Cold is Better than Hot

By Cold I mean temperatures below around 70 degrees F (21.1 C), and by hot I mean temperatures above 90 degrees F (32.2 C), everything in between seems rather pleasant. My stance is that Cold temperatures are better than Hot ones. Thus, the polar opposite of my stance that my opponent will have to take is Hot temperatures are better than Cold ones. Both sides will accept that death can be caused by extremes of either side, so I will not bring it up unless provoked. The main points I will argue on, until my opponent brings up his own examples, will be Management and Behavior. 1) Management: We've all felt the effects of hot and cold. We know both can cause discomfort. But which one is more manageable? Cold is. If you go out on a hot day, about 100 degree's, what can you do to manage it? You can take off all your clothes if need be, but you'll still feel the heat. You can fan yourself, but that will begin to be straining, and will only block out a minimum of the effects. Swimming will cool you down greatly, but in the end in becomes tiresome, the water feels lukewarm, and your skin becomes rubbery and wrinkled. You get out and your back to where you started. Where as when it is cold you can always put on more garments to maintain a comfortable warmth. If it gets too hot in your apparels you can take a layer off and cool down, if you get too cold just add another one. An easy solution used by all furry mammals and primitive humans. You can also make fires and shelters to help with the cold. My opponent will probably think to bring up air conditioners, my pre-response being that air conditioners are expensive, unnatural, and only good for certain areas of the world, being houses, while my methods are cheaper, totally natural, and usable on a global scale. 2) Behavior: I can not find any specific scientific evidence to prove this, but have found this to be a trend I would very much like to be looked into. When observing geographic human locations in comparison to their temperatures, I've noticed that places with a tendency to have cooler climates seem to be 'better'. Places like Europe, Russia, Japan, China, and Northern parts of America seem to be doing better society-wise than places like South America, Mexico, Africa, The Middle East, Australia, and the Southern US. Places with cooler temperatures are more developed, while those in hotter areas are lacking. I think this is because temperature directly effects the intelligence of humans (this is not backed by racism). The hot regions are plagued by violence, bad economies, and poor health care, while cooler regions are more civil, have booming economies, and good medical systems. Of course, there are always inconsistencies. I can't deny that cooler regions have had their share of war, economic strife, and medical short comings and hotter regions have had progression. But I'm examining the larger picture. The general state of these areas. It seems to me that heat cause the brain to not think clearly, and act on irrational instinct, and thus has put the regions populace in a rut. But the cold makes people act on survival instinct, causing invention. I think these two will suffice in covering a broad number of reasons why Cold is better than Hot. If my opponent can think of intelligible reasons to the contrary I, of course, welcome them.