All things considered, modernity did more harm then good

1. "I'm talking about modern sex not sex that happened back in the Egyptians day and sex has changed over the last years. Right now I can go to google and type in "porn" and get 218,000,000 links that deal with porn. Now if i can go to Google and find that many links in less then 5 seconds think how easy it would be for a 5 year old to go on Google and find that stuff when 30+ years ago porn wasn't that accessible to the public." *** I was talking about porn, not sex. Again, you never described *what* exactly modern sex is. The sex act in itself has become safer (modernity has offered us contraceptives) than it was in the past. Also, we don't have the religious sexual oppression we did. How can you say "sex has changed over the years" and then go straight into talking about porn? Yes, the Egyptians had sex, and if you want to talk about people who were carving thousands upon thousands of sexual images on their temples and doing the acts themselves (yes, back in the day, showing you there is no "modernity" in what you are implying), you have the Kajuharo temple (You can look up easy, like you said finding porn was, if you wish, not posting a link here as it would be inappropriate. As a rebuttal to your 218,000,000 links to porn, I will tell you that it is on your own free will that you look at them. Because they are available doesn't mean a thing. If you don't want your children looking at it, filter it. I know growing up I never ran into any because of strict blocks on our home computer. It's very simple and easy to do. As for other porn, I'm also sure you need to be at least 18 years of age to purchase it. No need to worry that children will be buying it.) In short, I was speaking of porn, not modern sex. You can not straw man my argument by slipping in that you think I said Egyptian sex. 2. "Our school just got new computers that were provided by the state. They said that the computers should improve grades but there doing the opposite. i know kids that have been A and B students that have dropped down to C and D students. Which will drop there grade point average significantly. So kids that are not paying attention in school isn't their own problem. Also how can you tell if they learned anything in the sex-ed class. They could study for every test and pass them all but walk away without knowing nothing about sex-ed. " *** You can't use a correlation like that as a valid experiment. I would have appreciated an actual study. I already posted a relevant link about sex Ed above. I will repost it here for you again: http://www.iwpr.org... 3. "Thanks to the war on drugs people are getting smarter on how to distribute them and get them out to the general public. These days you can go on the internet and find recipe's to make different drugs. They also could sell alot more drug to alot more people." Again, correlation. How are drugs in general a bane? There are Native tribes of people that use them traditionally. As for the new severity of drugs, it's bound to happen with our advancement in knowledge. Your statement pretty much says that the smarter humans get, the riskier the things they invent are. Again, the war on drugs is trying to rid the world of this. You can't say it's the thing that is causing this. It's not. That's what it comes down to. 4. "You say that knowledge is progressing upwards. So since knowledge is progressing upwards your saying that drug dealers/ drug makers are getting smarter on how to make and distribute the drugs and that people are finding ways to access porn thought the internet, movies, etc. You also say that the modern world SHOULD be smarter then the world before it. It should be but yet it isn't. I say that because if we were then the modern world then we would have figured out world peace, how to decrease the worlds poverty etc. " I'm sorry, but the world in general is not as poor as it use to be today. You can not tell me that people in general today are poorer than people pre-modern times. That's an absolute blind statement. As for world peace, that is an idealistic idea. Yes, we're smarter, but I never said we have absolute knowledge. I could even go as far as saying maybe in the future we may figure out that world peace can not exist with the human condition. Your statement was a contradiction. You claimed, through your modern reasoning, that we should have the cure that is world peace, and yet don't have the knowledge to know that it is what a modern, intelligent mind of the future would reason. Also, if distributors are getting smarter, so are law enforcers. Easy as that. They are still on a competitive medium. 5. "Also i would like to point out that the internet isn't helping our cause at all. Like my previous statements you can get porn and drug recipe's off of it. Also you can get blueprints/video clips for making bombs, guns etc. So it is pertty easy for some one who is ticked off at someone else to go to school, office etc. with a bomb and/or gun and kill people." You can learn how to make something explode in Chemistry class. Of course it's easy. It's always been easy to kill people. What you need to notice is our law enforcement has improved from back in the day. Of course crime is going to get smarter, but that doesn't mean the ratio of crime has changed. Law enforcement has gotten smarter, too. We have always had people willing to commit crimes, and the amount of them has risen with population, of course. What we must realize is that we are trying to keep them in check. And now finally for me to mention some modern things that have advanced the world big time. I'll just name 8 of them to remain basic. Because of them, people now live longer more productive lives. I doubt that any of the things my opponent has mentioned can measure to them. 1. Space travel (So many inventions, such as cell phones, have come from this - among many other things.) 2. Modern Medicine (People are living healthier, longer lives.) 3. Working Standards ( People are working in better conditions, with better pay, etc.) 4. The abolishing of slavery and the application of rights for African Americans 5. Women's rights. 6. Removal of communication barrier (internet, media, telephones, so we can see everything in the world now) 7. Transportation (we can now get things to places faster when needed. We can travel the world.) 8. Access to information. (yes, you can get drug recipe's, but you can also get health information, information on how to fix your car, etc. We have access to so much information people are more rounded, less closed minded, and becoming more tolerant of things they wouldn't of known about years ago in an information isolated society.) As we are finished, I'd like to say good debate, Tan-man70. Regards, Vi