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Yup. Nope.
Debate Score:21
Arguments:12
Total Votes:21
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Don't you just miss the Good Old Days?

Yup.

Side Score: 11
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Nope.

Side Score: 10

Rush Hour Traffic was not so bad in the Good Old Days ;)

Side: Yup.
3 points

I miss the gladiator life.

Side: Yup.

Yup! For me it was growing up in Pittsburgh, PA, Atari, playing Pac man and donkey Kong, star wars , smoking cigarettes ( ok I started early) and listening to early 80`s music ( the best!!!)

Side: Yup.

Yup. One could get a job if one wanted to work. Today even if you want to work, you can't. Somebody had to go and create Human Resources and screw things up. Now experience doesn't count, talent is not desired, but a degree from the University of Phoenix will get you a job. Never did I have a land line drop a call or a file cabinet get virus. Technology has done wonders. We can now text and drive, while watching TV and eating fast food. The good old days when one actually had a face to face conversation and you couldn't get dumped via a text message or e-mail.

The good old days when gasoline cost 79 cents and new car cost $2500.00 Today cars cost what homes where worth and homes cost just a years pay. Yes things were better, government worked for the people, people wanted to work, and everything cost less. Young people had to be born and ruin all this.

Side: Yup.
1 point

Well the women were certainly a lot Easier and nicer to meet which today they are very stuck up and high maintenance, and there was no such thing as a high maintenance woman either back then. Very good reason why there are so many of us Single men today.

Side: Yup.

I certainly do-those days in Sweet homeland in Melbourne and then fly away at twelve to Connecticut and now when I relieve those days and moments ,they tend to linger long and when you realize you've lost so pals,correspondences,acquaintances you have one sole feeling in your heart-Deep loss

Side: Yup.

I can remember leaving the house without locking the door during the 50's.

Side: Yup.

If you watch the news or listen to religious leaders across the country you would think the world is in complete chaos and that we should all take the advice of Antoine Dodson, "hide yo kids, hide yo wife, hide yo husband, cuz they rapin' everybody out here." However, I recently did some research on the subject and the reality is that in most ways things are getting better and have been for decades. The world is far from perfect and still has a lot of problems, but overall things seem to be getting better.

CRIME

All forms of crime has been steadily decreasing for the past two decades. [1]

DRUGS

Use of most drugs other than marijuana has not changed appreciably over the past decade or has declined. [2]

TEEN PREGNANCY

"The teen birth rate has declined almost continuously over the past 20 years. In 1991, the U.S. teen birth rate was 61.8 births for every 1,000 adolescent females, compared with 26.6 births for every 1,000 adolescent females in 2013." [3]

DIVORCE

Divorce rates have been declining for decades. [4]

ALCOHOL ABUSE

"Rates of alcohol dependence/abuse declined from 2002 to 2012 In 2012, 17.7 million Americans (6.8 percent of the population) were dependent on alcohol or had problems related to their use of alcohol (abuse). This is a decline from 18.1 million (or 7.7 percent) in 2002." [2]

UNDERAGE DRINKING

"Drinking by underage persons (ages 12–20) has declined. Current alcohol use by this age group declined from 28.8 to 24.3 percent between 2002 and 2012, while binge drinking declined from 19.3 to 15.3 percent and the rate of heavy drinking went from 6.2 to 4.3 percent." [2]

WARS

Although the number of wars has increased, they have mostly been small wars and the number of deaths from them has dramatically decreased. "The number of people killed in battle, calculated per 100,000 population, has dropped a thousandfold over the centuries as civilizations evolved." [5]

DEMOCRACY

"There were fewer than 20 democracies in 1946. Now there are close to 100. Meanwhile, the number of authoritarian countries has dropped from a high of almost 90 in 1976 to about 25 now." [5]

INTELLIGENCE

"IQ tests show that the average teenager is smarter with each generation. The tests are constantly adjusted to keep average at 100, and a teenager who now would score a 100 would have scored a 118 in 1950 and a 130 in 1910. So this year's average kid would have been a near-genius a century ago." [5]

SOURCES

[1] http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

[2] http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/nationwide-trends

[3] http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/adolescent-health-topics/reproductive-health/teen-pregnancy/trends.html

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivorceintheUnitedStates#Ratesofdivorce

[5] http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2011/10/peace.html

Note: Some of the statistics only apply to the U.S. I didn't have time to look up the stats for every country.

Side: Nope.
2 points

We tend to remember our past as a collection of mostly positive experiences. IMHO that's because we enjoy re-living the good memories and not so much the bad ones. As we compare that collection of memories with current reality, we will tend toward regarding the past as better. However if you really think of all the stress and struggle you went through, you quickly realize you don't want to go thorough that again.

Side: Nope.

I'm not going to say that the present is always better than the past. That depends a lot on where and when you live.

But in general, moving forward in time gives you better and more efficient technology, better distribution of knowledge, more medical breakthroughs and more lessons for society ad a whole to learn from. The past is usually tougher, dirtier and more dangerous. Some might idealize this more barbaric way of living, but I am not among those.

Side: Nope.
1 point

There are some things about the "good ol' days" (whenever they may be...) that I do miss.

However, many problems are steadily decreasing (deaths, crime rate, scientific and technological breakthroughs). Not to say everything is getting better (not a fan of the Western progressive's line of thought, or the media's recent attempts to delve into social justice), but a lot of things are improving.

Side: Nope.
1 point

We all suffer from selective memory loss, these are the good old days, just wait and see.

Side: Nope.