Topics for Debate

In class today my group was having a hard time finding a topic where our opinions were different. Eventually we brought up the idea that the way's in which we introduce sex to children differ greatly. For example, in America when there is a store that sells children books and pornographic materials the normal way to deal with it is to put the porn into it's own little room usually with a camera on it. Also if there is a porn section it is never around the kids books, magazines, movies etc... and if there is a case where there isn't enough porn to need a room for it then we at least put black panels that sit in front of the porn so the covers aren't visible.

In Japan I've seen many instances where not only are the very graphic covers of porn very visible but are also right next to the children manga and seeing as the average child is 3-4 feet tall, the porn is directly at eye level. I've also found that many mangas intended for children feature very sexual topics or very sexual characters usually in the form of very large breasted women that show tons of cleavage. The anime we discussed was One Piece where they introduce the a character named Ivan who is the king of the "okama". I'm not saying these topics are bad at all but merely whether or not they should be introduced the way they are.

Here are a couple examples from One Piece.
(The second one has Spanish subtitles but you get the idea)

Nuclear Warfare

This post is a little late but these things happen.

I was in high school when I studied World War 2 because World War 2 was included in the World History class which was required for graduating, so everyone in my school had to study it. Because WW2 was a world changing event, I'm sure everyone studies the subject even if it's very little. In American, however, we are asked "Was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the right thing to do?" and the general feeling in America is that it was not the right thing to do, but there are a lot of people that would say that it was required at the time to finish the war.

I think that war involves changing the way you're thinking in order to get through the times ahead of you, so when you're not in a war, dropping bombs is the wrong thing to do no matter the case but when you are in a war, dropping bombs on people is a daily event. The same emotions exist when it happens but during war you have to put those emotions aside to finish the task at hand. Putting myself in the position of America at the time when the war was just coming to a close and then suddenly a new war was about to start with Japan I can see how dropping a couple bombs to make the point that the war is over seems like a good idea.

I personally don't think wars should ever happen in this modern age and the only reason we have them is because only some countries are modern and those that are not will have issues with those that are either because of them interfering with the rest of the world or not helping them become modern.