BeIR/webis-touche2020 huggingface dataset:
eSports should be recognized and respected as official sports

What is a sport? The topic is widely debated throughout the world. Is cheerleading or dancing or darts a sport? Where do we draw the line? When it comes to videogames it simply is not a sport. It is a competition. Sports are defined according to every other site besides yours as, An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment" http://www.oxforddictionaries.com... https://www.google.ca... Although many sports are competitive a competition is not defined as a sport. "an event or contest in which people compete" .https://www.google.ca... Videogames or egames are just a competition the same as spelling bees, checkers, chess they are not considered sports. According to ESPN president he declares that egames are not a sport. Supporting me in my arguments. http://ca.ign.com... He gives similar reasons as the ones I chose. Saying,"It"s not a sport " it"s a competition. Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition," Preparation for such events doesn't make anything a sport. I have to prepare to go to school. Yet school is not a sport. I have to prepare my mind and body to be in a state of mind to write a strong argument yet arguing is not a sport. Just because you have a skill doesn't make it a sport for both physical effort and skill is required to make something a sport. For the reasons listed above I believe it is clear why egames are not considered a sport and should not be considered a sport. Thank you. I look forward to my opponents response.
eSports should be recognized and respected as official sports

For my first point I would like to define the noun sport. The definition by dictionary. com is, "an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc. "[1]. Notice how it says an athletic activity requiring skill OR physical prowess. I bring this point because I find many people argue the point that eSports are not physical enough, and that anyone could do it. I can prove this false. Professional eSport players are not able to just jump in and be good. Many pros put in thousands of hours of work. They practice and scrim all day long to prepare for tournaments. Team Liquid claims to practice at least 50 hours a week, and team liquid isn't even great compared to some eSports legends. In the same article it is said two players (Known for being very good) often sleep only four hours a night and practice between 12 and 14 hours per day. [2] eSports players can also very easily lose jobs. Often esports are even watched more than large tournaments of what people consider, "Real Sports" as shown in this graph [3]. When signed players are often given a gaming house to live in with the team while playing for them. They are expected to practice all day, only taking breaks to eat and sleep. [4] These teams can drop them at anytime. These players have to fight to stay on these favorable teams. Under performing can lose them a spot, lose them a tournament, lose them money, or even lose them a job. This is not even mentioning the constant flaming people get from sources of social media causing many players to leave the eSports scene from the constant berating. An example for this would be Dyrus from TSM (Team SoloMid). He underperformed a few games, got flamed by reddit, and eventually left because he felt he was letting people down. The same thing happened to TSM's old mid laner Reginald. This shows how stressful eSports can be. All of these elements together along with the competitive element and faithful community should show why eSports should be recognized as an actual sport. . http://dictionary.reference.com... [1] . http://www.businessinsider.com... [2] . http://espn.go.com...[3] . http://espn.go.com...[4]
Wallpaper Contest

This is going to be a debate where in each round (excluding R1) you will post the best laptop / computer wallpapers that you can. In R1 you will just post acceptance ('I accept'). You will post one picture per round from R2 - R4. There should be no text within the debate except for in R1 when you post acceptance. Acceptance in R1 is acceptance to all of the rules stated in this round. Remember:- R1 is acceptance - R2 - R4 is for pictures only- There should only be 1 picture in each round (apart from acceptance) - There should be no text throughout the whole debate - excluding R1 - Text is allowed in the pictures but not typed by you
Legal Marijuana

Are their any benefits of weed though? I'm Glad you asked: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com... Medicinally the benefits are remarkable. Many pharmaceutical companies make billions of dollars on medications that have far worse side effects than cannabis. So If you live in one of the 30 states that does not allow medical marijuana many patients are forced to take horrible drugs that do not even work! Marijuana does the job with far less serious side effects. It may vary from case to case but. It has been proved a billion times over, I really don't want to say much else on this subject because prohibiting medical marijuana is a crime in and of itself and we are debating legalized recreational use. From a personal experience marijuana is not something that you can abuse and truly enjoy the benefits. When I first decided (after years of peer pressure) on my own to experience the wonderful effects of THC. It not only helped me out of my angst driven depression but more importantly I COULD SLEEP! After being an insomniac for 2 years literally wanting to bash my head against the wall to hopefully knock myself out (I never actually did it because I was not too confident that it was a good idea) I tried every sleep medication and herbal crap I could find. I was desperate so I gave in when someone told me to try marijuana to help me sleep. Finally found it and my life changed for the better in a very obvious way. People always commented on my smile and personality almost as if I had come out of the shadows! It completely changed my state of mind. So I owe a lot to the "drug". I did discover that with abuse comes punishment. So anytime I am smoking too much I cant sleep. So it is about discipline and rationality for me (not something even the government has control over) I'm not going to recommend you trying it until you are an adult. Believe me I was a straight edge dude until my twenties and boy was I happy I waited! I'm not really expecting this personal information to help win this debate. I just thought it would be an interesting way to answer your question. I do know it varies from person to person. Some say it cures migraines some say it causes them. Just don't let others decide for you, that is pretty much the only source of "free will" you are ever going to experience! Ask people with ADD if they should take Ritalin or pot brownie to help them to focus and be absorbed into something, because it may be the only way for them to thrive!
Legal Marijuana

I would like you to read my arguments before your next reply. I do appreciate you educating me on the risks of smoking at early age but you hardly gave reason for the prohibition of marijuana! It is important for anyone who smokes anything to know the potential risks. I believe in self discipline not blindly following laws! We have a responsibility to teach discipline not dogma! In order for me to continue this debate I will need more from you. The only response I have to your argument is that the dangers of marijuana is trumped by several legal substances that can actually kill. So if you are worried about forgetting the name of a movie for a few seconds vs. diabetes and emphysema... maybe you should rethink why we should consider marijuana to be an illegal drug while alcohol and tobacco companies not only have government protection but also make more money that almost any industry on the planet! You can either respond to my arguments or make a new case to debate. I will tell you that I have debated this case several times and have come to the conclusion that prohibition of marijuana cannot be argued and clearly marijuana should be legalized.. unless you can come up with a compelling reason that it should continue to be debated.. otherwise I tend not to take people seriously when they do not pick their battles.. especially our government!
Legal Marijuana

Marijuana or "weed" can cause very serious health issues for children under the age of 25. Until someone reaches the age of 25 the brain is not fully developed. If you smoke weed while you are under the age of 25 there are some serious risks: 1 Your problem solving/logic can become mildly impaired 2 Permanent short term memory loss. 3 Risk of addiction which could cause serious financial troubles for a kid
Legal Marijuana

(The basis for my argument will be "pick your battles"! ) Keep in mind: Marijuana is considered a dangerous drug. Common arguments against marijuana legalization. 1. Child accessibility 2. Depleted motivation and intelligence 3. Easily abused 4. Harmful to body 5. The Grateful Dead ;) My Rebuttal: 1. Prohibition of marijuana does not prevent children from gaining access. In fact kids have easier access to weed than alcohol. Think about it, a drug dealer makes tons of un-taxed moolah off of children every day. If marijuana were made legal it would cut down on black market activity and their sources would, in some cases, be limited to adults contributing to minors. If some kid asked me to purchase weed at a store I would tell him to take a flying leap. Especially since I am not making any money... and I have dignity and morals! Where as a drug dealer might not feel the same.. Cha Ching! 2. This is tough to argue because it is different from case to case. I'm expecting some stereotyping from my opponent but.. Hey! We have all been there! Now I can say confidently that sometimes, people need to stop thinking motivation is of supreme importance.. I know what your thinking "if everyone is getting high nothing will get done" First off that is a paranoid theory that is easily squashed by the millions of stoned construction workers and cooks! Second: motivation can be a very bad thing (terrorists and human traffickers are extremely motivated!) Haven't you wanted to scream to the world "STOP everything you are doing you sociopathic retards!" Well I can elaborate more on this later if I get a response! 3. Define abused.. I'm kidding, I get it marijuana abuse is definitely not a good thing.. I must say it is almost as bad as sugar, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, sodium... dot dot dot (That was a redundancy joke) You see, why did marijuana become the black sheep even though it will probably be the only thing I have listed that wont kill you! How and WHY did they pick THAT battle instead? Something to do with corporate profits I imagine! You know like DuPont! Anyways I will stay away from conspiracy! 4.O.K. this kind of goes hand in hand with #3. I only have one thing to say: Whatever happened to discipline and parenting! Why create a billion dollar war just so parents don't have to look after their kids and everyone can forget about discipline because it is too hard :( 5. I will finish by saying, just because you don't like something (the grateful dead) doesn't mean that you should keep others from enjoying it!! So give it a shot. If you can deal with my awesome and powerful brain. Debate Sucka!
Children with autism should be executed/condemned

>>>State my case? I just did you fool.<<<No, you didn't. You just gathered up a bunch of unwarranted assertions and organized them neatly to cover up for your inability to make a strong case for your side. >>>Are you blind? Do you have a brail keyboard to help you type or something?<<<No to both. >>>Just argue if that's what you're here to do fool.<<<I'll argue with you once you actually put forth the effort to uphold your side of the resolution. >>>You saw what I said.<<<Yes, I did. However, I dismissed them because your claims are unsupported. ;)
Children with autism should be executed/condemned

So, I know what you're thinking, I'm heartless. Completely and utterly horrible. And yes, you're right. I am. But that doesn't change the facts! We need a superior race! A race that is intelligent and high-standing, which is why we can't let the autistic children survive. Or, if we do, at least condemn them, so that they may be released into the wild, away from the crux of society. We need to live with power! Fools!
Nazism was needed.

Lets start off with Germany. Before Hitler and his regime took over holding the ideology of Nazism, Germany was in economic peril. The Great Depression deystroyed Germany, Unemplotment went from 8. 5 percent to 21. 9, And peaked at 29. 9 perent in 1932. Germanys industrial employment was even worse than the United States. NThe able bodied workers became delquinents and performed crimes, Terroizing the elderly. Hitlers rule:With Hitler in the rule, He dropped unemployment from 6 million to 1 million between 1933 and 1937. He essentially brought back the economy. With the Nazi rule, They produced Volkswagon. Right now Volkswagon has over 642 thousand global employees. Nazi Germany Achievments. :Like I said VolkswagonThe first country to ban Vivisection, And most laws regarding animal conservation are still in use throughout the world were adopted by Nazi GermanyThe Reich hunting Law saved many endagered species from Germany potentially saving the ecosystem. Nazi tobacco ban. Nazis ban tobacco cigarettes saving many people from the risk associated with Tobacco, And found that smoking is found to increase miscarriages. Nazi Germany Created the first free way system, And many countries adopted this system, And still are in place. The Nazis created Rockets. Now without it we would have no man in the moon. Innovations to film such as techqniues and had the first magnetic tape recording. The Nazi Techqniues for recording are still put in place today. Medical advancements such as:Rapid Reactive Rewarming technique to bring back the body at normal temperature from hyperthermia is still in use todayThe effects of low pressureThe effects of drinking sea water for a long period of timeWithout the Nazi's there wouldn't been a 2nd world war. I will list some inventions from the 2nd world war. ComputersSuper GlueAtmsPenecillianCoffee dryingRadarBallpoint PenJet EnginesPhotocopyingWorld War 2 also helped America get through the Great Depression, And helped the rebuilding of other countrys. Yes the Nazis were horrible, And did horrible things, However we without them, We wouldn't have the technologys today. Nazism was needed, And was a nesscary evil to have. https://listverse. Com/2011/01/31/top-10-things-the-nazis-got-right/ http://allthatsinteresting. Com/nazi-researchhttp://www. E-ir. Info/2009/05/08/hitlers-foreign-policy-and-the-third-reich-1936-1939/
The U.S. needs to clamp down on illegal immigration

ARG #1 The difference is that a street bum has the right to, as a citizen. A citizen of another country does not have that right. By giving foreign nationals that right, you would be effectively destroying the purpose of citizenship. I concede that Mexico is corrupt and class stratified. However, I would argue that that is not the responsibility of the United States, and the majority of illegal immigrants could survive without coming to the United States. ARG #2 I am referring to the motherland's laws however. I am saying that the fact that the emigration was legal in the motherland (and encouraged in many cases) makes the comparison invalid. Also, most of the Manifest Destiny movements were not only encouraged, but run and controlled by the government. So, again, until Mexico declares war on the United States in order to take our land, the argument does not apply. ARG #3 For the sake of argument, I will concede that the protections are much stricter on the Mexican border. I therefore (as stated in the resolution) propose that "The U.S. needs to clamp down on illegal immigration" through the Canadian border. If what you are saying is true, then I believe that is what we should do. Thank you for providing me with an argument. As for your argument that the vast majority of arms for the Mexican gang insurgency, that is a lie that has been perpetuated by the Mexican government. The 90% number that they throw around refers only to the firearms that are sent to the United States to see if they were made by an American gun manufacturer. Any gun that is obviously not made in America isn't sent here, and so is not included in that number. http://www.foxnews.com...
The U.S. needs to clamp down on illegal immigration

== REBUTTAL TO ARG #1 == There is no more harm from allowing someone from another country to live and work here than there is in allowing a street bum (who is a natural-born citizen) to work and "steal a job" from you. In regards to the rest, it is false -- many of them do have sick families they cannot feed at home because Mexico is even more class-stratified than the U.S. That is, the rich own too much, leaving nothing -- not even money for food or housing -- for the lower-class mainstream laborers. They certainly get better access to health care in Mexico than the U.S., however! == REBUTTAL TO ARG #2 == Uhh, I'm not referring to the violating motherlands' laws, I'm referring to violating the native peoples that were slaughtered and pushed far from their own homelands to make way for our "Providence" and "Manifest Destiny." == REBUTTAL TO ARG #3 == Several of the terrorists were on a watch list, but because of very weak border protections on the Canadian border, that's almost a joke. They would have been far more likely to be stopped coming across the southern border. Most marijuana in the Northern states comes from Canada. Also, the U.S. exports a lot of firearms illegal in both Mexico and Canada. In fact, the vast majority of the arms for the Mexican gang insurgency were legally purchased here in the U.S. Which is worse, poor migrants coming here to work that keeps the cost of produce low but displaces some jobs, or our "free enterprise" system arming drug gangs that threaten Mexico's stability?
The U.S. needs to clamp down on illegal immigration

I concede the point on immigration vs. emigration while failing to see relevance. ARG #1 Con claims that illegal immigration is the result of bad luck and not felonious, harmful. However, by the same argument, I could also claim that it is my bad luck that I'm not the son of a billionaire and thus I have the right to steal from his children. Unless Con can prove that there are not harmful effects on the citizens of the United States (which can be considered stealing, since it is harming one person for another's gain), I believe that this analogy holds. It should also be noted that, while America is undeniably a better place to live than Mexico, they are capable of living in both countries, which changes Con's comparison of them from 'a poor person who steals food to feed his family' to a poor person who steals to gain a BETTER life. They do not have to come to our country, and it could be argued that by leaving, they are hurting their own country (by depriving it of tax revenue, labor, etc.) ARG #2 I would still disagree with its legitimacy. When the colonists and early immigrants came to America, they were not (for the most part) breaking the law. Yes, the argument can be made that the country they were emigrating from was violating treaties and the rights of other nations, however, that is a dispute between countries, not individuals. In this case, the problem is that individuals are breaking the law, rather than countries. ARG #3 My apologies. I thought you were referring to enforcement as in people who were already here. The 9/11 terrorists were here legally (sort of. There were problems with regulation, over-staying visas and such, but they did go through the process). http://www.cis.org... Their status is therefore irrelevant, since they could have come from any direction and still been allowed through. The Mexican border is policed more for the simple reason that more illegal immigrants come that way. I concede the point that the statistics might be stilted by the fact that Canadians could blend in better, but I don't see how that could overcome the fact 57% of illegal immigrants are reported to come from Mexico. http://pewhispanic.org...
The U.S. needs to clamp down on illegal immigration

However, I must correct a bit of ambiguity in his vocabulary: "Immigrate": When one comes into your or "this" country (Basically, its a "To come here from outside") "Emigrate": To migrate to another nation (Basically, its a "To go somewhere else") People confuse "Immigrate" and "Emigrate" all the time. Someone who migrates from Mexico to the United States does so through /emigration/. We call this process /immigration/ because, from our perspective (not those of the "immigrants" themselves), it is immigration -- they are coming "here. " From their perspective, though, it is "emigration" (they went from their home to somewhere else). Its a bit of an academic semantic argument, as I don't expect the vocabulary conflict to have significant bearing on the discussion. == RESPONSE TO PRO'S REBUTTAL TO CON ARG #1 == Pro has concurred that the defining characteristics of being an "illegal immigrant" -- where one is born AND whether one got lucky in getting a limited number of legal documents to render them as "legal immigrants," then I submit that "illegal immigration" is the result of bad luck and not felonious, harmful intent and "illegal immigrants" should not be considered criminals in the sense that thieves, murderers or rapists are. I further submit that illegal immigrants are a larger example of a poor person who steals food to feed his family, but in their case they don't come here to actually steal without giving, the vast majority of "illegal immigrants" put a lot of sweat and occasionally blood to do dangerous jobs for low wages to feed their families in their homeland. == RESPONSE TO PRO'S REBUTTAL TO CON ARG #2 == It is a legitimate call of hypocricy, because it applies to a majority of Americans whose roots in the United States can be traced to its foundation (or at least pre-Manifest Destiny). There can be little question that the rights of the people living in the vast regions conquered by the U. S. had their homelands taken from them by what we would call "illegal immigration" today -- except it was "we" who now whine about immigrants from other countries == RESPONSE TO PRO'S REBUTTAL TO CON ARG #3 == Pro seems to be a reasonably intelligent fellow, so it is baffling that Pro seems inept to have gotten my point. Was I that unclear? When we think of "border security," we often think of terrorism . .. and how many 9-11 terrorist (9-11 being the biggest "security issue" today in determining our targets, etc. ) How many came across the Mexican border? How many came across the Canadian border? Which has the biggest gaps? Which border is being focused on? How many known illegal immigrants are from Canada? They are white like our majority, easier to blend in and much more tolerated. I doubt they were accurately considered in any survey on immigration because of how easily they blend in with American Caucasians, whereas Hispanics cannot. I submit to you that it is likely the statistics are inaccurate, but of course there's no way to know, so its a matter of how significant you think that is. What % of 9-11 terrorists came across the Mexican border instead of the Canadian?