A ruler is better feared than loved.
YouvsSocrates
Library
Replay past Dailies and play standing matchups, grouped by topic.
THE DAILY ARCHIVE
41 matchups
Should home batteries and personal generation replace big centralized power plants entirely?
YouvsNikola Tesla
Humanoid robots should replace human workers wherever they can do the job cheaper and faster
YouvsNikola Tesla
Should nations be allowed to profit from resources extracted under corrupt or coercive regimes, so long as the trade serves their strategic interest?
YouvsGenghis Khan
Should millionaires be taxed to fund the public good, even if they threaten to leave?
YouvsJohn D. Rockefeller
Has AI become an unaccountable power too big for any authority to check?
YouvsNikola Tesla
When the state can't or won't govern, organized crime can be a legitimate substitute for social order
YouvsGenghis Khan
A naval blockade against a rival power is a legitimate tool of great-power statecraft, not mere aggression dressed up as diplomacy.
YouvsTheodore Roosevelt
Should billionaires be allowed to buy prestige and legacy through massive university donations?
YouvsJohn D. Rockefeller
Nine ads a minute at the World Cup means commerce has finally ruined the beautiful game
YouvsKarl Marx
Should anyone be allowed to strip the safety restrictions off AI models, or must those guardrails stay locked for everyone?
YouvsFriedrich Nietzsche
When a regime rigs its own elections, armed resistance against it is morally justified.
YouvsMohandas Gandhi
Was Trump's threat to annex Greenland a legitimate exercise of great-power leverage, or naked imperial bullying of an ally?
YouvsGenghis Khan
Is AI scraping the open internet really "the largest theft of labor in human history"?
YouvsKarl Marx
Should the people building the most dangerous technology also be the ones warning us about it?
YouvsNikola Tesla
Should any single AI company be allowed to reach a $1.5 trillion valuation?
YouvsTheodore Roosevelt
The U.S. was right to deploy weapons in orbit — militarizing space is the next great conquest, not humanity's most dangerous escalation
YouvsGenghis Khan
Should regulators break up Google's ad empire on monopoly grounds?
YouvsJohn D. Rockefeller
When AI agents lie, cheat, and scheme to win, they're simply exposing human nature stripped of its moral costume — not a new danger, but an old truth in silicon.
YouvsFriedrich Nietzsche
Should a leader's raw personal strength and force of will matter more than their policy record?
YouvsFriedrich Nietzsche
Is fear the most effective tool a leader can wield, or does it always backfire in the end?
YouvsGenghis Khan
Mining open math, research, and art to train AI for profit is the new robber-baron exploitation of the commons.
YouvsJohn D. Rockefeller
"Brain rot" is real generational decline, not just moral panic dressed up as concern for the young
YouvsFriedrich Nietzsche
Ruthless, amoral political strategy wins more than principled leadership does
YouvsGenghis Khan
When a dominant company quietly writes itself out of the rules it forces on everyone else, that's smart business, not corruption
YouvsJohn D. Rockefeller
Should the government be allowed to build algorithms that decide who counts as a 'real' voter?
YouvsFrederick Douglass
With diesel prices at record highs, should governments break up energy cartels and pipelines, or does unregulated competition always deliver the cheapest barrel?
YouvsJohn D. Rockefeller
Should courts have broken up Google's ad-tech empire instead of letting it keep the machine intact?
YouvsJohn D. Rockefeller
When an enemy strikes, is hitting back the wisest road to peace — or does retaliation just refuel the war?
YouvsMohandas Gandhi
As a decade-long chip shortage looms, tech giants should be forced to share surplus semiconductor supply for the collective good rather than hoard it to protect their competitive edge.
YouvsKarl Marx
Seizing a foreign nation's oil wealth through coercive "deals" is smart statecraft, not conquest in disguise.
YouvsGenghis Khan
Should SpaceX be allowed to acquire and consolidate the software tools (like Cursor) that developers and rival companies depend on?
YouvsJohn D. Rockefeller
When the law is too slow or too weak, the armed citizen who steps in to stop a crime is a hero of justice, not a threat to civilized order.
YouvsTheodore Roosevelt
The art should stand apart from the artist's sins — genius earns exemption from the morality we impose on lesser men.
YouvsFriedrich Nietzsche
Governments should fast-track approval of wearable health tech even before its long-term risks are fully understood
YouvsNikola Tesla
Social media radicalizes movements into collapse — mistaking outrage for strength, purity for power
YouvsFriedrich Nietzsche
Should billionaires be allowed to personally dictate government homelessness policy?
YouvsKarl Marx
Meta's alleged "hook, hold, and hide" playbook is just Standard Oil-style monopoly predation wearing a hoodie — it demands trust-busting, not a fine.
YouvsJohn D. Rockefeller
Resolved: A nation needs a strong standing army to survive, and pacifist hand-wringing about militarism is a luxury of the already conquered.
YouvsGenghis Khan
AI tutoring is making students dumber by inflating homework scores while true understanding, tested on exams, quietly erodes
YouvsSocrates
Should a global power be allowed to seize military control of the Strait of Hormuz to guarantee the world's oil keeps flowing?
YouvsGenghis Khan
CULTURE
1 matchupCampus protesters should be allowed to shut down buildings.
YouvsMohandas Gandhi
ECONOMY
2 matchupsThe Federal Reserve should issue a digital dollar.
YouvsPeter Thiel
AI labs should pay for workers displaced by their models.
YouvsKarl Marx
ENERGY & CLIMATE
1 matchupGasoline should be taxed to price in climate damage.
YouvsMohandas Gandhi
HISTORY
1 matchupAthens was right to execute Socrates.
YouvsSocrates
LAW & ORDER
3 matchupsCongress should add seats to the Supreme Court.
YouvsFriedrich Nietzsche
Police officers should lose qualified immunity.
YouvsFriedrich Nietzsche
AR-15-style rifles should be banned for civilians.
YouvsFrederick Douglass
LIFE
1 matchupYou owe your parents nothing you did not agree to.
Friedrich NietzschevsTheodore Roosevelt
PHILOSOPHY
5 matchupsIt is better to suffer injustice than to commit it.
YouvsSocrates
Pity is a weakness dressed up as a virtue.
Friedrich NietzschevsSocrates
A comfortable life is a wasted one.
Theodore RooseveltvsFriedrich Nietzsche
In a shortage, the last ventilator goes to the younger patient.
YouvsSocrates
You would push one person off the bridge to save five.
YouvsSocrates