Monday, October 10, 2016

Debate questions I would have asked

Whose side are you on, the Indians or the pipeline company?

According to a report in the October 9 New York Times, victims of American torture continue to suffer both physical and psychological problems.  Do you condone torturing American prisoners?  If yes, would you use techniques of ISIS, the Nazis, or the Stalinists?

Are you a Lockean or a Hobbesian?

When I was a teenager in the Fifties, we usually experienced our first frost in early September.  Now it occurs in early October.  Is global warming really a hoax?

The Robbs fringe-limbed tree frog, discovered in a Panamanian forest in 2007, has already gone extinct.  The tadpoles of this frog lived in water-filled cavities high in trees.  Lacking food, the male frog would lower himself into the water, where the tadpoles would rasp the skin off his back for sustenance.  Now this frog is gone.  We are in the midst of what is sometimes called the 6th great extinction, of which this frog is one example.  Do you have any recommendations?  Do you even think this is a problem?


Missouri is an open carry state where anyone can buy a gun with no background check and no training and carry it around loaded.  Would you be willing to give a speech in Missouri with no Secret Service protection?  Would you let me know when it will occur?

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