azza1625/createdebate-arguments huggingface dataset:
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

That would be a false and wholly unfounded inference, since my statement was explicitly the opposite. I may very well want to kill the person who harmed my loved one, but that does not mean I want to live in a society that executes people. As I already mentioned, there is neither evidence nor reason to suspect the death penalty would deter future homicides. So, hold your unfounded view as firmly as you like... it is still unfounded.Identifying extreme cases of leniency as an intuitive basis for your support of the death penalty is disingenuous, given that there is also an alternative of incarceration for life without possibility of patrol. Nor have you addressed my concerns regarding the possible abuses by states granted the authority to execute their citizenry, which absent any especial benefit to execution seems indefensible.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I Support it

Well, so be it, I misinterpreted your meaning. However, as your opinion is insignificant that is a side issue. The fact remains that those who take a life(s) under certain circumstances must have their own life taken away. As they said in the old wild west, men aren't hanged for stealing horses, they're hanged so they won't steal horses. The deterrent value of execution for certain crimes and principles of yesteryear is as true today as it was then. Only certain types of people steal horses, automobiles and so forth, so, by ridding the world of some of their type it will become an altogether safer and better place. To quote the French philosopher, Alphonse Karr, '' the more things change, the more they stay the same. We think we have become more civilized and sophisticated over the years eh, eh, no we haven't. Take a look at the state of the world including the United States. A back shooting terrorist/domestic murderer/gangster may think twice before pulling the trigger if the spectre of ''Madam ''syringe'' looms large in their diseased mind. The enraged spouse/partner may just be calmed by the vivid image of receiving the ''vitamin Death'' injection. For those who disregard this sentence then it's ''good night Dick''.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

My personal desire is not relevant to what I think the national practice should be; I only mentioned it because you brought it up. My opinion is another matter entirely, of course. The "fact" does not remain that taking a life means forfeiting ones own life; this remains an unfounded assertion on your part. Deterrence may have been a motive behind the death penalty, but we now know that there is no evidence to support the deterrence theory (as I have pointed out now repeatedly). And take a look at the world? Okay. Numerous nations have abolished the death penalty and have lower rates of violent crime than those which retain it, which is a third point against your assumption of deterrence. Do you actually have any substantive rebuttal of the three standing objections to your deterrence claim, or do you intend to just keep asserting the "truth" of your views with no basis whatsoever?
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

Winkle has a habit of ignoring provided evidence and refusing to provide any of his own.Provide enough evidence and he will insult you then storm off, only to insult you even more to other people on other debates.It's a process he has done on multiple of his accounts (such as Antrim).
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

Oh, bugger, I knew this one seemed familiar. I remember Antrim... :P Thanks.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I Support it

And don't forget Kalamazoo. All the same game.The easy way to tell is that they word their racism the exact same way, replete with "Bongo" references towards those of African descent.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I Support it

I don't give them much memory space, TBH. So it always takes me longer to make the connection. :P
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I Support it

The Web is crammed full of support for capital punishment as an effective deterrent against murder, and then on the other side of the coin, just as many opposing the death penalty for any reason. Proponents show statistics which clearly illustrate that the death penalty reduces the instances of murderous crimes, whilst those against retribution and capital punishment produce their own statistics along with their equally convincing counter arguments. The authors from both sides are academics qualified in sociology and other relevant human behavioral sciences. My opinion is based on the study and reasoning of the two opposing arguments along with my personal experiences in Northern Ireland where I observed first hand the dismembered bodies of men, woman and children,( including a smoldering child's doll) scattered over Corn market, Belfast and Oxford Street, Belfast,-Bloody Friday, check it out. These are only two of the many atrocities carried out by psychopaths who were caught and jailed, released and then re-offended by committing identical crimes. If they had had their miserable lives snuffed out after the first act of carnage many 100s of decent folk would be alive today. In my opinion your intransigence is no more than a mule like stubbornness which renders you incapable of objectively viewing this, or any other issue dispassionately and without prejudge. So, you get your free ride and remain in your corner of ignorant self-righteousness while the world's maniacs slaughter innocent civilians and those who have dedicated their lives to trying to stem the steady march of world anarchy, or hadn't you noticed? That was a rhetorical question as I can easily predict your answer, so please try to refrain from answering as I have tired of you and your juvenile approach to this issue.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

1. Declare that you are viewing this based on subjective experience.2. Decry someone else viewing something subjectively.3. ????Well done.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I Support it

I am for it only in cases where the verdict is without a doubt 100% accurate. Many cases have been overturned by DNA evidence in the past. The death penalty should only be allowed in cases where certain evidence like DNA, video, or some other kind of very accurate evidence is given.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

There is rarely (if ever) such a thing as 100% certainty. DNA testing under controlled conditions is only 99% accurate, and in crime scenes the material is likely to be incomplete, contaminated, etc. Correlating a person with a crime scene through DNA also cannot prove causality since it only places the suspect on the scene and the rest is inferred. For those few murders where there is video evidence the video is generally poor quality and fails to capture all events leading up to the act which could mitigate the nature of the crime; I am unaware of a single case where there was clear video evidence that captured all relevant events leading up to a crime, and the odds seem so against that probability as to render a 100% certainty standard practically a ban on the practice. So, no such thing as without a doubt 100% accuracy. If you support the death penalty, that necessarily entails allowing for the possibility that someone innocent could be executed. That doesn't mean we have to oppose it, of course, since we could decide the probability makes it justifiable... but by your stance we would really be compelled to abolish it.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I Support it

If there is undeniable evidence that someone has performed rape, murder, or cannibalism, I believe that the death penalty should be applied. Although this may seem harsh, it is my belief that this will keep society more civil, given that one will be killed for their crimes, instead of sitting in a prison cell receiving free medicine, food, and even earning degrees. Once a human being has broken the law in any of the aforementioned manners, they are "too far gone", not to mention the money saved by not having prisons filled with dangerous and possibly mentally unstable criminals. That way, more money can be allocated to more deserving programs, such as better rehabilitation programs for drug users and better government healthcare programs for those who need it.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

What is wrong with cannibalism?It has been an accepted practice all over the world.If you and everybody in your city are starving to death - all the rats, pets, & birds long since consumed - and all the succor to be found is in the form of recently-deceased humans, are you not morally obligated to consume those humans?So many people have needlessly starved to death because their society says that eating the meat of their fellows is evil: I say it is evil to let people die simply to perpetuate a flawed system of morality and mistaken belief in the sanctity of the human!
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I Support it

We should expand the death penalty to cover more crimes. I mean, if your sentence is 10 or more years in jail, you might as well just shoot the guy. I don't want to pay to keep him there and when he gets out, he will be unemployable, so..., shoot the mofo.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I Support it

There are only so many people with the evil and inhumanity to kill others. When we put these people to death, it GUARANTEES they will never kill again. If they had life in prison without parole, they can still kill other inmates or kill guards.That's the reason for the death penalty. IT'S CALLED PROTECTING INNOCENT LIFE FROM THOSE WHO WOULD TAKE IT.We are living in a time of unbeleivable misplaced compassion. Those on the Left care more for the right's of Terrorists, murderers, criminals, the mother's right to end the life of unborn Baby's verses the Baby's right to life, etc. etc.As the Left keeps separating any mention of our Christian heritage from public along with the common sense values derived from that heritage, the inhumanity of people keeps hitting new lows. The compassion for future victims of killers takes a back seat to the killer's rights. How sick this progressive movement.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

Except you are giving the government authority to use a flawed system to execute people, despite clear, irrefutable evidence that we have executed both innocent people, and people who's guilt falls well out of the relevant "beyond reasonable doubt" standard.How can you be a "small government" "pro-life" individual if you are signing off on a big government system that kills innocent people?Seems, what's the word.....it starts with an h, you misuse it a lot.....oh, right, hypocritical.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I Support it

Because there will always be some scumbags who do not value lives of other human beings at all and they won't mind killing someone just for the sake of few petty things. Some of them are just fanatic and they kill in the name of religion and their beliefs. These guys are worse than animals and we don't think twice before killing an animal, do we? I support death penalty because in my opinion it is the only thing that can act as an effective deterrent for some low lives who are just looking for killing some one for the most trivial reasons.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

There is no evidence that the death penalty is actually an effective deterrent. Which make sense, given that most murders are either (a) crimes of passion where the threat of punishment isn't considered or (b) premeditated where the perp thinks they won't be caught and aren't worried about the threat of punishment.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

There are two key reasons why I don't support the death penalty. Most importantly... it doesn't work. There isn't much evidence that the death penalty is an effective deterrent to crime. As such, it's just adding to the levels of death for the sake of vengeance, which shouldn't be the goal. And secondly, I am appalled by the idea of giving the death penalty to someone who may be innocent. There are countless cases of people on death row who were found to be innocent, sometimes before their intended execution, and sometimes after they have already been given the death penalty. Our criminal justice system has far too many flaws for us to be killing people who might be guilty.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

In addition there is the fact that the death penalty offers some form of gratification to some criminals who already have the desire to die (e.g. martyrdom). Reducing their life to simple survival behind bars seems far more fitting - provided the incarceration facility does not resemble any previous comforts they may have enjoyed.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I Support it

SIZE OF DEATH ROW BY YEAR - (1968 - present)1968 517 1982 1,050 1996 3,219 2010 3,1581969 575 1983 1,209 1997 3,335 2011 3,0821970 631 1984 1,405 1998 3,452 2012 3,0331971 642 1985 1,591 1999 3,527 2013 2,9791972 334 1986 1,781 2000 3,593 2014 3,0541973 134 1987 1,984 2001 3,581 2015 2,9841974 244 1988 2,124 2002 3,557 1975 488 1989 2,250 2003 3,374 1976 420 1990 2,356 2004 3,315 1977 423 1991 2,482 2005 3,254 1978 482 1992 2,575 2006 3,228 1979 539 1993 2,716 2007 3,215 1980 691 1994 2,890 2008 3,207 1981 856 1995 3,054 2009 3,173 So can you show the "countless cases of people on death row who were found to be innocent" by the numbers provided above ?
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

156 people have been released from death row. We don't know how many of those put to death were also innocent because, of course, police don't continue to investigate after the defendant is executed. Saying that though, 156 people nearly killed by the government is absurd. I guess USAians find it amazing that every single country in Europe has abolished the death penalty. To us its is shocking when we read about how USAians allow the government to take peoples lives. It is intolerable to us.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

It's shocking to some "USAians" as well... just to be clear. :P
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

I agree with you that the number isn't countless. The real question is how many innocent deaths is justifiable? 1, 10, 100? How many innocent deaths would it take to make capital punishment unjustifiable? Whatever that number is to you then why not one more or one less?
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

The number of wrongfully executed will rise as the total number of people executed rises. People whose lives are cut short, their good name stained, their families left broken all for something they didn't do in the name of "justice". The death penalty is a blood sport that satiates our societal need for vengeance, but vengeance and justice are two different things. First of all its paradoxical that you can teach a country not to kill by killing someone. Second of all the death penalty doesn't discourage murder as a murderer already places no value in human life, including their own. Third, the money spent on housing/food/lawyers/appeals would be much better spent if allocated toward actually REHABILITATING people in prison instead of turning them into caged animals who need to become criminals in order to survive incarceration.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

The only people who can not be rehabilitated are the truly sick and deranged, who deserve pity, not execution. Rehabilitation is cheaper and more effective than prison. It's not as cheap and easy as killing people for certain crimes, true, but that particular choice literally requires us to end a human life because it's easier, which is shitty of us to do.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

Generally agreed. Although I'm not convinced execution is actually cheaper. The appeals process is very expensive for the state, and once you add in the years incarcerated on death row to the full cost I suspect that the difference would actually be marginal. Admittedly, I don't have the stats to back that but I certainly haven't seen them for the converse and intuitively it doesn't make much sense that execution would be the cheaper option. IMO.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I Support it

There are people who have no emotions and they are called psychopaths.They amount up to half of the prison population.Psychopaths are innately evil and cannot change.Psychopaths deserve death.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

Psychopath (noun): a person suffering from chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behaviour.You'll note that nowhere in that definition does it say "people who have no emotions". That's because such people don't exist. Emotions are how brains work. People might have different emotions, or they might seem strangely sedate in their emotions, but if their brain does anything at all then they are experiencing emotions.Also, psychopaths don't always end up in prison. Often, they end up being your bosshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathyintheworkplace#citeref-11Go ahead and post your source for that "up to half" statistic.While you do that, here's some info on rehabilitation vs prison sentences!http://www2.deloitte.com/au/en/pages/economics/articles/cost-prison-vs-residential-treatment-offenders.htmlThis ones a full report detailing how they reached the $111, 458 saving per prisoner figure.http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/04-01repmdtreatmentorincarceration_ac-dp.pdfThat one is specifically about the advantages of rehabilitating heavy drug users as opposed to cycling them in and out of the prison system!http://rehab-international.org/blog/drug-rehab-instead-of-prison-could-save- billions-says-report That one goes through more of the cost savings of rehab as opposed to prison!Check out those sources, Blizzardbird! Would you just look at those sources! Sittin' there, lookin' all pretty and supportive. How 'bout you go right ahead and post some yourself champ, I'm on the edge of my fucking seat with anticipation.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I Support it

You have severely missed the point that I had actually made.Yes, of course there are plenty of psychopaths that have never been to prison nor have ever been engaged in crimininality, but their are also many psychopaths who have ended up in prison too and are engaged in criminality.Many severe and serious crimes are committed by the criminally engaged psychopaths, it would usually take an extremely cunning predator with no empathy to be an accomplished thief, rapist, murderer or con artist, or perhaps even a slanderer.Look up the statistics for a third of the prison population being psychopathic.https://www.mentalhealthtoday.co.uk/treatment-for-people-with-psychopathic-personality-disorder-needs-to-change-to- be-effective-says-research.aspx "One third of those in prison with ASPD also meet the diagnostic criteria for psychopathy."It may not have quite been half of the prison population, but at least it was a third.We were not talking about drug users either. We were talking about psychopaths. We don't execute people just because they are heavy drug users.Proving that rehabilitating drug users has proved more cost effective is irrelevant because we are talking about psychopaths, who are the people who I argue are in need of execution.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

Round of applause everyone, BlizzardBird posted a source! Sure, they sorely misunderstood that source, but still! Well done!Here's a quote from that site you linked"Most violent crimes are committed by people with anti-social personality disorder (ASPD). Half the UK prison population meet the diagnostic criteria for this disorder. "That, coupled with your quote, means that one third of one half of the prison population can be considered psychopathic. That comes out to around 15%. Quite a far cry from your 50% "fact" earlier, eh bud?But regardless of how wrong your facts are, here's the thing: Those few people who are incompatible with society, the ones we can not rehabilitate, do not deserve to be killed for their mental condition.Regarding your other link, you've shown psycopaths do not feel empathy under certain conditions most people do. Empathy isn't the entore emotional spectrum.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I Support it

It is my choice whether or not I want to post a source.There is nothing telling me that I ought to post a source, so don't tell whether I need to post a source.There are no rules on this site that tells me that I have to post a source.Got it?A psychopath does not feel any empathy whatsoever.Under what circumstances does a psychopath feel any empathy?
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

It is my choice whether or not I want to post a source.Losting without sources for your "facts" is cheap. You don't NEED to post sources, but you will if you want people to take you seriously.under what circumstances does a psychopath feel any empathy?"When highly psychopathic inmates imagined themselves in these painful situations, they showed higher-than-normal activity in certain brain regions involved in empathy for pain. "
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I Support it

""When highly psychopathic inmates imagined themselves in these painful situations, they showed higher-than-normal activity in certain brain regions involved in empathy for pain. "In other words they only empathise with themselves.And no, I don't have to post sources.It is possible to win a debate with just words.
Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the Death Penalty?
Side: I oppose it

In other words they only empathise with themselvesThat's still empathy, mate. An emotion. You said they don't feel emotions at all, but have also linked to sources that prove they do. Regardless, you're not saying anything that justifies executing criminals due to their mental state.And no, I don't have to post sources. It is possible to win a debate with just words.Not if your argument relies on statistics you're pulling out of nowhere. Regardless, you're not saying anything that justifies executing criminals due to their mental state. Psychopaths have been demonstrated to have no shock response, as well.You're not saying anything that justifies executing criminals due to their mental state.