The Debate!

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   Today in class, we had our debate on whether we should keep our time zones how they are or abolish them completely, and use a universal time. I was in the group which had mixed opinions on the topic. By the end of class, I decided on where I actually stand in the argument. I believe that we should maintain our time zones how they are. One reason why I believe this is because people are not going to want to be awake during the night in one part of the world, when another part of the world is awake during the day and sleeping during the night. Some of my classmates said that we could all be awake at the same time, so we would know what time to call other places and "make things easier", even if it'll take a long time to get used to. However, that would mean that people across the world will be awake when it is dark outside, whereas today, everyone sleeps at night. There are multiple reasons why we should be awake during the day and asleep during the night. For example, people should be able to go outside during the day to get Vitamin D, they should be able to work at their jobs during the day, they should be able to go outside in the sunlight where children can play, etc. Another reason I decided to go on the side of maintaining time zones is because you will always need more information on what time it really is in another country, because saying that it is the same time everywhere isn't going to help you when traveling, working, socializing, etc.; it will only make it more complicating. It won't change the fact that the sun rises and sets and different times around the world. Plus, people will still have to do the math to figure out what the time it is in another country because they're going to want to compare it to theirs- where you get up at a certain time in the day, eat at a certain time in the day, sleep at a certain time in the night, etc. There is no point in trying to change time zones to a Universal time, because ultimately, it won't affect anything, except people will get more confused and their whole lives could be changed. Finally, I enjoyed having this debate because we all got to speak (well, at least most of us), then we got to argue the points being made. Hearing everyone's opinions was interesting because I got to see multiple perspectives of the argument and I got to make many counter-arguments.

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