Instigator / Pro
1485
rating
15
debates
36.67%
won
Topic
#5800
It is better to be Pro something than Anti Something
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Parameters
- Publication date
- Last updated date
- Type
- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 3
- Time for argument
- One week
- Max argument characters
- 20,000
- Voting period
- Two weeks
- Point system
- Winner selection
- Voting system
- Open
Contender / Con
1453
rating
7
debates
28.57%
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Description
Con must argue that being against something is better than being for something, whether it be concerning sports, politics, news, fashion, or any other topic.
Round 1
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For example, I am pro-America; now, if someone were to tell me that they are anti-America, I’d be more offended than if told me how they were, say, pro-Canada. I have nothing against Canada, and if you happen to support that country more than America, then good for you. But there’s no need to dump on another country just because you support the other.
If you’re always against everything, then you have no actual beliefs of your own.
(A 1)
While one 'could argue that I could describe myself as Pro Freedom, and Pro Civil Rights for Citizens.
I think describing oneself as Anti Nazi Germany, would be more useful in 'Opposing Nazi Germany.
I 'could say I am Pro Free Germany, but sometimes you need to Oppose something. Like when you spill a glass of liquid on the table. You may consider yourself Pro Dry Table, Pro Dry Floor.
But such a phrasing doesn't 'Move People.
What 'Moves them is being Anti Spilling liquid. Quick grab a towel an 'stop that liquid! Oppose it! Dry it up!
(B 2)
Thesis and Anti Thesis,
Being 'Against certain ideas, is as valuable as being 'For certain ideas,
How can you know the 'value of an idea without testing it?
The idea must be tossed in fire, beaten with hammers, and forged into steel.
Just being 'for ideas, results in ideas of many flaws, that break in use.
(C 1)
Being Contrary and against ideas, can be both pleasurable and useful.
One may enjoy standing out from a crowd of lemmings, by their different path taken.
One may 'avoid cliffs by their different paths.
Though one 'can argue that one can be for something else, rather than against the cliff,
and therefore avoid the cliff in being for something else.
But often a people need to realize that something is not worthwhile first, before they can replace it with something else.
A slight attraction to Pro Something Else, doesn't veer one off course of a cliff, so much as a strong Negative reaction to falling to one's death.
Living in Canada may be great,
But a person might first need to be 'Against America,
For instance, experiencing dissatisfaction with American Health Care.
One might argue a person can 'just be Pro Canadian Healthcare,
But I don't think they are going to 'look for better Health Care, unless they experience Dissatisfaction, Opposition,
It's 'good to be against something.
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