The Younger Generation Knows Best -- Debate 3
Arguments Against:
  1. The young people are better educated and more broad-minded.
  2. Young people enjoy many more things than the old: they have money to spend; they grow up more quickly; they enjoy more freedom.
  3. The young people do not blindly accept the ideals of their elders.
  4. The old people assume they know best, but it is only a matter of experience.
  5. The young people question the values and assumptions of the older generation and they are right.
  6. The young people enjoy more freedom and have a stronger sense of responsibility.
  7. The young people reject conformity in dress. They reject drab gray suits and convict haircuts.
  8. The old people settle differences by conventional politics and violence.
  9. The old people are unhappy and guilt-ridden in their personal lives.
  10. The old people do not have noble ambitions and only strive for material possessions.
  11. The old people are unable to keep away from the rat race, in which they have lost touch with the most important things in life.
  12. The old people can learn from the young. Young people are more devoted to their friends.
  13. The young people know how to enjoy work and leisure and not to be inhibited.
  14. The young people live in the present rather than in the past or future.
  15. The young people have the energy to accomplish things.
  16. The young people want change and it is important to change in order to make the world a better place.
  17. The young people have many new ideas and are often held back by the old who cannot think of new things as possibly good ideas.