BeIR/webis-touche2020 huggingface dataset:
Humans can't alter their dispositions.

Unfortunately Olivers argument is but a classical "strawdog".. A man Skinner had a similar "strawdog" some years back and it has it has since been proven patently false. What happened was that the Nurture Concept was completely debunked. Twins may be physically similar but any other "similiarity" ends there. It is now accepted [as did eventually Einstein who was a staunch determinist] that we have no free will and life is for all intense & purposes totally deterministic. Destiny is the order of the day read it and weep.. The "Destiny" theory is empirical! Just as surely as the physical laws (speed of light/gravity et al) are set so too is EVERYTHING ELSE. It is this "dislike/fear" of helplessness that urges perhaps otherwise logical people like Oliver to this "wishful thinking" that perhaps us humans have some say in the matter. We are "spectators" that's all.. we can observe lifes machinations but we are pretty much helpless to influence things... the goings on. The woof & warp of life goings on oblivious to our wishes. It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time,you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you. When all is said and done it is but human ego that is the basis of the "Oliver mind set".. the facts don't support it.. The Oliver mind set is what is at the heart of religion.
Humans can't alter their dispositions.

Hello once again Firstly I must point out a few flaws in my opponents case; my opponent stated that, "Mother nature plays all the cards," when if mother nature truly controls everything that we do and say and even our destiny then what is the explanation of how different identical twins can end up being. Identical twins are exactly the same in the way of genetics and therefore look exactly the same, but often these people grow up to be completely different people. Through looking at the massive differences between these people who theoretically should act and say the Exact same thing we cannot deny the importance of Nurture in a child"s upbringing. An excellent example of two twins who were nurtured to be completely different is the case of David Reimer. In 1965 the Canadian Reimer family got two new members, identical twins Brian and Bruce were born. Because of both of the twins having urinary difficulties they decided to get them circumcised. During the procedure the power cut out and the laser accidentally burnt off Baby Bruces penis. The family was distraught and they consulted many doctors but none had a solution. It was only one night on telly that they were given hope again, a psychologist Dr. John Money claimed that he could raise a baby boy to think that he was a girl. Pamela Reimer agreed to meet him and they were soon hooked on the idea. Twins Bruce and Brian were the perfect case as Dr. Money could use Brian as the constant variable. So they began and with regular consults with Dr. money baby Bruce(Brenda) grew up a happy young girl. It was only at age 13 that it was finally revealed to Brenda (later to be known as David Reimer) that he was in fact a boy. Despite the case not being completely successful in the end, we cannot deny that the case was relatively successful. It was only because of the emotional distress that Brenda went through while in consult with his psychologist (Dr Money) as he tried to convince him further that he was girl even presenting options like a vagina reconstruction. We cannot overlook how important nurture is in the upbringing of children and David Reimers case proves that nurture can in fact overcome nature even in an area as important as the gender of a person.
Humans can't alter their dispositions.

Hi..I am "asserting" that we are genetically disposed to react to a particular stimulus. I further submit this childs reactions were evolving (ancestors/genetics) umpteen eons before the actual carnate child came into existence. A childs of say plus or minus 5 years environmental encounters are not going to "trump" these "umpteen" eons of genetic development. Just what I mean to infer by that will soon become patently obvious. An apple doesn't fall far from the tree. A human can, reluctantly on occasion, be brought to admit & agree that it perhaps inherited the color of its eyes, skin & physical shape from his family but he struggles with the concept that its likes & dislikes, his attitudes & prejudices, his talents & or lack of them also are inherited. There are no blank pages to be filled in as one goes on. "Destiny", the script was written & set long before you were ever thought of of let alone even conceived! Nature is the guiding invisible hand ..In other words as far as humans and all else are concerned Mother Nature deals the cards and all one can do is play the hand they're dealt. The present day scientific paradigm favors Nature not nurture.
Storytime!!! Finish the sentence and continue!!!

"Do you want to build a snowman? Or ride our bikes around the halls? I think some company is overdue. I've started talking to the pictures on the walls!" Filled with confusion and phsycological pain, the Argentinan man got a seizure and shouted "WHERG WHERG WHERG HORK WHERG HORK HORK WHERG HORK WHERG" until he puked all over the ground. Looking at the mess the Argentinan man made, the medicine man realized that the man has just puked out a...
Team War - Open Prairie and Ocean

I accept your challenge and hope this is entertaining. My characters are as follows: kakashi hatake since i cant get minato or madara uchiha, i choose him. He is known as copy ninja kakashi, he who copied one thousand moves. Jean grey a telekinetic and telepath of unrivaled power. Has the pheonix. Not to godlike. Has been beaten. Can also fly. Thor, demigod of aasgard. can control storms and lighting. has been beaten also by hulk and iron man. Can fly. percy jackson. demigod, son of poseidon. has invincibility due to river styx. Post links when i get to a computer in the comment section. If you know about them then lets begin. If i cant use one let me know.
Team War - Open Prairie and Ocean

I challenge RyozoTabikashi as part of his personal request to debate me in Team War. Nonetheless, here are the rules for the debate:This battle takes place in a cube with length, width, and height of ten miles. Half of the cube is the prairie, an open field of low grass with several trees, and the other half consists of a sea/ocean that is 100 miles deep, with its surface at the floor of the cube and the bottom of this ocean 100 miles below the floor of the cube. The distance between the surface and the bottom of the ocean is 100 miles, in all locations of the surface of the ocean. Both sides start out at the middle of the cube 1 mile away from each other. Team Pro will be at the shore of the ocean while Team Con will be 1 mile away in the direction away from the ocean. Both sides will be aware that their opponents are one mile away from each other. Rules:1. Each side must pick four characters for the debate.2. Each side can not pick characters that are way too godly and can not be beatenEx. Arceus, Ten Tails. 3. One side wins when all of the other's team members are dead, continually unconscious, or essentially unusable.4. In the first round, Pro reveals two of his/her team members, and Con reveals all four members. Pro reveals his remaining two members in Round 2. This is so that Con does not make a team that is a complete counter to Pro's team, and also so that Pro does not get first dibs on characters Con may have wanted.5. Characters that step out or forced out of the cube are automatically rendered defeated, with the exception of below the ocean's surface.6. For this debate, characters will be unaware of their opponents' abilities, until seen in battle or told by another member of the same team who has witnessed it, regardless if they know each other or not. For example, Mario on my team would not be familiar with Luigi's abilities on Con's team, and vice versa. 7. Each side can't use the same character. For example, me and my opponent can not both have Mario on our team. 8. All members are strictly loyal to the facilitator. The facilitators are the debaters Pro and Con, and explain what the team will do. This allows characters to act alien to their persona. However, team members can still be subject to their own opinions and emotions. 9. The characters used in this debate MUST be real characters. The making up of characters for this debate is not allowed. 10. If all the characters of one team cannot be defeated, the team with the most undefeated members left wins the 3 argument points. Please, no semantics or trolling. Alright, I guess that's that with the rules. Here are my two characters:Tobi:Tobi is the leader and true master of Akatsuki, and a master of Space-Time ninjutsu. . http://naruto.wikia.com...Sonic:The world's esteemed and fastest hedgehog, he is arrogant and can be cocky. . http://sonic.wikia.com...I
Team War - Open Prairie and Ocean

First i want to point out three things. Tobi cant make others intangible, he has no nano sized poisonous bugs, and he is tangible when he attacks. To support my bug statement i quote my source, Tobi intercepted Danzō while he was fleeing the Summit. Danzō has his bodyguards, Fū and Torune, fight Tobi while he prepared himself. Although forced to remove his arm during the battle because of Torune's nano-sized, venomous insects. Now onto the battle. You start at the lake, very well.Well team con will immediately ask jean grey about the whereabouts of team pro. When she tells them how far away they are team pro will prepare for battle not knowing any of their moves or fighting styles. Thor and jean grey will fly up high to scout for the enemies approach, jean telepathically and thor with his eyes. Upon senseing professor x, jean will attack and win against him, as she has the phoenix to help her. Thor would go straight for onokie, to take him out immediately. Kakashi never runs into battle perfering to use cloNes to learn his opponents battle strategies, because of the sharingan. So sonic would be fighting clones before getting hit by the lighting blade, because no matter how fast you are, you cant see every counter strike. As all of this is going on, percy jackson is bringing water to the battle. So onokie, professor x, and sonic is down, leaving tobi. With four on one, he will lose. My source also says A key element in Tobi's fighting style is his constant use of third parties to battle in his stead, as shown in his use of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and his Six Paths of Pain on various battles. So it is not likely he will attack head no. Saying this as he is standing there directing third parties, he will be fairly taken. Plus if he attacks, we can still hit him, letting us lose only one team member.http://naruto.wikia.com...
Your Parents are Secretly Oranges

I think YOU are mistaken, sir/lady. I have parents that are definitely oranges, and they are definitely trying to kill me. You were slightly right about one thing, and that is that my sister is actually a kumquat. But she's adopted. Let me tell you a little bit about my family. We live in a dome, or what you might call, as a human, a bowl. My uncle Dave is a dill pickle, I love Aunt Mindy the mango. She tells the funniest jokes, and my cousin Kyle is a very ripe kiwi. And not in a good way if you know what I mean. But I swear that my parents are oranges, and I know this because I am one too! I just can't be! They say there is no more room in the dome for me to stay, and I think they are going to squash me like they did to old Georgia Grapes. Oranges are some of the worst fruit personalities. They're sour to the bone, and my mom is so big, that when she gets mad, well you don't want her to get mad. I know that they are oranges, I just do.
It's time to put pompous parents in their place

Let's go. Firstly, the only proof you have ever had sex is a child, miscarriage, or an abortion. Because Mr. Eggleston has so far given no evidence of these, I will take him as a sexless, childless man. Now let's compare him with Katrina, a 40 year old who had 5 abortions in her late teens/Early 20's, 3 children, a miscarriage and 2 more children. She has had an abundance of sex. Now, Sex means you have interacted with someone and shared ideas and thoughts, fortifying your bank of knowledge. Also, to have this many children, a high class of, um, love juice is required. Intelligent man have a high class of love juice [1]. This means Katrina here is a knowledgeable female, despite having grown up in inner city Birmingham. Now, Mr. Eggleston on the other hand has probably had numerous "interactions" with his hand, which is made of inanimate bones, thick flesh and unintelligent skin. He has not had human interaction via sex to fortify his knowledge. Of course, children are themselves little quiz masters, asking every question under the sky. This leads parents to hit their children and be locked away, or to check wikipedia for the answer. This gives them an extra edge childless people don't have, as they prefer to frequent X rated websites rather Wikipedia. On an equal playing field, these 2 advantages give a parent the edge over a non-reproductive childless person. Of course, in cases of people such as Karen Matthews, she is a blithering idiot without the children. Nothing can be done to help wasters such as her. Let's take Hitler as an example. As an unattractive, childless male, he made stupid military mistakes, that killed millions of people. Not very smart. Let's take Genghis Khan as an example of a smart person. He had 4 confirmed sons, along with countless others by other wives, along with 3 confirmed and multiple unrecorded daughters [2]. Genghis Khan also conquered and founded one of the largest empires in history. So, it is quite feasible parents (besides helpless wasters) can be smarter than childless people. I apologize in advance if this was not humorous. [1] = . http://news.bbc.co.uk... [2] = . http://en.wikipedia.org...
It's time to put pompous parents in their place

One of the big issues being discussed at middle-class, 30-something house parties today is the matter of the combined MMR jab. (1) There is a suggestion that this vaccination of children should be made compulsory. It is a suggestion that I happen to agree with and I said so at a dinner party last night. On hearing this, one of the guests (who I know has a couple of young children) turned round to me and asked in a very aggressive tone "Do you have kids?" To which I replied "Well, no..." But before I could continue he very rudely interrupted me and said "Right! Well you don't know what you are talking about then." This is a phrase I hear time and again, and not just in relation to childcare issues. Recently, some friends and I were discussing the role gravity plays in sub-atomic particle physics and I suggested that, being a relatively weak force, gravity's influence on the interaction of nuclei, protons and electrons was so slight as to be considered insignificant. At this point a yummy mummy piped up and told me that her young Timmy had to be rushed to hospital after having an accident at an adventure playground. "Gravity 'a weak force'?" she scoffed, "If your son fell off a climbing frame and cracked his head open you wouldn't think so. But of course, you don't have kids so you don't know what you're talking about." Was she right or was she being pompous? I think the latter which is why, if I am curious about scientific matters, I tend not not approach mental retards such as Karen Matthews (2) for their expert opinion. But perhaps I should. After all, by the yummy mummy's reasoning, being childless* I am must be a blithering idiot. On the other hand Karen Matthews, with an IQ of 74 and the mother of seven children by six different fathers, must a be a veritable fountain of knowledge. However, I think not. In conclusion, being a parent doesn't make that person in any way intellectually superior to those individuals who decide to delay having kids until they are older. Thank you. (1) http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk... (2) http://www.timesonline.co.uk... * Don't worry ladies, it's by choice and only until I meet the right girl!
Prophets took advantage of free speech or met opposition from people who got insulted by free speech

>>This goes for any prophet, not Muhammad, who I think is a false prophet By the way, the debate is not about falsehood of certain prophets. The prophets (or the scriptures from which we got to know about them) may reject each other, but the fact is that each of them had/has followers, each of them were/are considered to be a prophet by their followers. (note: that's not objective of you BTW) I'll remind you the point of the topic: Prophets took advantage of free-speech or met harsh opposition from people who got insulted by prophets' free-speech and tried physically damage them (prophets). So, going against free-speech was wrong even if it had insulted them.
Prophets took advantage of free speech or met opposition from people who got insulted by free speech

>> If someone is convinced that their message is from God (This goes for any prophet, not Muhammad, who I think is a false prophet), and this being saying they are God tells them to tell people something, the people would even if free speech didn't exist. So my point is non-existence of free-spech is wrong. _______________________________________________________ >> Jesus knew the Jews wanted to kill him, but he continued to speak. Same thing with the people before him. The same argument applies: Jews were wrong by being against free-speech and planning to kill Jesus.
Prophets took advantage of free speech or met opposition from people who got insulted by free speech

Prophets took advantage of free speech in order to pass on their so-called divine teachings to people or met harsh opposition from people who got insulted by prophets' words. An exact instance is prophet Muhammad's (pbuh) life. He passed on his divine teachings to his followers by using free speech, due to what today muslims exist. And he came across harsh opposition when he insulted idolaters from Mecca of that time by saying that the things they had been worshipping to had just been stones but not Gods. Expectedly, idolaters turn Muhammad (pbuh) out of Mecca by stoning him. From what Muhammad (pbuh) gets dangerously injured. Similiar incident happpens to him when he starts to spread his teachings among Jews. Jews throw him out too, by wounding. PS. In spite of being insulted, idolaters of Mecca and Jews were wrong by being against free speech and stoning the prophet of Islam.
Mormons are Christians

To effectively argue weather or not a group is Christian, a criteria should be established as to what makes one a Christian. To be a Christian one must have a faith in Jesus Christ, Believe that he is the Son of God, and believe that it is only through Jesus Christ one can be saved. The following is quote from the Book of Mormon 2 Nephi:25 verse 26 "And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins." There are many verses of scripture from the Book Of Mormon that claim the divinity of Christ and point to him as the way to eternal life. This is my first debate, I could produce more information and sources to support my argument. However for this first portion, I want to see if anyone would seriously oppose my position on this. I look forward to the debate.
Capitalism: part II

1. I never siad they weren't jobs are important to bost the economy if people have no jobs then they can't buy stuff to put into the economy. 7. I siad people are bad by nature for I was going off Hobes beliefs. 9. I'm more of a history and science guy 10. Corefirst Bank and Trust is still fully functional and opperational. 11. Marshall Plan was to fix the countries and get them back on the road on there own. 12. No it's not a clash and downfall can leed to war and war today with nukes. Voters: I clearly lost give the points to Ron-Paul
Capitalism: part II

4. Jobs are needed and its the governments job to create them and to look at for the wellfare of the people. 5. So just because they don't have the front page dosen't mean there going down, it just means they're old news. 6. yes 7. people are greedy by nature and must have more money and more benefits and more of everything its just human nature. Hobbes backs my point. 8. okay then moving on 9. I'm a kid I'm not good with money. 10. I'm saying the business world should stick together in one group that way it would be easier to fix and to control. 11. Great depression was caused by deficet spending. Marshall Plan and marked the end of the Roaring 20s. 12. How 13. There have been several economic recessions in the last 80 years. Its america's own falt for some. With the parcal democries they set up. Voters: sorry I've been bussy so I couldn't be detailed on the rounds. Ron-Paul: I will in the final round unfournautly.
Capitalism: part II

I went 2-3 at state. Thank you Paul for up holding your promise other debaters haven't. I'll just give the first two points sorry I'm booked. 4. Well no matter where you go there will be jobs needed and gov. has every right to step in and do somethin and even Hobbes ideas back this. He said people are bad by nature and should be ruled by a strong government. 5. Proove it, have you not been watching the news and reading the news as of late. People are poor and have started to go with the OWS. 6. You're welcome!!! Do you think after this debate we can debate something else, plese. As you see I ain't good at this. 7. exatly, but people have health insurance and other benefits. So I sure beside the 5,000 dollar difference they would stay. 8. ??? 9. What ever happend to the money you don't spend, eh? 10. What about the trusts from the 1900s. 11. No, it is a more than a stick of TNT it is more lick several strapped to some supports. some supports fall, makes dar marks, and damages the ceiling. The building is the U.S. due to the rolling 20 (before the TNT) it doesn't destory America but it damages and scares it. 12. Carl create this system where it would be the alternate opion from Capitolism. To prevent a deadly world war and in today's world a war would mean a nuclear war. a Nuclear Winter is when the smoot from the missles block out the sun and cause extition. also a single EMP that would strike the U.S. it would frie the power grid and many people would die in hospitols (they only have a weeks worth of generators) and of food poisoning
Capitalism: part II

p1. sorry don't have time to read that right now. I'm being rushed do to studdies for debate/ forensics. P3. no p4. that is what I'm saying p5. No sources provided therefore until then I'm right p6. . wait what?! p7. so you're saying the American people are stupid and can't do anything. p8. true p9. ??????? p10. yes, but with the debt 14 Trillion it won't be long before countries play the hold out game. d1. I don't get d2. you said besides China China is socialist Socialism. Nothing lasts forever and obvesously Carl Marx knew this. Socialism is a graduial transaction from a Capitolism instead of a violent overthrough of the system. In todays world, a simple war can turn into a nuclear hollicost. It could cause a nuclear Winter.