Here is the reason you cannot win any arguments on CD.

https://medium.com/editors-picks/adfa0d026a7e “A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.”   People’s deep-seated views about morality, and about the way society should be ordered, strongly predict whom they consider to be a legitimate scientific expert in the first place—and thus where they consider “scientific consensus” to lie on contested issues.   A hierarchal individualist finds it difficult to believe that the things he prizes (commerce, industry, a man’s freedom to possess a gun to defend his family) (PDF) could lead to outcomes deleterious to society. Whereas egalitarian communitarians tend to think that the free market causes harm, that patriarchal families mess up kids, and that people can’t handle their guns.   Head-on attempts to persuade can sometimes trigger a backfire effect, where people not only fail to change their minds when confronted with the facts—they may hold their wrong views more tenaciously than ever.   If you want someone to accept new evidence, make sure to present it to them in a context that doesn’t trigger a defensive, emotional reaction.   In other words, paradoxically, you don’t lead with the facts in order to convince. You lead with the values—so as to give the facts a fighting chance.

Old people are smarter than young people.

http://qz.com/95103/people-joining-the-us-workforce-today-are-less-educated-than-those-leaving-it/ People joining the US workforce today are less educated than those leaving it As baby boomers (those born in the generation after World War II) continue to leave the workforce, companies are having trouble finding skilled workers to replace them.  

Are young people a bunch of pampered sissies with a sense of entitlement?

Does the world need a new glass?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/the-beer-glass-that-may-save-humanity

Is the world ready for a new coffee mug that wont leave a ring on wood?

Oh, yea, and it looks cool.

Should young men go to gay bars?

Most pro-choicers are selfish.

Pro-choice means that: if you get pregnant because you did not excersice your choice to use contraception, you can have an abortion... Even if the pregnancy is not due to rape or incest and even if the mother's life is not in danger. Screw the fetus ;) Oh, And if the father wants the child... well... Screw him too ;) Grandparents? Really? Screw them!!! Adoption? Screw it! Screw it all, screw everyone!

Women are such grammar Nazis - always worrying about missed periods.

The difference between Republicans and Democrats

  If a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one. If a Democrat doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed. If a Republican is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat. If a Democrat is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone. If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life. If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect. If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. If a Democrat is down-and-out he wonders who is going to take care of him. If a Republican doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels. A Democrat demands that those they don't like be shut down. If a Republican is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church. A Democrat non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. If a Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. If a Democrat decides he needs health care, he demands that the rest of us pay for his.

JESUS VS. MUHAMMAD!!

The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.

Before we rush to adopt Global Warming Policies, we should stop to consider the...

Before we rush to adopt Global Warming Policies, we should stop to consider the consequences of blithely giving these policies such a central position in our lives.

Should American sue Obama over the NSA phone scandal?

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/nsa-phone-lawsuit/?cid=co8729634 The first of what likely will be many lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the NSA’s dragnet phone surveillance program was lodged Sunday, declaring the newly disclosed spy operation an “outrageous breach of privacy.”   The suit names Verizon, NSA, Justice Department, President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and others. The case comes as the American Civil Liberties Union and others are petitioning the FISA court to explain the legal rationale behind authorizing surveillance of this magnitude.

Have you ever been cat blocked?

Should we always validate people's concerns; empathize, show we understand their problems?

We are asking the CD community to please help us settle this argument.

When you use the word, "intercourse" do you mean a penis penetrating a vagina or do you mean any form of sex? Do you use the word intercourse instead of oral sex (felatio)? Do you use the word intercourse instead of anal sex (sodomy)? Do you use the word intercourse instead of a hand job? Do you use the word intercourse instead of masturbation? 

Gays CANNOT consummate their marriage.

Consummation of a marriage is the first act of sexual intercourse between a married couple. Sexual intercourse is defined as the penetration of the vagina by the penis. Consummation traditionally, is what validates the marriage contract. Any marriage not consummated, can be broken off without a divorce. Any "marriage" contract between the homosexual parties, is legally unenforceable, it is null and void because the contract can not be "signed," so to speak. All credit for that argument goes to:  http://www.createdebate.com/user/viewprofile/unownmew It can be referenced here:  http://www.createdebate.com/debate/show/What_would_consummation_of_a_marriage_mean_in_relation_to_gay_marriage/debate    

Conservatives only. Liberals need not come here.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.  You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.  

This site is classified as social media because these debates don't answer themselves.

So there are a lot of looky loos on this site and I feel the need to state the obvious.  You people need to participate otherwise my point advancement rate stagnates.

Should I write a self help book?

I'm thinking about writing a self help book.  There's a huge market for that stuff and it's easy. First you convince people that there's something wrong with them.  That's easy because marketing has already conditioned people to feel insecure about their weight, looks, social status, sex appeal, and so on. Then, you convince them that the problem is not their fault and that they're vicitms of larger forces.  That's easy because it's what people believe anyway.  Nobody wants to be responsible for his own situation. Finally, you convince them that with your expert advice and encouragement, they can conquer their problem and be happy. The problem I want to help people solve is their addiction to self help books.  It's called, "Shut up and stop whining:  How to do something with your life besides think about yourself."  

Should women go around doing this - or - things women do that men love

We should emulate some Muslim practices. Women should wear burkas.

Models do incredible things in order to try and maintain an impossible figure.  But since they can't reach perfection they call in the make-up crew and, when that fails, they finally call in Photoshop.  Normal women then try to reach this lofty ideal.  Why spend time learning math when that time could be used dieting, exercising, and shopping for the latest fashion in the hopes of hooking and landing a rich doctor?  The competition is fierce.  So fierce in fact that most women would welcome the change.  Oh sure, drop-dead gorgeous women will resist; why give up a clear advantage?  But the rest will be more than happy to say goodbye to Brazilian wax jobs and become reacquainted with lard laden foods.   Burkas will solve other problems as well.  No more trophy wives; no more paparazzo;  no more antics on the red carpet during the Oscars; no more artists depicting women in sexually cherged poses.  And quite possibly..., no more porn.  But porn is resilient.  It improvises, it adapts, it overcomes ;)   Burka: an idea whose time has come.  Search for them on the internet.  Don't wait; buy one today.  

The liberal agenda is misguided.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rEM4NKXK-iA?feature=player_detailpage http://www.youtube.com/embed/rEM4NKXK-iA

Does your significant other do this?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-4EDhdAHrOg