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Polls should not decide whether a President stays in office
I voted for you in the last debate with the same topic as your opponent's arguments were flawed. However, I think you are still wrong! The argument why polls should not decide on the presidents retention in office is based on politcal rationale. Politicians should have time to execute their political program. They should be able to do unpopular things which on the long run might prove to be good for the country. Otherwise we would have problems like the following: Presidents will have to be...
If the Burmese Government wants no aid then other countries around the world should stop trying
If the Burmese government does not want aid from other countries then those countries should stop trying. If the government wants there people to starve to death and die from diseases because they are afraid of people overthrowing their government then see if the people won't overthrow them. I am interested in hearing a response because in school my social studies class just did a debate on this!...
Atheism is more appropriate than agnosticism
Agnosticism comes from greek gnosis meaning knowledge and 'a' meaning no therefore meaning no knowledge. Now given that we have a possiblity to know about the world but that all our knowledge is fallible, that means that we can only have degrees of belief in our believes. We believe highly in good theories about the world and have low degrees of belief in bad theories. Although all statements that we now believe are wrong could in the future turn out to be true, we have a low degree in belief in...