Law Debate Topics — page 24

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• if someone can claim they are a female and they are transgender then does that allow them to use a women's restroom? that will leave children exposed to pedophiles who are saying that they too are female but really they are perverted and want to spy on little kids. you were…
• I don't believe in a god either just trying to help people see my point from another view and i'm not even talking about gays they don't try to be something they're not but trans i don't understand why you would need to be a girl you can just act ;like one and dress like one…

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• For the purpose of clarity, I'll start this round by restating my argument briefly. My argument is based on a syllogism: Major Premise: The action of punishing and suppressing freedom of speech and thought is unjust Minor Premise: Hate Crime Enhancements punish and suppress…
• The current LD resolution. Come one, come all, and debate me! Because hate crime enhancements violate free speech, I affirm the resolution, Resolved: Hate crime enhancements are unjust in the United States. The United States Sentencing Guidelines 3A1.1.(a) currently sets down…

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• I would like to introduce my point of view by first discussing the so-called "evils" of prostitution. Prostitution now, as ever, is not an uncommon thing in the world, particularly in the poorer regions of the world. Even the United States, with its amazingly high standard of…
• First: "Do you think that the government will seriously check and test these girls after every day, week, or even month for STDS? Legalization fundamentally increases the risk of getting aids because more individuals visit these sites (explained in Contention 1), and the…

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• I do not believe the age group matters when it comes to a life changing and life taking decision. I believe that the decision of abortion is equal to the right to drink. Also in many states in able to you to be seen alone at a clinic or an appt the child has to be at least 18…
• I do believe that a minor should need consent for an abortion. Although it is the child's body, I believe that support from a parent is needed. Some children, young adults, and teenagers tend to be immature when they are pregnant and tend to make immature and irresponsible…

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• Pretty self explanatory debate. Round one will be acceptance only, rounds 2-4 will be for arguments.

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• Banning guns will not stop crime in America. Change my mind
• But guns are saving MILLIONS a year. Again you haven"t respond to my Study that showed guns stop anywhere from 500,000 to 2,000,000 crimes EVERY YEAR! At the time when the founding father wrote the Second Ammendment when there were guns like the Belton Flintlock, Giradoni Air…

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• I unfortunatley have had a lot come up in these past few days. I will be conceding this rebuttal round due to big assignments for finals. I know his may result in loss of the debate. I would plea to my opponent to cut the debate off last round, but that wouldn't be fair to him.…
• Contention 1: Irreversible Mistakes His 1st response: Chance of killing negligible because of technology advances. Issue: Technology doesn't convict people of crimes; a jury of peers takes care of that. They accomplish this by hearing the evidence and seeing the evidence, and…

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• Your argument is essentially that it is against my citizenly duty to burn the flag. You also agree that flag burning is a matter of freedom of speech and should be regarded as such. You give me no reason that it should be against the law or any reason why the law should be…
• People should be allowed to burn the flag. It is a statement of free speech (symbolic) and protest. Both of which are constitutionally protected. I think the act is disfavorable. That is to say I don't personally agree with it. But, it is important to defend civil liberties…

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• I don't know why my graphs didn't load, but the death penalty should still be abolished. I will restate my argument.http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org...^ Go to the last graph. Then you can see that 43% of the people who are white are going to be executed. 41 percent of the people…
• As my position say, the United States should abolish the death penalty.Racism:My opponent has showed a graph saying that only 56% of whites and 35% of African Americans where put to death by the death penalty.Now let's look at the current death row. As you can see, the…

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• How did I end it? You broke a rule which I stated in the 1st round.
• What it was a clear violation of rules. The voters will vote for me since you broke a rule

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• You haven't reputed M'kay. Drugs are bad M'kay. Explain why they aren't M'kay.
• Drugs are bad, M'kay.

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• Again, my opponent has forfeited his round. You have no option other than voting for the PRO side of this debate. Thank you for your time.
• This is twice in which my opponent could not meet the time requirement; once, is acceptable. Twice just inhibits from an educational debate. Thank you.

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• Thank you, once again for your arguments." kohai better not forfeit my debate with him."I am sorry but I have to forfeit(SORRY, I was too tempted!)RC1) As I proved, the DP also takes inoccent lives!RSPA) I wish to direct your attention to the source that my opponent used.…
• Should the United States abolish the death penalty? That is the question I wish to answer in this debate. Note, from hereafter, Death Penalty will be abbreviated as "DP. "I wish my opponent the best of luck. *handshake*Contention 1: Execution is inhuman! C1.1) The Questionabl…

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• Resolved- All legally and clinically sane citizens should have the right to keep and bear arms. First of all, let me thank my opponent for accepting this debate, if in fact he does accept it. The right to keep and bear arms is a right given by birth, not only a right protected…
• My opponent, again, dedicates an entire paragraph to the "Orange Revolution", and still fails to prove it's relevance to this discussion. This debate is not about whether or not "change can be brought about peacefully". He has failed to prove any parallels between the Orange…

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• you go first please.

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• 1. That is not the only evidence she was involved in the murder. 2. There was a break in staged and it is believed very likely Amanda Knox did it. 3. There's plenty of circumstancial evidence Amanda Knox was involved so she probably was. This is clearly a very strong case…
• 1. Lack of DNA evidence in the murder room did not show Knox was innocent to being party to the murder. Meredith's blood was mixed with Knox's DNA in the bathroom and in Filomena's room. Also, there was a clean up the next day, during which DNA evidence was selectively removed.…

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• Hello thank you for accepting.The only evidence have ever been presented with for why gay marriage should be illegal has come with a religious bias of some sort. gay and lesbians are perfectly happy tax paying members of society and deserve the same legal rights that any loving…
• I believe there is no secular argument for a ban on gay marriage.The purpose of this debate is to decide if gay marriage (In the US) has any reason being banned using only secular agreements. There are 3 rounds of debate.Rounds:(1) Acceptance(2) Opening statements(3)…

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• I wrote a rebuttal that was nice said exactly what I wanted to say. Then my Open Office Crashed. It will not let me reinstall. I got a copy of MS Word but it will not read the the file. :( All that made me late for my round. I am not going to rewite all of it. My opponent has…
• In many ways the 2nd Amendment is outdated. While I would concede that our founding fathers would not be in favor of an all out ban on all fire arms they would be in favor of a ban of some types of fire arms. I will do my best to take you back in to the mind set of our founding…

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• Ok my opponent proceeds to go back to murder over and over again but what my opponent is not saying is the fact that most abuse victims lives are put in to danger every time they are attacked, it is unfair for my opponent to say well murder is wrong when the victim's life is…
• Well yes murder is wrong, but let's say your sister is being abused by her spouse? Are you telling that you would tell her not to defend herself? Let me also pont out that some males/females whom are abusing there spouse will beat in to there mind they are useless and no one…

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• i give up. the level of incomprehension is too high. i didn't even read half of your response. sorry - i give up.
• i have answered chronologically without quotes. i can go back and put in your quotes if this makes it too hard for you, but i think scrolling my rebuttal in a browser window next to your first response should be sufficient. if i need to provide proof that there are too many…

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• It is not unconstitutional to regualte fully automatic weapons, This is the reason full auto weapons are rarely used in crimes they are restricted. Restrict semi automatic weapons in the same way and you will find a similar result
• My constitutional solution would allow respsible people to own these weapons after proper back round checks, The way we do this is to simply reclassify all semi automatic weapons into the category destructive weapons and fully automatic weapns are oh and handguns too

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• Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down!
• Thanks Con. ==Idealism==Cons position is invalid because he hasn't defended any theoretical ideal. There are literally dozens of political ideologies conservatives, liberals, communists, socialists, anarchists, objectivists, libertarians, anarchists, ect. that all have a…

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• look your skills surpass mine
• u win

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• Rebuttal 1... I just said a) marijuana possession rates would go down (obviously) because it would be legal. b) laws for marijuana possession in states that allow it are very strict, helping police to enforce them. Argument 2... The legal sale of Marijuana would generate tax…
• The first argument to our debate is the fact that many marijuana arrests are made unjustly and the criminalization of marijuana possession wastes law enforcement resources that could be used to fight violent crime. According to a report released by the Drug Policy Alliance in…

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• This week's debate has boiled down to 2 main voting issues, the 3 motions I've set forth and the reliability of information/rebuttals given. Given the information that my opponent & I have presented, I will go over these and give 2 main reasons why a vote for Pro in this debate…
• On to the debating. .I'd like to note that my arguments are not to justify capital punishment as a whole. In fact, I believe the system, as most states have it, is inherently flawed, can be discriminatory, and has to high of a risk of killing innocents. However, that is…

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• First against the facts on the cost of the death penalty he states I get most of my evidence form amnestyusa. org which clearly not true if you are to read through my MSNBC article which he has no argument against the validity of the website or the article. Then he says…
• Now I will defend my points against the attacks he made against them. Against my argument that the costs of the death penalty are simply too much he brings up that this is simply not true. He brings up how studies that have been used in the past did not have complete data…

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• i ask you the voters to vote for me because my enemy obviously doesnt want to follow through with the debate, that we'd agreed upon while talking on aim instant messager
• i am going to omit this round in order to continue the debate........................................................the periods are to meet the reqyuirement.............................................................................

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• The veils are worn only by the Muslim women on a daily basis : Since only the Muslim women wear a full face veil as a compulsion on a daily basis, any ban on it would affect these women the most. It will be religious prejudice on any count. " This is true, the law was clearly…
• This week the French ban on wearing veils in public came into force and already Muslim women have been arrested for not uncovering their faces, perhaps so that lecherous Gallic kafirs can drool over the sight of their bare countenances and, possibly, undress them with their…

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• This is a debate over whether or not Gay Marriage should be legal in the United States. My position is that Gay Marriage should be legal. I will let my opponent start the debate with their arguments.
• I would like to protest my opponent's idea that marriage is only about procreation. What about infertile couples? What about couples who wish to remain childfree? If they can marry, why not the LGBT community, too? My oppeonent states "Marriage in essence was an institution to…

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• My opponent said that by legalizing automatic weapons they would become more availbale to criminals. I concur to an extent this may be true however they will also allow citizens to have more protection. My opponent suggests that keeping them illegal will keep them in low…
• My opponent's first statment was that if we were to ban cars, baseball bats, knifes, and rocks it would be an inconvienice while banning guns would be fine because they were desighned soley to harm people. However my opponent is wrong. Guns are also used in hunting and…

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• Waterboarding is used to collect life-saving informationConsider the following hypothetical: A nuclear weapon goes missing in Pakistan. The trail leads to New York City, and coded e-mails implicate a certain Pakistani national, identified as a member of al Qaeda, as…
• 1: Waterboarding is used to collect life-saving information All of my opponents arguments are claims that without absolute certainty, no harsh interrogation is justified. Certainty is never used as a legal standard, because certainty is never attainable. As one academic put it,…

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• You say that I'm pathetic, when in reality you fail to even win, or tie, most of your debates. You clearly fail to understand a debate, which is why I think it's easy to determine the winner voters. This was more of a "Troll Debate", presented by my opponent, which breaks the…
• I will not argue, until my opponent does.

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• I am disappointed that my opponent forfeited the previous round - I hope this reflects how much he feels about his arguments. May the best debator win, may the voting begin.
• As you can probably guess by the username and vibrant profile picture - I am a Briton. In the United Kingdom, most guns are banned and to own a hunting rifle one requires a gun licence which is extremely difficult to earn and requires extensive background checks. In the United…

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• more guns correlates with more homicidehttp://www.amjmed.com...i can find plenty more of those types of articles. so shouldn't we at least consider getting rid of guns, if we could reduce murders by say eighty percent? not everyone will stop at nothing to get a gun. most people…
• even strict gun control countries allow exceptions for hunting. no reason we can't too. australia is pretty low on the count. the USA is over four times worse just by comparison. australia is pretty far down the list. https://en.wikipedia.org...;it is ashame we can't protect…

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• My reason for my side of the debate was sparked by a particular example. I came across an ad that featured a florist's experience. She had a frequent customer who she knew to be gay and they had a good relationship and she genuinely seemed to like him. He was aware of her…
• To clarify, I don't believe that people should be allowed to discriminate based on sexual orientation alone. So if a gay person wanted flowers for their home or to buy for their mother or some other reason, I don't think they should be able to discriminate. However, if the…

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• I guess I win. Guns are necessary to maintain a free society. That's why it's the 2nd Amendment, not the 34th.
• The 2nd Amendment allows citizens the right to bear arms.

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• //Are you saying that in having the (one) child, it would kill both the parents (two)? That is nonsensical.// I never said or implied that having a child is going to kill both parents. You obviously need to read it again. //it would seem as though he agrees with me that life…
• Thank you for clarifying what we are debating about. My opponent's argument is that a human being should not be killed at any stage in his/her life. But let me start off by giving a hypothetical scenario. let's say there is a train coming down the track that is about to hit two…

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• Hello,I am extremely disapointed to state that I cannot postmy arguments for this round. This past week I got sick. Please go ahead and post your arguments and I will respond to them as normal. Apologies to All
• Hello Esteemed Debaters and Observers Alike,My name is arrowjaw, and today I am presenting a debate topic I wish to argue with an opponent. This debate has been created in all seriousness and I expect it to be argued thus. Please only accept this debate if you wish to debate…

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• "The fact that you claim that making a firearm is any harder then making moonshine is a bit of an uneducated statement. The operation of distilling whiskey requires thousands of dollars in equipment as does gunmaking. You can cut costs in gunsmithing similar to the way you can…
• "Since you have left the actual terms for winning said argument completely open by not specifying any sort of terms that i need to prove wrong."I will be arguing that more gun restriction will help prevent crime."Please specify what exactly you want done about gun laws your…

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• You ask how we will make guns illegal? Simple, Get rid of the 300 year old second amendment. When that amendment and constitution were written was in the 1700. It's time to wake up and move into this century. We don't have wild posse riding into town, We don't have scalping…
• I am so tired of hearing from these red neck, Military, Waco Texas, NRA loving gun nuts who believe in some ancient parchment the Constitution and believe they need guns, It's sad stories like this that always amaze me why people would still want to have a gun. In a civilized…

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• Okay I was actually not expecting you to agree with me on anything. But yeah, and I especially like what you said about even if it's a choice, it's okay, because people tend to bash on sexual experimentation often. And that's also good, most of that second paragraph. But…
• Okay, thanks for accepting, let's get started :) First of all, being gay is not "unnatural". In fact, homosexuality is present in over 450 different species. If you think that it's unnatural, just keep your opinion to yourself and don't try to destroy other people's happiness.…

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• Do you really not know if I concede based on what you have read so far? (25 characterts) (25 characters)
• UHH I accidently entered this debate in twice, I left the word "BE" out of the title and tried to correct it. you win. I am debating on the other one. Thanks for playing, Please drive through.

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• This is a debate about two of the most radically different drug policies currently in place. Singapore famously has no tolerance for drugs and imposes the death penalty for possession of anything in "trafficking amounts. " In addition, "The possession, consumption,…

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• Red is blue. Red is blue. Red is blue. Now look around. Is everything that was red now blue? I didn't think so. Saying it over and over again doesn't make it true. "All your arguments have an inherent flaw and that's that they assume homosexual marriages will always be small in…
• "1. Like every other species on this planet, human beings needs to follow reproduction system rules -- sexual intercourse between a male and a female is a necessary (may not be sufficient though) condition to sustain our species on this planet. Gay (or lesbian) marriages will…

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• To be honest, I am confused. My opponent is arguing for my points, and seems to be agreeing with my contention completely. Not one attempt has been made to refute any of my points I initially set out. Please note that as I set out in the first round, the burden carried by CON…
• ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "My Response: ok, lets first off and define the difference between a right and privilege. [Definition - Right] 1. A legal or moral entitlement [Definition - Privilege] 1. a special advantage or immunity or…

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• My opponent has tried to harm my business. Whatever happened to him was purely coincidental and not in any way related to that. I'm gonna give my hoes some extra crack today. In celebration of my opponent choosing to refrain from attacking my business model.
• My arguments about this proposal harming my coke habit and my hoes, has wen't unrefuted. Arguments extended.

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• Any argument of any sort can be made. There are no restrictions to content. 2. No arguments whatsoever can be made in the comment sections.
• We can re-do it right now if you want. I just didn't have the time earlier in the week, and now I do.

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• 1. Sources- a. Look back at the prior arguments and decide for yourselves; links two and three were broken for me, and I called my opponent out on that. That isn't a Strawman, as I didn't build up an alternative argument; I simply attacked my opponent's sources which is more…
• 1.Evidence- a. My opponent's first source is a religious website whose intent is witness and prayer for others. An moral implications (explicitly expressed or not) are invalid due to the intentions of this website. b. The link to my opponent's second and third sources are…

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• Yes, especially considering the Supreme Court has consistently given rights to even illegal immigrants, especially in the case of Wong Wing v. U.S. Illegal immigrants should be guaranteed due process because otherwise the United States has the unconditional control over the…
• My personal view has nothing to do with the argument. I am arguing that illegal immigrants have a constitutional right to due process according to the fourteenth amendment. However, if the argument is emotional or personal I do believe illegal immigrants have the right to due…

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• For things like gun control, you cannot have one policy for an entire nation. I think that if we do things on the state or county level, then more people would be happy. My argument is that give gun control to the people in the areas that want it and let people keep their guns…
• Challenge Accepted