Blog 6 - Arguing Without Fighting

2. When we did our first round of debates on the prostitution topic I thought the opposing sides argument was not going to be any good at all. However, they really showed that they did research and gave some excellent points. While my opinion stays the same, I still I found it interesting the arguments that they came up with. I had never really thought about some of those things before.

I actually thought the Casino debate was really really interesting. I think that both sides gave really really good arguments for whether or not casinos help the community. Before the debate I kind of stood in the middle, but was leaning more towards the side that they were harmful to the community. After the debates were over I still stood in the middle about the whole thing, but also came to a conclusion. I think casino's are harmful to the individual and not necessarily the community. I would not go out gambling, and drinking a lot of alcohol because I know that it can cause harm to me an others. It can cause harm to any individual. But after the debates I think that casinos contribute more to the society financially than I originally thought. So casinos may not be all bad. Both side gave really good arguments, however, and I can see were they are both coming from.