Debate Modelled after "To Be or not To Be" Speech

To drive or to fly—that is the question: whether ‘tis better to undertake the course of more destinations or to take to the skies for the greater speed and to explore the far corners of the earth with ease. Though one may starve to purchase the thrill, yet the turbofan of a plane is awful in its power and grace that can bring its passengers wherever it pleases a dozen times faster than can its sister the combustion engine—ay, there is the rub, for in that blissful locomotion what obstacles bestrewn upon the earth threaten for a collision. Whether towers made by man or those by nature, great peril seems to envelope the flying machine—floating on air! Should it not fall? Both the terror that cannot be controlled and the terror that is controlling diminish the greatness of the flying beast. In the face of all of these does not the land vehicle with four wheels firmly embracing the solid ground prove much nobler in the mind? By no means. Gargling gas, the car grinds along the grade with no glorious speed. It stops at most every other object on the face of the earth: pedestrians, cars, lights, stop signs, lines of all shapes and sizes, medians, houses, trees. All of these impede and threaten without a moment’s reprieve with the imperative of incessant alert when on the mechanical bird of the sky, the time can be placed as one sees fit. But the gravity in the subject rests primarily in the three score greater danger per furlong of driving. What a fool is man, however, that he doth often prefer the former. Jurisdiction is the real rub, for when one sits on a plane in comparative safety, he frets that there may be a something bad coming at any moment which he cannot survey, but when in his car, he sees trouble and avoids it most incessantly. All the while he is in the car, he feels safety in his own power. Thus man prefers the dangers he can see to those invisible.