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References:
https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/beauty-work-physical-appearance-impacts-job-search-careers/

https://employsure.com.au/blog/physical-appearance-in-the-workplace/

https://bizfluent.com/info-12080947-effect-physical-appearance-workplace.html

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https://www.debate.org/debates/Emotion-is-a-weakness-in-decision-making./1/

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Con

I'd like to thank Pro for making this debate and for giving me the opportunity to have my first debate on an interesting topic. Without further ado, I'll present my argument, starting with a revised definition:

1. Emotion: physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience. [1]

Prefer my definition for three reasons:
1. It more completely captures what it is when we use the word "emotion" as covering a wide range of experiences from within the subjective experience.
2. Fairness: My opponent's definition already creates a pretense for an emotion having to be something strong, unfairly skewing the perception of what it is we're talking about.
3. My opponent's definition's are circular; emotion relies on the definition of feeling and feeling relies on a definition of emotion.

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Argument 1: On rationality:
A: my opponent's argument

My opponent attempts to argue that emotional response to any situation is irrational, and attempts to provide two examples, both of which I do not feel demonstrate anything of particular interest, nor do they prove his point. In the first (vaguely sexist) example he lays out a situation in which two people (A and B) share a common love interest C, and use what seems to be inductive reasoning to reach their conclusion. Person A uses an appeal to the stability of their relationship, while Person B appeals to testimony. My opponent says that the real problem is person C, but that isn't entirely clear. The problem more seems to stem from a desire to retain being exclusive. The whole matter at hand is not really what the debate is about, but even if it were, this is a non-starter. It doesn't matter if they're failing to grasp the entirety of the situation, the actual argument set up by my opponent seems to have two people making reasonable arguments given their position, though not particularly well reasoned arguments.

My opponent's example of Senator Kyl making a false claim is also a non-starter in this debate; the fact that Kyl grossly exaggerated how many abortions Planned Parenthood performs has little to nothing to do with emotion; it has everything to do with dishonest political ethics and an attempt to sway fellow senators based on something that seems like an objective source; again, this seems like something based on reason. My opponent makes some argument about how this is an emotional tactic, but why this is so isn't entirely clear. His claim that this leads to terrible outcomes in the end is also unfounded, as we have no empirical evidence presented.

B: Human irrationality
Regardless, there's no reason to believe that rationality leads to preferable outcomes, or that we are even capable of behaving an a coherent or rational methods [2]. Furthermore, there's no reason to think that rationality is particularly good, it might just be a useful way for creating a dichotomy between certain types of behaviors. Still, there's no reason to believe that there is some relationship between good outcomes and rationality.
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Argument 2: Decision making
Game Theory is a field of applied mathematics that is central to the fields of Economics, Finance Theory, Psychology, and Political Science; it is a method of measuring how we make decisions. In specific, it examines in particular how we make decisions and assumes that we are all rational actors. This is relevant to the argument in this key way: emotions are simply payoff modifiers, meaning that the way in which we act is still rational with emotions, it's just that emotions modify how we act. However, in the end, we still go for whatever we value the most at that particular time slice, meaning that emotions are a component of the decision making process. [3] [4]

Let's unpack this a bit and take a look at a counter example where a person has no emotions. It seems intuitive to us that the person suddenly has little, to no reason to act or exert any decision making prowess beyond fulfilling the basic requirements of eating and keeping oneself alive. In a world where we have advanced to a point where we no longer need to worry about fulfilling our basic beliefs, a world without emotion seems impressively stark and devoid of most anything other than eating. My opponent may make the argument that we'll still have desires, but these desires only exist to meet basic emotional states; I do things to enjoy myself; enjoyment is an emotion as per the provided definition.

Almost all decisions beyond immediate survival have some emotional component. When I kiss my girlfriend, there is an emotional component, likewise, when I run to the subway to catch my train, that's driven by an emotional desire to be on time. The entirety of my behavior is based on how I value things, which is driven by emotional impulses and justifications [5]

Why is this key to the entire argument? If emotion is a part of the decision making process like I argue that it is, that would mean that a part of the decision making process weakens itself. First off, this seems to be intuitively wrong, we don't say that the decision making process is weak because we value things, we say that the decision making process is valuable because it helps us reach the things that we value. If emotion plays ANY central role in the decision making process, then it is not a detrimental factor, since the process itself is based off of emotion.

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Argument 3: Emotion can help us make better decisions.
My opponent focuses on unclear emotions to show that they provide poor basis for action. However, we can just as easily imagine cases where emotion helps make us better decisions. Here are two examples:

1. I am making a decision as to where I should go to a party. My options are in a crime ridden area, or in a relatively safe part of town. I also happen to have a general fear of crime and a general enjoyment of my physical and emotional well being, things which I don't need to say are rooted in emotion. I decide to go to the safer part of town. Over all, this seems like a better decision than one where I could have arbitrarily chosen either.

2. I am attempting to decide whether to grade papers or enjoy myself, knowing that choosing the latter would severely delay the former. I realize that I value my students more than my own enjoyment, and that the shame would otherwise make me distraught were I not to grade their papers. I make the decision to grade their papers based on how my emotions guide my actions.
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Overview of the Round
The resolution is Negation-Centric. Since it doesn't deal with any epistemic or metaphysical claims, it should not be evaluated as a system where inference to the best explanation functions. Instead, a constructive account about ethics needs to account for all possibilities [6] Is terminal defense, in the sense that it attempts to show that my opponent's main points don't lead to any particular conclusion in general, and that it doesn't do enough work to lead you to vote for pro. Don't let my opponent bring up completely new Pro arguments or ad hoc arguments, as that skews my own ground as I have to respond to more examples. If my opponent had good examples, they should have have been there from the start.
1b. Functions as weak offense; if it obtains, if there's even a risk of you believing the con position, you should vote con, since there's no reason to buy into the Pro position if there's no reason to think that rationality is good.
2 and 3 Function as pure offense: If either of them pass, then you're going to immediately vote for Con, because Pro must be sufficiently robust as an ethical system to account for them.

1. Myers, David G. (2004) "Theories of Emotion." Psychology: Seventh Edition, p. 500.
2. Ariely, Dan Predictably Irrational. http://asset.soup.io...
3 Dresher, Melvin Games of Strategy 3rd Ed
4. BdM, Principles of International Politics. 2000.
5. Frankfurt, Harry Reasons of Love. 2004.
6. Street, Sharon In Defense of Future Tuesday Indifference

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Con I'd like to thank Pro for making this debate and for giving me the opportunity to have my first debate on an interesting topic. Without further ado, I'll present my argument, starting with a revised definition: 1. Emotion: physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience. [1] Prefer my definition for three reasons:1.

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Sunny Hon, 18, Workers' Children Secondary School

Cosmetic surgery should definitely be banned for minors - people under the age of 18. Minors are not mature enough to make such a big decision. Thanks to the media, a young person might want to change the way they look, even though they might know every surgery has the potential to go wrong, or change the way people think of them. They could, for example, get made fun of if they have surgery so young. That's why I think that it should be banned.

Paul Fayolle Erwan Kam, 13, Kwok Tak Seng Catholic Secondary School

I think it's shocking anyone would think that young people should be able to decide to go under the knife for a cosmetic surgery. All important decisions regarding their lives should be made by their parents after they've consulted their children. Young people might not think about the risks of surgery. I think it should be banned for anyone younger than 18.

Cici Tse, 16, Fukien Secondary School

I don't think that cosmetic surgery should be banned for people under 18. Many people undergo cosmetic surgery because they want to be prettier, right? Sometimes it's not about that. If a person gets horribly disfigured because of a car crash, should they not be allowed to look nice again because they're too young for the surgery? Think about how many students are out there who have amazing acting skills but are overlooked because they're not considered pretty or handsome. Surgery helps their dreams become a reality.

Tai Sin-yu, 14, Tin Shui Wai Methodist College

It should absolutely be banned for anyone under 18. I think people who have cosmetic surgery aren't happy with how they look. confident about their appearance but it may not be the right way to improve the way they see themselves.

Even if you are dating and you don't think you are good looking, you should find someone who appreciates something besides your outer beauty. That is why it should be banned.

Alvin Leung Cheuk-fung, 14, Kwun Tong Maryknoll College

I think cosmetic surgery should absolutely be banned for anyone under 18. Anyone under that age has got a lot of developing to do, which means their bodies are still developing. If you aren't happy with something about yourself, then it might still change with a good diet and lots of exercise. You should just be happy, and appreciate what you have. That's the key to confidence.

Mona Yeung, 12, St. Rose Of Lima's College

I understand that cosmetic surgery is helpful to have a better image, but do you know about the dark side of it? In my view, l think inner beauty is more important than outer beauty. lf a person is ugly but is kind compared with a mean and rude person who is very beautiful, who will you choose to be your friend? Also, it's very expensive and may harm your health. So, why should we do this meaningless thing? Instead if you are kind-hearted and nice, you are already beautiful.

Bobby Li, 16, HKSYCIA Wong Tai Shan Memorial College

Cosmetic surgery is going to be popular. Most youngsters want to make some changes to their body in order to become prettier. However, I do not agree with this and think it should be banned for people under 18. Firstly, cosmetic surgery may affect the growth of teens. They are still growing and their bodies may not adjust well to outside changes.

Secondly, teens are not mature enough to make such an important decision for themselves. Teens are easily affected by their peers. They will blindly follow what is trendy in society. They may regret it afterwards, but the surgery may be permanent.

Matthew Lin, 17, Law Ting Pong Secondary School

Unquestionably yes! People under 18 are still going through puberty and learning to grow mentally and physically. People undergo cosmetic surgery for a better appearance and to gain peer recognition. Many of them however, neglect the negative impacts cosmetic surgery mightpotentially bring to their health. In fact, cosmetic surgery can be counterproductive in the sense that the drugs used in the surgery may bring irreversible side effects. Thus, it will be a prudent move to ban cosmetic surgery for people under 18.

Venus Chu, 16, Ma On Shan Tsung Tsin Secondary School

I believe cosmetic surgery shouldn't be banned for everyone under 18 as it will is an invasion of our freedom. Another reason is that cosmetic surgery can mean a lot to some injured people, they can gain their confidence back after an accident.

Instead of banning it, I suggest educating them. We can learn to be responsible for the choices we make. There's a Chinese motto saying that our body is a gift from our parents, so we have to take good care of it. Through education, correct core values can be instilled in teenagers, so that they can make wise choices.

Justin Ying, 16, Ma On Shan Tsung Tsin Secondary school

Absolutely! People under 18 are not mature enough and they are vulnerable to peer pressure and popular culture. A multitude of youngsters who are under 18 get obsessed over their idols, K-pop idols in particular. Many K-pop stars have had cosmetic surgery on their face and some youngsters would try to imitate them. If all youngsters blindly jump on the bandwagon of cosmetic surgery, unhealthy values will be fostered and the poor youngsters will suffer low self-esteem because they don't have sufficient money to get surgery.
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Sunny Hon, 18, Workers' Children Secondary School Cosmetic surgery should definitely be banned for minors - people under the age of 18. Minors are not mature enough to make such a big decision.

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Personality development helps in the overall development of an individual. An individual's style of dressing plays an important role in enhancing his/her personality. It is rightly said that " a man is known by his dress and address". An individual's dressing sense speaks volumes of his character and personality.

You really need to know what you are wearing. Do not wear something just because everyone else is wearing the same. Find out whether the dress would look good on you or not? One needs to be extremely careful of his/her body type, built, weight, complexion and even family background, nature of work, climate while selecting clothes.

Dress according to the occasion. One needs to look good for an impressive personality. Clothes reflect who you are, how you feel at the moment and sometimes even what you want to achieve in life?

Always remember whatever you wear should reflect the real you. Your dressing sense reflects your personality, character, mood, style and what actually you are as an individual. People wearing gaudy clothes with loud make up are generally extroverts and love partying. You really can make out what sort of person an individual is by his/her dressing. Dull colours indicate that an individual is sad or upset whereas bright colours not only reflect your happy state of mind but also make the other person happy.

Team a simple white shirt with black trousers to get that extremely professional and elegant look at the workplace. On the other hand your little black dress if worn in evenings would make you the centre of attention at a party. It all depends when you are wearing a particular outfit.
Let me ask you a question:
I will give some clues on how a person dresses and you have to judge an individual's personality type for me.

Tom prefers wearing ripped jeans with sleeveless t-shirt and sneakers. He loves flaunting his necklaces, earrings, bracelets and often sports a ponytail.

Jack on the other hand wears a simple linen shirt and trouser. His formal shoes are nicely polished and clothes ironed. He does not love wearing accessories and prefer just a simple chain around his neck.

I am sure you must have guessed it right.

Tom is an extrovert and a party animal. He is most likely a college going student who loves being the life of parties.

Jack on the other hand, is a mature and reserved professional.

If you have guessed it right, do not forget to give a pat on your back....

Yes, the way you dress reflects your personality. Remember, right dressing has nothing to do with price. An expensive dress might not look good on you. Before stepping out, ask yourself "Is the dress looking good on me?", "Am I dressed as per the occasion?" and so on.

Never wear tight fitting or body hugging clothes. Be very particular about the fit of the dress. A person on the heavier side of normal weight would look slim in a black long outfit whereas a lean individual would look good in puff sleeves and flair dresses.

Make sure whatever you are wearing is neat and tidy. Do not just pull out clothes from your wardrobe and wear them. Clothes must be properly ironed. Polish your shoes before stepping out.

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Personality development helps in the overall development of an individual. An individual's style of dressing plays an important role in enhancing his/her personality. It is rightly said that " a man is known by his dress and address". An individual's dressing sense speaks volumes of his character and personality.

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