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a54d53f3dde5 | 9447D5C6EA03 | The creation of driverless cars should not be further developed, despite potential increase in safety, due to the increased dependency on technology it would facilitate, as well as liability issues regarding crashes or other potential accidents, both of which could negatively impact other aspects of the future.
| Position | Effective |
5c0045117c3d | 9447D5C6EA03 | Despite the issues of liability and dependency on technology, the development of new cars could potentially reduce safety risks associated with full human control over vehicles. Because "the information from the sensors [of the driverless cars] can cause the car to apply brakes... allow a far better response and control than a human could manage," driverless cars may reduce potential for crashes of other incidents. Advanced sensor technology is indeed an asset to this new development | Counterclaim | Effective |
fb7556563e15 | 9447D5C6EA03 | however taking this concept while maintaining human control could prove to be more benenficial, due to the lack of issues such as liability and also keeping humans active and engaged. The problem is that most people would nate place full trust in technology, thus eliminating the purpose of a "driverless car" being completely driverless. Ultimately, this potential asset is far outweighed by the costs of producing driverless cars. | Rebuttal | Effective |
2fecbe212b3f | 9447D5C6EA03 | Younger generations of people in our modern world are becoming increasingly attuned to smart technology,with developments such as the smartphone, smart watch, etc. spreading throughout the nation. The introduction of a driverless car would further stimulate this already existing dependency, which could lead to problems down the road. | Claim | Effective |
f7a258d8c62f | 9447D5C6EA03 | As of right now, "...none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless." This means that someone must always be in the driver seat to ensure safety when the situation requires them to take over. This, however, contradicts the purpose of the "driverless car." In addition, because the point of these cars is to drive safely without human control, people could have this in mind while in a driverless car. As a result they may give little regard to the road, and rely on the car to keep them safe and get them to their destination. Then, if they are not prepared for an alert or a need for human assistance, because they expected the car to handle it, their dependency on the car put their safety at risk. | Evidence | Effective |
00f8be0c47ed | 9447D5C6EA03 | The liability issues if such an accident were to occur could be tremendous. If there was an accident, the question would arise, " who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" | Claim | Effective |
c1f84f852203 | 9447D5C6EA03 | This could lead to court trials and lawsuits that would either harm the consumers in the auto industry, or the producers. Either way, the costs would have an increasingly negative impact on the economy. It would not be logical to assume that these cars would be one hundred percent safe, as there is alway room for error, and "presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver..." Because many people refuse to place full trust in technology that could have potential flaws, if an accident were to occur, the industry of self-driving cars would likely crash, as people would more and more see this technology as danger, and place the blame on the auto industry. | Evidence | Effective |
9b7220409623 | 9447D5C6EA03 | If further developments were to be made so that these cars truly don't need a driver, while it may reduce safety risks, ultimately the costs regarding user dependency and liability would outweigh benefits. Increased dependency could actually create more safetly problems, and liability issues could result is a crash of the auto industry's smart technology branch. If the concept of this Driverless car were changed to, rather than have no driver, help the driver, then the outcome may be more beneficial. If people still drove the car, but with helpful alerts, warnings, or displays, traffic safety would go up, and the liability and dependency issues would be lessened or dissolved altogether. A new age of technological innovation is here, and utilizing this idea in this moderate waycould pave the road to a brighter future. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
94a3d7e734bc | 944FCD948396 | I don't think that you should not change the school policy. | Position | Adequate |
38bd293f4867 | 944FCD948396 | I think that people work hard enough to get into sports already.
Getting a B average can be difficult.
Students need time to practice sports too.
I agree that students need to have good grades to play sports.
Part of the reason is because most students right now would not be able to play because they have a C average. | Evidence | Ineffective |
0da5241747f7 | 944FCD948396 | I think most students should be allowed to get a couple of C' s because it is a passing grade. | Claim | Adequate |
0c363f732420 | 944FCD948396 | What if sport players don't understand one class but do ok in other classes that's not fair to them.
Players will also think that if they cant play because they don't have a good enough grade average they might think that they are letting people down. | Evidence | Adequate |
c81e68a116ba | 944FCD948396 | All students have been talking about this.
Some students are better at sports than school work.
Maybe you will consider that changing the school policy will be a bad idea.
You may think different But i hope you will change your mind.
If students cant play any sports than who will represent us in the school?
If students did not write you, you should take some time and ask them what they think.
I hope you can clearly see the other side to this now. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
5b29f783c8da | 945820293694 | My argument for the development of these cars is against it because i do not agree with some stuff such as the cars driving its self. | Position | Adequate |
fb9ac9707555 | 945820293694 | If a car drives it's self then it would be no fun for people who have cars. | Claim | Adequate |
803614d50569 | 945820293694 | This development is crazy because it will change many things. We should keep cars the way they are instead of changing them to something different that not everyone would like. | Evidence | Adequate |
363a19c73c53 | 945820293694 | Many cars are already having many problems so why make a car that can drive its self? | Claim | Adequate |
d72e818eac8a | 945820293694 | We should fix the problems in todays cars instead of worrying about trying to bring something new. People are putting to much in cars, such as sensors and computer hardware. | Evidence | Adequate |
7e45f1d5bf02 | 945820293694 | These things might help | Counterclaim | Adequate |
adddd291d4d0 | 945820293694 | but they could also fail at any time and turn into a bad situation. | Rebuttal | Effective |
72bbbc1ee65d | 945820293694 | However it could be a good idea to always add safety things to the car, | Counterclaim | Effective |
b8d420ba27ad | 945820293694 | but not everything can be sure to always work. Anything can fail at anytime. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
c6efab243e15 | 945820293694 | Technology is really advanced! | Claim | Ineffective |
e8e345e0f146 | 945820293694 | Everyday people are working on something new because of how well technology is. If technology keeps on advanving people will make more things and come out with incredible things. Many of these things won't be safe. People have to think in the safety of theres and others | Evidence | Adequate |
5bb950155432 | 945820293694 | It is not a great idea If you let a car do everything for you because that could be dangerous. | Claim | Effective |
df7e931f85a2 | 945820293694 | You should be able to control the car whenever you want . Imagine if you come to a stop sign and the car doesn't stop? that could seriously cause a problem. Somebody could get hit and that will not turn out good. | Evidence | Adequate |
4071eb2fe39f | 945820293694 | Other cars like BMW's and Gm have developed mny different things for cars. In the article for example says a BMW has a "Traffic Jam Assistant" whitch means the car can handle driving funtions at speeds up to 25 mph. What if the car was to stop working and keep going and not being able to stop? what would happen ? Nothing good would. GM has developed driver's seats to vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. What if you trust this vibrator and you wait till it vibrates to stop backing up and the vibrator fails and you hit something? that could be dangerous. You could back into a kid or person and run them over. You could also hit an object and damage your car. | Evidence | Adequate |
75940b8b2a8e | 945820293694 | That's why i am stating my opinion on why i am against the development of these cars. We should stay with what we have until we are 100% sure about things. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
07b573a0a548 | 945CCBB52DED | The Electorial College is something in the United States that needs to be replaced. | Position | Adequate |
daba2ea57078 | 945CCBB52DED | It is an irrational system that takes the people's power to vote away from them | Claim | Adequate |
78647644a11c | 945CCBB52DED | The system has flaws that leave the possibility of disaster open to happen | Claim | Adequate |
7ae73b3f9928 | 945CCBB52DED | It takes the power to choose the goverment officials from the people, and gives it to a group of people who can vote either way | Claim | Adequate |
81fed3f96b29 | 945CCBB52DED | The Electorial College is a way to choose the Presidential canidate who wins the election. It involves a slate of electors (according to Source 2) who cast their votes in. The people in each state vote for the winning electors of that state. The electors pledge to a canidate and thats what people vote for. Once the people choose a winning elector group they go to Congress and cast their votes in for who they want, and that person then gets so many votes | Evidence | Adequate |
7edcfb28e926 | 945CCBB52DED | The problem is that the electors aren't required to vote for who they said they would, so if the elector suddenly decided to change his mind after he or she won, the people's votes are basically invalidated and a different elector gets the votes | Claim | Adequate |
6062814778b7 | 945CCBB52DED | This effectively removes the people from the equation in who gets elected. All an elector would have to do is win over the people, then he or she could just change their minds and cast a different vote than what they said they were going to do. The people who vote don't even vote for the Presidential canidate in this system, they vote for a bunch of electors that they hope will vote for what they said | Evidence | Adequate |
392f3994d255 | 945CCBB52DED | This is not an irrational, unrealized fear. It has actually happened before. | Claim | Adequate |
abf0926145ed | 945CCBB52DED | According to Source 3, in the 2000 election, Al Gore had a majority of popular votes, but less electorial votes, so he lost to Bush. This isn't even the first time it has happened, it has happened previous times throughout U.S. history. This is a clear example of how flawwed the Electorial College system. Between the possibility of the people's votes not counting for anything, and that they don't even actually vote for their preffered canidate, this system needs to be replaced | Evidence | Adequate |
7c761f960823 | 945CCBB52DED | Some may argue that the chance of an elector not casting his or her vote that he pledged to is very slim | Counterclaim | Adequate |
56bbd0e1162d | 945CCBB52DED | Why would you even be ok with taking such a chance? It's better to be one-hundred percent sure of what will happen instead of ninety-five percent | Rebuttal | Adequate |
acbaf774d433 | 945CCBB52DED | Also, since most states in the U.S. award electorial votes by a winner-takes-all basis (according to Source 3), if one side of the votes wins, even by a slim margin, they get all the votes | Evidence | Adequate |
ef6d1fc78d29 | 945CCBB52DED | This seems unfair, since if they won by a slim margin at least some of the state thinks it should be a different vote | Claim | Adequate |
5c03ae91f859 | 945CCBB52DED | It would make more sense if the states awarded both sides of the vote if it was a close win for one side or the other, but they would award the true winner with more votes than the narrow loser | Evidence | Ineffective |
c1d1697bb916 | 945CCBB52DED | Another problem with the E.C. system is that states that are largely of one belief ( Republican or Democrat ect. ) have no real reason to pay attention to the opposite side of the canidacy | Claim | Adequate |
a299fe71f86d | 945CCBB52DED | Since the state would be largely one thing or the other, it is irrelivant if thirty percent of the state votes one way if seventy percent of the state votes the other, since the landslide victory style of electorial vote giving is present in most states. This also means that states that are biased and small states get almost no exposure from the opposite side of the canidacy because they know they have almost no chance of winning their votes. This seems to force the voters to choose one canidate's electors because they don't know enough about the other | Evidence | Adequate |
1c7764c92f05 | 945CCBB52DED | In conclusion, the Electorial College needs to be replaced with a more fair, balanced system. It has the potential to allow the electors to defy the will of the people who voted them in, invalidating the people's votes and making them pointless. It also has candates only focusing their ads and visits on the states with more votes and the states biased towards their party. Finally, it has almost all the states have a landslide "winner-takes_all" style of awarding electorial votes. This means if one side of electors only wins by a slim margin, the other side gets nothing, even though since they lost by a small number they clearly have a sizeable amount of voters for them. The Electorial College needs to be removed before someone takes advantage of it's serious flaws and takes the votes of the people and makes them useless. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
36e2449e19cc | 945DC098A326 | I overheard that you are thinking on should we keep the electoral college or not use it any more. the electoral college is the amount of popoltaion a state has. the distrct of columbia has only 3 beacause its not a state . | Lead | Adequate |
b68981c46d1a | 945DC098A326 | n my opinino i think its stupid that you have to vote on the population , aka a president cant just have a state like florida or ct just have a state like florida or cali | Claim | Ineffective |
f86fd10030ce | 945DC098A326 | now its true that the presidental election is very important but it shouldint have to be taken like this . the presidents always pick the states with the most population or points. | Evidence | Ineffective |
c0649e774f3d | 945DC098A326 | yes i think that the electoral college is useless maybe in a draw or something. but the vote should count for everyone no matter what state there in. | Position | Adequate |
e5312697ea1a | 945DC098A326 | the state is not the points the people are | Claim | Ineffective |
0533c82f22f6 | 945DC098A326 | most states dont have any campanie ads any where cuz they know that they dont hav e much points .other parties like green party and the tea party they should be more out htere the just demo anf rep | Evidence | Ineffective |
a00923f23371 | 945DC098A326 | the elector college is widely know as a non-democratic way to vote for presidents | Claim | Adequate |
2e4a0000bed3 | 945DC098A326 | othere parties are imoprtant to like the green party is one of the best ones im my opionio but they have that winner take all system. t most people diagree with the system in place but they cant do nothing. larger states get more attention then the smaller states because the president needs more points . the states not might be bigger in size but population may be bigger . | Evidence | Ineffective |
ab71e7d5bf23 | 94B72A7C1E6B | Ever since our founding fathers established in the constitution that the president and vice president votes were determined by electoral college, the founding fathers made a good decision. Electoral College is a process where electors gather for a meeting and count the electoral votes to determine the new president and vice president. | Lead | Adequate |
1bc2395665c4 | 94B72A7C1E6B | The United States should keep Electoral College to determine the president and vice president rather than a popular vote | Position | Adequate |
9ea811aac3f8 | 94B72A7C1E6B | Electoral College avoids run-off elections, | Claim | Adequate |
6eccbecd483e | 94B72A7C1E6B | Electoral College is more fair than a popular vote. | Claim | Adequate |
f53d982e2cec | 94B72A7C1E6B | To start off, Electoral College should continue to determine the president and vice president voting rather than popular votes because electoral college avoids run-off elections. | Claim | Adequate |
42c800cbb418 | 94B72A7C1E6B | If somebody was running for either president or vice president and they recieved thirty percent in popular votes, nobody would know if the person with thirty percent popular vote would win the election. Electoral College prevents confusion by producing a clear winner. For example, in source 3, the text reads "Richard Nixon in 1968 and Bill Clinton in 1992 had only forty-three percent of popular votes but both had three-hundred and plus electoral votes which made them win the election". The president and vice president make sure our country is running well and that we as a country have no problems. If we were to determine our president and vice president by a popular vote, whoever could kiss up more to the voters would win the election even if the person running doesn't meet up to the qualifacations of the person they are running against. Avoiding a run-off election is very important because no canidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. | Evidence | Adequate |
06370f9e0233 | 94B72A7C1E6B | Also, if a popular vote was how the president and vice president were decided, not as much people would pay attention to voting | Claim | Ineffective |
00fd05f8f446 | 94B72A7C1E6B | because voters have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign of the people running for president and vice president. | Evidence | Ineffective |
dc2363a34b2f | 94B72A7C1E6B | Furthermore, Electoral College should continue to determine the president and vice president voting rather than a popular vote because Electoral College is more fair than a popular vote | Claim | Adequate |
6f2f0ad5e54a | 94B72A7C1E6B | In 2008 when Barack Obama won his election to become the 44th president of the United States, he didn't win by being the popular canadite, Obama won by his passion to make this country better than it already is. For example, in source 1, the text reads "The electoral college consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electorial votes is required to elect the president". That way of electing the president is more fair than a popular vote because you need 270 electors to say yes to make you president rather than people making you president by if your popular or not. Electoral College is what keeps our elections fair. There is no other way to elect somebody president becuase no other method will be this successful than Electoral College. After all, Electoral College has been the way to elect the president since the constitution was created. Popular Voting is a bad method if were used to determine the president and vice president because somebody who is running for president can manipulate people to think he or she is a good canidate for president when they really aren't. | Evidence | Adequate |
87485f6ecc16 | 94B72A7C1E6B | To conclude, Electoral College should continue to decide the president rather than popular votes becuase Electoral College avoids run-off elections, and Electoral College is more fair than popular votes. Why should we change the way we elect president if this method has been working for over 200 years? Electoral College should continue to decide the presidency for years to come because it works so well. That's why Electoral College will stay as the way to elect the president. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
29b3eea0b4fb | 94EFC5F3ABB2 | Changing the electoral college would not be an great idea due to the fact that it has been around for centuries and would negatively impact the voting system. Some believe the voting system is a very unfair and outdated system because of the electoral college. When changing the system to popular vote it will affect many people, it may also come out worse than the electoral college. | Lead | Effective |
c84f36b3b4d9 | 94EFC5F3ABB2 | 3 big points why the electoral college should stay the same | Position | Adequate |
2d3472e2afb4 | 94EFC5F3ABB2 | because the electoral college has been around keeping voting in place for centuries | Claim | Adequate |
4fce83d0a8f5 | 94EFC5F3ABB2 | The second great point is that a disaster only happend once | Claim | Adequate |
11dd2527f131 | 94EFC5F3ABB2 | Then the third main point is the winner take all idea is a great idea for the electoral college. | Claim | Adequate |
abd04d4df261 | 94EFC5F3ABB2 | The electoral college has been around forever so why change it now | Claim | Adequate |
2e0c6d3ee268 | 94EFC5F3ABB2 | Some belive that the electoral college is a good idea Because of the voting way in the electoral college system voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors. which is good because people need to have a leader of there state and that leader shows them which president is really good for whta they do. Presidents talk about what they are gonna do to help the country and the slate elelctors define what the presidents are gonna do to help out that certain state. Then the people of the state vote there slate electors for good reasons. The electoral system should stay around alot longer the system is just rigt for voting. | Evidence | Ineffective |
406099872ea9 | 94EFC5F3ABB2 | The electoral college is in good shape for staying and not changing a disater only happend once 14 years ago back in 2000 | Claim | Adequate |
50a7f2775f53 | 94EFC5F3ABB2 | That means at least 3 elections happend since then and nothing went wrong | Evidence | Adequate |
6ea8c4ffef40 | 94EFC5F3ABB2 | Even though if the electoral college system is such a good system then why was there such confusion in th200 fiasco. That makes the electoral college system look very bad becuase it can keep it's voting in balance at all. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
9ce933396221 | 94EFC5F3ABB2 | This was only once, If the system changes then this could happen more than many more times. Then soon we won't even know which president wins the election. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
2f6e9b7ec907 | 94EFC5F3ABB2 | The electoral college looks really good due to the "winner-take-all"
system which awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate | Claim | Adequate |
e94b3a12191b | 94EFC5F3ABB2 | some say this is far but others believe the "proportional representatin" system, the system that the state governor prepares a "Certificate of Ascertainment", which list all the canidates who ran for president in the state along with the names of there respective electors. | Evidence | Ineffective |
292f3cfda9d2 | 94EFC5F3ABB2 | In overall the eletoral college should stay due to the fact that the electoral college has been around keeping voting in place for centuries, a disaster only happend once and finally is the winner take all idea is a great idea for the electoral college. so let's not try new stuff keep the electoral college. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
b7a6fdfd11f5 | 94FE94B27DCD | I believe our school should have community service.
Why ?
Because, students should not litter on school property and make our school look trashy.
School is a place to learn not to litter and destroy the schools | Position | Adequate |
8d4554304d9c | 94FE94B27DCD | In SCHOOL_NAME, the population of litter is huge.
Students here think after using an object and its time to dispose it, it belongs on the ground.
All students at SCHOOL_NAME
should take part and help.
Making our school look better will be a big helping hand. | Evidence | Adequate |
d2f525bec51c | 94FE94B27DCD | By that I want to totally help to clean up our school ! | Claim | Ineffective |
788b7db08e1e | 94FE94B27DCD | I would first make a survey. Post it out in each hallway in the school.
Then I would have every student to sign yes if they think its a good idea to have community service or no.
With the following students that has pick yes I will call a meeting.
Next I would ask them what days are good to stay after school and clean or can they come everyday.
The students that will not take part of this act I would make another community service.
Our school looks horrible especially the break areas.
Also the court yard of the school pavement need to be refill with concrete.
The school walls, classrooms, and hallways need to be repainted.
The graffiti on the hallways wall and outside the school building walls need to be painted over. | Evidence | Adequate |
c3d0e33ce7f4 | 94FE94B27DCD | With this all said and done, Principle TEACHER_NAME I have may reasons why you should require school community service. First I believe our school should have community service because it looks trashy not classy.
Second because students think trash belongs on the ground. My third reason is because inside the school building needs repainting.
Most all ,all students should take part in this act to make our school look like a school not a public park ! | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
b88c3b37b89a | 951BF63BC21A | The landform on Mars is quite interesting, and there could be many thoughts on how it came to be. With already known knowledge and knowledge that is soon to come, people like to guess | Lead | Effective |
7af24cea2dd9 | 951BF63BC21A | With the already known knowledge, we know so far that aliens have not been found on Mars yet, therefore they couldn't have possibly made a mark. | Position | Adequate |
745dd72500ac | 951BF63BC21A | Like Earth, Mars is a planet just with different features. Our earth forms mountains and hills due to erosion and our plate tectonics. It's naturaly formed by the planet. No living organism created the rocky mountains | Evidence | Effective |
3d1a149c13a6 | 951BF63BC21A | it is able to be assumed that Mars can form it's own hills and mountains as well. | Claim | Adequate |
8844a4a87440 | 951BF63BC21A | Something else that is credible is that no life form has been found on Mars yet. | Claim | Adequate |
dd8c97abe6b7 | 951BF63BC21A | Who knows if Mars has erosion or layers under it's surface that is able to move? | Evidence | Adequate |
3891ca9cd2bb | 951BF63BC21A | If these markings were to be made by some kind of living organism, we almost certainly would know about it | Claim | Adequate |
7215187c79b5 | 951BF63BC21A | Especialy with all of the high technology we have today, we would be able to see any kind of life. Maybe if we explored undernethe the surface of Mars, then we could get more information to see if Mars could have created it or if these aliens are living undernethe. | Evidence | Adequate |
3c8ef99f8e1e | 951BF63BC21A | It's a great way to assume how it happened by comparing Mars to Earth, but it could also be irrelevent. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
3f99a8c5b1e1 | 951BF63BC21A | Earth, unlike Mars, has an atmosphere. It keeps in heat, but changes. Earth also has water and life. If this were to be a cause of the rocks, hills, and mountains, then it could be said that the face on Mars was not created by erosion, water, or anything like that | Evidence | Effective |
1bbc4ab37f59 | 951BF63BC21A | It takes a lot of studing and even more knowledge to figure it out, but aliens don't seem to be logical quite yet. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
650cad21283d | 957C84D3B1F0 | I think that we should change the electoral collage because is it not very organize | Position | Adequate |
884254b82857 | 957C84D3B1F0 | and theirs slot of voters that dont like it also in the electoral college you just dont vote for the president that you want for your nation you sre also for slays that you might not even want or like it should just be that you vote for the president that you want to represent your nation. | Evidence | Adequate |
f4843cf510c0 | 957C84D3B1F0 | The electoral college has a major arguemnt against it electoral college. is what we might call the disaster. factor | Claim | Adequate |
7e415905a54a | 957C84D3B1F0 | the american people should consider them selves lucky that the 200 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century. the system also allows the legislatures and they defy that shouldnt be like that they should let the people pick
| Evidence | Adequate |
d1087b278214 | 957C84D3B1F0 | . In the eleltoral college they could be a a tie and thru popularity the presendent wins faster and theirs no tie and people dont have to worry about a tie also the electoral collage is unfair to voters because of the winner takes all the system in each state thats not fair to the voters very unfair.
The electoral college has been notice to be unfair also is outdated and irrational the best agrguemnt in favor of the electoral college are mostly assertions with out basis in reality and the arguments against direct election are spurious at best that y people dont whant the electoral collage no more it should be abolish | Evidence | Adequate |
c20e3e601dd4 | 957C84D3B1F0 | The electoral collage should be taken down it is not fair at all and voters dont want the electoral college. because it is being unfair to them and i agree with them . | Claim | Adequate |
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