TacticsOgre forum Debate Club

[Sokar468]

I like debates, but don't post here unless you plan to post intelligently and thoroughly. Any and I will chop your nuts off.

Whenever you feel a debate topic is losing steam, just propose a new topic.


For starters:

Why is America so fascinated with Reality TV? I don't seem to understand, because Reality TV is a huge oxymoron. How is it possible for people to act "normal" if they are conspicuously being followed around by a camera? Remember the theory of the Panoptican? It proved that people innately act different when they know that they might be under watch. Therefore, you will never truly approach Reality on TV unless you film people that are unaware, which can lead to serious privacy issues.

I now find it interesting how TV networks are screening "contestants" that enter Reality TV. There was a huge debacle over the guy in "For Love or Money" because they found a past incident in which he was involved in a minor sexual harrassment ordeal, but it was quickly dismissed. This confuses. Now they are trying to find perfect people with scathless pasts for Reality TV? Since when did perfect people represent our hardly perfect world?

[Zynx]

Ooooohhhh....I love debates.

Anyway, "reality" T.V. is utter nonsense. The only reason I think that they call it "reality" is because they put somewhat normal people in these situations. However, the situations themselves are mostly staged to a great extent. Even on the issue of the "Average Joes" they get on these shows, most of the time they screen them intensely, as Sokar said, to get the beautiful people on these shows. On no show is this more true than "The Real World" on MTV where nothing about it is real. All of these good looking people(hardly a cross-section of America) get set-up in a nice place in a nice city and get put in all of these near-perfect situations. How is that in anyway real??!!

[Sokar468]

I still don't know why people are fascinated with them, though. Does it have to do with the fact that people are thrown into these outrageous, totally unrealistic situations and they must work their way out of it? Maybe these situations aren't not suposed to be realistic, and people watch them because they want to believe that these are real scenarios that they wish they were a part of? If that's the case, then I dread what will become of America.

[Zynx]

I think its because Americans are fairly shallow people in many respects and don't put a lot of thought into something. They believe that just because it has the word "reality" in front of it that it is real.

[sharpshooter]

I'm on your side, but I don't think that many people are gonna stand up for reality t.v.Reality T.V. Is just a new brand of show that is about people who act like they are normal people, but aren't.

America will eventually fall.People are just going to get fatter and fatter and dumber and dumber.Don't flame me cause its true and i am from usa.

[SNK!]

Crimson said:

I'm on your side, but I don't think that many people are gonna stand up for reality t.v.Reality T.V. Is just a new brand of show that is about people who act like they are normal people, but aren't.

America will eventually fall.People are just going to get fatter and fatter and dumber and dumber.Don't flame me cause its true and i am from usa.

Looks like you missed the part where Sokar said "don't post here unless you plan to post intelligently".

My stance on Reality TV:

I personally like Reality TV. My favorite show is, Turning off the fucking TV and actually experiencing reality.

Maybe they should call "Wishful Thinking TV".

I think The Real World Is where the Wachowski Brothers got the idea for The Matrix.

But then again, I'm crazy.

[Sokar468]

Figures that this thread was nearly killed by good ole Crimson Phoenix.

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I was watching Good Morning America this morning and the news report on growth hormones caught my attention.

Starting as early as age 6, parents can give their vertically challenged children growth hormones over to increase their height gradually about 3 inches or so. However, the risks are high, including headaches. Yet it is proven that shorter than normal children suffer from a lot of "inequalities"--however, you wish to define those--and disadvantages in the real world.

What do you think? If you had a child with growth defects, would you give him/her the growth hormones so that they do not lose an edge in society and have their confidence boosted, even if it may involve side effects? Or would you raise your child to deal with and accept his/her flaw, even if it means exposing him/her to all the inequalities and disadvanatges that can have large impacts on children?

[Zynx]

With most people, disadvantages are weighed out by advantages. In the few cases they are not, such as the one you mentioned, I still would be hesitant to use growth hormones due to the fact that they can result in massive problems.

[Sokar468]

Zynx, are we the only two in this club? If so, then shame on this forum!

[whyamIhere]

*jumps from the sky pulling out sky dragon sword*

Reality TV IS pretty stupid, someday survivor will be hated I'm sure. Other shows such as "I'm a celebrity! Get me out of here!" has been shunned right off the bat. Quality is better than quantity. Something must be working with Survivor, but I sure as heck can't see what.

TV itself is such a joke, I don't watch it because there never is anything worth watching anymore. Besides I can get all the shows I want off Kazaa.

[Zynx]

Sokar468 said:

Zynx, are we the only two in this club? If so, then shame on this forum!

Oh well, we can make good debate if we can find a topic we strongly disagree on. ;D

[Kamon]

reality tv is stupid. I have no idea why survivor is still on ut thats just me. And about those reality marriage shows, there just the same thing with different people so whats the point of them. They try to get viewers attention by saying there is a twist but who cares.