Arguments
1. Life in prison and being raped
This went unchallenged by my opponent. The only challenge that I found was that I would be more likely to be raped in Japan, which is not true, as we will see later. We all know that USA sentences MAP to life in prison, and that MAP are often raped in prison, or severly beaten and abused.
2. Comparison of Japan and USA
There is lots of rape in USA. 1 in 6 women are victims of rape. Much lower number in Japan. We shouldnt mistake Japan not treating rapists harshly with Japan having more rape cases. By surveys, rape is more than 2 times more common in USA. There is also much more child sexual abuse in USA. Oppression is any large pain or suffering that people have to endure. Oppression is cruel treatment.
Since the definition of freedom states "free from oppression", we can clearly see that USA has much more oppression than Japan, therefore less freedom than Japan.
USA has much more poverty and child poverty, and much more child bullying, child abuse and child murder and much more school shootings. Children are simply not safe in USA. It also has much more obesity and child obesity. It has much more drug addiction and porn addiction. Japan has much much lower percentage of population in prison. Japan cares much better for its people. People in Japan have much cheaper healthcare. Japanese people are also healthier than Americans. Japanese people live longer. Average citizen in Japan lives 7 years longer than average citizen in USA. 7 years of extra life is a long time. From this, we see that people of Japan are much less oppressed.
In USA, people cant even own a home, but have to pay rent. No one would choose to pay rent if he could own a home. People in Japan are much better in terms of housing. Japanese people dont judge others. They dont teach children that they will burn in hell. There is much less fear about safety and judgment. Pain is the worst form of oppression. There is much less pain in Japan than in USA. So children and everyone else are much less oppressed in Japan than in USA.
Rebuttals
It offers freedom to everyone and even if BK ended up arrested in the US, as a child and teen growing up and even out of prison afterwards, he has more freedom in US than in Japan.
False. We have seen that USA oppresses its people much more.
The whole reason that Japan is one of the safest places to live on Earth is because it's one of the most harshly enforcing and I don't just mean the cops.
Thanks for conceding that Japan is the safest place to live. Lack of safety is biggest oppression.
The very gun law point that BK brings up means he is freer in US than Japan as freedom in this debate is defined as:
Ability to do something, or being free from limitations or being free from oppression.
Even being free to die by gun is itself a freedom under this definition.
Wait, what? Sorry, you misunderstood the definition.
The important clue in the definition is "or" instead of "and".
So really, I merely need to prove 1 of these three:
1. Ability to do something
2. being free from limitations
3. being free from oppression.
I dont need to prove them all, just one of them, since definition says "or", not "and". Thats the difference between "or" and "and".
Also, free to get killed by the gun? Thats not a choice. I assume you mean being free to commit suicide by the gun? Thats freedom, yes. However, freedom not to get killed by someone else, not to get run over by a car and to live longer is a better type of freedom. So Japan still wins.
One of the most positive parts of what people who enjoy Japan enjoy about it is the fact that it is very far from free hence very safe.
Actually, by the definition of freedom in this debate, safety is freedom.
Not only would you be imprisoned in Japan but the sentences are disproportionate. You're more likely to be violated and raped there as rapists have lenient sentencing relative to other crimes as mention in that quote.
This argument is false conclusion. Lower sentences for rape does not equal more rape.
It would be like arguing that Japan has more murders than USA, because punishment for murder is lower in Japan.
We know that Japan has 50 times less murders than USA.
In USA 1 in 6 women are victims of rape, according to surveys.
Compared to that, 1 in 14 women in Japan are victims of rape, according to surveys.
So thats more than 2 times less rape in Japan than in USA.
Also, it was already explained that Japan has much lower prison sentences than USA. USA has very long sentences, plus lots of rape and abuse in prisons.
If your concern is your body's freedom to not be raped, Japan is one of the worst nations in the 'developed' world to live in.
Long prison sentence in USA compared to short sentences in Japan already puts Japan significantly above USA.
When Kaneko Miyuki reported her sexual assault as a seven-year-old in Japan, she remembers the police laughing at her. “I was already confused and scared,” she said. “They wouldn’t take me seriously as a child.”
Would Miyuki be better in USA?
Lets see.
In USA:
50 times more likely to be murdered (murder is worse than rape)
2 times more likely to be raped
5 times more likely to be killed by a car (worse than rape)
7 years shorter life expectancy in USA
Much more likely to get bullied and abused as a child
20% of people live in poverty
Boys circumcised (as bad as rape)
Cant own home
Expensive healthcare
Loli ban
Obesity
Drug abuse
About 95% of survivors never report their assault to police, and nearly 60% never tell anyone at all
Pure nonsense. According to surveys, 1 in 14 women in Japan are raped. So even if nearly 60% dont tell anyone, we cant assume that in USA 0% of women dont tell anyone.
In USA, 1 in 6 women are raped, according to surveys. So your "nearly 60%" wouldnt make Japan worse.
Also, your source is contradicting. If they never told anyone, then you wouldnt know that they were raped, wouldnt know the number of those who were raped and you couldnt possibly have the knowledge that "nearly 60% dont tell anyone".
No, but I usually write in form of:
1. Reasons
2. Conclusion
Or
1. Conclusion
2. Reasons
AI uses similar way of writing, maybe thats why some parts seem similar to AI.
did you write the round 1 yourself or with AI help?
I am getting different reads depending what part I put
I don't care, let's just debate it as it is.
More free in general.
That is the debate.
You asked me:
"Why is Japan your country of choice"
Then
"Are you willing to debate that"
So obviously, this is about why Japan would be best for me, not why is it best in general.
Change title, delete your username from it.
THIS IS ABOUT THE COUNTRIES NOT ABOUT YOU