Even Better Website :)

http://debate.owu.edu

Fantastic Website

You guys should check this out - debates on everything imaginable. Some of them aren't that great because people just bring personal opinions, but most of them are actually really well structured and bring good LOAs.

http://www.debate.org

Logical Fallacies

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/

This has the most complete review of the most common fallacies on the internet that I've come across, in addition to its criticism of emotion-based techniques (appealing to fear, appealing to tradition, etc.)

When Debating Animal Topics....

Here's a link I found while I was looking for equality stuff. It deals with the concept of "speciesism" - the idea that humans have more rights than other species and can do whatever they want to other species. Difficult to argue, but this is a good tool to have for,say, when you're opening government on "THW ban the keeping of animals as pets" :(

http://www.morris.umn.edu/academic/philosophy/Collier/International%20Ethics/steinbock.pdf

Links on Equality

Here are some links that provide some insight into our topic of equality - I'll compile some information later, but for now this might be helpful. Don't forget your assignment for Sunday!

http://www.modernphilosophy.com/philosophy/equality.html
http://www.jesp.org/articles/download/EgalitarianismandtheValueofEquality.pdf
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/equality/ - Fantastic Source
http://www.rolandpierik.nl/theory/Downloads/Ideal.pdf