azza1625/createdebate-arguments huggingface dataset:
Debate: Should the US government fund stem cell research?
Side: yes

ok fine, ur potential life forms are saved, but now millions of suffering people have died because the research was abandoned. it is true that no life is greater than the other. but sacrificing one potential life to save one hundred actual lives is more jusitfiable. food for thought.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

I think that seat belts should be mandated by law, because we all (society) ends up bearing the brunt of the cost for people who fail to wear their seatbelts. In fact, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationIt has been proven that seat belt laws increase the use of seat belts. Increasing the national seat belt use rate to 90 percent from the current 68 percent would prevent and estimated 5,536 fatalities, 132,670 injuries and save the nation $8.8 billion annually.We all pay for those who do not wear seat belts. The higher health care and insurance costs that result from unbelted drivers and passengers involved in crashes get passed along to everyone. For example, the costs of hospital care for an unbelted driver are 50 percent higher than those for a driver who was wearing a safety belt. Society bears 85 percent of those costs, not the individuals involved.Thus, seat belt use should be mandatory.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

Seat belts serve a few purposes: to keep us fastened to our seats in a relatively comfortable position, to protect us during vehicle accidents, and to protect others during the same accidents. One of the primary functions of a government - as a part of the social contract - is to protect people from themselves. And this is why we have policies like helmet and seat belt laws (in America).
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

I agree that wearing a seatbelt might in fact save you from serious injury and ultimately, death. My problem is that it IS a violation of human rights. It is MY descision whether or not to wear one. No body elses. The fact that there was legislation passed that fines you when you don't comply is astounding. It simply is not right. Since this guy's post stated that the government is supposed to protect people from themselves, I wonder how he, or anyone else would feel if Big Brother were to pass laws that you must allow yourself enough time to get ready for work in the mornings so as not to be in a rush to get to work. Restrict your speed limit to such a rate that no vehicle can cause damage. If you are on any type of medication, you cannot get behind the wheel. You wear corrective lenses, guess what, you can't drive. It is entirely too dangerous to drive at night. If there is a storm coming in, you cannot be on the road, for whatever reason. You must have both hands on the steering wheel at all times. Can't be messing with the radio, talking on the phone, texting, looking in the mirror. But you know what, all of the things I just mentioned are dangerous to everyone that is on the road the same time you are. Seems to me those would take higher order over when considering personal safety, but they don't. You know why? It puts WAY too much restriction on human rights. The ultimate protection from ourselves is to have to be armed with a deadly weapon, or else, and if you didn't comply, you were fined? (We all know this will NEVER happen). The primary function of government is to regulate interstate commerce. Make policy for the advancement of our society. NOT to infringe on our right to personal choice, so long as it is not in contradiction to the moral fabric that was instilled in mankind.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

The constitution addresses exactly this point to eliminate the government power from taking too much from it people. It specifically states that individuals have the right to do as they please as long as it doesn't "ENDANGER" others. Is says nothing about costing other people money! Every business that makes a profit costs other people money, get over it! And as stated by someone else, this is not to address our flawed health care system. So unless someone who isn't wearing a seat belt flies through the windshield and also through the windshield of your car, killing you, the seat belt law is entirely unconstitutional.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

So you would mind if you kid goes through the windshield because you chose not to strap him in?
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

Simple.. Watch the police and sherifs and other law enforcement and record there actions. If they break the law, make it public that they did, file a complaint and list all facts and documents to support your complaint, publish it in the local paper and send it to your states attorney generals office.. This really gets the local law enforcement in trouble.. You may not be the police but as a US citizen you have much more power than the police will ever have. Just don't give into fear. Hold your ground and argue if you have to.. and ask for a supervisor to show up, this usually gets the officer to back down off his HIGH horse..
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

A seatbelt would have saved one of my cousins a couple years ago...I agree completely.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

I completely agree. Why should we pay for other people deciding to play roulette with their own lives by not wearing a seat belt. It's pretty stupid that by law children under a certain age must wear a seat belt and then not enforce that for an adult person.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

Agreed. An individual's rights end where other's begin. You cannot take a "personal liberty" or make a "personal choice" if you are putting others at danger. While seatbelts don't save lives 100% of the time [a friend of my fell unconscious while driving and was thrown out the door, and his car then crashed through a drainage pipe and was instantly crushed, he would've been killed no doubt about it], it is a very rare occasion that they are counter-productive.The crux of the argument is that by wearing a seatbelt, you are less likely to lose control of the vehicle, putting others at risk, and since US laws aren't meant to restrict the individual but to help the group, they are a necessity at either the state or federal level.By adding a seatbelt law, you give people a heavy incentive to wear a seatbelt and protect themselves, but more importantly, others.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

US laws are not meant to "help the group". The government is not a shepherd and we are not sheep. The Constitution and the laws of the United States set up government as a servant, and places individual liberty as its highest priority.This is not an argument of whether seatbelts are beneficial or not. We all pretty much accept that as fact. We also all pretty much accept that eating well and exercising regularly is a fact (one which, when neglected, ends up costing a lot of taxpayer money in medical bills), but we don't consider passing laws to send you to the gym or to force you to have a salad instead of cheesecake.The argument is whether the force of the government should be used to regulate what is little more than a personal safety decision, and an excuse for those who wish to violate our civil rights even more (if not wearing a seatbelt is a primary offense in your state, then it is cause for pulling someone over and trying to find other things to harass them about).
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

thank you-we are not talking just about grown up....the law deters us from not strapping our kids in too.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

Why should we pay for other people deciding to play roulette with their own lives by not wearing a seat belt.Driving a car on the roadway is like playing roulette.Why should we allow people to drive cars on roadways ?
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

I don't believe it should be mandated by law. Your argument merely points out a flaw in our health care system. It does not address the fact that that the law is unconstitutional and is simply a cog in the goverment's money making machine. Despite statistics proving that seatbelts save the lives of those who use them, it still should be their choice, and their choice alone. The seatbelt law IS another prime example of the goverment telling it's civilian population how to live their life. One out of every eight deaths in America is caused by an illness directly related to overweight and obesity. By your standards it would be perfectly fine for the goverment to issue an ultimatum to stop consuming Häagen-Dazs or be fined for it! I risk no one's life but my own by CHOOSING not to wear my seatbelt.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

People say that seatbelts saves lives. I beg to differ. I know of several accidents that resulted in the deaths of people who were wearing their seatbelts. One accident in 1985 involved my late aunt. She was driving one way on a road and another driver that was speeding was coming the other way. He crossed the line and hit her head on. She died a week later from her injuries. In 2006, in Caldwell, Tx, I lost a great step nephew because he was thrown halfway out of his father's SUV. His head was slammed into a tree. His little brother and father were not wearing seatbelts and survived. The recall of the 1973 to 1987 General Motors Corporation pickups was caused by a boy who was killed in his pickup and was unable to get his seatbelt off before he burned to death. In 1984, I had a brother that was told, by a Tx State Trooper, that if he would have been wearing his seatbelt when he flipped his car, that he could have been injured worse or killed. August, 2001, I had a soldier lose his arm at the shoulder due to a seatbelt. He was 23 at the time. Sometimes it may be better to die then to live with a missing body part or not able to function properly. These surveys and panels that the government have come up with about forcing people to wear seatbelts takes away our GOD GIVEN RIGHT to choose. Until these surveys show the full statistics of all use or none use of seatbelts are published, then I don't think it is fair to force people to wear a seatbelt.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: MY RIGHT MY CHOICE MY DUTY

I beg to differ as well, I am living proof that a strong case can be made for not being restrained in a belt, Had I been wearing one when I had my accident I would have died, no drama, just a fact and one that came straight from the police at the scene and the ambulance crew who worked on me. I would have died and in my opnion my life, my choices are not only my PRIVILEGE but certainlly my RESPONSIBILITY and by extension my RIGHT to manages the choices that affect them should also belong TO ME.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

Personal liberties is just that, you have a choice.. Given all the information and education, you make the choice. NO one should ever tell you how to live your life from the government. NO Gov should ever tell you how to live your life..
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

We all (society) ends up bearing the brunt of the cost for people who harm or kill other people.It has been proven that putting people in maximum security solitary confinement reduces the chance of that person harming or killing another person.Thus, putting everyone in solitary confinement under maximum security should be mandatory.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

I agree with what you're saying here, and a lot of what is being said here in favor of this. Seat belt laws do save lives because there is always that group of people who aren't intelligent enough to think wearing a seat belt could save their life and they won't do it. Be it personal reasons, the fact that wearing a seat belt is cool or whatever, some people need to be instructed in what they can and can't do. Not everyone in the world is a leader.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

Higher health care and insurance costs are due to the abundance of malpractice suits and insurance fraud cases brought forth by this "get rich quick," "sue happy" society. To say that society pays 85 percent of the medical care for unbelted drivers is ridiculous, because if that was really the case our insurance rates would be rising faster than gas prices. And considering there are approximately 304,106,367 people in the United States, the point of 5,536 estimated lives saved per year hardly seems like a reason to mandate a whole nation.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

While wearing a seat belt is your choice it isn't your choice when someone is drunk driving and runs into you. Emergency workers don't have a choice then to treat you, so save everyone the heartache and just buckle up.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

does anyone realize how many lives have been, are, and will be saved by wearing a seatbelt. with the decisions that people make....drinking and driving.... it would be stupid not to wear them. our country is trying to keep us all safe by giving us these laws. its a personal choice to obey the law or not, so if its a law you can still choose whether you want to wear them or not.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

The choice not to wear a seat belt does not only affect the life of the individual choosing not to wear one, but also the lives of others. Increased costs to society through subsidized health care and emotional burdens on the family members of those killed in car crashes outweighs the individual's right to choose whether or not to wear a seat belt. The consequences of an individual's choice are not confined only to that person, thus the requirement to wear a seat belt serves to protect other people from one person's error in judgment.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

My sister was in a car accident a few months ago and died instantly... if she had been wearing a seatbelt she would still be alive and my nephew would still have a mother.The seatbelt law is one law that should be enforced everywhere. How hard is it to put on a seatbelt? Just by doing that small thing you could save your life. No one ever plans on getting in a fatal accident but it happens. And when it does you're not only paying the price with your life, your relatives and friends also have to deal with the loss of someone they loved and cared about.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

seatbelts ARE in cars to save lifes
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

What about the psychological damage an unfastened body can cause for others involved in the accident? Also, there is a good chance that the body itself can do further damage to other people or property after it is projected from the vehicle.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

Yes, we need laws to protect everyone (or at least as many people as we can) from as many dangers as possible. We need to protect the human race at all cost. This can be facilitated getting people off the planet so that we don't have all of our eggs in one basket. And as we ship them up into space, we need to make sure that they are wearing their seat belts just in case they slam into a meteor heading towards Earth. That way they will survive and make it towards Mars to start anew. Since Mars is cold, they will have to start generating green house gasses to warm up the planet (but we're already pretty good at that). We need to spread humanity to the outer reaches of space and time. Since our television signals (especially today's news) would have preceded us, the universe will no doubt welcome us with open arms. It is our Manifest Destiny!
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

Seatbelts have reduced the number of vehicle-related deaths. The statistics speak for themselves.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

It could keep the driver in his/her seat when the driving gets very rough (like right before and during an accident). That fact means that the driver has more control over the car (because he remains in his seat). That could protect others on the road , or in the car , or anywhere else, from getting hurt.IF IT ONLY AFFECTED THE DRIVER, i would say it doesnt matter. But belts could help the driver stay driving. So theyre required
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

hell yah brotha!!
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

If somebody doesn't have the common sense to wear a seat belt, they deserve a ticket.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

You must not of seen the movie, Rogue almost dies there because she cant get out of the burning truck because of the seat belt!
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

Why would anyone be against wearing a seatbelt? Yes you can go on and on about the intellectual right to self determine if you are going to wear one, but in this instance, there is no reason at all for someone to NOT wear a seatbelt. It's a proven fact that they save lives and that they are not an inconvenience when driving. With that in mind, this law is not a violation of liberty, it simply makes sense in the same way that mandating car manufacturers to follow safety guidelines makes sense.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

It is a proven fact that smoking is harmful. But i am free to make a choice wether to smoke or not unless i am bothering others with my smoke.It is a proven fact that drinking alcohol is harmful. But once again i am free to drink as much as i want unless i start acting criminally.It is a proven fact that cliffhanging is dangerous. But noone starts a law against cliffhanging ye?It is a proven fact that sportsmen get lots of injuries in tough tackles or doing hard tricks - are we going to deny that too??
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

You get utility (enjoyment) from smoking. You get utility from drinking. You get utility from dangerous sports. Do you get utility from not wearing a seatbelt?No you don't. That's why it is fundamentally different from those freedoms. By making those other activities illegal, there will be people who stand to lose a lot of happiness by not being able to enjoy those activities. In comparison, no one is truly bothered by wearing a seatbelt. If you are, then you are quite a unique individual.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

Majority of people do not get any enjoyment from dangerous sports. Those who do - are quite unique individuals too.I am free to enjoy whatever i want. Driving without a seatbelt, peeing into the sink, drinking alcohol free beer, banging my head over a wall - it does not matter. Perhaps a person gets utiliti from not wearing a seatbelt... E.g: he thinks that the seatbelt does too much pressure and he feels uncomfortable. Feeling comfortable is an utility right?Or even a person just doesnt want to give a damn about wearing it. He just doesn't want to think about it - a utility eh?And just to clarify things - i do wear a seatbelt, first of all cos' the risk to my health for me is much more important than not wearing a seatbelt. But i did this choice myself. And i am quite sure that every person should have a possibility to do it too.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

Utility is the poorest justification I've ever seen. It's ends justifies the means. The question is, which set of persons is so elevated that we must concede all our decisions to their judgment on matters of personal choice?We "get" something out of everything we do, altruistic or not.Eitehr way, your argument is silly. The only reason skydiving, bungee-jumping and lots of other things are exciting is because of the risk and the rush. Some people may enjoy living their daily lives a little closer to the edge than others. Forcing them to buckle in would take away a lot of happiness from them.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

You make a great argument. For arguments sake, I would say that I do get utility from not wearing a seatbelt and... I'm not unique. I also would like to retain my right to forget to wear my seatbelt (in spite of all the dinging and donging in my car). We shouldn't empower the government take away freedoms simply because "no one is truly bothered" by it. Freedom is too precious and fragile.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

What the f#%& does utility have to do with it? And I think that is a poor use of the word utility. I'm not even sure if it makes sense. Euphoria would have made more sense.The only discussion is that it's unconstitutional.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

How in the world are seatbelt laws "unConstitutional"?? Please...
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

Why would you criticize the government for enacting a law that will protect you? Its like slapping somebody in the face for reminding you to wear a bullet proof vest in a gun fight. The fine for being caught without a seatbelt on is only there to help you remember to wear your seatbelt.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: No - it's a personal choice

the cops can stop me and remind me that its safer to wear my seatbelt without a fine .... and im not stupid... i choose what to eat, get in my car, drive on a public road, cruise through rush hour, ride my horse, turn on the hot water in my shower, etc all dangerous in thier own right. and i will die when my time comes like everyone else. IT DOESNT NEED TO BE A LAW!
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

"the cops can stop me and remind me that its safer to wear my seatbelt without a fine"- as if that will have any significant impact on you. A financial burden inflicted on a person acts as a deterrent to breaking the law."i will die when my time comes like everyone else"- im sure you would rather die when its your "time" than wear a seatbelt to get decades more of living.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

Of course there should be seat belt laws. It is not just personal choice because by not wearing a seat belt, you endanger others as well as yourself because your body can project itself through the windshield etc. Plus, if you expect people to pay for damages etc, you have to do everything you can to protect yourself.
Debate: Should the US have seatbelt laws?
Side: Yes - they save lives

"I have a right to endanger my own life!!!" That's got to be the stupidest argument I've heard in a long time. The "No" voters need to stop quoting Benjamin Franklin and the Constitution, because this is not a "freedom" issue. Give me a good reason NOT to wear your seat belt--without whining about your rights--and I will listen to your opinion. Your bull-headed "dang government can't tell me what to do" stubbornness is going to get you killed someday.