BeIR/webis-touche2020 huggingface dataset:
Giving Teachers Guns

Suppose we offer this as an optional thing for teachers to partake in where they go to a training course and are handed a gun, all funded by the school, and let's pretend the money isn't a problem. We are also going to assume for a second that an armed teacher can be effective in stopping an armed shooter. Now suppose that there exists a school, or multiple schools where no teachers have opted into this program. If such schools have no armed teachers, this idea fails to mitigate the mass shooting dilemma for those schools specifically, thus failing as a solution to the problem at hand. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You said "Because if these people know what they could be walking into and that it is a death trap, would they really start going into armed schools and shooting maybe one or two people?" This seems to be one of the bigger arguments people are throwing around, President Trump being one of them, but the problem is perpetrators likely have little to no fear of the consequences of their actions seeing as they inevitably get arrested, or shot, or imprisoned. In fact most shooters have little regard for their life entirely when they commit these atrocities. Relevant study here: https://www.tandfonline.com...; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The idea also fails to take into consideration the fact that teachers are by no means saints who would never misuse guns, or other tools given to them. There are numerous studies that show biases in schools in regards to disciplinary action. https://search.proquest.com... and https://link.springer.com... just to name a couple. Teachers do not have perfect judgement, if say, a minority student were to make a teacher scared, they very well could pull out their concealed firearm and shoot said student. Then we end up with the same problem that police have where they may not be overtly racist or outwardly maniacal in their judgement, they can't always make level-headed decisions when they have the ability to take another's life in what they see as the defense of their own. Not to mention the fact that some teachers may very well end up shooting a student that they deem to be dangerous by their judgement in order to prevent a shooting before it starts, thinking the student is pulling out a gun when they are in fact not.
Giving Teachers Guns

We would not be "simply" handing out guns. Teachers would go through training and have a conceal and carry. They cant just walk in with a gun. It would also be their choice. If they would feel uncomfortable they just would not say yes. If they feel uncomfortable and say yes then that is their fault. But if a teacher is comfortable with having a gun and taking out an active shooter instead of laying out students lives then they should have the choice to be allowed to legally carry a gun after specific gun training and after they have met specific requirements. Teachers should be capable of protecting their students if they are comfortable with risking their life for multiple others. Giving teachers handguns could end a shooting faster and maybe even prevent multiple deaths. These active shooters should not be able to come into schools thinking everyone is unarmed. Because if these people know what they could be walking into and that it is a death trap, would they really start going into armed schools and shooting maybe one or two people? I know that teachers are people who teach most of what we know and that we learn from them but that does not mean they should not be able to protect students or themselves.
Should there be movies rated higher than R

Because there are movies rated higher than R, Con gets the BoP. I will defend the existence of X-rated and NC-17 movies."Past Rated R movies is terrible, it wants to make me vomit."If you can't handle gory or sexually explicit scenes, that's fine - don't watch them. But that doesn't make movies above an R rating "terrible". There are many great, critically acclaimed films which received higher than an R rating, such as A Clockwork Orange, Requiem for a Dream, Eyes Wide Shut, and Blue is the Warmest Color. Movies such as these use sex scenes artistically, and they are essential to furthering the story. Even if all X-rated movies were terrible, I would still argue to allow them. They aren't doing any harm or violating anyone's rights; film is simply artistic expression, no matter how explicit. If they make you vomit, then don't watch them; nobody is forcing you to."For health reasons I think it is healthly [sic] not watching Movie ratings past R." NC-17 movies are not a health issue at all. It would be foolish for adults with knowledge and experience of sex to feel queasy just by seeing it represented on a screen. I usually don't bring personal information into debates, but on your profile it says you are 14 years old; if this is correct, then you definitely aren't the target audience for movies rated above R. I have no personal misgivings with this, but feeling nauseous would be a pretty normal reaction to X movies from someone your age.Now, there are some X-rated movies, such as A Serbian Film and 120 Days of Sodom, that are so depraved and disgusting that I get sick to my stomach just thinking about them. But that doesn't matter; films are art, and art cannot be censored just because people don't like it. By the way, all Con talked about in his/her opening argument was the so-called health risks of watching movies past R, while he/she said nothing of banning them, which is the topic we are arguing.
Cannabis should be legalized

My arguments outline the dangers associated with any type of Cannabis consumption, not only what you'd deem as 'misuse'. You stated: "Then tell me why, these patients aren't dying from Cannabis. If Cannabis causes cancer like you say, then these people wouldn't be alive right? But they are" I'd like to raise emphasis on my use of 'could', as opposed to 'would'. Don't get me wrong, Lee001, I do not intend to suggest that the consumption of Cannabis will cause cancer in every situation, only that there's a significant risk and therefore could, cause cancer. I shall quote the US Government next, which complements my existing argument. "Smoked marijuana damages the brain, heart, lungs, and immune system. It impairs learning and interferes with memory, perception, and judgment. Smoked marijuana contains cancer-causing compounds and has been implicated in a high percentage of automobile crashes and workplace accidents." - John Walters. Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy. The majority of my argument on the matter was posted in the previous round, thus I have no more to contribute. Obviously it would be foolhardy for me to deny the cases where Cannabis has had beneficial results for the user. But lest us forget that this is debating the general legality of Cannabis, which opens it to the general public where the vast majority of users will smoke it purely for pleasure, and not for medicinal purposes. Therefore, it will be abused. My stated risks are simply too significant to ignore, with various independent studies linking and supporting each of my given points. I shall follow the advice and guidance that the government provides here in the UK, and conclude them as dangerous drugs despite their few beneficial points. As with most things, there are pros and cons and it's about weighing them up into a valid conclusion. I'd like to draw this to a close, and thank Lee001 for her invitation to this debate. May the best debater win the overall vote. Sources: http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org...
Cannabis should be legalized

People who buy Cannabis and sell it themselves can be bad, because most likely they are mis0using it. Yet if it is given by a doctor for medical reasons, it can be very beneficial, and help those with serious illnesses. Here are just a few cases that Cannabis can help with. *It can be used to treat Glaucoma. "Marijuana use can be used to treat and prevent the eye disease glaucoma, which increases pressure in the eyeball, damaging the optic nerve and causing loss of vision. Marijuana decreases the pressure inside the eye, according to the National Eye Institute: "Studies in the early 1970s showed that marijuana, when smoked, lowered intraocular pressure (IOP) in people with normal pressure and those with glaucoma." *It may help reverse the carcinogenic effects of tobacco and improve lung health. "According to a study published in Journal of the American Medical Association in January 2012, marijuana does not impair lung function and can even increase lung capacity. Researchers looking for risk factors of heart disease tested the lung function of 5,115 young adults over the course of 20 years. Tobacco smokers lost lung function over time, but pot users actually showed an increase in lung capacity." *It can help control epileptic seizures. Marijuana use can prevent epileptic seizures, a 2003 study showed. Robert J. DeLorenzo, of Virginia Commonwealth University, gave marijuana extract and synthetic marijuana to epileptic rats. The drugs rid the rats of the seizures for about 10 hours. Cannabinoids like the active ingredients in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (also known as THC), control seizures by binding to the brain cells responsible for controlling excitability and regulating relaxation. *A chemical found in marijuana stops cancer from spreading. CBD may help prevent cancer from spreading, researchers at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco reported in 2007. Cannabidiol stops cancer by turning off a gene called Id-1, the study, published in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, found. Cancer cells make more copies of this gene than non-cancerous cells, and it helps them spread through the body. The researchers studied breast cancer cells in the lab that had high expression levels of Id-1 and treated them with cannabidiol. After treatment the cells had decreased Id-1 expression and were less aggressive spreaders. In "WEED," Gupta also mentioned a few studies in the U.S., Spain, and Israel that suggest the compounds in cannabis could even kill cancer cells. *The drug eases the pain of multiple sclerosis. Marijuana may ease painful symptoms of multiple sclerosis, a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in May suggests. Jody Corey-Bloom studied 30 multiple sclerosis patients with painful contractions in their muscles. These patients didn't respond to other treatments, but after smoking marijuana for a few days they were in less pain. Sources: http://www.businessinsider.com...
Cannabis should be legalized

In this debate I shall be arguing the case for Cannabis remaining illegal/being made illegal in general. There are several distinct dangers connected with the use of Cannabis (Marijuana), which will be highlighted and explained later on in this text. In the United Kingdom, Cannabis is a Class B drug " it"s illegal to have for yourself, give away or sell. Possession is illegal whatever you"re using it for, including pain relief. The penalty is up to five years in jail. Supplying someone else can get you fourteen years in prison and a potentially unlimited fine. In general, I believe the adverse effects to the consumption of this drug outweigh the beneficial effects. I also believe it is incorrect to use as a medicinal aid, as fully effective painkillers and other drugs are usually available, thus ruling out the necessity of the medicinal use of Cannabis as a general motive.
Cannabis should be legalized

I will be arguing that Cannabis should be legalized in general, for many beneficial and medial reasons. Con may state your argument in the first round. Cannabis: 1. A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis sativa), native to Central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers. 2. Any of several mildly euphoriant, intoxicating hallucinogenic drugs, such as ganja, hashish, or marijuana, prepared from various parts of this plant. Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com...
WAR GAME SCENARIO: Russia Versus Chosen Nation

I will be the United States, sorry for the change. I will provide my numbers this round since my opponent as did. MANPOWER:Population: 302,202,220Available Manpower: 145, 212,012Fit for Service: 120,022,084Reaching Military Age Annually: 4,217,412Active Front line Personnel: 1,400,000Active Reserve Personnel: 1,100,000LAND SYSTEMS:Tanks: 8,848AFVs: 41,062SPGs: 1,934Towed Artillery: 1,299MLRSs: 1,331AIR POWER:Aircraft: 13,892Fighter/Interceptor: 2,207 Fixed-Wing Attack Aircraft: 2,797Transport Aircraft: 5,366Trainer Aircraft: 2,809Helicopters: 6,169Attack Helicopters: 920NAVAL POWER:Naval Strength: 473Aircraft Carriers: 20Frigates: 10Destroyers: 62 Corvettes/amphibs/troop carriers: 0Submarines: 72Coastal Defense Craft: 13 Mine Warfare: 11RESOURCES:Oil Production: 7,441,000 bbl/dayOil Consumption: 19,000,000 bbl/dayProven Oil Reserves: 20, 680,000,000LOGISTICAL:Labor Force: 155,400,000Merchant Marine Strength: 392Major Ports and Terminals: 24Roadway Coverage: 4,000,000Railway Coverage: 224,000Serviceable Airports: 13,000FINANCIAL (in USD):Defense Budget: $577,000,000,000External Debt: $15,000,000,000,000Reserves of Foreign Trade and Gold: $150,000,000,000,000Purchasing Power Parity: $16,000,000,000,000,000GEOGRAPHY:Square Land Area: 9,826,657 kmCoastline: 19,924 kmShared Border: 12,084 kmWaterways: 41,009 km(. http://www.globalfirepower.com...) My WMD is Batrachotoxin gas.
Religious vs Not Religious

Hi there everyone, OZ here, and I have been around this website frequently and have seen that religious views are one of the major topics. I understand, it is a major thing, something that billions of people hold dear to them, and while viewing one debate, "Is there a fundamental rift between religion and science," it was called, and someone there caught my attention. devient.genie. I certainly buy devient, because the way he bashed religion was cruel and made his fellow atheists, whom I hold the highest respect for, look really bad.Not wanting to see my fellow human beings look humiliated like that, I challenged devient.genie to this little debate to shut him up once and for all. You have followed me long enough, so let's get down to the rules. 1) The first round is for acceptance only, not argument. 2) I know it's hard devient.genie, but be polite. No profanity please, there is no need for it. 3) This debate is to back up your claims that Religion is a sadistic evil organization that bent on halting human progress and the slowing of education, as you put it. You need hard evidence and reasonable claims other than your opinion. 4) My aim of the game is to provide a reasonable rebuttal to whatever he says and try to sway the audience that Religion is not a force of evil and Religion should stop being treated like dirt, and explain why both religious and non-religious people can coincide and work together for a better future. It's religion against no religion at all. 5) Write like a normal person, I could barely understand your comments on that debate, devient.genie. 6)Any sign of rule breaking, and this goes for me as well, such as use of profanity, paragraphs that make no sense, and blatant rudeness will be counted against you. 6) How about this. A three-strike rule. Three strikes, your out. That is about it. You're up to bat devient.genie.
Racist jokes are the best type of jokes.

So I was shoving diIdos up my @ss while watching One Direction music videos and I saw that I had to post my argument. Surprised that I had forgotten, I immediately dropped one of the dildos onto a pile of oily rags that I have for some reason. Unfortunately the friction from the unlubricated diIdo going repeatedly in and out of my @ss caused it to become very hot. Of course, this ignited a fire. Let this be a lesson to never do DDO, boy bands, and diIdos at the same times. If this is a problem for you as well, I am forming a support group. Call my home phone at 555-555-notarealnumber. Note: you may hear a fapping sound as you describe your problem to me. If you are ever on a school trip where they put four people in a room with two beds, if you are a guy, I found the best way to get the bed. You spend the ride up, and the time getting to the room making sexual comments and making everyone else feel really uncomfortable. Then you offer to share the bed. If at this point they still are okay with it, all you have to do, is wake up a little bit before them. Then, position your face into a pre-kiss position in front of their face. Then you wait for them to wake up. That's what I call a victory. Humor can be used to address many problems. I agree with you on this. Satire is important, and wit cuts like a knife into the heart of an issue. I see sexual repression as one of the major problems facing society. Religion is one of the biggest problems I see with society, so jokes about sex and sexual issues can combat the conformist religious idea of the married man and woman who are both ashamed to show any sign of sexuality outside of reproduction. Islamaphobia is a major problem. However, I think that there is a difference between raw fear and founded dislikes. I don't like Islam. I think that Islam hurts society. I think this, not because I fear Islam irrationally, but because like most Western Religions, it is harmful to society and people. Like all religions, it has the capacity for good and evil, but does significantly more of the latter. I think that most of the Islamaphobia simply comes from the media, and you seem to agree. If the media stopped covering it, there would only be ignorant people who just don't like them because 'Jesus said so' and people who don't like them because they have legitimate criticisms, and a lot of people who just don't give a sh*t. Humor is a powerful tool, but I do not think that racism and irrational cultural hatreds are really the most serious problems. Real racism is minor, and rarely affects the world, and cultural racisms mostly stem from our own culture's religious views. Legitimate criticisms are still legitimate criticisms. That's why things like Pastafarianism and sexual jokes are so important. They do not challenge fringe beliefs, or things that we pretend don't exist, but they challenge the root causes of problems. They challenge the foundations for all of our beliefs, and when we question one belief, we question all of our beliefs.
Racist jokes are the best type of jokes.

Haha.. On LordGrae's gravestone the epitaph shall read: "He died young, too much [i]Sax and Violins[/i]. Too bad.. " My concluding debate will be that aside from a social purpose humor can also help solve political problem. What is political? I think Racism can be political in deciding who votes for Liberal Black President or who votes for the Rich Conservative Opponent. I draw this racial bias because sometimes we let the [i]personal become political[/i]. This is a honest mistake. I am guilty of blind Liberal values too. My opponent LordGrae has argued humor can be racy and controversial. Ironically, I am going to make an argument FOR political correctness" if you do not mind? I hate to be on the side of the do-gooder but as I have shown in my first round - Humor can instead of hurting our race-based pride can, perhaps, allow us to cope with fear.. in a social setting. One of the funniest skits is by Dave Chappelle: http://www.youtube.com... In one swoop, he shows us that our irrational fear of Muslims led to Islamophobia, especially as reported by journalists. He connects his african american heritage to humor about Islamophobia in the news and television, and then takes it a step further to show that this is a pattern in Republican politics. It is not only comedy it is a STATEMENT: African american are underdogs, and islamic people became the butt of the joke during the Iraq War and 9/11. He shows that [i]underdogs[/i] should stick together to fight back against Racism. In this case, we use comedy as a subtle weapon against the real weapons of war used to kill innocent lives. As my opponent says jokes that make us cringe because of sex are funny because they address "taboo" topics. I think "racist-jokes" can make us cringe because it allows us to bring to the light of the public eye some low bias that we had hidden in the back of your subconscious minds. After 2001, what could have been handled diplomatically became a revenge mission that made America not only alienated to Muslim world but also to it Allies such as Europe and Japan. The WHOLE WORLD was against us. See: http://world.time.com... To some people the Nobel Prize 2009 was a joke. But I think in reflection the Islamophobia has faded in the last four years. Suddenly, Egypt, France and Germany are all the other Allies are backing US foreign policy again. I supported Barack Obama because I was angry at G.W. Bush. But Richard Pryor [Second Video! ] prediceted [i]this[/i] ten years ago. Sometimes humor can see things that the public itself cannot realize about the future! [] I include this Third Video because it has Robin Williams. So my conclusion is that instead of using Weapons of Mass Destruction we should be using Weapons of Cringe-Inducing Humor. Amen.
Racist jokes are the best type of jokes.

I will now attempt uncomfortable sexual humor. One time I walked into this blonde guys @ss......... So I was talking to this really horny gay kid I meat in Vermont, and he hit on literally every blonde guy there. He called them all constantly after getting their numbers. He called them repeatedly to say "For 10 dollars I'll show you a good time", or "My room's 29B in the Sycamores unit, I think you know the rest". One time he shouted at one blonde kid from across the room "hey blonde twink!". The kid turned around. The kid shouted back "I'm not gay!". Then, the gay kid said perhaps the greatest thing ever... "Anyone who responds to 'blonde twink' is at least a little bi.". So my friend told me that he caught crabs at the shore over the weekend, and I said, "wow, I did the same thing in a hotel room at Vegas last weekend" A redhead tells her blonde stepsister, "I slept with a Brazilian...." The blonde replies, "Oh my God! You slut! How many is a brazilian?" Mom: If a boy touches your b0obs say "don't" and if he touches your p*ssy say "stop" Girl: But mom, he touched both so I said "don"t stop" Q: Which sexuaI position produces the ugliest children? A: Ask your mother! Boy: "Want to hear a joke about my d*ck? Never mind, its too long." Girl: "Wanna hear a joke about my p*ssy? Never mind, you won't get it." Q: Whats the worst thing about dating a blonde? A: If you don't know what hole to put it in neither do they. Q: How do mermaids reproduce? A: Seamen. Q: What is hard and pink when it goes in and soft and wet when it comes out? A: Bubblegum you dirty minded pervert! Q: Why does it take 100 million sperm to fertilize an egg? A: Because not one will stop and ask for directions. If you force sex on a prostitute, is it rape or shoplifting? Q: What did the left nut say to the right nut? A: Don"t talk to the guy in the middle, he"s a d*ck. (I had to censor some things and delete a joke because this site is way too sensitive. If you get offended, watch this video)