Politics Debate Topics — page 67

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• Indeed you are agreeing and disagreeing simultaneously, which is amusing. A hero she is because she has inspired millions of other people around the world to fight for their rights. Malala inspired the teenagers all over the globe and taught them to stand against any injustice…
• You don't seem to have any specific point to challenge this argument. I NEVER said she is NOT a hero. I said she is. She is a hero in the eyes of every little girl in her country, every girl in the whole world for what she did, for her courage. She was only a teenager and she…

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• Okay so no voting. I will try to message you on monday to do this debate.
• I got hit by a car and had to spend a day in the hospitalSo unfortuantley i just remebered the debate after suffering a sprained leg and some cracked ribsI would like for my opponent to agree we do this debate next week and have no voting. But if my opponent insits you may…

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• Since the title of the debate is a little convoluted, my argument is that anarchy is practical and effective when compared to other forms of human organization. I argue that anarchy is practical in the sense that it can be used by anybody to address any number of issues. It is…
• Apparently there is a troll problem on this site, which has lead to restrictions. I understand that, but I will not accept someone who has no record and joined six days before me to limit my entrance into their debate. So I have created my own (in true anarchist spirit). I am…

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• Not much point writing here I suppose.
• It seems that the Right Side did not rise.

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• The bible is the basis of american morality. . We are secualr in our government but our society was based cultural on judeo chrisitan ethics early Christains live communally for decades till the corrupt catholic church smashed this peaceful way of life, The catholic chrch is…
• I would point out that you have used a false analogy of two kids beating one, If you feel that way, You don't support democracy, And might as well live in china, A good democratic society properly socialistic is the nordic nations where life is quantifiably better than here in…

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• FrameworkI will admit that I am not a guy who will always be wanting to enforce a strict round structure in every debate, as I believe my opponent's and I should have a bit of freedom to structure our cases as we please. However, Con has made some framework errors that seem to…
• Those were some interesting points by Con. His Round 2 sources are in the fifteenth comment on this debate.The Role of World PolicemanAs part of his case, Con compared the Roman Empire to the world power of today: the U.S. This is an unfair comparison on many accounts, and it…

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• Polls show that Americans would prefer a popular vote over an electoral college.
• The electoral college is undemocratic because it is not based on the popular vote:

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• I don't think you can say that the people lobbying for one side or another during the Brexit referendum weren't held accountable. The day after the vote there was a mob of angry Brits out in front of Boris Johnsons house and he was on the winning side of the vote but it didn't…
• Minorities don't vote as a monolith. You said 62% voted remain that means 38% voted to leave. Everyone's vote counted equally and at the end of the day leave won. The rest of your argument seems to be against David Cameron and Brexit. Just because you disagree with the results…

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• First of all I'd like to present a suggestion that monarchy after parliamentarism provided something amongst totalitarians known as "variety" - a form of theater. The belief still stands amongst monarchists that definition of opinion isn't really it's root of definition. Look…

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• Nuclear weapons can be abolished through the co-operation of nuclear powers and the establishment of an independent verification system
• Risk of nuclear weapons falling into the wrong hands

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• look what china is doing in africa and south america where wewont invest they will, Its chess game we are losing and chnas incredible economic power is able to afford, We have no central plan they do they win, [rivate business is out for shrt term gain of corproations and…
• Soft power, According to Joseph Nye, Who coined the term in his book in 1990: " is the ability to get others to want the outcomes that you want, And the ability to achieve goals through attraction rather than coercion"(Nye, 1990). Indeed, Soft power enables a change of behavior…

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• I extend.
• Note* I clicked on some of your sources Con, most of them are Error pages. In counter to the first argument, I never said that the taxation of these immigrants would have high returns. But I have evidence from a primary source. This primary source is me, a first generation…

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• Okay, so this is going to be my opening argument. 1- I would like to bring the Con's attention, along with everyone else witnessing this, to my first, and strongest case. The UN has failed, over the course of the last forty seven years, to resolve the persistent issue named…
• Lets face the facts. The United Nations has done absolutely nothing effective in the past twenty years. It has failed to stop TWO Iraq invasions, failed to stop the invasion of Afghanistan, failed to prevent the killer pollution of the Baltic, failed to protect Syrians, failed…

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• "Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce." President James A. Garfield. Paper money has absolutely no value it is nothing but a way for the people in control of it to gain control of the people. While the grain idea…
• The Idea with the grain is to make monopolies impossible because if they are possible all one of them would have to do is pay off the right people and they would have control. It would be both debateing and then voting on the debate basicly. The parents would take a written…

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• I affirm: Targeted Killing is a morally permissible foreign policy tool Targeted Killing: the premeditated, preemptive, and deliberate killing of an individual or individuals known to represent a clear and present threat to the safety and security of a state. (Hunter). Ob. 1:…
• I accept. Good luck!

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• "Democracies are based on "rule of law." Democracy is based on the "rule of the majority."http://thelawdictionary.org...Republic is based on "representation." http://thelawdictionary.org..."...the US combined Democracy with Republic."Where is that stated in the US Constitution?…
• The reason funding of super-pacs are justified in a democracy is because, pacs or super-pacs are the engine of democracies; they are inseparable. A "Super-pac" is a Political Action Committee (PAC), may engage in political spending independently of the campaigns, for example,…

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• My opponent didn't participate in this debate.
• Thank you for excepting my debate. Over the last few years, we have seen a growing number of gun massacres in the United States. From 1982-2012, sixty-two gun massacres were committed. Amongst those sixty-two mass shootings, fourteen of those massacres were committed with an…

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• I think so that Con has not read my Argument in its entirety. The cases presented are not one but many and have got repeated in-numerous times in many years. I will like to take my Argument further and add a few more recent details: There is a chief minister in the State of…
• I am speaking For the motion, Indian society has been divided into two parts, the HAVEs and the HAVE NOTs HAVEs are the Politicians, Policemen and the Bureaucrats. HAVE NOTS are everyone except them, And they have bricks thrown at them. And that is the reality of India today. I…

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• i am the pro of this debate.we must be thinking while dictatorship and military are cruel while democracy is the better form.i(a 9th grader) after completing the first lessons of history and democratic politics,i often found that many countries think dictators are cruel.i don't…

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• Is American Healthcare really that high Quality? Short Answer: No. I recently read a New York Times article on the State of American Healthcare, And it was embarrassing to say the least. Essentially if you aren't well-off then you won't get the same standard of Care as your…
• I'd like to open with a Definition; The Definition of a Nation. "A people who share common customs, origins, history, and frequently language; a nationality" - American Heritage Dictionary. A Nation is a family, A really big family where everyone is expected to do their part as…

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• End Debate.
• Hopefully my opponent will get back online in time to continue the next round of debate. I hope anybody who is voting notes her forfeiture when considering who had better conduct.

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• It seems apparent to me that the con doesn't understand where I stand in this debate. The con would rather assert his "intelligence" over others than actually have a debate of substance. Next time, read my contentions
• First, I'd like to provide the con with evidence and cites for my claims, sorry I didn't provide them earlier. Contention One: The US militaristic presence in Okinawa is imperialistic and justifies and perpetuates unthinkable abuses against women. Party for Socialism and…

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• I eagerly await the rest of this debate. Let's jump in to your sole argument. 1. This plan only provides 1 billion dollars. That is 0.00007 of our national debt. Barely significant. 2. Congress' first priority is keeping America safe. Advantage 3 is that of "national security".…
• I would like to affirm this position by presenting some facts, presenting a plan, and showing the advantages of said plan. Facts Definition 1. USAID is an acronym for the United States Agency for International Development Orphans 1. Russia has 700,000 orphans. Russia has more…

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• Thank you for this interesting and lively debate. I will start with an overview, and then move on to conclude along my three contentions. Con has, once again, failed to give us any real argumentation. Many things are claimed, from "laws are not supposed to change," to "The…
• Thank you for this round. I will begin with three contentions, then I will respond to Con's argument. My first contention is about the philosophical background of the Founding Fathers. The Founding Fathers were quite a varied bunch with regards to policy views and, indeed, the…

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• There are about 1,450,000 and 800,0 0 on reserve that shouldn't be hard Even isreal has soldiers monitoring all it borders and the whole country with an army of 50,000
• Trump does not only wish to build a wall he wishes to put soldiers there to these soldiers will watch on cameras to see what is happening

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• Expansion furthers EU ideals.
• EU expansion is good for current members politically.

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• It was amazing to meet you, I'm honoured to meet such a good debater. But i know to always question things and never stick with one side permanently regardless of what happens.
• ORKEYYY, Thanks you've changed my perspective. I live alot around my Grandma who is pro-labour so idk what to believe but was trying to go off my own mind instead of copying things she said. I'm usually good at debating just it was first time didn't know what to say was cba for…

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• Con: "I've read through the page about ten times, it doesn't make sense, it doesn't say what it says it says." Con is speaking in riddles and may think of himself as some type of sphynx rather than a human in a debate. Con: "Then, who cares about what the person did before…
• Let's see if I can make this make sense for you. "The evidence is in the photos. The most clear photo shows an abstract pattern. As seen below." This is not an abstract pattern. In Arabic, "al" is an article or a word for "the", so al-Lah means "the God". In Arabic, the name…

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• I cannot finish debating this debate or any other debate Winter Break is over and I need to study for mid-terms. However Russeau made a very good argument and was very clear and concise and eloquent in presenting them. I think I could have done better, but I don't have time.…
• Term limits are unnecessary. Especially in the United States government. There are enough checks and balances on Executive power to provide for a check on tyrany. We are not going to have another king which was the fear of the framers of the constitution, even though…

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• To begin, my opponent examined the structure of British society, dividing it into three classes, which I broadly agree with but have made clarifications to as follows: The 'capitalists' (colloquially known by the rest of society as "toffs"). This group includes all the people…
• Margaret "the milk snatcher" Thatcher, the wretched former Prime Minister of Great Britain, whose crusades against the working class devastated the nation's heavy industries and threw millions of decent, hard-working people onto the scrapheap of society, is now an elderly woman…

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• Reason #3 Mentality The final reason in which that the government is not taking away our freedoms is mentallity. For thousands of years societies have been shifted by mentality. Some examples of mentality shifting societies include the Civil War, the Falkland War, and Spanish…
• Reason #2 Constitution Many may ask, "Is it constitutional for the government to be doing the things in which that they are doing?" It turns out that it is constitutional. The first reason in which that it is constitutional is because in Article 1 section 8 it says, "The…

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• Thank you for taking the time to reply to the debate. Your statement of 'yet to annex' is based on Georgia's words, and no other nation's words provided by your own sources. The break-away regions are only supported by Russia and a handful of other nations although Russian…
• I acknowledge your well-enforced argument and here is my counter. NATO's response to the Russian annexation of Crimea was legally justified, that is correct, but one thing that is largely overlooked by Western powers is that a UN sanctioned referendum of a split in Crimea was…

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• The US has been viewed world wide as a the world's most advanced and righteous country. And under that assumption they go around the world harassing and interfering in the business of other less powerful countries, namely Iraq, Afghanistan, and in the past Vietnam, Korea,…
• For some reason, the video I was suppose to post on the 4th round didn't show up, anyways here it is: (Refer to top most video) http://www.youtube.com... The Vietnam War: After several Oscar winning movies, countless documentaries, journals, editorials, protests, which…

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• Yeah. No problem.
• Sorry about the forfeitures. I was on Spring Break, and my opponent and I agreed not to post any further arguments. Thanks.

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• Nationalism can hold some people together and tear people apart. People should worry about their people more then the area they got born into by chance. People should care about Earth as a collective group, not a small piece of it. Every place on Earth is just a puzzle piece to…
• I will start the debate by listing a few brief reasons why nationalism and patriotism is good, allowing for a quicker debate.Key Differences - I am sure my opponent will use plenty of examples of nationalism gone bad. He will most likely use examples of North Korean nationalism…

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• One person one vote that will count in exactly the same way as everyone else's
• Rationalises an irrational system

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• During times of emergency and unrest( the paradigm of this debate), it would be a rather lengthy and tedious process to consider the opinion of ministers, or those concerned with the task of getting themselves involved in arriving at such decisions, by which time, the ship of…

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• The con notes that his sources are in the comments, however, the rules state that sources must be posted IN THE DEBATE. As the sources were not posted in the debate, the sources should be disregarded as such. Contention 1: International Law The Con claims that this convention…
• Contention 1: International Law and Human RightsThe Con has failed to respond to this contention and thus we can assume it has been conceded.Contention 2: South AfricaIn my opening arguments in round 2, I cited the boycott against Apartheid South Africa as an example of how…

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• unrebutted? can'y you even spell?
• another quitteer? wow, I bring out the best in people.

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• "It is not strange . . . to mistake change for progress." - Millard Fillmore Why fix it? Not exactly "fixing it" per se, more like "improving". Like upgrading your computer or phone for no apparent reason except that it will improve it, or make it better. Also, what if this…
• "I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and…

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• I will be arguing and establishing that the that the united nations is an useless organisation that has failed to reduce poverty.

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• 'One of the greatest nation in the world who usually doesn't have idiots'. Don't make me laugh. I live here and have lived here all my life. Believe me. We have idiots. The people who voted her in were to stupid to know that they are just doing the rich mans dirty work, they…
• You say that she tightened up the foreign policy but for what reason. She just wanted a scapegoat so she blamed the immigrants. As does every tory. The only people who elected her were selfish rich people who wanted more money. She dealt with the economy by firing the workers,…

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• The European Union (EU) is a politico-economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe. The EU operates through a system of supranational institutions and intergovernmental negotiated decisions by the member states. The institutions are: the European…
• Opening StatementThis section is losing relevance, so the rebuttals will be brief. My opponent argues that lack of regulation, which is an artifact of a laissez-faire capitalism, was partially responsible for the 2008 market crash and thus the percieved movement away from…

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• Sorry I got busy and couldn't re state
• OBSERVATION: I. PRESERVING HUMAN LIFE SHOULD BE THE PRIORITY IN DETERMINING THE TYPE OF ASSISTANCE. Human life is the precondition for all values attributed to human persons. Human life has been referred to as "an almost absolute value in history." The need to protect human…

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• Contention 1: Iranian Support of international terrorism. My opponent claims that I am incorrect, but that is not true as evidence from Wednesday that Iranian backed Hamas had recieved $500 million from Iran and had launched a bombardment of rockets at Israel from Golen…
• Contention 1: Iran's Nuclear Weapon Capabilities, enforcment, and energy. As I have shown in my last round Iran has already increased a large amount of enrichment capibility to the point that they might already have a nuclear weapon. They can easily be another North Korea or…

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• I hope someone out there is willing to actually debate this topic with me. It's frustrating that I put all the time into making these arguments for nothing.
• It appears that my opponent is one of those people that makes an account, accepts a debate, then never comes back to the site again. This is what I feared would happen once I opened up the debate for anyone to accept. How disappointing.

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• They use college as a comparison to joining the military. "Teenagers have about 5 years' worth of actual life experience". Not practical adult life experience, which is what counts. "Would it be wise to say our college students are impulsive? " Absolutely it would. If you sign…
• It is often said "why is it someone is old enough to die for their country, but not old enough to drink alcohol"? This is often used as an argument to support lowering the drinking age. I agree with the original premise of the statement but to the exact opposite conclusion.…

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• Well, that's disappointing. Oh well. All my arguments carry over, etc.
• First off, thanks for taking the debate. First meet is next weekend, and this is great prep. :) That said, in response to your refutation about how the media is simply mirroring their viewers, this is a straw man argument. The media clearly influences this process in a…

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• The United States gives aid to many middle eastern countries who have joined us on the war of terror. Aid to many middle eastern countries has benefited many economies, kept strong relations, kept peace among countries and has protected our own country for the threat of…

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• As stated before, I send my regrets and the debate will be moved to January 15th. (or so). Thank you all.
• Thank you for your reply. I would just like for you to know that I will also debate to my fullest. I will await your return.