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Re:Cliff Mr. LD
>1. It's too important.
>2. We'll have to take positions we disagree with.
>3. We are all too emotional and need some therapy first.
>4. Not enough nuclear wars.
>5. Judges will magically lose their objectivity and integrity.
>6. It won't make us any more likely to be good citizens.
>7. It's not the absolute best topic ever, ever proposed in the
>history of academic debate.
>8. People will be able to advocate their twisted, un-American utopian
>visions.
>9. Teams which lose will gun down judges and opponents. The
>community will shrink...
>10. There are already laws in place to solve these things aren't there?
>
>Ok...I don't understand. I haven't debated CEDA before, but to me I would
>think that Civil Rights is one of the most boring things you could debate.
>Allot of things have been hit, a lot of things have been solved for.
>Sure, the status quo sucks at times, but as a whole it has gotten a lot
>better.
>
>I may just be stupid,( and I figure I'll get 10000 posts from Matt alone
>telling me so in the next hour), but the idea of debating the place of
>civil rights all year in a policy form,(this is all I can compare CEDA
>to because I've done LD for two years so I got a crash course in policy to
>understand some of this stuff), would get quite old.
>
>Hey, if any of you could show me why you think that this would be such a
>cool topic, then I'll back it one hundred percent, if you convince me. Oh
>well.
>
>Cliff
>Cliffd@cyberhighway.net
Cliff, Maybe you were stuck doing LD too long. Dude, look at the AA
debate, Prop 209, reversal of voting districts, statism issue, same sex
marriage, gays in the military, same sex adoptions, victim rights
amendment....This is just waht I thought of in a minute. Get a clue, or go
back to LD.
Al Madrid
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