Earth remain the same whether we take Earth a reference point or not.My opponent's second main argument is that geosynchronous satellites seem to hover over a single spot on Earth. He says if Earth didn't rotate, their orbit would be different. But since my opponent believes in Einstein's Theory of Relativity which says you can take any reference point, even Earth, to be motionless, my opponent needs to explain why he's contradicting his own theory at this point.Does my opponent reject Relativity?
unatractive people should be staralized

I only have 5 minutes, so here we go. Pro obviously has the BOP and has not fulfilled it. My opponent obviously meant "sterilized," which is of course an act of violence. Acts of violence are never justified toward anyone acting peacefully. People have intrinsic value and initiating force against them is ipso fact wrong. Second, attractiveness is subjective. Who determines who is and isn't sterilized? Third, what is there to gain from this ludicrous proposal? Pro hasn't explained any.
should minors be charged with adult consequences when it comes to the law

I will argue that Minors should be given adult consequences in certain circumstances when it comes to the law... Current US laws separate adults from minors at the age of 18, however age does not ultimately define whether one is mature or not since there is a grey area between when one is a child, a teenager, a young adult, or an adult.... What determines whether or not someone is a minor or an adult to the courts is if those people are sane, know the consequences of their actions, have a prior criminal record, etc. So point is, its hard to tell where someone is a minor or an adult if you rely on age alone, but it is my belief that the crime committed should determine the punishment, not the age of the person committing the crime. Its always been a belief of mine that age shouldnt be any cause for a reduced sentence since most crimes that minors commit are minor crimes in the first place. Vandalism, trespassing, speeding, etc are minor crimes that most minors commit.... Not rape, murder, money laundering, etc. Why give minors less time for committing a small infraction just because they arent adults? Those crimes are simple enough for any minor to understand is wrong and illegal whether they are 18, 16, or even 14...... On the other hand when dealing with serious crimes like murder and rape, even 7 year olds know its wrong to kill other people or do that kind of stuff to other people. Murderers usually get 20 to 30 years for murder, why should any 17 year old get any different? The justice system already treats some minors as adults for serious crimes, really the only place the courts DONT treat minors as adults is in MINOR crimes like vandalism..... So here are my three points about why minors should be given adult consequences for the same crimes. 1) There isnt a clear distinction between adults and minors age wise 2) Most crimes minors commit are minor crimes that even for adults dont warrent any serious punishment in the first place 3) The Courts ALREADY treat minors as adults for haneous crimes.