azza1625/createdebate-arguments huggingface dataset:
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: yes

before education was a reward that your parents had worked hard to get, nowadays (because the government provides it) people muck around in class and are brought up with the idea that learning is boring.Are you actually arguing that it was good that education was unattainable for most people? We have nedorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle...Copying and pasting the opinion of a cranky old conservative isn't really proof.Some of these things are simply the advancement of civil rights, like gay marriage and abortion.Others, like the ones referring to jealousy, lust, and abuse of power, could just as easily apply to any time in human history. Others are false, like the one about neglecting the needy - compared to 100 years ago, the homeless have it a lot better in America, thanks to food banks and shelters. I would hazard a guess that the case is similar in England? Also, don't you think it's odd that they condemn welfare in one breath and in the next, lament the supposed lack of aid for the needy? Even if the welfare system is taken advantage of, it still helps needy people.Many of the remaining statements make assumptions that could very well be false, and they need their own evidence before it is admissible as supporting data for life being better 100 years ago.Finally, remember, for the premise of this debate to be false, life today doesn't have to perfect. It doesn't even have to be good. It just has to be better than it was 100 years ago.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: No

"Are you actually arguing that it was good that education was unattainable for most people? "have you actually been to a public school"Others, like the ones referring to jealousy, lust, and abuse of power, could just as easily apply to any time in human history. Others are false, like the one about neglecting the needy - compared to 100 years ago, the homeless have it a lot better in America, thanks to food banks and shelters. I would hazard a guess that the case is similar in England? Also, don't you think it's odd that they condemn welfare in one breath and in the next, lament the supposed lack of aid for the needy? Even if the welfare system is taken advantage of, it still helps needy people.Many of the remaining statements make assumptions that could very well be false, and they need their own evidence before it is admissible as supporting data for life being better 100 years ago."Have you actually read the debate title? it says is life better. I don't care if the 1900s sucked, life today still sucks
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: yes

Your depressed, bias, self-centered opinions dont matter at all. All you do is bitch and bitch and bitch about whats going on now, not why, or how, just the face of everything. If you are so damn disgusted with the world, do something about it that will save the rest of us from this place while upholding your self-proclaimed morals behind your statements. And if you cant, then go get a retropsychosematic and go visit the good ol' days for yourself, yeah? Maybe yours is filled with rainbows and unicorns and self-worth. Sorry, but I had to say it.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: yes

I think it's kind of funny that, if he thinks 1900 was better, he could very well someday move to an isolated town in a developing country where technology, medicine and society in general are 100 years behind. He owes this opportunity to modern forms of transportation and globalization.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: yes

have you actually been to a public schoolYou avoided the question.Have you actually read the debate title? it says is life better. I don't care if the 1900s sucked, life today still sucksYou need to carefully reread my post because you misunderstood it if you don't realize I know what the debate is about and I still disagree.Even if life sucks today, it sucked more 1900 years ago because of disease, infant mortality, poverty, and low quality of life; if you are going to try to say otherwise, you need more than a forwarded email with no evidence to back itself up.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: No

"You avoided the question."Correction, I answered your question with a question which you are now avoiding"You need to carefully reread my post because you misunderstood it if you don't realize I know what the debate is about and I still disagree."You can't understand that todays world gives the appearance of being better when it isn't"Even if life sucks today, it sucked more 1900 years ago"Why, because U.S.A didn't have nukes?"because of disease,"we still have that, but now army scientists can create new ones(political name:biological weapons) to kill other countries." infant mortality, "Now babies don't only die in childbirth we kill them as well "poverty, and low quality of life"Are you one of those posh rich kids who ignore everything they don't want to see?"if you are going to try to say otherwise, you need more than a forwarded email with no evidence to back itself up"*So do youEvidence:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfare en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortionhttp://www.poverty.com/
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: yes

You would not be wrong to say treatment of the impoverished has improved in England. It is no longer a crime punishable by jail time to be in debt...
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: No

Not much different in your "great" U.S.A you say people can have "freedom of speach" in the constitution but when some (wikileaks manager) publishes something you don't like you get him transported to your country to kill him.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: yes

First of all, I am not only an American citizen but also a Brazilian citizen, and Argentine citizen. Do not assume that I hold the US in perfect lighting.Second, I did not mention anything about freedom of speech. I personally think that Julian Assage is aggressively accused of rape so that he may be kept in captivity (not killed).http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1931695/julian-assange-political-prisoner However, were we to go back to 1919, court case Schenck vs. US. Schenck was sentenced to six months in prison for printing leaflets opposing the draft.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States I am not saying that everything is perfect. People are still put in jail unfairly. But can you even compareHacking into national-security files and leaking them out to the entire nation, which is being met with no direct charge, and only pressuring an unrelated charge that has been taken to another country for fear of an unfair trialrelative to:versus printing out 15,000 leaflets and sending them out, and was sentenced to 6 months in jail by the Supreme Court for doing so
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: yes

who cares it's not like people spend any time reading anymoreDo you even know what illiterate means?in those times when a husband and wife got marrried they used to decide together, so therefore a husbands vote also included that of the wife. In the modern day if a married couple don't agree they just get divorced.No they didn't. A wife was property.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: No

"Do you even know what illiterate means?"Of course I do, my point is that we are moving into a day and age where people don't need to read anymore.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7421180/Telepathic-computer-can-read-your-mind.html "No they didn't. A wife was property."in the U.S.A it was
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: no

i really liked that you took the time to post this. i agree fully. everything is made out to be bigger and better but really if you stand back and compare these advancements bring out a new way to be mean. there is more anger and hate and now there is a way to be mean to someone without saying it to thereface. cyberbullying is an increasing problem and there is no way to stop it.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: yes

We have taller buildings but shorter tempers.Give me one study that indicates that people lose their temper more now than during fin-de-siécle.Wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints.NARROWER VIEWPOINTS???Now that homosexuality is not just decriminalized but legally supported, and blacks can go to the same schools as whites, and women can run for office - narrower viewpoints?!??!?!?!We spend more, but have less.I dunno. We sure seem to have a lot of useless junk. I for one am proud to say that my money goes only to useful items: books. Surely most people waste a lot of money buying things they don't need, but isn't that was (I think it was) Max Weber complain, as well as Marx, about capitalism? Makes lots of stuff you don't need.We have bigger houses and smaller families.Well, we've gotta have somewhere to put all our useless junk!We have more degrees but less sense.Less sense than the people who believed in blooding for fever, astrology was still believed, that masturbation was evidence of mental illness!Come now...Everything you say is the result of watching too much Waltons and Little House on the Prairie. Stop watching TV and pick up a non-fiction book on the period, you'll probably change your opinion.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: No

I would gladly forgo all modern convenience if I could be transported back through time a hundred years. People enjoyed freedom back then and were a lot less neurotic. People had more common sense and less indoctrination. The dollar was actually worth something and you got to keep what you earned. The government was small and not an Orwellian nightmare. The food was real and not genetically-modified and sprayed with toxins. You could smoke a joint or take a little cocaine without a swat team kicking in your door and screaming at you with guns to your head. Modern times suck. Nowadays, it's just a bunch of brain-dead gimps with no morals and no guts, just spending their lives chirping away on their cellphones.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: yes

People enjoyed freedom back then and were a lot less neurotic.Only if you were a white, wealthy male. If you were anything else, you were second class.The government was small and not an Orwellian nightmare.Lynch mobs and conspiring zealots too the place of big government in making everyone miserable.The food was real and not genetically-modified and sprayed with toxins.Only sometimes it would itself be toxic, as in radioactive or full of lead and arsenic.You could smoke a joint or take a little cocaine without a swat team kicking in your door and screaming at you with guns to your head.Mostly because we had no idea what these drugs did, and wondered why people had heart attacks at a young age.Modern times suck. Nowadays, it's just a bunch of brain-dead gimps with no morals and no guts, just spending their lives chirping away on their cellphones.Modern times suck. You cannot die from polio, tetanus, smallpox, etc. any longer.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Child_with_Smallpox_Bangladesh.jpg
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: No

Only if you were a white, wealthy male. If you were anything else, you were second class. Well, according to your previous posts, nothing has changed and blacks are still second class, that's why they are excused for making racist remarks while whites are ostracized for the same, remember? Please stop contradicting yourself.  Anyways, I contend that blacks were better off 100 years ago, despite not having every single right that whites possessed. Blacks are now the victims of liberal programs which have them warehoused in inner-city projects that resemble Third World countries. Blacks are more angry than ever at whites thanks to liberal propaganda which has instilled in them a "victim consciousness" far more effectively than having separate toilets ever did. Lynch mobs and conspiring zealots too the place of big government in making everyone miserable.Where do you get this shit? There was the occasional lynch mob, sure, but you are totally blowing things out of proportion by stating that it took the place of big government and made everyone miserable. You have an idiotic, warped view of history. That kind of delusional thinking reminds me of the idiotic conservatives who are afraid to go to the mall because they think a terrorist lurks around every corner. It's just plain stupid. Anyways, there are now FAR more blacks in prison per capita than any time in history. Get an education.Mostly because we had no idea what these drugs did, and wondered why people had heart attacks at a young ageWe had an idea of what those drugs did because they were commonly used in medicine. They were not illegal because it would have been thought a strange idea to violate the Constitution by making a plant illegal. The notion of making Nature against the law would have been a foreign idea because people did not think like a bunch of totalitarian assholes back then.Modern times suck. You cannot die from polio, tetanus, smallpox, etc. any longer .But you can die from cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and a host of other diseases which have absolutely SKYROCKETED in the last 100 years...SKYROCKETED.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: No

Fucking dickweed posted Reefer Madness as a source, that came out in the late 30's you ignorant schmuck, not the early 1900's. The drug war phenomenon came from a piece of shit propagandist like yourself named Harry Anslinger.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: yes

Fucking dickweed posted Reefer Madness as a source, that came out in the late 30's you ignorant schmuck, not the early 1900's. The drug war phenomenon came from a piece of shit propagandist like yourself named Harry Anslinger.I suppose if you bothered to read about the temperance movement and the cannabis scare, you'd realise that anti-drug sentiment existed far back to the turn of the century. I did not say that Reefer Madness occurred in the 1900s, just that it illustrated how drug fear isn't a new thing.http://www.november.org/stayinfo/breaking07/CA-WOD.html Here's another example.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: No

Enlightened1, i thought you had a little more class than that, i guess since your angry, it can be overlooked. Oh, and life in the early 1900's was a much better time, even in the depressions. a box of corn flakes cost $0.80, that was considered a large amount. Do you see the difference in the economy?
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: No

Segregation has ended.Has it? Big deal, institutionalized segregation has ended, but people still self-segregate. If you deny this, you must live under a rock.Interracial and interfaith marriages are legal.Was prohibition against such marriages really a big thing? No. Both blacks and whites were and still are largely against interracial marriage...no big milestone there, either.Minorities may work as more than labourers, and own successful businesses, and work in politics.Nothing prevented blacks from owning businesses and they did so. Now we just have fringe racists that we mostly ignore because they lack power, and we use policies like affirmative action to offset the advantage that white males have in the nation as a majority.You think two wrongs make a right, I don't...just a matter of opinion ,there.Do you know how the ghettos formed? When blacks and minorities moved into neighborhoods, whites would leave the area in a phenomenon known as "white flight ."It still happens today, liberals never take this into account? If you are going to blame whites for moving away from black neighborhoods, please move to South Central LA and tell me how you like it, no matter what race or combo of races you are.Back in those old days the Ku Klux Klan had a grip in the southern states in particular, and it was common practice to put blacks into their place as second-class animals.  The likelihood that any particular black person would suffer at the hands of the Ku Kux Klan in their lifetime was extremely slim. Most blacks lived lives of content alongside their white neighbors. You remind me of the Neo-Cons who try to convince us all that suicide bombers are around every corner and we should all be on alert and report suspicious persons...you're a fucking idiot. What's more, asshole? Wikipedia links? I didn't even click your weak links because if I had posted Wikipedia links myself you would attempt to laugh me off this site. I have you figured out, now. You just read a lot of bullshit with a liberal bias, you aren't that intelligent or knowledgeable at all.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: yes

Has it? Big deal, institutionalized segregation has ended, but people still self-segregate. If you deny this, you must live under a rock.Moving the goalpost.Was prohibition against such marriages really a big thing? No. Both blacks and whites were and still are largely against interracial marriage...no big milestone there, either.Miscegenation.This mirrors our present gay and lesbian civil rights issues in many ways.Nothing prevented blacks from owning businesses and they did so. Segregation.The Second Ku Klux Klan.You think two wrongs make a right, I don't...just a matter of opinion ,there.Bigots try to claim that they are fighting discrimination by ending affirmative action, but the intended effect is that the latent prejudice in favour of white males will give a competitive advantage to them once again.It still happens today, liberals never take this into account? If you are going to blame whites for moving away from black neighborhoods, please move to South Central LA and tell me how you like it, no matter what race or combo of races you are.White flight is part of what causes modern segregated communities. It is the answer to your statement earlier:Blacks are now the victims of liberal programs which have them warehoused in inner-city projects that resemble Third World countries.The likelihood that any particular black person would suffer at the hands of the Ku Kux Klan in their lifetime was extremely slim. Most blacks lived lives of content alongside their white neighbors. You remind me of the Neo-Cons who try to convince us all that suicide bombers are around every corner and we should all be on alert and report suspicious persons...you're a fucking idiot.This statement is called a half truth. In terms of population it would be considered uncommon to be targeted because thousands of murdered blacks compared to a population of hundreds of thousands or even millions made it statistically unlikely but the full truth is that these rates of violence were obscenely high as compared to times when the Klan was ended in its political influence. It also conceals that the Klan would target blacks who stood out, meaning that if you were a political activist or behaved equal to a white man, you would be killed very possibly.What's more, asshole? Wikipedia links? I didn't even click your weak links because if I had posted Wikipedia links myself you would attempt to laugh me off this site. I have you figured out, now. You just read a lot of bullshit with a liberal bias, you aren't that intelligent or knowledgeable at all.Blah blah. I wish I could make excuses for ignoring debate points like you just did. I have a conscience however, and a sense of pride.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: No

Like the middle class is anything but second class citizens. I suggest you leave your bubble and actually see the world.Cancer, aids, kill you instead of polo, tetnus, etc. Big improvement.
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: No

"Cancer, aids, kill you instead of polo, tetnus, etc. Big improvement."this is the best answer I've seen to the "medication is better" argument which everyone seems to be pulling off
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: yes

Think about this for a second and be realistic. People have to die sometime, and something has to cause that death. Modern medical science has almost wiped polio, tetanus, and pneumonia off the map as causes of death. Life expectancy has been extended by more than two decades. These achievements are sarcastically brushed off, and you agree? I'll ask again since I didn't get an answer from thewayitis. What would be an improvement big enough to convince you medicine is one of the many things that is better today than 100 years ago? Cures for all diseases? No causes of death ever?
Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: No

The reason I haven't answered you, is that I only get on the computer a couple of times a week. I read a lot about history, because history always repeats its' self. Let me point out an example of how history does this and you decide which is better.In the early 1900's there where company towns, you worked for them, they gave you a place to live and credit at the company store. They owned you because the goods where over priced, rent was high and pay was little. You had a job, food and employment. Today, company towns are gone and you are indebted to credit card companies. They don't employ you, they don't feed you, and they don't give you a place to live. In fact they only care about collecting their money.Which is better? There are many people that cannot manage their own paycheck and end up losing their job. They loose their house and end up at a shelter or being taken care of at the taxpayers expense. The truth about company towns is they never expected you to pay your debt to them. They were looking out for their interest and that of its' employees. Big deal, we now have a choice who to be in-debt to.