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Saying that Climate Change is caused by humans because its getting hotter wouldn't be a good position either. Climate has constantly been shifting throughout Earths history, during the Jurassic period the climate was much hotter, then their was a ice age. During the Roman period it was much colder, then during the Mid-evil period it became much hotter(Seeing a pattern, climate has consistently shifted back a fourth between hot and cold). Then you had the period between 1300-1870 known as the Little Ice Age. This means that it would put are time frame directly in the heating period, so it has nothing to do with humans.

Your whole example on why my logic is wrong doesn't make sense, since fire has happen before humans, this means that fires can happen without human effect, the same can be said for climate change.

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Climate has been changing millions of years before humans walked the Earth.

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In a capitalist economy where schools can compete for students will cause schools to be more efficient.

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Actually children born of illegal immigrants can't be just given citizenship. The 14th amendment says "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside."

Illegal Immigrants are not subjected the the U.S. Jurisdiction, therefore neither is there child. Thus making children born from illegal immigrants, still illegal.

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Most of media is general left wing and most of the media at is brainwashing people is left wing, so both.

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Tell me, how is the corporate media a dictatorship. Most of the media i see that brainwashes people are left wing propaganda.

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I don't understand how a monarchy or dictatorship would help religion.

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When you say democracy, do you mean a pure democracy or like a republic.

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If we haven't seen any successful ones in the past, then why would you prefer it. Shouldn't passed examples be evidence that it doesn't work.

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How are you going to say it doesn't work, look at all the everyday items you use every day, cars, computers, phones, even new forms of medicine are all results of people following their own self interests. I think its fair to say these thing help benefit society. If capitalism slows down advancements,then why are the country's with the freest markets are the most advanced.

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I never said anything about advancements being created alone, I said almost every advancement made was made through self interest. A society where people work toward their own self interests doesn't get rid of collaboration, in fact it often has the opposite effect. Often people will collaborate with others that have similar goals.

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Yet almost every innovation that has been created, and benefited society in some way, has been done through self interest.

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I would have to disagree with you. Mostly every advancement we have achieved has been done through people following their own self-interest. and desires.

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Of course you have a right to your body, but in no way does this mean you have a right to healthcare.

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Rights exist but only as action and they can't impose any obligation onto others, merely the negative obligation to leave you alone.

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who does having a right to your body in any way make healthcare a right.

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Entitlement and claim are not synonymous. Entitlement (noun)is the fact of having a right to something. Claim(verb)is making a statement or assert that something is the case, usually without evidence or proof. The definition of a right that i have been referring to is being entitled to something.

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I think the topic is referring to right as something you are entitled too. If we are to use your definition to a right, the argument will be almost impossible to discuses since it would even be more opinion based, not that the topic isn't already opinion based.

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First off you don't have to have healthcare insurance to go to the emergency room, your bill is just going to be much bigger. Second you can make any kind of claims you want, that doesn't mean there going to happen. Having the right to something and having the right to make a claim to something are very different. When you go to the emergency room the first thing they do, is analyze your symptoms, to see if your in a state of emergency, if you are not in a state of emergency and you just walk in there, they might tell you to leave.

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Free healthcare wouldn't benefit anyone, it's just another way for the government to spend money on something that won't work. The government is often bad at running businesses, government run healthcare would just be an unorganized mess. The best thing to do is to get government out of healthcare. This will either lower the prices of private insurance or at least keep them the same. It will also increase the amount of private charities. People that can't offered insurance can always look toward private charities, this will benefit people more then government run insurance could.

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According to the definition you give healthcare is still not a right. You are not entitled to healthcare.

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Then tell me how would you define a right?

(This sentence you are reading is so just so there's enough words to submit)

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Healthcare cant be right, a right cannot impose any obligation onto others except for the obligation to leave you alone.

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