azza1625/createdebate-arguments huggingface dataset:
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Hurts everyone?

Well in the good old day you didn't have to be that specific. It used to be a given that a mother and father is to raise a child.
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Doesnt hurt anyone

It used to be a given that the slaves would do the cleaning, too. As long as we're going by the way things used to be, let's choose our mates by raping them in our caves.
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Hurts everyone?

Yeah, so prop8 and slavery are pretty much the same thing huh? no, they are not!, why do people keep comparing this to slavery!?
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Doesnt hurt anyone

It's called an analogy, genius.He's saying that basing things on tradition is a bad idea.
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Hurts everyone?

Well, it depends on the tradition doesn't it?
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Doesnt hurt anyone

Jake, you are very fond of using the expression, "How many times do I have to tell you!" First off that's a very cheeky statement. It a bit presumptuous of anyone to utter those words on subject matter they know so little about. Let me turn the tables though, for just one moment, when I say to you...HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT BEING GAY IS NOT A CHOICE!I have known "families" with two moms and two dads. They were very loving families and the children felt that love very deeply...even when the questions came, as they always do. Most of the kids I kept track of wouldn't have traded their upbringing for one second because it taught them things about prejudice, acceptance, being different and being OK with that. They say they would not have had that same opportunity has they been raised by straight parents. All of them are fine and none of them are gay, no matter which gender they grew up with.
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Hurts everyone?

I was raised by straight parents, does that mean I havn't had an opportunity to be taught anything about prejudice, acceptance, or being different!? oh and about "How many times do I have to tell you" im not sure that i have used that more than maybe once or twice but I am not fond of having to tell people the same things over and over again.
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Doesnt hurt anyone

That's one of your problems Jake...You tell people...you don't reason it out or even back it up with facts, statistics or anything else of value. You are completely homophobic Jake, face it. The possibility of this being a viable relationship is so foreign to you that you believe a child would be ruined by being a part of that relationship. Homosexuality is not a disease my friend...it's a way of life that was given those of us who are. No one should be punished because of it.
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Hurts everyone?

It still is Jake. Ignore the snowflakes, heterophobes, truthphobes and Christophobes who act in a very hypocritical way. Their pride and vanity will befall them.
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Doesnt hurt anyone

I'm not at all certain that is correct Jake. The estimate on the number of gays vs. straights in this country is about 10%. It may well be more, but the family structure has been maintained thus far in the world and will probably remain so. Yes, I would agree that any child needs a Mom or Dad to look up to and it is easier when there are one of each, however, I believe studies have shown very few, if any, bad affects have been realized from a two mom or two dad household. As long as there are members of the other sex around to give the child balance that's all that's really needed.
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Doesnt hurt anyone

The problems a child has being raised by gay parents is NOT from the parents themselves, but the horrible way those kids are treated by kids and others who are raised by heterosexual parents. That is the sad data...
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Hurts everyone?

Kirstie, Fact is Kids are cruel. If its not gay then they are cruel bout those who are tall, fat, thin, short, have curly hair, don't have the latest clothes. Point is kids are always going to find something to pick about. I was picked on because I was adopted and my parents weren't my "real" parents so I must have had something wrong with me. Then when they got tired of that it was my weight, then my height, then who I dated. Having gay parents isn't going to change anything for a kid being teased by children raised by close minded parents.
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Hurts everyone?

Yea, before long strait kids will get picked on just for being strait. 0:
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Hurts everyone?

The truth hurts you. The stats show lesbians are harmful and abusive as much as gay men are to each other. Your arguments are not only toxic, it's subjective. The problems of children not having good parents is because of retards like you. You are a truthphobe, Heterophobe and Christophobe. Marriage and true love is only between a biological man and biological woman. I can go on all day to silence you for your toxic behavior and I will. 1. Homosexuality brings aids/hiv2. You retards are indoctrinating kids into this stuff which isn't healthy for the body3. You ignore biological facts of gender and sex being related and the same4. You think you know everything about the issues that affect families but it is people like you who are ignorant and are harming families in the first place5. It is feminazis like you who target men and hate on men. You will be silenced over infinity until Jesus returns to tell you, He never knew you because you don't show love and compassion to those who disagree with you. You are declared a hypocrite, kirstie. Cry me a river and get over it.https://www.hrc.org/resources/hrc-issue-brief-hiv-aids-and-the-lgbt-communityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAo7If3AUp0https://www.catholichawaii.org/media/223462/10reasonswhyhomosexualmarriageisharmful. pdf You have been silenced. Continue this uphill battle and I will shoot you down. We, the Silent Majority have the Holy Ground. Your pride is your downfall. So is your vanity, wrath, sloth, lust and gluttony. You blasphemers, adulterers and murderers. I bet you justify abortion just for the fun of it. So I tell you, begone. Baby lives matter and God's truths are absolute. Marriage remains between a man and a woman. Gender and age cannot be changed and you've lost.
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Hurts everyone?

Except that's the problem, Kuklapolitan. You are saying that little to nobody suffers from same sex parents. You know what? There are witnesses, especially youth and young adults who have given talks on how much they have suffered from the wrong kind of family structure. You're saying as long as what? As long as there are men and women around to look after the children, things will be okay? Uh no! Think about it. You cannot lie to your kids! Can an uncle be a boy or girl's father? No! You can't just do that! Otherwise the kids will learn how to lie too. You just admitted that it is easier to have one father and one mother around and guess what? You're contradicting yourself and your own arguments which means again, the logical side who says "gay marriage" affects everyone badly is none other than TRUE. There is no contributive positivity in having "two dads" nor "two moms", it will only bring a deceptive environment that will affect the kids to fall into confusion and the worst state of following a bad example! Marriage and true love remains only between a man and a woman.
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Doesnt hurt anyone

Does the truth hurt you that much?
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Hurts everyone?

It hurts you hypocrite. You are the one denying the truth, so that makes you a truthphobe, heterophobe and Christophobe. Can't you believe it? Yeah. We won and you lost. God prevails.
Debate: How can gay marriage hurt any one?
Side: Doesnt hurt anyone

Please forgive the intrusion but I genuinely think I'm missing something here.You seem to be able to travel through time and respond to arguments that were made between 9 and 13 years ago.The chilling feature is that your adversary from way-back seems to be answering you.Please enlighten me.THANK YOU.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

My guess is that the internet has made it so that Teenagers read more than ever - just in smaller chunks. Reading has been compressed.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

It doesnt necessarily mean because we can read online news in the internet...
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I dont understand what you are saying"It doesnt necessarily mean because we can read online news in the internet...."........What??I am just talking about counting how many words are read in a day - and I think that it is proabably more for the avrage kid to day, than 20 years ago.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

Next tym say properly...some stupid people like me don't know wad u saying.......
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

shh!!!! keep quiet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Shh!!!!!!!!!!!
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

It doesnt necessarily mean because we can read online news in the internet...
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I think it is important because reading is not just about communication or learning. It is an all in one package where you learn interesting and capturing facts and ideas from people all across time and space. Along with that you developer your concentration and attention giving skills. Most of todays "multitasking teenager" is talented but he/she has a very short attention span. This can be a problem in later life. Reading gives them much needed practice - practicing to concentrate and think in one direction keeping the mind open and responsive at the same time. Hence I think that reading is important.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I feel that reading is important as it opens us up to a world of emotions and helps develop our emotional quotient (EQ). In books, we are placed in virtual environments that do happen in real life, but may probably not take place in everybody's life, so not everyone gains such experiences. However, with good books (no matter fictional or non-fictional), we are put in the shoes of various characters, feeling the emotions of the scene through the different viewpoints of characters through the author's/authors' moving descriptions using the senses. The ability to empathize with different people's personalities and perspectives helps to develop our EQ, which is very important in learning to understand where other people are coming from and makes us better people. I agree that teenagers nowdays have too short attention span and often cannot complete their tasks on time. This is a very pressing social matter because the next generation to take over the world cannot afford to be as irresponsible as to fail to fulfil duties punctually. Reading is perhaps the most effective and fun way of instilling self-discipline and sense of responsibility in teenagers.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I feel that reading is important to teenagers. There are many types of books that can be found everywhere, such as romance, real-life stories and humour. Reading not only broadens our knowledge, it also increases our creativity, which can be useful for students when they are writing their essay. Ideas will tend to flow out more easily as the storyline they got from reading their books are etched in their minds and thus they may think of the story and their essays will be easily written out. For example, as I do read when I have the time, it is easier for me to write narrative writing. The ideas tend to flow much more easily. I think that students do not really read is either because they do not have the interest or is too busy to use any of their time to read. Also, it may be due to video games. As there are are more video games for teenagers to play, they would usually choose to use their free time to play rather than spend some time reading. I agree with Shao Fen that reading improves our emotional quotient(EQ) and it is very important in allowing us to learn to understand where other people are coming from and makes us better people.  As Shao Fen said, reading allows us to be in the shoes of various characters and we will tend to feel for them therefore, our EQ will be raised. I believe that as our EQ increases we will more willing to feel for others and be thoughtful towards them. Therefore I agree with Shao Fen's point.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I agree with Pamela as well as reading enhances the creativity of students and broadens their imagination. Also, good vocabulary for writing essays can be learnt by reading. (: So, teenagers should read more and not neglect it as it is important.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: It's important

Reading is important to teenagers. Nowadays, most students do not like to read, due to the influence of the internet and computer games. However, I believe that reading is important as it heightens our creativity and allows us to come up with creative storylines, instead of the cliched storylines we have been using since primary school. Reading also improves one's language, both in the grammar and vocabulary aspects. It allows us to manipulate language in creative new ways, and also allows us to create our own opinion about something, instead of just blindly accepting what our teachers say. This provides room to ask questions about the topic, and will allow us to further understand it. There are also many kinds of books, like what Shi Ying said; these books help us to understand and prepare us for the outside world. Real-life stories in particular are important as they show us the struggles others go through in life: be it a disability or an accident, we can learn from these examples and try to care for those who suffer such struggles in our life.I agree with Shi Ying that ideas tend to flow out more easily when teenagers read, as the storylines are etched into their minds, and their creativity is heightened. I believe that although some teenagers would prefer playing computer games to reading, they will realise that reading helps them in many ways: in the EQ aspect (as Shao Fen pointed out) and in the academic aspect. Therefore, I believe that reading IS important to teenagers.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

excellent opinion! in todays fast paced, competetive, consumeristic, globalised economy people only concentarte on their IQ and hugely neglect their EQ. and a lot of local, national and international policies are made keeping in mind Intellectual development only. this can cause complications because TRUE GENIUS is KNOWLEDGE + RESPONSIBILITY. Stirring in knowledge into society without taking into account the garnish of responsibility is the perfect recipe for disaster and should be avoided at all costs.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

Todays teenagers do not read as many books as a teenager even 10 or 20 years back used to. Why is it so? Is it because other forms of communication, learning and entertainment have taken over the ever popular "book" or is there some other reason? What do you think?Other sources such as computer, handphone and television has replaced reading. Teenagers now spend a lot of time on the computer, chatting with friends online or going on the internet. Time is also spent on watching television shows, as well as text messaging. In Singapore context, teenagers nowadays prioritise studying, being "in" and getting the latest news and gossip instead of reading which most think of as a waste of time. Also, students' daily timetable are usually packed with activities such as school, tuition, other lessons, enrichments and co-curricular activities(CCA), so teenagers nowadays rarely find time to relax and do things they want to, like reading, hanging out and things like that. Even when they have the time off from school, numerous projects, assignments and homework have to be done during their so-called "leisure time", and teenagers would rather spend their time on the computer, television or handphone when they have the extra time off, because to them, those are their "leisure activities", to get in touch with their friends.As technology is advancing at a rapid speed, reading is often replaced with similar activities such as listening to the radio and watching the news being broadcasted on television instead of reading from the newspapers. But by hearing, or looking, we might not learn as we will by reading. As we read, we pick up unfamiliar words along the way. And knowing how to spell the unfamiliar words, we can check for it's meaning on the dictionary. But by hearing or watching, sometimes, pronunciations of the reporters or dee-jays might not be correct and when we hear an unknown word, it might not be convenient to check the meaning on the dictionary as well. Therefore, I think that reading is important and more effective for learning.In my opinion, reading is still important to teenagers, even in today's context, and good reading habis should be emphasised. While many might think that reading is useless and a waste of time, reading is actually a meaningful activity that can expand our creativity and also, let us get in touch with not only our friends, but the world as well. Reading does not have to be the boring activity which many students dislike, but instead, reading can be fun too. By first choosing the books or reading materials you are interested in reading, we can then slowly learn to gain interest from reading all sorts of books, essays, and articles. Reading can also be fun when done in a group, or after reading the same article or book, friends can get together to discuss about the happenings and their feelings. Interesting activities can also be organised by the school to promote reading.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

i agree with Eunice that reading can be fun (: I agree that by choosing books of your favourite genre, you tend to have more interest in reading them. It is also true that reading is fun when done in a group as after finishing a book, you can share your thoughts & feelings about a character to others. That is probably why there are book clubs all over the world.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: It's important

I think that reading is very important as it not only provides teenagers with entertainment, but also with knowledge.Reading helps develop vital language skills and is needed in our school lives, as well as our adult lives. The ability to learn about new subjects and find helpful information on anything, be it academic research, depends on reading. Reading exposes us to proper grammar and phrasing. It enhances the development of our spoken language skills and our ability to express ourselves verbally.As technology today is very advanced, most teenagers may not read from books very often. Instead, they would read up from the Internet. Internet has made reading more and more a part of teenagers' daily lives.The computer's ability to process and analyze data means that endless variations on reports and other types of documents can be and are generated, thus Internet itself is an enormous source of new information and recreation.To effectively utilize the web and judge the authenticity and value of what is found there, both reading and critical thinking skills are of prime importance.Secondly, reading provides teenagers with enjoyment.The more they read, the better they become at reading; The more enjoyable the things they read are, the more they will stick with them and develop the reading skills that they will need for full access to information in their adult lives. Therefore,reading should be viewed as a pleasurable activity - as a source of entertaining tales and useful and interesting factual information.Lastly, reading opens up our world and enrich our lives.Reading exposes us to the world around us and develop an understanding of and concern for the people around us. It also provides us with knowledge on today's world and increases our factual knowledge about the world.In conclusion, reading is important as it develops our vital language skills, provides us with entertainment, as well as opening up our world.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I agree with Wesley's point of view . Reading does open up our world and expose us to larger amount of knowledge . Most readers take reading as an enjoyment or hobby , so reading to them is fun . Yes ! It improves our language , and I totally agree to that point . Most teenagers are losing their fluency of speech and reading out loud or exposing themselves to more knowledge may just save them from broken speeches .
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: It's important

It is important to read as it will provide us with knowledge and information. We can learn from other people's life experience and not to make the same mistake again. Yes, Internet do provide us with a lot of resources as the technology advances. Reading will bring us enjoyments and fun as sometimes there are humor and nice description of things.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: It's important

I think reading is important because reading makes an individual benefit out of the worldly experiences of people and help shape an intellect out of that learning. Reading can expand our vocabulary and improve our spelling which is beneficial to students when they are writing essays. The world of books is amazing because every book is unique, when we are engrossed in reading a book that we are interested in, we will follow the plot of the story and the emotions of the characters. This makes us feel excited and happy which may relieve us from stress. It is fun to read new books and find out what happened in the book as it expands our imagination which allows us to see the world from different point of view. Reading can also be a form of communication. It can make one learn not only languages but cultures and rituals of civilizations by making an individual live the past, present or future of places he or she has never been to. When two person are having the same interest, talking about a book that they both like allow them to understand one another and how they feel which helps in developing a close relationship between them. Book is like a manual to handle a device called life where in there are so many possible situations and options where in what counts is the experience, we can learn from the experiences or mistakes and make the right choice.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

Fantastic point made! The uniqueness of every individual and their own refreshing way of expressing themselves is made more accessible in books than on the Internet. mind you, i am not saying that reading on the Internet is not beneficial. it is, but reading on a screen, with a mouse in your hand to click it all away the moment you switch off (FOR BEGINNING READERS) is not a good discipline. as a teacher i see students' attention span problem every day and i would recommend to you reading from books because it helps develop you attention span and gives you an insight into various life experiences of people across time and space.