I feel that debates serve a very good purpose. Through the jousting of ideas, new meanings can be formed. I know that I am not perfect. I am also pretty sure that no one else walking this planet is perfect either. I have formed beliefs about various aspects of life. In my attempt to determine the validity of those beliefs, I have to throw them out to others. Why? There may be something that I didn’t take into consideration. As I said before, I am not perfect. I can make mistakes. But the validity of a belief cannot be based on the theory that “Might Is Right”, the level of intelligence and/ or the character of the messenger. 1+ 1 = 2 no matter who says it. You can have atomic bombs on your side and the other guy may only have a baseball bat, it doesn’t matter. 1 + 1 will still equal 2. That’s because it was theorized and then proven. Look at the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. He wasn’t sure that the world was round. The guy was ridiculed. He was given criminals to man the boats. He theorized it was round, then he tested his theory. If I were living back then, I can only hope that I wouldn’t have let peer pressure prevent me from thinking that the guy could be right.
I believe that I am an intelligent person. But just as I am more intelligent then some, there are others more intelligent then myself. So fyckin’ what!! If I want to make fun of someone’s intelligence, then I should start and stop with my own. My clothes are better then some, but not as good as others. So if I want to make fun of someone’s clothes, I should start and stop with my own. Whatever you have and are, there will always be others who are better off then you and worst off then you. There is no place in a debate for the making of fun of others in an attempt to win an argument.
This is the United States of America. This isn’t the former Soviet Union. This isn’t China. This isn’t North Korea. No one should be intimidated into not voicing his views. So I welcome the views of others. I hope that you may find something that I didn’t think about in the formation of my views. No spit balls or corked bats, just what you honestly believe. Now who wants to jump into the batter’s box?