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Scooby Doo Encourages Drug Addiction
(Originally from my blog: http://musingsofjoe.wordpress.com) I've always known the show insulted intelligence. The conclusions given to the mysteries were always flamboyantly fallacious. The dialogues, in an attempt to be both witty and profound, were laughable in their stupidity. What was worse: A talking dog, with the vocabulary of a Pokémon, always ended up saving the day for completely unknown and erroneous reasons. I abhorred the show. Bored of the indolent animation and bored of the...
Everything is debatable
I got this from a friend and thought it would be interesting, everything is debatable. Please find one thing that there is no debate about. Thanks,...
Campaign Ethics
I feel that we need to reform our campaign ethics. If we as Americans ever expect to get out of debt we need to put our money towards worthy causes. Too much of this elections money was wasted on campaigns. That money could have gone toward getting the American people out of debt....
Free will is an illusion that does not exist
Ok so here is my biggest argument for this. Free will can never truly exists as we our eternally bound by different forms of desires. I shall prove this through 3 points. 1. Free will doesn't exist : For instance, i might walk into a store and see something that i want, lets say a videogame. Now i have two choices at hand i could either take the video game to the register and buy the game, or i could steal it. Though my opponent might try to say that this is indeed free will, my opponent fail...
Really what is the truth about the earth and how we got here?
20 billion years ago. Nothingness. Then suddenly some unknown atom massed outwards into space, if only we could get our hands on this "atom", as there was space for this explosion to expand into there had to be time and existing matter there before. According to science outside the universe, it's a void where nothing can exist. So how did anything come together to begin with? So far I would say im being logical. Then the next part is chemical evolution, how and where did all these chemicals get...
Resolved: There is no such thing as reality
A very famous experiment in physics is known as the double slit experiment. Two tiny slits are made in a very thin sheet of metal. Particles are fired at the sheet of metal, and a sensitive plate sits behind the apparatus, to see where the particles end up. If you performed this experiment with bullets and 2 slats cut into a door, with a brick wall behind it, and a machine gun firing at the door, you would find slat shaped marks in the brick wall when you were done firing. The occasional rico...
Beijing Olympics 2008 will not change India....
I agree that India has performed better than the previous years. Abhinav Bindra became the first individual gold medalist, and Vijendra Singh and Sushil Kumar too performed incredibly well. However, I don't think that India will ever be able to perform as the US and the Chinese did. A few reasons supporting my argument. 1. Most of the Indians are interested only in cricket. It is the only sport that attracts attention from the Indians. 2. The infrastructure of the government does not support o...
RESOLVED: All debate resolutions should not be one sided
I am tired of people posting one sided debates. They are just farming their own win to loss ratio on a debate website, speaks so much of their character. You are forced to post bizarre, off the wall arguments, but then they get mad and remove your argument; they were expecting a free win. Debates such as http://www.debate.com/debates/It-is-as-likely-or-more-likely-that-9-11-was-an-inside-job-as-compared-the-Official-Story/1/ and http://www.debate.com/debates/The-US-Government-should-not-...
The need for "Identity Confirmation" with a phone number is aburd.
Debate is inextricably linked with journalism. Journalism ideally is the process of informing people so that they can make a legitimate decision. Debate is the discussion that hopefully precedes that decision. To levy such a heavy handed and draconian caveat to the freeness of speech such as any demand of absolute identification is a corruption of the entire ethic behind debate itself. This entire idea is disgustingly manipulative. Anonymity is a serious personal right, and the desire...
The 16th Amendment should be repealed
I will let my opponent make the first argument as to why we should not repeal the 16th amendment...