Losing your job and losing your friends is a stretch. I can see the independence, monetary issues, and health problems arising. But losing a job? I don't think so. Yes, it is a given that going back to work with a child will be difficult, but I've seen women able to manage it and find jobs. Finding work has a lot to do with how determined you are no matter what situation you're in. It's just like finding a solution to a problem. You can sit down and sulk about your problems or actually fix it no matter how hard it can get. Same with work. You can sit down and be lazy and never have the heart to find work or actually look for something even though it's not the easiest thing to do.

Losing friends on the other hand because you got pregnant? that depends on the situation. If you messed around with your female friend's man and got pregnant, then hell yeah, you're losing that girl as your friend. But if you get pregnant without involving anything that will ruin ties with people and you lose your friends, then those aren't real friends. I think by the time that happens, that person should rethink what kind of friends she should be having.

Yes. Gay marriages should be legal. Two people getting married, regardless of what they identify as should be accepted just as much as we accept a man and a woman being wed. How I see it is what they're doing together has nothing to do with you or anybody else around them. It's their own business. The only reason why people fuss is because their denomination says so. Back in the day, it wasn't a very common occurrence for gays to be out there and really show their relationships out in the open. As humans, we have the tendencies to be foul on what we consider "out of the ordinary" and not "normal", and the bible is the best support for arguing the fact that we can't accept this instance. But what is normal anyway? Not you, not I.

Had we been raised in a world where being gay has always been known as the norm at the very beginning of time, this wouldn't be something people would be debating about today.

Two gay people in a relationship, deciding to get married, has nothing to do with us. It should not be our concern. They could not get married either and we should not care either way. That's their relationship and it's theirs to deal with. They're not out there murdering families. They're just two people dating, just like man and woman. No need to feel too involved.

I think it's essential for kids to have a foundation to know how to balance time and other responsibilities at an early age. By the time you hit higher levels of education past elementary, there's going to be more work-load and practice needed as you take more advanced classes as you go along.

Homework is for good practice and for recapping what has been covered during class-time. It's truly beneficial and it's best to get used to it and appreciate the power of homework at a young age.

I wrote this as a joke towards America rather than an intelligent argument so I apologize for my lack of etiquette in speaking my mind. However I appreciate your response and will try to address most of what you pointed out. I'll just number it respectively as I go along. I will be honest and I will say this ahead of time, that my arguments will continue to be weak since they are not based on facts but rather experience.

1) I'm not going to ramble about drugs as being one of the problems since I am sure people are aware that smuggling drugs into the country exists.

I am a legal immigrant in the United States and it pains me to see people living the country like any other with less weight on their shoulders. They do not have to pay the same fines and have to rush to and fro embassies just to keep their legality secure nor do they have to deal with the complex immigration system and the number of many different types of visas they could choose from just to be able to work, live, or visit the country. As long as they keep their identities low-key, they would not get punishment. They do not have to pay taxes as they work under-the-table jobs despite their small percentage in the workforce. Although the country has the power to deport immigrants back to their homelands, it is obvious that it's not as easy as it sounds. You can't just walk up to someone and say "hey, you look illegal." There has to be some evidence to it and it costs money to even deport an illegal home.

http://www.newsweek.com/how-much-would-it-cost-deport-all-undocumented-immigrants-364316

2&3;) I will join this with the students not exerting as much effort. They both mainly imply that many citizens in the United States do not take advantage with their opportunity-filled system by actually working their butt off and take the government for granted instead. Americans are spoon-fed with everything to provide them with a better life than most of the other countries out there, but get upset when a non-American comes in to take what they took for granted. Now, I do not mean this towards students getting GEDs and workers who hustle with minimum wage jobs. I am aiming this to the people who actually don't try yet complain. No, I did not read on any significant article to blow my mind and claim that I knew this through a basis of such an intelligent source. I speak this because it is what I see in front of me.

As for students, I made a mistake to not emphasize "high-school". Once I was a student (and just recently graduated high-school) and seeing half the student community slacking than actually doing what they are supposed to do in school already proves plenty. I'm sure any student can say the same for any public high-school having the similar, typical people who would rather "chill" than do schoolwork. My mother is a teacher in a public high-school and I can only imagine the stress she puts up with. Half the children in her class would sleep on her, and some she has to put up with because they keep failing their required tests. Now, it is possible that their slow progression in school has something to do with possible mental issues that are never addressed so those people can be scratched out of this issue. I believe it is more a lack of discipline than anything.

4) I have had several teachers who lose my work and teach heartlessly in class that I compare them to the cafeteria ladies who give out "awful school lunches". I am pretty sure that I was not the only student who had to go through that and I am pretty sure we would not develop that stereotype of school lunch had people been more dedicated with their work. I know that it is quite a task to cook for a big number of students nor is it tough work to teach students who refuse to pay attention to you from period to period but it is clear to see the difference of work that has effort exerted into it and the one that does not. I came from a school in my country that had teachers who are strong disciplinarians and are very strongly passionate about the subjects they teach and the job they have. I am not saying that all teachers in here are flat-out lazy but there are some you can easily identify who are sick about their jobs. One of my biology teachers even said that she didn't want to teach, while my chemistry teacher said if he could turn back time, he would not be teaching at all because it "sucked".

5) Although colleges do not say that they require voluntary services it is one of the things that they look out for from a student in which unfortunately becomes a requirement for one just to stand out to people in the admissions.

http://collegeadmissionbook.com/headlines-we-hate-community-service-work-increasingly-important-for-college-applicants

High-school teachers persuade their students to do service for a "good transcript\" along with reminding them that it is something "important for your college application." It loses the true meaning of what service is. It seems now that people are serving others not out of heart but simply for service hours. During my high-school years, one of my friends shared to me about how she was "required to volunteer" for a class grade and I thought it was ridiculous.

Joining school organizations in high-school alone without having much service experience is already a struggle. Applications would ask you for specific hours in your service, your leadership experiences, etc. I applied for the National Honor Society because I was invited. I was honest enough not to put in anything in the leadership portion since it specifically asked for my leadership experiences for the past two years, which I admitted I haven't done anything significant. The moderator of NHS approached me and told me that I could not join because she showed the principal my "lacking" application. They refused it before they even gave away results on who was accepted and who was not simply because I "missed that section." which brings me to the kids who have never been exposed to service. It's rather sad when a college bases your humanity off of your service hours while the good things you did that were not recorded on paper can be easily brushed off.

5) Thanks for agreeing. I am still looking forward to the two parties to learn how to compromise with each other.

6,7, 8, & 9) Glad to know that it is down, but it is still there and people still experience drugs and pregnancy in their teens. If thinking about society in general, people try so hard not to be themselves simply because they want to please the crowd. There are many teens out there who are down to do such crazy things just to be one of the "cool" people, thus the low self-esteem issues of many teenagers today.

Crimes with guns and racism are down as well, however they do still exist. Racism-wise, the country is now more diverse than it has been, however the ideology of racism still runs and there is no denying the conflicts that brew between racists majorities, racists minorities, and the non-racists majorities/minorites. Although shootings can be proven to have gone down, it is something we truly can't predict. Shootings still happen, and they are dangerous. We don't know the next person who will commit such crimes nor do we know when, where, and how many people they plot to kill at that specific period of time. These are solely things we can keep track off but not get rid off. It's society that makes things happen. Is America better however given that these rates are going down? Yes, of course.

10) Ha! I saw that part and I laugh at myself for even bringing it up. It is silly.

11) I am going to say that I am wrong for saying that modern music is trash since it is a given that we all have different tastes in music. However, it is quite disappointing to see all this people who don't have musicality that go big and pop out in the radio all the time. This new "trap" genre being one of them. Yes, classic pop might have had the same meaning as to the songs we sing today but the fact that people pay an auto-tuned singer to listen to (regardless of the genre) and disregarding real singers and musicians is what I was trying to point out.

Now that you know that I am an immigrant, I hope you do not use it against me as to why I am even speaking in this particular debate. I have lived here and I have lived in another country, making it easier for me to compare and contrast and to speak from a perspective of an outsider along with the experiences of living here.

I say no because it's not really necessary to shower everyday. If you shower everyday it cleans you but it also destroys us especially our hair. Sometimes it needs its own natural oils on the scalp and if you keep showering your hair 24/7 and shampooing every single chance you get, your hair is gonna lose it's natural look and it will be damaged.

You could skip a day in a week at least to not shower. But of course you have to wash the places you have to wash and I think you all know what I'm talking about here. Just because you choose not to shower on a daily basis doesn't mean you can't individually wash other parts of your body that needs cleaning most of the time.

Worse, because you have a lot of immigration problems regarding illegal immigrants who are still roaming free and living in this country.

There's also alot of people who are more than willing to do nothing now aside from sit and wait for miracle to come as they rely on government for aid.

Students in school are also not exerting as much effort and are very distracted with a lot of things they would rather spend their time on than learn and excel in school. The fact that many public schools and teachers do not show any sort of strictness creates an advantage for many students to take advanced classes in exchange of doing nothing but slack. Many teachers now are not as dedicated in their teaching as well and are about as tired with their job as the people working at the cafeteria.

Service hours being voluntary does not seem so voluntary anymore since it's become a requirement for many colleges. And many are not really serving others in the community anymore with good intent of simply just serving instead of serving to have a good transcript.

The two main parties in the country are pushing each other around and pointing fingers, causing a big divide not just in the government but the society at large that are huge supporters of both parties. People are looking up to Obama ending his term at last, and of course like always, desperately cling to the new running presidents for election in hope of a "change" in the country, only to find out that as soon as another president has been heartily elected by these revolutionary people, that they will also hate him/her and complain about everything in their term on every aspect of the president's life because it's definitely easy to run a country right?

A lot of teenage girls just want to get pregnant just because they think it's cool. Drugs and drinking and partying is a pretty awesome hobby now and grinding in homecoming and prom is also cool too. People decide to make families without proper income as well and a lot of kids end up having foster parents or being left at an orphanage.

You still have a lot of racists that are willing to wipe out the other races at this date. There's also a lot of shootings that are happening. People are fighting over the value of the confederate flag and some people mistaken it and say they are not ashamed to place the American flag (with the 50 stars) out of their house, which is totally irrelevant to the argument.

Music is also becoming overly crap today that it is awesome. If you want to listen to some really meaningful music then listen to Silento's "Watch Me", it doesn't just make you hip, it makes you whip too. Deep.

I'm sorry. I was trying to make clear what you were trying to say to that other person.

I don't even like this question but I'll stick on this view. I think it's very stereotypical to think that people who engage into the Muslim religion become a bunch of crazy, radical, mad people and I think we are too much focusing on the Islamic terrorist groups that gets us to this generalization. There are many Muslims out there on different parts of the world who do not practice any extremism. When the Catholic Pope went to the Philippines, many Filipino Muslims went to the humongous gathering just to pay their respects to what the Catholics support and the Filipino Catholics give the same respects to the Muslim's beliefs.

I think what gets people mad is their own personal greed of dominance and being Muslim doesn't have any correlation to that at all. The greed of the many Muslim extremists is what leads to people thinking that Muslims are just some mad ass people and it just so happens that religion's extremists are so mainstream at this date but the Muslim religion isn't the first one to commit such violent acts to propagate the religion. Catholicism/Christianity was forced upon people from way back and I'm sure the people who refused to conform to those religions weren't treated well.

Personality but a little bit of skill as well. But the thing is, skill can be taught. I would rather have hired a person with a great heart who is ready to learn something to improve his/her skills in the working field than hire skilled scums who will ruin people's day with their shit personality.

I think what he is referring to is the fact that there are so much more worse things that can bring out the worst in people and name-calling is just not what brings out the worst in a lot of people. Sure name-calling is not a good thing to do at all but it's not really the worst act humans have committed in this earth either.

I don't think so. There are other things in our lives that can trigger us so much more than a debated topic that we have a side on.

Well there is such thing as comedy and people die in overly exaggerated ways in comedy. Just because you don't find dying funny, which I don't either, doesn't mean you can shove onto people saying "but dying isn't funny at all". I'm sure you have watched skits and all other comedy films that had dying in it that didn't even come off to you as a very sad, solitary scene and I think that's what the teacher's activity is aimed for.

I don't think it was meant to be called a game nor the teacher meaning that at all. I think the point of calling it a game was just to spark an activity. But really, if you're just acting like your dying and not getting killed literally, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. That's basically what drama class is for. You gotta know how to act. If your teacher can't teach you how to die "realistically" in drama class then I think there is a problem with that. I guess the point of dying in a "funny" way was to enhance skills in a comedic side and not a serious situation.

Alright, I got you buddy. Don't worry, I totally understand where you're coming from though.

Well that is true to an extent, but it's a matter of how people are raised. I think you are generally speaking for men which is true but there are many men out there who would wimp out just as much as women do and fall apart when someone tells them they can't do something and not work their butts off at all.

In my perspective, women are disciplined with a lighter hand since women have been this image of fragility which brings out disputes about how men shouldn't beat women and whatsoever. Coming with that is a characteristic showered by their parents that their daughter should be lady-like, and when I say lady, we're talking light of the house and not a breadwinner. Men have been long renowned to be breadwinners and working harder jobs and that's when I say that we need to stop comparing who is dominant because we have kept women's opportunity short in the beginning of time and we have seized them useless to even see their inner potentials. Up to this date we are easing out of it, but we are still stuck with the thought that women should only be entitled to less and that develops girls' mindsets to not put out as much effort as a guy does since they're always told that they're second in this stupid gender competition.

The reason why men see themselves superior in everything is because they have always been. I mean, a lot men looked down on women back then and didn't even allow them to vote. Women were no breadwinners in the house and men have grown to think "oh wow, we're so much dominant" but that's only because we haven't really given women a chance to perform the same tasks as men. I think it's about time we stop saying which gender is dominant over the other. A lot of feminists do not fight for their rights as a human being because they want to establish dominance over the male sex. They fight because they wanna be treated equally as men in society. Unfortunately, a lot of feminists go over the top and use the advantage as a woman to put all the blame on men which as a female, I highly disagree with.

But back to the point, I don't consider men dominant just because I belong to the female gender but because I actually think there's no sense in comparing both at all. There are some women who are capable of what men can do, there's just so few of them. My physics teacher (and he's a man) told me that women are not to be underestimated only because we grew up playing dolls as given gifts since we are girls. It's something that we didn't have control over as kids--to be raised as "ladies"-- but that doesn't mean that we can't achieve the same things men can. Although the physique build is different from a man's, you still have women who are as massive bodybuilders (I'm not saying a lot of women are but there are a number of em) as other men and in fact are way more muscular than most men and probably so much stronger. We need to unwrap the stereotypical idea of men and women raised a certain way and having to act and perform a certain way to perfectly fall in the "man" and "woman" role in society.

Other than that, both genders have different levels of pain tolerance. I don't think a guy would even appreciate giving birth in a hospital to one kid whether it's a cesarean or worse, a normal delivery. Imagine giving birth to twins, quadruplets or even worse, octuplets. Women might come off weak because that's how women are classified as and are raised as but in that emergency room, it's no joke and carrying a kid for 9 months every single day is not a joke either. I think all men should try the labor pain simulator just for the heck of it.

I think it's helpful. It just really depends on the teenager on how he/she will make use of the smartphone. I mean you literally can just sit at a random time of day, look something up on the internet that you wanna know about and then voila, that's another knowledge stored in your head. But I understand why some people would say it's harmful although it's somewhat the same situation on most appliances anyways. Its just that the smartphones are easily stressed since many of us make use of em nowadays, but you can easily compare a smartphone to some appliance like a stove: It's helpful because it gets the cooking done but it's dangerous because you might get burnt with the heat it produces if you're not careful enough.

A lot of what people would argue about a smartphone's effect is that it makes us become isolated from our society. But then again, it's the person and not a smartphones fault. Like how a gun doesn't shoot unless something triggers the shooting, or a person wouldn't be an addict if he/she doesn't choose to involve with drugs. It's a matter of balance and a smartphone cannot operate balance in our lives. We can.

I guess this is a debate in who is better in gender? To be honest, I think it's about the same. But really, without a woman's genital to stick yours in for all your sperm, there would be no babies in the world and there would be no such thing as "man". And especially when she has to carry a baby for 9 months within her body, that's no joke until you try it.

I don't think it has to be banned. Being in Western countries already gives them enough freedom to take off their burqa and niqab but many women choose not to all because that's just how they want it not because there's a sense of oppression. These women see the world with a different perspective unlike all the other women who have grown up in such liberated countries. I think how it should be is not to ban the burqa and the niqab but to open the choice of simply allowing women to not wear the burqa and niqab if they want to. If they want to follow the tradition that they have always followed, I don't see any point to intervene. It's not like niqab and burqa is being forced upon as soon as a Muslim woman with a niqab/burqa steps foot on a Western country.

I would eventually read it in hopes that my current position shows that they are all wrong for bashing me that way. I would love to prove judgmental, hateful people in the long run.

I think it would be unfair since English is not the only language in this world. We should be more considerate with the people who are foreign and who come here and are not so familiar with English. There's always a chance for them to learn. I know that they come here for a reason and they should be able to speak English but if we look at the big picture, we do not go around other countries and are forced to speak their language. And I'm only talking about foreigners who are truly willing to speak English. I think it's another thing if they come here and not bother to speak English at all.

Yes because that's how we all were before we even become what we would call "babies". If all fetuses were killed because we found them worthless and not really of any worth, we all wouldn't exist. So if we are over here fighting for our rights as human individuals, I think it should be the same way for fetuses because that's what we all started as.

90 degrees in a fur coat definitely. I think 90 degrees is rather an exaggeration but honestly, if it's cold, just wear something warm. I don't see why we risk our bodies by trying to be cozy with a tank top. It's pretty sad when people wear those and complain how cold the weather is, even worse is when they say "it's not cold at all." but you can see from their faces that it is really cold.