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 Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:25 am
I honestly don't think I'll go. While I do enjoy my debates every once in a while, I have a feeling a large number of the people will come in with their mind set and have NO research to back themselves up on. I had the discussion with a girl in the lobby a couple nights ago. She said I should go because I hold some good arguments (I'm in the middle about this, but lean more towards pro choice), but I still doubt it.
One of the main reasons for me being the fact that the leader of the Pro-life debate is a man. Something about this genuinely irks me. The concept of a man arguing about whether or not a woman should have these choices really rubs me the wrong way. I know lots of women that gave birth and decided after their children were born that they'd never want to abort and become pro life, and I LOVE babies (although I'd never have one of my own), but I think by the end of the debate I'd be too angry and feel like nothing's been accomplished.
On top of that, I do not feel like spending two dollars just to fight with people.
What do you guys think? .__. Not going to drive people into a debate about abortion or anything, moreso, i just want to discuss debating in general. What you like and dislike, etc.
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:26 pm
Yeah, I feel like people who go to those kind of things are set in their opinions already. I don't see why they even go, because it just seems like a waste of time... Only very few people will be swayed by arguments in debates in things like this.
On campus they had this big anti-abortion display set up... Right outside of the student union, there was this ten-foot-tall building-wide poster of a bunch of aborted fetuses next to pictures of victims of various genocides, claiming they were the same thing. Whether people agreed or not, a lot of them thought that kind of display shouldn't just be allowed to be set out there. There was also a truck driving around with the same images on its sides, and we were wondering... What happens when it goes on the highway, back to wherever it came from? You'd traumatize some people driving around in that confused I'm all for "down with political correctness", and I'll admit that I'm quite desensitized, but I think that a lot of people really don't need to see things like that. I don't believe it makes a point, I think it just makes people feel sick.
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:00 pm
Last year there was a debate about the existence of God. The atheist/agnostic debater had terrible arguments. The theists argument made sense, but he made a huge leap of logic, and it didn't prove his point at all. Long story short, the theist got a standing ovation, and I facepalmed and wished I had never gone.
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:52 pm
I really dislike this debate in particular, mainly because the answer seems so clear to me.
But I really can't stand college debates. A lot of them are really pretentious and, here at least, just turn into political or philosophical d**k-measuring contests.
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