BeIR/webis-touche2020 huggingface dataset:
we should not have bills for our houses

Of course, a forfeiture, why am I not surprised.Oh well, I will go ahead and state my arguments.We should have bills for our houses. If you do not have bills for your house, who will pay the seller of the house the money that they deserve? If there is no money going into the house market, the market will inevitably crash. The housing market is a major part of the American economy, and if we do not put any money into the market, the American economy will suffer. Well, what about the utility bills? We still need those too. If no one paid the utility companies, the companies would go "belly up," which would further the downward spiral of the American economy.Now, I will briefly discuss your argument "people would not loose there house cause we wont have to pay for heat water or any bills." There is only one thing I have to say to this; don't buy a house that you cannot afford. If you cannot pay the bills of the house you bought, oh well, shouldn't have bought the house. Simple logic, people. Use your brains.
we should not have bills for our houses

People would not have a house of there was no economy. You HAVE to have bills to pay for resources, to keep the economy balanced. If we do not have bills, the American (or whatever country in which you reside) economy would recess, depress, and then eventually collapse. The country would ultimately be in anarchy; in unprecedented chaos.Oh, just for clarity, you actually DID forfeit; a forfeiture on this website is being unable to publish your argument, of which you were not able to do.Lastly, you must have a HUGE school considering that it took 3 days for you to get class (he said in obvious sarcasm and not in offense to the distinguished opponent).Thank you for debating, and may the best man win.
should students under 18 be active participants in politics

Thank you for continuing the debate Con. I. Importance of politics & II. Being politically activeRemain unrefuted by Con. Thus I extend both lines of argumentation once again. III. There are plenty of intelligent, capable children under the age of 18Con assumes that children with high intelligence will be more focused with their studies. Thus not spending enough time to deal with political arguments from their country. I find this claim to be widely unsubstantiated. Con have given us no evidence or reasoning to assume that this would be the case, and without proof of this being the case there is no reason to assume that this claim is valid.For instance, Con has still not denied that there are intelligent children under the age of 18 here on DDO alone who spend their time having intelligent political discussions. With such evidence, I do not believe it is fair to assume that every intelligent child under the age of 18 would be too busy with studies. In fact, I'd argue that some of those kids fully devote their high intelligence to studying politics. You cannot just make a general assumption though Con. That doesn't uphold, especially without proof. IV. V. & VI. All three of these arguments were unrefuted by Con, thus I extend them as well. In closing, I've provided the rebuttal to the only argument Con made in the previous round. I, therefore, extend all arguments which remained unrefuted by Con as they currently remain standing unchallenged. I now return the floor to Con.Thank you.
should students under 18 be active participants in politics

I shall continue the dropped arguments I do agree that there are many children that have the intelligence to make the necessary decisions. Yet what pro fails to address is that the children that have the necessary intelligence will be more focused with their studies and they would not spend their time to deal with the political arguments of their country. The experience would be virtually wasted on the child and they might never get in politics and their knowledge would never help the government.
should students under 18 be active participants in politics

I. The importance of politicsNo response was given to this line of argumentation. Since Con dropped this argument, I extend it. II. Being politically active leads to hands-on knowledge and experienceNo response was given to this line of argumentation. Since Con dropped this argument, I extend it. III. There are plenty of intelligent, capable children under the age of 18No response was given to this line of argumentation. Since Con dropped this argument, I extend it. IV. Students under 18 are really just children. Con agrees that children under 18 can be tried in Court as an adult. Con then goes on to say that children under 18 can't be expected to know and realize the intensity of their actions or crimes. Unfortunately for Con, none of this is relevant to the resolution at hand. Let's not turn this into a legal-system debate. The main point of my argument here was to show that not all people under the age of 18 are "children". Con still never rebutted the fact that there are other countries which might not consider anyone under 18 as a child. Nor has Con rebutted the fact that some children develop faster than others in terms of mentality. For Con to win this line of argumentation, there would need to be proof presented to both myself and the audience that every person under 18 is a child. V. The most important time in a persons life, is their childhood. There was no response given to this line of argumentation. I therefore extend it. VI. Unimportant pointsThere was no response given to this line of argumentation. I therefore extend it. In closing, Con dropped alot of my arguments, and decided to only rebut one specific part of one argument. I therefore extend all arguments which remain standing unchallenged, and now return the floor to Con. Thank you.
should students under 18 be active participants in politics

Pro provides some good points. Children under 18 can be tried in Court as an adult, yet only for severe crimes that are beyond the juvenile Court. The child can otherwise ask to be sent to juvenile Court for crimes that don't include rape or murder. Children under 18 can't be expected to know and realize the intensity of their actions or crimes. Just the possibility of the child having to be punished of lack of knowledge or lack of parental vigilance is horrid. Parents normally procrastinate teaching their children about politics and the importance of their decisions until they absolutely have to. I agree that adolescents should be sedately taught the importance of their decisions.
should students under 18 be active participants in politics

Students under 18 are really just children. The most important time in a persons life, is their childhood. They don't need to remember constant political arguments. Nor should they have to face the mental stress that comes with constantly remembering all views and opinions of each debate. Children should be educated in our countries past before having a say that could change our future. I agree, some kids have the maturity to make smart educated decisions, yet most lack the knowledge that they need to come to a well thought out decision. So,no, children shouldn't have a say in politics.
Lowering the age of consent

I'll just put out an argument so we can get started. We shouldn't lower the age of consent because there is no brightline. If we bring it down to, say, 16 as my opponent suggests, who is to keep us from dropping it down to 15? Or 14? 16 is arbitrary, and generally speaking, 18 is a point of adulthood and rational decision-making. The brain changes significantly after the age of 18, finds a Dartmouth university study. http://www.dartmouth.edu... Happy Holidays, everyone.
Rap Battle

You call me a servant, there you haven't faulted But at the end of time, the servant shall be exalted While you sit back on earth being verbally assaulted See the only tags you leave are from J.C. Penny Where you shop on break from a school at a fake Miami You say I'm a servant, and you hope for rebirth But what happens during your rebirth when the meek servants inherit the earth? Say I have a hive mind? Well you just got stung I'll call you Rudolf Hess, strung up and hung Yeah, come on and get some, I call myself a man, I call you a chump Who got dumped By a man in need of a belly rub Yeah, you just got smacked with another genius attack, It's name is Phoenix, it's making your raps look truly wack, Voters, look, it's here at last, Your chance to pick some obvious crap, Now, look, don't laugh, He tried his best, but I kicked his a$$, An "eternal consciousness" coming back to be eternally smashed, Now, Strycora, you obviously lack The skills, cuz I killed you, and no rebirth is gonna bring you back Good battle, man. Thanks for the participation.
Rap Battle

Keep em coming homie, I aint goin anywhere. A servant never leaves his mark, no tag on any surface Only pleasure for the man, it feels damn good getting worshipped Hive minded flies in the limelight? Absurdist! And you call yourself a man? You're a product and a service. Tag! I'm IT! I live it up and pass it on to the future, not ME, but I'm there, your a$s was wrong I'm eternal consciousness AND the gallery on the walls A moment of awe that leaves you shattered-feeling and flawed It really must sting to be a thing of the past while I see The Beauty once and keep bringing it back Like a vision in a dream, and you keep clinging to that but they come to me non stop, I call 'em constant genius attacks.
Rap Battle

Now I would tell you nice rhymes, But I could tell by reading them you don't believe in intelligent design, Because the only smart thing in your lines Was ending them early, so you could start crying Why don't you jump into my baptism waters, call yourself "Jim" Cuz the early Phoenix will be wiping this worm off his chin All these rhymes that you spit, Well, you said it yourself, they ain't sh*t, From the first time I heard the word win, I went all Nike, like my shoes, and just did it And haven't you heard about the Phoenix, man, it rises from the ashes, So you can't even try to crush or smash this, And now you're feeling the full wrath of my attack, Go try to run on down the eightfold path Until your damn mind snaps And you'll be begging me for scraps, Say I need to stop running in circles, maybe you should get on track And the sun don't have enough armor on, I'm gonna kill you, like you're Chinese, and I'm Genghis Khan And I don't know if you'll ever be able to respond, when Pretty soon, you'll be up there, answering to God I'll blow away your stupid "armor clouds" , you say you're insane, they call me "Crazy", Gnarls Barkley on this b*tch, whose rhymes were kinda lazy, And after I've killed him in this battle and he doesn't have a savior, Let's see what becomes of his reincarnation But seriously, nice job man, looking forward to next round.
Rap Battle

Ahhhh sheeyyooot, sick rhymes my dude. Observe, as a baby bird bursts into flames so that all that remains are the worms in his brain as his words are all shown to be worthless, inane and outrageous. This ignoramous calls running 'round in circles entertainment. He don't need to roam free, he deserves to be locked into cages. Go ahead, kill me, rack up the bad karma see if you can outshine the Sun in his armor you'll argue and cry, but you'll know you're a goner I ain't sh!t to be honest, the body of the Law is your problem. Man, your stripy nike checks won't catch your mistakes when you trip on the laces and land on the pavement and head to the light of your own annihilation with joy: the delusion of "eternal repayment"
Rap Battle

Thanks a lot for accepting! Good Luck (You'll need it :) ). Now let's begin a little bit easy Just to put your mind at ease and Let you think its feasible Then rip your tongue out through your teeth When you least expect it, Then turn you on your Buddha belly, And smash you over the head, you'll try to hold steady Against my rhymes but you ain't ready Call you Freddy Mercury cuz you need AID already See, you tried and you lost, And I've already won This battle seems to be over before it's even begun Like an Ed Sheeran track, I'm the only "One" I call you the Band Perry, cuz you're just about "Done" You strut around like you're cool, But girls think you're a fool- Maybe because you went to an all male high school And your first girlfriend was actually a dude Yeah, you might want to give up now, your raps will be in vain, You'll try to reach Nirvana but the closest you'll get is Kurt Cobain, I got raps for Dayz, man, just like the game And this battle will show up as a win in the bottom of a column on my profile page Speaking of profiles, dude, only two wins? And two losses, get it, wink wink? See, I'm insinuating youre about to pull a reverse Charlie Sheen, turn into the Titanic, and sink The space between your brain and your raps is like a stolen Zelda game- a missing Link And by the time you turn your head and blink, and slowly begin to think, About what I just said, You're dead, And the Phoenix spreads its wings and flies over your head
Rap Battle

This is a rap battle, as obviously stated above. I had a lot of fun with the last rap battle I did, and hope for more of the same. However, any forfeit results in a direct loss of the battle. Please note slightly different rules apply here than normal: 48 hour debate period, 4,000 character limit, and a direct "choose the winner" option for voting (for practicality, nobody's going to have sources in a rap battle). Good luck!
Rap Battle

You need a unique character to be charismatic an amatuer exalted? dawg, its not automatic and your awfully wack sh!t will prolly be forgotten when the ominous crack hits and splits your ears, confirms your fears, you're stopped in your tracks, b!tch. My rhythm is sicker than the gastric aroma coming from your direction, try spit, you gag and you throw up just a victim of a virus, like that meme that you're host of I spit heart stopping venom, call me King of the Cobras. It's completely uncontested, mine's the evilest flow, son. I'm a sidewinding crime fighter, whack n!gga highlighter Psychic with a mind that can jam up your damn typewriter I'm likely enlightened, unconditionally kickin' a$s You lack the higher knowledge, yeah, you wish that you could spit it back. You don't really know the spirit of the rhymes if you need it, then just seek and ye shall find. when conceit arises, remember me and then you'll realize that your ego is just weakness in disguise. when the ash is white, silly Phoenix thinks that he will surely rise but in real life, there's nothing to ignite. Good battle to you too bro. Keep at it!
White men are a minority

Ok, that statement in general is insanely stupid.You cannot count a gender as a minority, not in the since Official Governments do ALL OVER THE WORLD. White people in America make up most of 63% of America, that is the highest. Just because they're more White women than White men does not make the White men a minority. If so, Central Intelligence would have brought that to front, as long with other Nations of the World that refuse to acknowledge your logic on gender counting as minorities. http://www.infoplease.com...
White men are a minority

So you acknowledge the fact that men are less than a third of the US population. Great, we agree. You say we cannot count a gender as a minority, so feminists are coming for you! White women are considered a minority in America. There are tons of videos (look it up) where feminists claim women can never be sexist just like how black people can never be racist, despite how crazy their ideas are. Feminists are wrong because they have more people in the US than men! The CIA has nothing to do with this. White women are considered a minority (they make less money than white men, which is a BS concept) but they have superior numbers compared to white men. Again, white men are far less than a third of the US population. WHITE MALE LIVES MATTER!
Vegetarianism/veganism

Hello. Here, I would like to argue that vegetarianism and veganism are both hypocritical in nature and achieve absolutely no purpose other than harming the vegetarian or vegan by providing a less healthy diet. My first argument is this: Some vegetarians/vegans claim that it is cruel to kill and eat animals. However, how is this any different from eating plants or fungi? No matter what you consume, you are eating another organism that was once alive. Some plants or fungi that are eaten are still alive when they're eaten! In a sense, that's even more cruel! Not to mention the countless billions of microscopic organisms that are killed when they're consumed. My second argument: Some vegetarians and vegans claim that by choosing their lifestyle, they reduce the amount of animals killed. This is in no way true. Companies and slaughterhouses will still kill just as many animals, as the majority of people are willing to eat meats. Not to mention, even if fewer animals were killed, then a greater number of plants and fungi would need to be killed, essentially resulting in the same death toll for all organisms. To add on to my second argument, let's be presented with a hypothetical: Say that fewer animals were indeed killed for food, and instead more plants were killed for food. Deforestation has been proven to worsen the effects of global climate change, due to there being fewer photosynthesizing creatures in the world, thus increasing atmospheric pollution, decreasing water and nitrogen filtering by disrupting the cycles further, and increasing planet-wide temperature by allowing more greenhouse gases into the air. This ultimately would result in even MORE animals being killed due to their habitat becoming unlivable, thus making moot the entire purpose of vegetarianism or veganism in the first place. That is all I have to say for now. Thank you to whomever accepts, and I look forward to seeing your counter arguments.
from an official capacity, the corn flake box has never contradicted itself

This morning, my brother picked up the corn flakes box from the table. He said "There are some contradictions printed on this box!", to which I replied "No, there aren't". He then started wildly waving his arms around, pointing at this and that, but being completely incoherent.http://www.youtube.com... my intelligent view is that from an official capacity, the Corn flake box has never contradicted itself. Not on the ingredients, the mailing address, or the games/puzzles.I think this because not only have I not read any contradictions, but the object itself doesn't contradict anything. Like, it doesn't exist but not exist or anything.Thank you.
Flat Earth

Hello! You said you'd like to have a debate over the flat earth, and I am totally willing to oblige! I'll start of with an argument against flat earth. Great, I'm looking forward to a scientific debate full of logical discourse. All flat Earthers I've ever interacted with agree that the Azimuthal Equidistant Projection is the proper map to be used when referring to Earth, and is an accurate representation of the flat Earth. The Azimuthal Equidistant Projection has the north pole in the center, with Antarctica wrapping around. This explains how planes circumnavigate the Earth, when they fly east to west, they fly in a circle around the north pole. Sorry, but I'm not every other flat earther you've encountered. I have abandoned that map long ago. This is controlled opposition. They knew the flat earth was coming for many years now, and that map was introduced to us likely for people that are interested or are suspecting the flat earth. It is a means of disproving the accepted flat earth model. However that creates some big problems. The latitude becomes increasingly warped within this model. This causes the distances to be wrapped as well. In this video by a YouTube channel called CoolHardLogic he points out the problems with this model in a way more elegant than I probably ever could, so here is the link."https://www.youtube.com...... This is an example. CHL is not refuting the flat earth, which has been proven with the scientific method on several occasions, he is refuting the Azimuthal Equidistant map. I am not a cartographer, so I can't assume the map is accurate. For you to prove that the earth is a spinning ball, you must prove that the waters that make up the earth's surface is not flat, as we can observe on a daily basis, you must prove that water has a measurable curve, and that there is axial or orbital rotation. Without this, you are assuming the main tenants of the dichotomy here, and our conclusion. My argument can be summarized as this: The Azimuthal Equidistant Projection used by flat Earthers creates distance disparities which lead to problems with circumnavigation, both in theory and in practice. In an example a direct flight between Sydney and Johannesburg, which CoolHardLogic elaborates on further in his video. The Azimuthal Equidistant map is wrong.
Flat Earth

Hello! You said you'd like to have a debate over the flat earth, and I am totally willing to oblige! I'll start of with an argument against flat earth. All flat Earthers I've ever interacted with agree that the Azimuthal Equidistant Projection is the proper map to be used when referring to Earth, and is an accurate representation of the flat Earth. The Azimuthal Equidistant Projection has the north pole in the center, with Antarctica wrapping around. This explains how planes circumnavigate the Earth, when they fly east to west, they fly in a circle around the north pole. However that creates some big problems. The latitude becomes increasingly warped within this model. This causes the distances to be wrapped as well. In this video by a YouTube channel called CoolHardLogic he points out the problems with this model in a way more elegant than I probably ever could, so here is the link. My argument can be summarized as this: The Azimuthal Equidistant Projection used by flat Earthers creates distance disparities which lead to problems with circumnavigation, both in theory and in practice. In an example a direct flight between Sydney and Johannesburg, which CoolHardLogic elaborates on further in his video.
Wearing clothing in public areas should be optional

I concede. I have tried and failed to come up with a way that public nudity is inherently wrong or immoral, and justified in its illegality. And on top of that my opponent accepted my reductio. So, instead of dragging this debate out with a weak argument for the following rounds on my part, I must give props to Pro for his effective arguments, and concede. Vote Pro. *takes off clothes and runs down a busy street into the sunset*