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)NTRODUCTION BY 2OBERT 4RAPP
INTERNATIONAL DEBATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
\4HE $EBATABASE "OOK
!BORTION ON $EMAND
!DVERTISING 4ARGETING OF #HILDREN
!FFIRMATIVE !CTION
!FGHANISTAN )NVASION OF
!FRICAN !FFAIRS /UTSIDE )NTERVENTION IN
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!)$3 $RUGS FOR $EVELOPING #OUNTRIES
!LCOHOL "ANNING OF
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!RTS 3UBSIDIES !BOLITION OF
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\4HE $EBATABASE "OOK
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$EBATABASE IS A STARTING POINT ON THE ROAD TO PARTICI #OMMUNICATION RHETORIC ARGUMENTATION AND
PATING IN DEBATES 4HE VOLUME PROVIDES A BEGINNING FOR DEBATE
THOSE DEBATERS WHO WOULD LIKE TO LEARN ABOUT IMPORTANT
TOPICS BEING ARGUED IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE $EBATERS CAN #OMMUNICATION RHETORIC ARGUMENTATION AND
USE THIS VOLUME AS A METHOD OF DISCOVERING THE BASIC DEBATE ARE RELATED CONCEPTS 3TARTING WITH COMMUNICA
ISSUES RELEVANT TO SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT TOPICS TION AND PROCEEDING TO DEBATE THE CONCEPTS BECOME
BEING DISCUSSED IN VARIOUS PUBLIC FORUMS )T WILL PROVIDE PROGRESSIVELY NARROWED "Y BEGINNING WITH THE BROADEST
DEBATERS A BRIEF LOOK AT SOME OF THE CLAIMS THAT CAN BE CONCEPT COMMUNICATION AND ENDING AT THE NARROWEST
USED TO SUPPORT OR TO OPPOSE MANY OF THE ISSUES ARGUED DEBATE ) INTEND TO SHOW HOW ALL THESE TERMS ARE INTER
ABOUT BY PERSONS IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES IT WILL ALSO PRO RELATED
VIDE SOME SKETCHES OF EVIDENCE THAT CAN BE USED TO SUP #OMMUNICATION MAY BE DElNED AS THE PROCESS
PORT THESE CLAIMS 4HIS VOLUME IS HOWEVER ONLY A START WHEREBY SIGNS ARE USED TO CONVEY INFORMATION &OLLOWING
ING POINT $EBATERS INTERESTED IN BECOMING VERY GOOD THIS DElNITION COMMUNICATION IS A VERY BROAD CONCEPT
DEBATERS OR EXCELLENT DEBATERS WILL NEED TO GO BEYOND THIS RANGING FROM HUMAN SYMBOLIC PROCESSES TO THE MEANS
VOLUME IF THEY INTEND TO BE ABLE TO INTELLIGENTLY DISCUSS THAT ANIMALS USE TO RELATE TO ONE ANOTHER 3OME OF THESE
THESE ISSUES IN DEPTH MEANS ARE A PART OF THE COMPLEX BIOLOGY OF BOTH HUMAN
4HIS INTRODUCTION IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE A THEORETICAL AND NONHUMAN ANIMALS &OR INSTANCE THE BEHAVIORS OF
FRAMEWORK WITHIN WHICH INFORMATION ABOUT ARGUMEN CERTAIN SPECIES OF BIRDS WHEN STRANGERS APPROACH A NEST
TATION AND DEBATE CAN BE VIEWED NO ATTEMPT HAS BEEN OF THEIR YOUNG ARE A PART OF THE BIOLOGY OF THOSE SPECIES
MADE TO PROVIDE A GENERAL THEORY OF ARGUMENTATION ) 4HE REASON WE KNOW THESE ARE BIOLOGICAL TRAITS IS THAT ALL
BEGIN WITH SOME BASIC DISTINCTIONS AMONG THE TERMS MEMBERS OF THE SPECIES USE THE SAME SIGNS TO INDICATE
COMMUNICATION RHETORIC ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE INTRUSION !LTHOUGH ALL OF OUR COMMUNICATION ABILITIES
PROGRESS TO A DESCRIPTION OF THE ELEMENTS OF ARGUMENT INCLUDING RHETORICAL COMMUNICATIONARE SOMEHOW
THAT ARE MOST CENTRAL TO DEBATE AND THEN TO A DISCUSSION BUILT INTO OUR SPECIES BIOLOGICALLY ALL COMMUNICATION IS
OF HOW THESE ELEMENTS CAN BE STRUCTURED INTO CLAIMS TO NOT RHETORICAL
SUPPORT DEBATE PROPOSITIONS &OLLOWING THE DISCUSSION 4HE FEATURE THAT MOST CLEARLY DISTINGUISHES RHETO
OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURES ) MOVE TO A MORE DETAILED DIS RIC FROM OTHER FORMS OF COMMUNICATION IS THE SYMBOL
CUSSION OF CLAIMS AND PROPOSITIONS AND lNALLY DISCUSS !LTHOUGH THE ABILITY TO USE SYMBOLIC FORMS OF COMMU
THE KINDS OF EVIDENCE NEEDED TO SUPPORT CLAIMS AND NICATION IS CERTAINLY A BIOLOGICAL TRAIT OF HUMAN BEINGS
PROPOSITIONS OUR ABILITY TO USE SYMBOLS ALSO ALLOWS US TO USE CULTURALLY
! CAVEAT IS NEEDED BEFORE PROCEEDING TO THE THEORETI AND INDIVIDUALLY SPECIlC TYPES OF SYMBOLS 4HE CLEAR
CAL PORTION OF THIS INTRODUCTION 4HIS INTRODUCTION DOES EST EVIDENCE THAT DIFFERENT CULTURES DEVELOPED DIFFERENT
NOT INTEND TO BE A PRACTICAL HOW TO GUIDE TO THE CREATION SYMBOLS IS THE PRESENCE OF DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AMONG
OF ARGUMENTS )T DOES INTEND TO PROVIDE THE CONCEPTUAL HUMAN BEINGS SEPARATED GEOGRAPHICALLY %VEN THOUGH ALL
GROUNDWORK NEEDED FOR DEBATERS TO LEARN HOW TO CREATE HUMANS ARE BORN WITH THE ABILITY TO USE LANGUAGE SOME
ARGUMENTS ACCORDING TO A VARIETY OF METHODS OF US LEARN 2USSIAN OTHERS &RENCH AND OTHERS %NGLISH
)NTRODUCTION \
4HE CLEAREST EXAMPLE OF SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION IS LAN
MENTS OF RHETORIC NAMELY METAPHOR AND NARRATIVE ARE
GUAGE ,ANGUAGE IS AN ABSTRACT METHOD OF USING SIGNS TO VERY USEFUL TO DEBATERS BUT THEY ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS
REFER TO OBJECTS 4HE CONCEPT OF A SYMBOL DIFFERENTIATES INTRODUCTION BECAUSE THEY ARE LESS CENTRAL TO DEBATE THAN
RHETORIC FROM OTHER FORMS OF COMMUNICATION 3YMBOLS IS ARGUMENTATION "EYOND NOT INCLUDING SEVERAL RHETORI
HENCE RHETORIC ARE ABSTRACT METHODS OF COMMUNICATION CAL ELEMENTS THAT SOMETIMES ARE USEFUL IN DEBATE THIS
3TILL ALL RHETORIC IS NOT ARGUMENTATION 2HETORICAL INTRODUCTION ALSO EXCLUDES MANY ELEMENTS OF ARGUMENTA
COMMUNICATION CAN BE DIVIDED INTO VARIOUS CATEGORIES TION CHOOSING JUST THE ONES THAT ARE MOST CENTRAL 4HOSE
TWO OF WHICH ARE NARRATIVE AND METAPHOR *UST TO GIVE CENTRAL ELEMENTS ARE EVIDENCE REASONING CLAIMS AND
A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES THE NARRATIVE MODE OF RHETORIC RESERVATIONS 4HESE ELEMENTS ARE THOSE THAT PHILOSOPHER
FOCUSES ON SEQUENTIAL TIME THE METAPHORIC MODE OF 3TEPHEN 4OULMIN INTRODUCED IN AND REVISED
RHETORIC FOCUSES ON COMPARING ONE THING TO ANOTHER AND YEARS LATER
THE ARGUMENTATIVE MODE OF RHETORIC FOCUSES ON GIVING
REASONS !LL OF THESE MODES OF RHETORIC ARE USEFUL IN 4HE %LEMENTS OF !RGUMENT
DEBATE BUT THE MODE OF RHETORIC THAT IS MOST CENTRAL TO
DEBATE IS ARGUMENTATION !LTHOUGH IN THIS INTRODUCTION SOME OF 4OULMINS
!RGUMENTATION IS THE PROCESS WHEREBY HUMANS USE TERMINOLOGY HAS BEEN MODIlED BECAUSE OF ITS POPULAR
REASON TO COMMUNICATE CLAIMS TO ONE ANOTHER !CCORDING USAGE THE MODEL WILL STILL BE REFERRED TO AS THE 4OULMIN
TO THIS DElNITION THE FOCUS ON REASON BECOMES THE FEA
MODEL "ECAUSE IT IS ONLY A MODEL THE 4OULMIN MODEL
TURE THAT DISTINGUISHES ARGUMENTATION FROM OTHER MODES IS ONLY A ROUGH APPROXIMATION OF THE ELEMENTS AND THEIR
OF RHETORIC 7HEN PEOPLE ARGUE WITH ONE ANOTHER NOT RELATIONSHIPS TO ONE ANOTHER 4HE MODEL IS NOT INTENDED
ONLY DO THEY ASSERT CLAIMS BUT THEY ALSO ASSERT REASONS AS A DESCRIPTIVE DIAGRAM OF ACTUAL ARGUMENTS FOR A VARI
THEY BELIEVE THE CLAIMS TO BE PLAUSIBLE OR PROBABLE !RGU
ETY OF REASONS &IRST IT DESCRIBES ONLY THOSE ELEMENTS OF
MENTATION IS A PRIMARY TOOL OF DEBATE BUT IT SERVES OTHER AN ARGUMENT RELATED TO REASONING )T DOES NOT DESCRIBE
ACTIVITIES AS WELL !RGUMENTATION IS FOR INSTANCE AN OTHER IMPORTANT ELEMENTS SUCH AS EXPRESSIONS OF FEELINGS
IMPORTANT TOOL IN NEGOTIATION CONmICT RESOLUTION AND OR EMOTIONS UNLESS THOSE EXPRESSIONS ARE DIRECTLY RELATED
PERSUASION $EBATE IS AN ACTIVITY THAT COULD HARDLY EXIST TO REASONING 3ECOND THE MODEL DESCRIBES ONLY THE LIN
WITHOUT ARGUMENTATION GUISTIC ELEMENTS OF REASONING 4O THE EXTENT THAT AN ARGU
!RGUMENTATION IS USEFUL IN ACTIVITIES LIKE NEGOTIATION MENT INCLUDES SIGNIlCANT NONVERBAL ELEMENTS THEY ARE
AND CONmICT RESOLUTION BECAUSE IT CAN BE USED TO HELP NOT COVERED BY THE MODEL 4HIRD THE MODEL APPLIES
PEOPLE lND WAYS TO RESOLVE THEIR DIFFERENCES "UT IN SOME ONLY TO THE SIMPLEST OF ARGUMENTS )F AN ARGUMENT IS
OF THESE SITUATIONS DIFFERENCES CANNOT BE RESOLVED INTER
COMPOSED OF A VARIETY OF WARRANTS OR A CLUSTER OF EVI
NALLY AND AN OUTSIDE ADJUDICATOR MUST BE CALLED 4HESE DENCE RELATED TO THE CLAIM IN DIFFERENT WAYS THE MODEL
ARE THE SITUATIONS THAT WE CALL DEBATE 4HUS ACCORDING MAY NOT APPLY WELL IF AT ALL $ESPITE THESE SHORTCOMINGS
TO THIS VIEW DEBATE IS DElNED AS THE PROCESS OF ARGUING THIS MODEL HAS PROVEN ITSELF USEFUL FOR DESCRIBING SOME
ABOUT CLAIMS IN SITUATIONS WHERE THE OUTCOME MUST BE OF THE KEY ELEMENTS OF ARGUMENTS AND HOW THEY FUNCTION
DECIDED BY AN ADJUDICATOR 4HE FOCUS OF THIS INTRODUC
TOGETHER 4HE DIAGRAMS SHOWN ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES
TION IS ON THOSE ELEMENTS OF ARGUMENTATION THAT ARE MOST ILLUSTRATE THE 4OULMIN MODEL
OFTEN USED IN DEBATE 4HE BASIC 4OULMIN MODEL IDENTIlES FOUR BASIC ELE
)N SOME REGARDS THIS FOCUS IS INCOMPLETE BECAUSE MENTS OF ARGUMENT CLAIM DATA WHICH WE CALL EVIDENCE
SOME NONARGUMENTATIVE ELEMENTS OF COMMUNICATION WARRANT AND RESERVATION 4HE MODEL OF ARGUMENT IS MOST
AND RHETORIC OFTEN ARE USED IN DEBATE EVEN THOUGH THEY EASILY EXPLAINED BY A TRAVEL ANALOGY 4HE EVIDENCE IS THE
ARE NOT THE MOST CENTRAL FEATURES OF DEBATE 3OME ELE
ARGUMENTS STARTING POINT 4HE CLAIM IS THE ARGUERS DES
!S FAR AS ) KNOW NO ONE HAS SUCCESSFULLY ORGANIZED MODES OF RHETORIC INTO A COHERENT TAXONOMY BECAUSE THE VARIOUS MODES OVERLAP
SO MUCH WITH ONE ANOTHER &OR INSTANCE NARRATIVES AND METAPHORS ARE USED IN ARGUMENTS AS METAPHORS AND ARGUMENTS ARE FREQUENTLY
FOUND IN NARRATIVES
4HIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT OTHER FORMS OF RHETORIC DO NOT INVOLVE THE USE OF REASON JUST THAT THE FORM OF RHETORIC WHERE THE FOCUS ON
REASON IS MOST CLEARLY IN THE FOREGROUND IS ARGUMENTATION
4HE 5SES OF !RGUMENT #AMBRIDGE #AMBRIDGE 5NIVERSITY 0RESS
!LBERT 2 *ONSEN AND 3TEPHEN 4OULMIN 4HE !BUSE OF #ASUISTRY ! (ISTORY OF -ORAL 2EASONING "ERKELEY 5NIVERSITY OF #ALIFORNIA
0RESS
#HARLES !RTHUR 7ILLARD h/N THE 5TILITY OF $ESCRIPTIVE $IAGRAMS FOR THE !NALYSIS AND #RITICISM OF !RGUMENTS v #OMMUNICATION
-ONOGRAPHS .OVEMBER
\4HE $EBATABASE "OOK
TINATION 4HE WARRANT IS THE MEANS OF TRAVEL AND THE RES
)N ADDITION TO THE SIMPLE ARGUMENT SUGGESTED ABOVE
ERVATION INVOLVES QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS THE ARGUER MAY OTHER ARGUMENT STRUCTURES INCLUDE CONVERGENT AND INDE
HAVE ABOUT ARRIVAL AT THE DESTINATION 4OULMINS MODEL PENDENT ARGUMENTS !LTHOUGH THESE DO NOT EVEN BEGIN TO
CAN BE USED TO DIAGRAM THE STRUCTURE OF RELATIVELY SIMPLE EXHAUST ALL POTENTIAL ARGUMENT STRUCTURES THEY ARE SOME
ARGUMENTS OF THE MORE COMMON ONES ENCOUNTERED IN DEBATE
3TRUCTURE OF AN !RGUMENT #ONVERGENT !RGUMENTS
! SIMPLE ARGUMENT FOR INSTANCE CONSISTS OF A SINGLE ! CONVERGENT ARGUMENT IS ONE WHEREIN TWO OR MORE
CLAIM SUPPORTED BY A PIECE OF EVIDENCE A SINGLE WARRANT BITS OF EVIDENCE CONVERGE WITH ONE ANOTHER TO SUPPORT A
AND PERHAPS BUT NOT ALWAYS A SINGLE RESERVATION 4HE CLAIM )N OTHER WORDS WHEN A SINGLE PIECE OF EVIDENCE IS
FOLLOWING DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATES 4OULMINS DIAGRAM OF A NOT SUFlCIENT IT MUST BE COMBINED WITH ANOTHER PIECE
SIMPLE ARGUMENT OF EVIDENCE IN THE EFFORT TO SUPPORT THE CLAIM
#ONVERGENT ARGUMENT
3IMPLE !RGUMENT
#ONSIDER AS AN ILLUSTRATION THE FOLLOWING CONVERGENT
4OULMIN ILLUSTRATES THIS DIAGRAM USING A SIMPLE ARGU
ARGUMENT
MENT CLAIM THAT (ARRY IS A "RITISH CITIZEN BECAUSE HE WAS ,YING IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED AN IMMORAL ACT 4HE USE
BORN IN "ERMUDA (ERE IS HOW THE STRUCTURE OF THAT ARGU
OF PLACEBOS IN DRUG TESTING RESEARCH INVOLVES LYING BECAUSE
MENT WAS DIAGRAMED BY 4OULMIN SOME OF THE SUBJECTS ARE LED FALSELY TO BELIEVE THEY ARE BEING
GIVEN REAL DRUGS 4HEREFORE PLACEBOS SHOULD NOT BE USED IN
3IMPLE !RGUMENT DRUG TESTING UNLESS THEY ARE THE ONLY METHOD AVAILABLE TO TEST
POTENTIALLY LIFE
SAVING DRUGS
!LTHOUGH THIS DIAGRAM OF AN ARGUMENT CLEARLY ILLUS
TRATES HOW AN ARGUMENT MOVES FROM EVIDENCE TO A CLAIM
VIA A WARRANT VERY FEW ARGUMENTS ARE EVER QUITE AS SIMPLE
&OR THIS REASON ) HAVE ADAPTED 4OULMIN AND *ONSENS
MODEL TO ILLUSTRATE A FEW DIFFERENT ARGUMENT STRUCTURES
)NTRODUCTION \
4HIS PARTICULAR ARGUMENT BEGINS WITH TWO PIECES OF )NDEPENDENT !RGUMENTS
EVIDENCE 4HE lRST PIECE INVOLVES THE VALUE STATEMENT
THAT hLYING GENERALLY IS CONSIDERED AN IMMORAL ACTv 4HIS
PIECE OF EVIDENCE IS A STATEMENT THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH
THE AUDIENCES VALUES REGARDING LYING 4HE SECOND PIECE
OF EVIDENCE IS THE FACTUAL STATEMENT THAT hTHE USE OF PLA
CEBOS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH INVOLVES A FORM OF LYINGv 4HE
SECOND PIECE OF EVIDENCE INVOLVES THE FACT THAT WHEN A
RESEARCHER GIVES A PLACEBO EG A SUGAR PILL TO A PORTION
OF THE SUBJECTS IN A STUDY OF A POTENTIALLY LIFE
SAVING DRUG
THAT RESEARCHER IS LYING TO THOSE SUBJECTS AS THEY ARE LED TO
BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE RECEIVING A DRUG THAT MAY SAVE THEIR
LIVES 4HE WARRANT THEN COMBINES THE EVIDENCE WITH A
FAMILIAR PATTERN OF REASONINGIN THIS CASE IF AN ACT IN
GENERAL IS IMMORAL THEN ANY PARTICULAR INSTANCE OF THAT 4AKE FOR INSTANCE THE FOLLOWING ARGUMENT AGAINST
ACT IS LIKEWISE IMMORAL )F LYING IS IMMORAL IN GENERAL CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
THEN USING PLACEBOS IN PARTICULAR IS ALSO IMMORAL
4HE CLAIM RESULTS FROM A CONVERGENCE OF THE PIECES OF /N MORAL GROUNDS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT OUGHT TO BE ABOL
EVIDENCE AND THE WARRANT )N SOME INSTANCES AN ARGUER ISHED )F A SOCIETY CONSIDERS A MURDER IMMORAL FOR TAKING
MAY NOT WISH TO HOLD TO THIS CLAIM IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES A HUMAN LIFE HOW CAN THAT SOCIETY THEN TURN AROUND AND
)F THE ARGUER WISHES TO DElNE SPECIlC SITUATIONS IN WHICH TAKE THE LIFE OF THE MURDERER "EYOND MORAL GROUNDS CAPI
THE CLAIM DOES NOT HOLD THEN THE ARGUER ADDS A RESERVA
TAL PUNISHMENT OUGHT TO BE ABOLISHED BECAUSE UNLIKE OTHER
TION TO THE ARGUMENT )N THIS CASE A RESERVATION SEEMS PUNISHMENTS IT ALONE IS IRREVERSIBLE )F EVIDENCE IS DISCOVERED
PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE %VEN THOUGH THE ARGUER MAY AFTER THE EXECUTION THERE IS NO WAY TO BRING THE UNJUSTLY
GENERALLY OBJECT TO LYING AND TO THE USE OF PLACEBOS THE EXECUTED PERSON BACK TO LIFE
ARGUER MAY WISH TO EXEMPT SITUATIONS WHERE THE USE OF A
PLACEBO IS THE hONLY METHOD OF TESTING A POTENTIALLY LIFE
4HIS ARGUMENT ABOUT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT CAN BE REP
SAVING DRUGv RESENTED IN THE FOLLOWING DIAGRAM
4HE UNIQUE FEATURE OF THE CONVERGENT STRUCTURE OF
ARGUMENT IS THAT THE ARGUER PRODUCES A COLLECTION OF EVI
DENCE THAT IF TAKEN TOGETHER SUPPORTS THE CLAIM 4HE
STRUCTURE OF THE ARGUMENT IS SUCH THAT ALL OF THE EVIDENCE
MUST BE BELIEVED FOR THE ARGUMENT TO BE SUPPORTED )F
THE AUDIENCE DOES NOT ACCEPT ANY ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE
THE ENTIRE ARGUMENT STRUCTURE FALLS /N THE OTHER HAND
THE INDEPENDENT ARGUMENT STRUCTURE IS SUCH THAT ANY
SINGLE PIECE OF EVIDENCE CAN PROVIDE SUFlCIENT SUPPORT
FOR THE ARGUMENT
)NDEPENDENT !RGUMENTS
!N ARGUER USING AN INDEPENDENT ARGUMENT STRUCTURE
PRESENTS SEVERAL PIECES OF EVIDENCE ANY ONE OF WHICH
PROVIDES SUFlCIENT SUPPORT FOR THE ARGUMENT )N OTHER
WORDS A DEBATER MAY PRESENT THREE PIECES OF EVIDENCE
AND CLAIM THAT THE MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE SHOULD
ACCEPT THE CLAIM EVEN IF THEY ARE CONVINCED ONLY BY A
SINGLE PIECE OF EVIDENCE 4HE FOLLOWING DIAGRAM ILLUS
TRATES THE STRUCTURE OF AN INDEPENDENT ARGUMENT
\4HE $EBATABASE "OOK
4HIS EXAMPLE OF AN INDEPENDENT ARGUMENT STRUCTURE 4YPES OF #LAIMS AND 0ROPOSITIONS
IS BASED ON TWO PIECES OF EVIDENCE EITHER OF WHICH IS -OST AUTHORS DIVIDE CLAIMS AND PROPOSITIONS INTO THE
STRONG ENOUGH TO SUPPORT THE CLAIM THAT CAPITAL PUN
TRADITIONAL CATEGORIES OF FACT VALUE AND POLICY ) HAVE
ISHMENT OUGHT TO BE ABOLISHED 4HE lRST PIECE OF EVI
CHOSEN NOT TO USE THESE TRADITIONAL CATEGORIES FOR TWO
DENCE INVOLVES THE VALUE OF TAKING A HUMAN LIFE WHILE REASONS &IRST THE TRADITIONAL CATEGORIES HAVE NO PLACE
THE SECOND INVOLVES THE VALUE OF BEING ABLE TO CORRECT FOR SOME IMPORTANT KINDS OF PROPOSITIONS THAT ARE NOT
A MISTAKE !CCORDING TO THIS ARGUMENT CAPITAL PUNISH
FACTS OR VALUES OR POLICY -ORE SPECIlCALLY THE TRADI
MENT OUGHT TO BE ABOLISHED EVEN IF ONLY ONE OF THE ITEMS TIONAL CATEGORIES HAVE NO PLACE FOR PROPOSITIONS THAT
OF EVIDENCE IS BELIEVED BY THE AUDIENCE 4HE MORAL STRIC
SEEK TO DElNE CONCEPTS NOR FOR PROPOSITIONS THAT SEEK
TURE AGAINST TAKING A LIFE IS BY ITSELF A SUFlCIENT REASON TO ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN OR AMONG CONCEPTS
TO OPPOSE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AS IS THE DANGER OF MAKING 3ECOND THE TRADITIONAL CATEGORIES SEPARATE EVALUATIVE AND
AN UNCORRECTABLE MISTAKE 4HE STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE OF THIS POLICY PROPOSITIONS WHILE THE SYSTEM USED HERE WILL CON
FORM OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE IS OBVIOUS 7HEREAS WITH SIDER PROPOSITIONS OF POLICY AS A SPECIlC KIND OF EVALUA
CONVERGENT STRUCTURES THE LOSS OF ONE PART OF THE ARGU
TIVE PROPOSITION ) USE FOUR MAIN CATEGORIES OF PROPOSI
MENT ENDANGERS THE ENTIRE ARGUMENT IN THE INDEPENDENT TIONS DElNITION DESCRIPTION RELATIONSHIP AND EVALUA
STRUCTURE THE ARGUMENT CAN PREVAIL EVEN IF ONLY A PART OF TION 4HESE CATEGORIES WHILE THEY MAY NOT BE EXHAUSTIVE
IT SURVIVES OR MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE PROVIDE A COHERENT SYSTEM FOR THE
4HE 4OULMIN DIAGRAM OF AN ARGUMENT IS USEFUL DISCUSSION OF CLAIMS
BECAUSE IT ILLUSTRATES THE VARIOUS PARTS OF AN ARGUMENT
AND SHOWS HOW THEY FUNCTION TOGETHER AS A WHOLE 4HE $ElNITIONS
MODIlCATIONS WITH REGARD TO ARGUMENT STRUCTURE MAKE IT $ElNITIONS ANSWER THE QUESTION h$OES IT SERVE OUR
EVEN MORE USEFUL 3TILL THE MODEL HAS ITS SHORTCOMINGS PURPOSES TO SAY THAT : IS THE PROPER DElNITION OF 8 v
/NE DIFlCULTY WITH THE 4OULMIN DIAGRAM IS THAT IT DOES !RGUING FOR A CLAIM OF DElNITION INVOLVES TWO STEPS POS
NOT PROVIDE ANY DETAILS REGARDING SOME OF THE ELEMENTS ITING THE DElNITION AND MAKING AN ARGUMENT FOR THAT
3OME QUESTIONS THAT THE DIAGRAM LEAVES UNANSWERED DElNITION )N CARRYING OUT THE lRST STEP ONE SIMPLY STATES
INCLUDE THAT h8v IS DElNED IN THIS WAY h2HETORIC IS AN ACTION
HUMANS PERFORM WHEN THEY USE SYMBOLS FOR THE PURPOSE
s 7HAT ARE THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF CLAIMS OF COMMUNICATING WITH ONE ANOTHERv 4HIS SENTENCE
s (OW CAN DIFFERENT CLAIMS BE COMBINED TO SUPPORT POSITS A DElNITION OF RHETORIC
VARIOUS PROPOSITIONS -UCH OF THE TIME ARGUERS PERFORM THE lRST STEP OF
s 7HAT ARE THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF EVIDENCE POSITING A DElNITION WITHOUT CONSTRUCTING AN ARGUMENT
s 7HAT ARE THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF ARGUMENTATIVE WAR
TO SUPPORT IT 4HEY MAY DO THIS BECAUSE THEIR AUDIENCE
RANTS DOES NOT REQUIRE THEM TO MAKE AN EXPLICIT ARGUMENT IN
s 7HAT DISTINGUISHES GOOD ARGUMENTS FROM BAD FAVOR OF THE DElNITION 4HE DElNITION MAY BY ITSELF
ONES CREATE A FRAME OF MIND IN THE AUDIENCE THAT DOES NOT
LEAD THE AUDIENCE TO DEMAND AN ARGUMENT IN SUPPORT OF
#LAIMS AND 0ROPOSITIONS THE DElNITION &OR INSTANCE ANTIABORTION FORCES IN THE
5NITED 3TATES SUCCEEDED IN DElNING A PROCEDURE PHYSI
#ONCEPTUALLY CLAIMS AND PROPOSITIONS ARE THE SAME CIANS CALLED hINTACT DILATION AND EXTRACTIONv AS hPARTIAL
KIND OF ARGUMENTATIVE ELEMENTS "OTH ARE CONTROVERSIAL BIRTH ABORTIONv 4HEIR DElNITION WAS SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE
STATEMENTS THAT NEED REASON FOR SUPPORT "OTH CLAIMS IT DOMINATED THE DISCOURSE ON ABORTION AND TURNED THE
AND PROPOSITIONS ARE CREATED BY A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONTROVERSY AWAY FROM THE ISSUE OF CHOICE AND TOWARD
EVIDENCE AND A WARRANT &REQUENTLY DEBATERS COMBINE A PARTICULAR MEDICAL PROCEDURE THAT ANTIABORTION FORCES
SEVERAL OF THESE STATEMENTS TO SUPPORT ANOTHER STATEMENT COULD USE MORE SUCCESSFULLY /N THE SURFACE THE DElNI
%ACH OF THE INITIAL STATEMENTS IS A CLAIM AND THE CONCLUD
TION OF hINTACT DILATION AND EXTRACTIONv AS hPARTIAL
BIRTH
ING STATEMENT IS CALLED A PROPOSITION ABORTIONv MAY HAVE SEEMED SO SENSIBLE THAT NO FURTHER
0ERHAPS A MORE ACCURATE WAY OF STATING THE QUESTION IS h$OES IT BEST SERVE OUR PURPOSES TO SAY THAT : IS THE PROPER DElNITION OF
8 v 4HIS WAY OF PHRASING THE QUESTION MORE CLEARLY IDENTIlES THE VALUE DIMENSIONS OF DElNITIONSDIMENSIONS THAT WILL BE DISCUSSED
MORE FULLY LATER
3ONJA + &OSS +AREN ! &OSS AND 2OBERT 4RAPP #ONTEMPORARY 0ERSPECTIVES ON 2HETORIC 0ROSPECT (EIGHTS ), 7AVELAND
$AVID :AREFSKY h$ElNITIONSv KEYNOTE ADDRESS 4ENTH .#!!&! 3UMMER !RGUMENTATION #ONFERENCE !LTA 5TAH !UGUST
)NTRODUCTION \
ARGUMENT WAS REQUIRED TION SHORTCUTS THE ARGUMENTATIVE PROCESS BY AVOIDING
!N ARGUMENT TO SUPPORT A CLAIM OF DElNITION CONTROVERSY
BECOMES NECESSARY WHEN THE AUDIENCE REFUSES TO ACCEPT $ElNITIONS IMPLY VALUES BY INCLUDING TERMS THAT
THE DElNITION THAT WAS POSITED WITHOUT A SUPPORTING ARE VALUE LADEN &OR INSTANCE WHEN ANTIABORTION ADVO
ARGUMENT !N ARGUERS OPPONENT WILL FREQUENTLY ENCOUR
CATES DElNE THE MEDICAL PROCEDURE OF INTACT DILATION AND
AGE THE AUDIENCE TO DEMAND SUPPORT FOR A DElNITION EXTRACTION AS hPARTIAL
BIRTH ABORTIONv OR EVEN AS hPARTIAL
7HEN ANTIABORTION ADVOCATES DElNED THEIR POSITION AS BIRTH INFANTICIDE v THE VALUES ASSOCIATED WITH BIRTH AND
hPRO
LIFE v SOME IN THE hPRO
CHOICEv MOVEMENT OBJECTED WITH INFANTICIDE ARE LIKELY TO BE TRANSFERRED TO THE MEDI
CLAIMING THAT hPRO
CHOICEv IS ALSO hPRO
LIFEv )N CASES LIKE CAL PROCEDURE AS WELL )N THIS CASE ANTIABORTION FORCES
THIS ONE THE ENTIRE ARGUMENT CAN TURN ON WHETHER OR SUCCEEDED IN SHORTCUTTING THE ARGUMENTATIVE PROCESS BY
NOT THE ARGUER IS ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY SUPPORT A CLAIM OF AVOIDING THE VALUE CONTROVERSY THAT IS INHERENT IN THEIR
DElNITION DElNITION
)N THOSE INSTANCES WHEN AN ARGUER CHOOSES TO CON
3O CLAIMS OF DElNITION ARE IMPORTANT )RONICALLY
STRUCT AN ARGUMENT TO SUPPORT A DElNITION THE ARGU
THEY PROBABLY ARE LESS IMPORTANT WHEN THEY ARE ACTUALLY
MENT FREQUENTLY REVOLVES AROUND THE REASONABLENESS OF COMPLETED WITH SUPPORTING EVIDENCE THAN WHEN THEY ARE
THE SCOPE AND BREADTH OF THE DElNITION )S THE DElNITION IMPLICITLY USED AS DESCRIPTIVE AND VALUE EVIDENCE FOR FUR
SO NARROW THAT IT EXCLUDES INSTANCES OF THE CONCEPT THAT THER ARGUMENTS
OUGHT TO BE INCLUDED )S THE DElNITION SO BROAD THAT IT
FAILS TO EXCLUDE INSTANCES THAT DO NOT PROPERLY BELONG TO $ESCRIPTIONS
THE CONCEPT 4HUS IN CONSTRUCTING AN ARGUMENT FOR A $ESCRIPTIONS MAY CHARACTERIZE SOME FEATURE OF AN
DElNITION AN ARGUER MIGHT POSIT A DElNITION THEN ARGUE OBJECT CONCEPT OR EVENT OR MAY DESCRIBE THE OBJECT
THAT THE DElNITION IS REASONABLE IN TERMS OF ITS SCOPE CONCEPT OR EVENT ITSELF %XAMPLES OF DESCRIPTIVE CLAIMS
AND BREADTH )N FACT THIS IS THE CRITERION IMPLICIT IN THE INCLUDE
OBJECTION TO DElNING hANTIABORTIONv AS hPRO
LIFEv #HOICE s 4HE RImE PURPORTED TO HAVE KILLED 0RESIDENT +EN
ADVOCATES CLAIMED THAT THE DElNITION OF hPRO
LIFEv WAS SO NEDY REQUIRES A MINIMUM OF SECONDS BETWEEN
NARROW IN SCOPE THAT IT EXCLUDED PRO
CHOICE ADVOCATES SHOTS
3O IN SOME CASES THE ARGUMENTS SUPPORTING A CLAIM OF s !FlRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAMS MUST BY THEIR NATURE
DElNITION ARE IMPORTANT )N OTHER CASES THE DElNITION INCLUDE HIRING QUOTAS
BECOMES EVIDENCE SOMETIMES IMPLICIT FOR FURTHER ARGU
s *ACK 2UBY WAS SPOTTED IN 0ARKLAND (OSPITAL THIRTY
MENTS ABOUT WHETHER A CLAIM OF DElNITION WAS ACTUALLY MINUTES AFTER 0RESIDENT +ENNEDY WAS MURDERED
MADE
$ElNITIONS THEMSELVES FREQUENTLY ARE IMPORTANT %ACH OF THESE STATEMENTS ARE DESCRIPTIVE BECAUSE
BUT THEY ARE ALSO IMPORTANT TO SUBSEQUENT ARGUMENTA
THEY PROVIDE A VERBAL ACCOUNT OR CHARACTERIZATION OF
TIVE MOVES $ElNITIONS ARE IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY OFTEN SOMETHING 4HEY ARE CLAIMS IN THE ARGUMENTATIVE SENSE
DO THE WORK OF ARGUMENT WITHOUT OPENING THE ARGUERS BECAUSE THEY ARE CONTROVERSIAL AND BECAUSE THEY REQUIRE
POSITION TO AS MUCH CONTROVERSY AS WOULD OTHERWISE REASONS FOR SUPPORT "ECAUSE SOME DESCRIPTIONS ARE
BE EXPECTED $ElNITIONS MAY AVOID CONTROVERSY IN TWO NOT CONTROVERSIAL ALL DESCRIPTIONS ARE NOT DESCRIPTIVE
WAYS BY IMPLYING DESCRIPTIONS AND BY IMPLYING VALUES ARGUMENTS -ANY OR EVEN MOST DESCRIPTIONS ARE NOT
$ElNITIONS IMPLY DESCRIPTIONS BY INCLUDING ELEMENTS ARGUMENTATIVE BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT CONTROVERSIAL &OR
IN THE DElNITION THAT PROPERLY REQUIRE EVIDENTIARY SUP
INSTANCE IF A PERSON SIMPLY DESCRIBES OBSERVATIONS OF
PORT &OR INSTANCE AN ARGUER MIGHT CLAIM THAT AFlRMA
THE COLORS OF mOWERSROSES ARE RED VIOLETS BLUETHAT
TIVE ACTION IS UNFAIR AND MIGHT DElNE AFlRMATIVE ACTION PERSON WOULD NOT ORDINARILY GIVE REASONS TO SUPPORT
AS hRACIAL PREFERENCE QUOTASv 7HETHER AFlRMATIVE ACTION THESE DESCRIPTIONS
PROGRAMS REQUIRE RACIAL PREFERENCE QUOTAS IS A MATTER OF /NE KIND OF DESCRIPTIVE CLAIM IS A CLAIM OF HISTORI
MUCH CONTROVERSY "UT IF THE DElNITION IS NOT CONTESTED CAL FACT !LL STATEMENTS ABOUT HISTORY ARE NOT HISTORICAL
BY AN AUDIENCE MEMBER OR BY AN ADVERSARY THE DElNI
CLAIMS 4O BE A HISTORICAL CLAIM A STATEMENT MUST BE CON
7ITH REGARD TO THE lRST EXAMPLE SOME PEOPLE CLAIM THAT THIS ACTION REQUIRES CLOSER TO FOUR SECONDS WHEN ONE TAKES INTO ACCOUNT
THE FACT THAT A SHOOTER MUST REACQUIRE THE SUBJECT IN THE SCOPE 2EGARDING THE SECOND EXAMPLE SOME SUPPORTERS OF AFlRMATIVE ACTION
ARGUE THAT HIRING QUOTAS ARE REQUIRED ONLY FOR A COMPANY WITH A PAST RECORD OF DISCRIMINATION )N THE THIRD EXAMPLE THE PRIMARY
SOURCE OF THE CLAIM REGARDING *ACK 2UBY WAS !0 REPORTER 3ETH +ANTOR THE 7ARREN #OMMISSION CLAIMED THAT +ANTOR WAS MISTAKEN
IN HIS REPORT
\4HE $EBATABASE "OOK
TROVERSIAL AND MUST REQUIRE REASON FOR ITS SUPPORT 4HE ! SCIENTIlC DESCRIPTION CAN BE THE lNAL PRODUCT OF
STATEMENT h/ * 3IMPSON WON THE (EISMAN 4ROPHY v AN ARGUMENT OR CAN BE USED AS EVIDENCE FOR THE FURTHER
IS NOT CONTROVERSIAL AND THEREFORE NOT AN ARGUMENTATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF ANOTHER KIND OF ARGUMENT 7HETHER
CLAIM /N THE OTHER HAND THE STATEMENT h/ * 3IMPSON THE PRIMARY DETERMINANT OF HOMOSEXUALITY IS GENETIC OR
KILLED .ICOLE "ROWN 3IMPSON v NOT ONLY IS CONTROVERSIAL CULTURAL IS AN INTERESTING CLAIM FROM A PURELY SCIENTIlC
BUT ALSO REQUIRES AN ARGUER TO PRESENT TO REASONS SUPPORT
PERSPECTIVE 0EOPLE CAN ARGUE THE FACTS THAT SUPPORT THE
ING OR DENYING IT GENETIC EXPLANATION OR THE CULTURAL ONE (OWEVER THIS
!NOTHER KIND OF DESCRIPTION IS A CLAIM OF SCIENTIlC CLAIM FREQUENTLY HAS BEEN USED IN THE DEBATE ABOUT THE
FACT 3CIENTIlC FACTS ARE STATEMENTS THAT COMMAND THE MORALITY OF HOMOSEXUALITY 3O IN THE CASE OF THE DETER
BELIEF OF THE SCIENTIlC COMMUNITY h4HE %ARTH IS THE MINANTS OF HOMOSEXUALITY THE DESCRIPTIVE CLAIM IS BOTH
THIRD PLANET FROM THE SUNv ! CLAIM OF SCIENTIlC FACT IS IMPORTANT FOR ITS OWN SAKE AND FOR THE SAKE OF OTHER
A CONTROVERSIAL SCIENTIlC STATEMENT BELIEVED BY A SCIEN
POTENTIAL CLAIMS AS WELL
TIST OR A GROUP OF SCIENTISTS BUT NOT YET ACCEPTED BY THE $ESCRIPTIVE HISTORICAL CLAIMS ARE INTERESTING BOTH
ENTIRE SCIENTIlC COMMUNITY h#OLD FUSION CAN BE PRO
BECAUSE THEY MAKE STATEMENTS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT AN
DUCED IN THE LABORATORYv ,IKE OTHER FACTUAL STATEMENTS EVENT OCCURRED AS ASSERTED AND BECAUSE THEY CAN BE USED
ALL SCIENTIlC STATEMENTS ARE NOT CLAIMS OF SCIENTIlC FACT AS EVIDENCE IN MAKING FURTHER ARGUMENTS
EITHER BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT CONTROVERSIAL OR BECAUSE THEY s ,EE (ARVEY /SWALD KILLED 0RESIDENT *OHN +EN
DO NOT REQUIRE REASONS TO BE GIVEN IN THEIR SUPPORT 4O NEDY
SAY h4HE %ARTH IS THE THIRD PLANET FROM THE SUN v IS NOT A s / * 3IMPSON MURDERED .ICOLE "ROWN 3IMPSON
CLAIM BECAUSE IT IS NOT CONTROVERSIAL AND BECAUSE A PERSON AND 2ONALD 'OLDMAN
MAKING THAT STATEMENT WOULD NOT BE EXPECTED TO GIVE s 53 SHIPS -ADDOX AND 4URNER *OY WERE ATTACKED BY
REASONS TO SUPPORT IT "UT THE STATEMENT h#OLD FUSION THE .ORTH 6IETNAMESE IN THE 'ULF OF 4ONKIN
CAN BE PRODUCED IN A LABORATORY v IS A CONTROVERSIAL STATE
MENT AND THE SCIENTIlC COMMUNITY WOULD CHALLENGE %ACH OF THESE ARE INTERESTING AND CONTROVERSIAL CLAIMS
ANYONE MAKING THAT STATEMENT TO SUPPORT IT WITH REASON OF HISTORICAL FACT 4HESE AND OTHER CLAIMS OF HISTORICAL FACT
AND EVIDENCE ALSO CAN BE USED AS EVIDENCE FOR RELATIONAL AND EVALUATIVE
)LLUSTRATING DIFFERENT EXAMPLES OF DESCRIPTIVE CLAIMS ARGUMENTS &OR INSTANCE THE ARGUMENT THAT THE -ADDOX
IS IMPORTANT IN AND OF ITSELF BECAUSE PEOPLE FREQUENTLY AND 4URNER *OY WERE ATTACKED BY THE .ORTH 6IETNAMESE
ARGUE ABOUT DESCRIPTIVE CLAIMS WITH NO GOAL OTHER THAN TO WAS USED BY 0RESIDENT *OHNSON TO PERSUADE THE 3ENATE
TRY TO SETTLE A CONTROVERSY REGARDING AN ACCOUNT OF SCIENCE AND THE (OUSE OF 2EPRESENTATIVES TO PASS THE 4ONKIN
OR HISTORY !S JUST ONE EXAMPLE SEVERAL HUNDRED BOOKS 'ULF 2ESOLUTION GIVING *OHNSON A BLANK CHECK TO PURSUE
AND ARTICLES HAVE BEEN WRITTEN PRESENTING MANY DIFFERENT THE WAR IN 6IETNAM 3UBSEQUENTLY ARGUMENTS THAT THE
ACCOUNTS OF THE ASSASSINATIONS OF *OHN +ENNEDY 2OBERT ATTACK WAS AT BEST PROVOKED AND AT WORSE FAKED WERE
+ENNEDY AND -ARTIN ,UTHER +ING "UT BEYOND BEING USED BY OPPONENTS OF THE 6IETNAM 7AR TO SHOW THAT
IMPORTANT FOR THEIR OWN SAKE DESCRIPTIVE CLAIMS ALSO ARE *OHNSONS ACTIONS WERE IMPROPER AND EVEN IMMORAL
IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY ARE NEEDED WHEN ARGUING ABOUT
SUBSEQUENT KINDS OF CLAIMS AS WELL 2ELATIONSHIP 3TATEMENTS
$ESCRIPTIVE CLAIMS FREQUENTLY ARE USED AS EVIDENCE IN $ESCRIPTIVE CLAIMS ARE ABOUT THE NATURE OF REALITY
RELATIONAL AND EVALUATIVE ARGUMENTS ! CLAIM DESCRIBING WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF 8 OR 9 #LAIMS OF RELATIONSHIP
THE NATURE OF AN OBJECT FREQUENTLY IS NEEDED BEFORE ARGU
DEPEND ON BUT GO BEYOND THE ESSENCE OF 8 OR 9 TO THE
ING THAT ONE OBJECT IS RELATED TO ANOTHER OBJECT 0EOPLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 8 AND 9 #LAIMS OF RELATIONSHIP
MIGHT NEED TO ARGUE FOR INSTANCE THAT HIRING QUOTAS ASSERT A CONNECTION BETWEEN TWO OR MORE OBJECTS EVENTS
ARE ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF AFlRMATIVE ACTION A DESCRIPTIVE OR PHENOMENA ,IKE DESCRIPTIVE CLAIMS CLAIMS OF RELA
CLAIM BEFORE THEY CAN ARGUE THAT AFlRMATIVE ACTION LEADS TIONSHIP CAN BE IMPORTANT IN THEIR OWN RIGHT OR THEY
TO DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT OF PERSONS IN HIRING POOLS RELA
CAN SERVE AS EVIDENCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EVALUATIVE
TIONAL CLAIM 3IMILARLY PEOPLE MAY NEED TO DESCRIBE AN CLAIMS #ONSIDER THESE CLAIMS
OBJECT OR PHENOMENON PRIOR TO EVALUATING THAT OBJECT s 3ECONDHAND SMOKE CONTRIBUTES SIGNIlCANTLY TO
)N THIS EXAMPLE THEY WOULD NEED TO DESCRIBE AFlRMATIVE HEALTH PROBLEMS
ACTION BEFORE THEY ARGUE THAT IT IS EITHER GOOD OR BAD s 4HE SCANDALS OF THE #LINTON ADMINISTRATION ARE LIKE
3OME ARGUE FOR INSTANCE THAT BECAUSE THE TENDENCY FOR HOMOSEXUALITY IS GENETIC IT IS NOT A hCHOICEv AND THEREFORE CANNOT BE
CONSIDERED MORAL OR IMMORAL
)NTRODUCTION \
THOSE OF THE .IXON ADMINISTRATION WAS A SIGN OF 3IMPSONS GUILT !CCORDING TO THE DEFENSES
s !DVERTISING HAS CHANGED THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE CLAIM THE GLOVE SIGNALED HIS INNOCENCE 4HIS WAS A CLEAR
5NITED 3TATES CASE WHERE THE ARGUMENT CENTERED AROUND THE RELATION
SHIP BETWEEN THE BLOODY GLOVE AND 3IMPSONS GUILT OR
!LL OF THESE ARE CLAIMS OF RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE THEY INNOCENCE
ASSERT A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO OBJECTS OR CONCEPTS )N THE 3IMPSON EXAMPLE THE CLAIM OF SIGN IS IMPOR
SECONDHAND SMOKE AND HEALTH #LINTON AND .IXON TANT BECAUSE IF IT WERE BELIEVED THE CLAIM ALONE IS SUF
ADVERTISING AND WOMEN 4HE RELATIONSHIPS ASSERTED IN lCIENT TO ESTABLISH GUILT OR INNOCENCE DEPENDING ON
THESE EXAMPLES ARE OF TWO KINDS OF CONTINGENCY AND OF THE NATURE OF THE ARGUMENT "UT LIKE OTHER CLAIMS A
SIMILARITY CLAIM OF SIGN ALSO CAN BE USED AS EVIDENCE TO ESTABLISH A
DIFFERENT CLAIM 3AY FOR INSTANCE THAT A PERSON CLAIMS
#ONTINGENCY THAT h0HOTOGRAPHS FROM THE YACHT @-ONKEY "USINESS
3OME CLAIMS OF RELATIONSHIP ASSERT A RELATIONSHIP OF SHOWED THAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE 'ARY (ART WAS AN
CONTINGENCY 4HE SECONDHAND SMOKING EXAMPLE AND THE ADULTERERv 4HE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE NOT DIRECT EVIDENCE OF
ADVERTISING EXAMPLE ARE OF THIS KIND )N EACH CASE THESE ADULTERY BUT GIVEN THEIR NATURE THEY ARE STRONG SIGNS OF
CLAIMS ASSERT THAT ONE OBJECT OR PHENOMENON IS DEPEN
INlDELITY /NE COULD THEN USE THIS CLAIM OF SIGN TO SUP
DENT ON ANOTHER IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER 3IGN AND CAUSE PORT AN EVALUATIVE ARGUMENT h'ARY (ART IS NOT WORTHY
ARE TWO WAYS OBJECTS CAN BE DEPENDENT ON ONE ANOTHER OF BEING PRESIDENT SINCE HE IS AN ADULTERERv )N THIS CASE
VIA SOME FORM OF CONTINGENCY THE CLAIM OF SIGN BECOMES EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT AN EVALU
2ELATIONSHIPS OF SIGN ARE ONE WAY TO SHOW THAT ONE ATIVE CLAIM
THING IS DEPENDENT ON ANOTHER THING 2ELATIONSHIPS OF SIGN MAY OR MAY NOT INVOLVE RELA
#ONSIDER THESE TIONSHIPS OF CAUSE 4HE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PAIN AND
s 4HE PAIN IN YOUR CHILDS ABDOMEN PROBABLY MEANS APPENDICITIS IS ONE OF BOTH SIGN AND CAUSE 4HE PAIN IS
SHE HAS APPENDICITIS A SIGN OF THE APPENDICITIS AND THE APPENDICITIS IS A CAUSE
s 4HE PALM PRINT ON THE -ANNLICHER
#ARCANO RImE OF THE PAIN ! CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP IS NOT DIRECTLY INVOLVED
PROVES THAT /SWALD HANDLED THE RImE SUPPOSEDLY USED IN THE EXAMPLE OF THE DOUBLE MURDER OF 'OLDMAN AND
TO SHOOT 0RESIDENT +ENNEDY "ROWN
3IMPSON OR IN THE EXAMPLE ABOUT /SWALDS PALM
PRINT ON THE RImE !LTHOUGH THE PALM PRINT AND THE
"OTH OF THE PREVIOUS STATEMENTS ARE CLAIMS ABOUT RELA
BLOODY GLOVE WERE SIGNS OF MURDER THEY WERE NOT CAUSES
TIONSHIPS OF SIGN 4HE PAIN IN THE ABDOMEN AS A SIGN OF THE MURDER 4HUS RELATIONSHIPS OF SIGN ARE DIFFER
OF APPENDICITIS IS DEPENDENT ON THE BELIEF THAT THE CHILD ENT FROM RELATIONSHIPS OF CAUSE AT LEAST IN TERMS OF THEIR
ACTUALLY HAS ABDOMINAL PAIN AND A BELIEF IN THE RELATION
FOCUS
SHIP BETWEEN THAT PAIN AND HER APPENDIX 4HE BELIEF THAT #AUSAL RELATIONSHIPS ARE IMPORTANT IN MANY FORMS
/SWALD HANDLED THE RImE THAT SUPPOSEDLY WAS USED TO OF ARGUMENT 4HE KIND OF CAUSAL CLAIM VARIES FROM ONE
SHOOT 0RESIDENT +ENNEDY IS DEPENDENT ON THE BELIEF THAT INSTANCE TO THE NEXT ! FEW EXAMPLES INCLUDE CONTRIBU
HE ACTUALLY LEFT HIS PALM PRINT ON THE MURDER WEAPON TORY CAUSES NECESSARY AND SUFlCIENT CAUSES BLOCKING
!RGUMENTS OF SIGN PLAYED A VERY IMPORTANTPER
CAUSES AND MOTIVE OR RESPONSIBILITY
HAPS CRUCIALROLE IN THE CRIMINAL TRIAL OF / * 3IMPSON #ONTRIBUTORY CAUSES ARE SPECIAL KINDS OF CAUSAL STATE
FOR THE MURDERS OF 2ON 'OLDMAN AND .ICOLE "ROWN
MENTS )N MANY OR MOST CASES A SINGLE EVENT IS NOT THE
3IMPSON 4HE PROSECUTION CLAIMED THAT THE PRESENCE OF CAUSE OF AN EFFECT #ERTAIN CONDITIONS PREDISPOSE CER
A BLOODY GLOVE NEAR 3IMPSONS HOME WAS A SIGN THAT HE TAIN EFFECTS OTHER CONDITIONS INmUENCE THE OCCURRENCE OF
WAS THE MURDERER )N A DRAMATIC TURN OF EVENTS 3IMP
THOSE EFFECTS &INALLY SOME CONDITION PRECIPITATES THAT
SON TRIED ON THE GLOVE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE JURY IT EFFECT &OR EXAMPLE CONSIDER THESE THREE POSSIBLE CLAIMS
APPEARED TO BE TOO SMALL TO lT ON HIS HAND 4HIS EVI
ABOUT THE CAUSES OF HEART ATTACKS
DENCE ALLOWED THE DEFENSE TO SUPPORT ITS OWN CLAIM IN s 'ENETICS ARE THE CAUSE OF HEART ATTACKS
QUITE POETIC LANGUAGE h)F THE GLOVE DOESNT lT YOU MUST s ! HIGH CHOLESTEROL DIET CAN CAUSE HEART ATTACK
ACQUITv !CCORDING TO THE PROSECUTIONS CLAIM THE GLOVE s 6IGOROUS EXERCISE CAUSES HEART ATTACKS
/NE CAN MAKE A CASE FOR A CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MURDER AND THE BLOODY GLOVE IN THAT THE ACT OF COMMITTING THE
MURDER CAUSED BLOOD TO GET ON THE GLOVE 4HE CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PALM PRINT AND THE +ENNEDY MURDER IS LESS DIRECT
ALTHOUGH ONE COULD SAY THAT THE ACT OF MURDERING 0RESIDENT +ENNEDY CAUSED /SWALDS PALM PRINT TO BE ON THE MURDER WEAPON 4HIS
LAST CLAIM IS A WEAK ONE SINCE THE PALM PRINT COULD HAVE BEEN ON THE RImE LONG BEFORE THE ASSASSINATION
\4HE $EBATABASE "OOK
7E KNOW THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE GENETICALLY MORE PRE
THOSE ALREADY DISCUSSED ARE RELATED TO PHYSICAL OR BIO
DISPOSED TO HEART ATTACKS THAN OTHERS )F A PERSON WHO LOGICAL PHENOMENA 4HE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG GENETICS
ALREADY IS PREDISPOSED TO HEART ATTACKS REGULARLY CON
DIET EXERCISE AND HEART DISEASE ARE BIOLOGICAL RELATION
SUMES A DIET HIGH IN CHOLESTEROL THAT DIET CONTRIBUTES SHIPS 6ARIOUS ELEMENTS IN A BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM AFFECT
TO THE LIKELIHOOD OF HEART ATTACK 3UPPOSE A PERSON DIES OTHER ELEMENTS IN THAT SAME SYSTEM )N A SIMILAR MANNER
OF A HEART ATTACK WHILE ON A MORNING JOG 7HAT WAS THE MOTIVES ARE A KIND OF CAUSAL EXPLANATION WHEN HUMAN
CAUSE 'ENETICS $IET %XERCISE 4HE ANSWER IS THAT ALL CHOICE IS INVOLVED IN CREATING EFFECTS 7HY FOR INSTANCE
THREE FACTORS MAY HAVE BEEN CONTRIBUTORY CAUSES .O DO SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES STALL LEGISLATION FOR CAM
SINGLE CAUSE MAY HAVE CAUSED THE HEART ATTACK BUT ALL PAIGN lNANCE REFORM 7HY DO CORPORATIONS KNOWINGLY
THREE CONDITIONS IN COMBINATION MAY HAVE RESULTED IN A PRODUCE DANGEROUS PRODUCTS 4HE ANSWERS TO THESE QUES
HEART ATTACK TIONS INVOLVE CAUSAL CLAIMS BUT CAUSAL CLAIMS OF A DIFFER
.ECESSARY AND SUFlCIENT CAUSES FREQUENTLY DEAL WITH ENT ORDER FROM THOSE DISCUSSED EARLIER
SINGULAR CAUSES RATHER THAN CONTRIBUTORY CAUSES h-ONEY )N AN EARLIER EXAMPLE GENETICS DIET AND EXERCISE DID
IS ESSENTIAL TO HAPPINESSv IS AN EXAMPLE OF A CLAIM OF NEC
NOT hCHOOSEv TO CAUSE HEART DISEASE "UT IN HUMAN SYS
ESSARY CAUSATION 4O SAY THAT MONEY IS A NECESSARY CAUSE TEMS CHOICE IS FREQUENTLY AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT IN DETER
OF HAPPINESS IS NOT TO SAY THAT THE PRESENCE OF MONEY MINING WHAT ACTIONS LEAD TO WHAT EFFECTS /NE MIGHT
AUTOMATICALLY LEADS TO HAPPINESS 4HE CLAIM DOES HOW
CLAIM THAT hREPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS SELF
INTEREST
EVER IMPLY THAT WITHOUT MONEY HAPPINESS IS IMPOSSIBLE MOTIVATE THEM TO STALL CAMPAIGN lNANCE REFORMv OR THAT
)F ONE WANTED TO MAKE A CLAIM OF SUFlCIENT CAUSATION THE hPROlT MOTIVE INDUCES CORPORATIONS KNOWINGLY TO
USING THE SAME EXAMPLE ONE MIGHT CLAIM THAT hMONEY PRODUCE DANGEROUS PRODUCTSv 4HE KINDS OF CAUSAL QUES
IS THE KEY TO HAPPINESSv $EPENDING ON HOW ONE INTER
TIONS THAT DEAL WITH MOTIVES ARE VERY USEFUL WHEN ARGUING
PRETED THAT CLAIM IT MIGHT MEAN THAT MONEY BRINGS HAP
ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF HUMAN ACTIONS
PINESS REGARDLESS OF OTHER CONDITIONS )N THAT CASE ONE ,IKE OTHER CAUSAL CLAIMS CLAIMS ABOUT MOTIVE ARE
WOULD HAVE MADE A CLAIM ABOUT A SUFlCIENT CAUSE USEFUL AS EVIDENCE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF EVALUATIVE
.ECESSARY AND SUFlCIENT CAUSES ARE USEFUL WHEN ARGU
CLAIMS ! CLAIM BASED ON A SENATORS MOTIVE FOR STALLING
ING ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN AND AMONG VARIOUS PHE
CAMPAIGN lNANCE REFORM MIGHT FOR INSTANCE BE USED
NOMENA 4HEY ARE ALSO USEFUL AS EVIDENCE FROM WHICH TO AS EVIDENCE TO CONSTRUCT A FURTHER CLAIM RELEVANT TO THE
CONSTRUCT OTHER KINDS OF CLAIMS PARTICULARLY CLAIMS THAT WISDOM OF REELECTING THAT SENATOR ! CLAIM THAT A PARTICU
EVALUATE A COURSE OF ACTION 7HEN AN ARGUER PROPOSES LAR CORPORATIONS DESIRE FOR PROlTS LED TO THE PRODUCTION
A STRATEGY TO ELIMINATE AN UNDESIRABLE EFFECT EVIDENCE OF UNSAFE PRODUCTS MIGHT BE USED AS FURTHER EVIDENCE
DERIVED FROM A CLAIM ABOUT A NECESSARY CONDITION OF THAT TO SUPPORT A CLAIM ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT OF THAT CORPORA
EFFECT IS USEFUL (AVING MADE A CLAIM ABOUT A NECESSARY TION
CAUSE ONE CAN FORWARD A PROPOSAL TO ELIMINATE THAT NEC
4HE CLAIMS OF RELATIONSHIP THAT HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED
ESSARY CAUSE AND THUS ELIMINATE THE EFFECT &OR INSTANCE SO FAR HAVE INVOLVED RELATIONSHIPS OF CONTINGENCY )N
IF PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT OVEREATING IS A NECESSARY CONDITION RELATIONSHIPS OF CONTINGENCY ONE PHENOMENON DEPENDS
OF OBESITY THEY COULD USE THIS CAUSAL CLAIM AS EVIDENCE TO ON OR AFFECTS ANOTHER 4HESE CLAIMS OF RELATIONSHIPS HAVE
CONVINCE OTHERS THAT THEY NEED TO QUIT OVEREATING 4HUS GENERALLY BEEN DIVIDED INTO THE CATEGORIES OF SIGNS AND
MAKING A CLAIM ABOUT A NECESSARY CAUSE IS A GOOD WAY TO CAUSE (OWEVER CLAIMS OF CONTINGENCY ARE NOT THE ONLY
SUPPORT A PLAN FOR ELIMINATING AN EFFECT KIND OF CLAIMS OF RELATIONSHIP #LAIMS OF SIMILARITY ARE
3IMILARLY EVIDENCE DERIVED FROM A CLAIM ABOUT A SUFl
EQUALLY IMPORTANT KINDS OF RELATIONAL CLAIMS
CIENT CAUSE IS A GOOD WAY TO SUPPORT A PLAN FOR PRODUCING
AN EFFECT )F ONE CAN PRESENT A PROPOSAL THAT ADDS A SUF
3IMILARITY
lCIENT CAUSE ONE CAN THEN CLAIM THAT THE PROPOSAL WILL )N ADDITION TO RELATIONSHIPS BASED ON CONTINGENCY
PRODUCE SOME GOOD EFFECT &OR INSTANCE SOME DIET COM
OTHER STATEMENTS OF RELATIONSHIP ASSERT A RELATIONSHIP OF
MERCIALS CLAIM THAT THEIR PRODUCTS ARE SUFlCIENT TO CAUSE SIMILARITY ! CLAIM OF SIMILARITY ASSERTS THAT TWO OR MORE
ONE TO LOSE WEIGHT 4HIS CLAIM OF A SUFlCIENT CAUSAL CON
OBJECTS OR CONCEPTS ARE SIMILAR IN IMPORTANT WAYS #LAIMS
DITION CAN THEN BE USED AS EVIDENCE TO CONVINCE BUYERS OF SIMILARITY ARE FREQUENTLY FOUND IN WHAT IS CALLED ARGU
TO TRY THEIR DIET PROGRAMS )MPLIED IN SUCH A CLAIM IS THAT MENT BY ANALOGY OR ARGUMENT BY PARALLEL CASE %XAMPLES
REGARDLESS OF WHAT ELSE ONE DOES FOLLOWING THE PROPOSED OF CLAIMS OF SIMILARITY INCLUDE
DIET WILL LEAD TO WEIGHT LOSS s !BORTION IS VIRTUALLY THE SAME AS INFANTICIDE
3TATEMENTS ABOUT MOTIVE ARE CAUSAL CLAIMS ABOUT s 4HE #LINTON ADMINISTRATION IS LIKE THE .IXON
THE EFFECTS OF HUMAN AGENTS -ANY CAUSAL CLAIMS LIKE ADMINISTRATION
)NTRODUCTION \
s #APITAL PUNISHMENT IS STATE
SANCTIONED MURDER %VALUATIVE CLAIMS BEAR A FAMILY RESEMBLANCE TO ONE
ANOTHER BECAUSE THEY ATTACH A VALUE TO ONE OR MORE
%ACH OF THESE EXAMPLES SHARE CERTAIN CHARACTERIS
OBJECTS OR EVENTS 3TILL EVALUATIVE CLAIMS ARE SO VAST IN
TICS &IRST EACH EXAMPLE INCLUDES TWO OBJECTS OR CON
NUMBER AND IN CHARACTERISTICS THAT THEY CAN BE MORE
CEPTS #LINTON AND .IXON ABORTION AND INFANTICIDE AND EASILY VIEWED IN THESE THREE CATEGORIES THOSE THAT EVALU
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND MURDER 3ECOND EACH EXAMPLE ATE A SINGLE OBJECT THOSE THAT COMPARE TWO OBJECTS WITH
STATES THAT THE TWO CONCEPTS OR OBJECTS ARE SIMILAR IN RESPECT TO SOME VALUE AND THOSE THAT SUGGEST AN ACTION
IMPORTANT REGARDS WITH RESPECT TO SOME OBJECT
#LAIMS OF SIMILARITY ARE USEFUL WHEN AN ARGUER WANTS
TO DO NOTHING MORE THAN SUPPORT THE IDEA THAT TWO OR #LAIMS THAT %VALUATE A 3INGLE /BJECT
MORE OBJECTS AND CONCEPTS ARE SIMILAR !LTHOUGH THE 3OME EVALUATIVE CLAIMS SIMPLY ARGUE THAT AN OBJECT
CLAIM FOCUSES ON THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE OBJECTS IT IS ATTACHED IN SOME WAY POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY WITH
FREQUENTLY CARRIES ANOTHER IMPLIED CLAIM OF EVALUATION SOME VALUE 4HESE KINDS OF CLAIMS INVOLVE BOTH AN OBJECT
4HE CLAIM THAT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS STATE
SANCTIONED OF EVALUATION AND SOME VALUE JUDGMENT TO BE APPLIED TO
MURDER IS NOT A VALUE
NEUTRAL STATEMENT 7HEN CON
THE OBJECT
FRONTED WITH SUCH A CLAIM MOST AUDIENCES BEGIN WITH s #APITAL PUNISHMENT IS IMMORAL
THE ASSUMPTION THAT MURDER IS A NEGATIVELY VALUED CON
s 0RIVATE PROPERTY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
CEPT !N ARGUER WHO SUCCEEDS IN SUPPORTING THE CLAIM OF s #APITALISM IS GOOD
SIMILARITY ALSO SUCCEEDS IN TRANSFERRING THE NEGATIVE VALUE
ASSOCIATED WITH MURDER TO THE CONCEPT OF CAPITAL PUNISH
4HESE EXAMPLES OF CLAIMS THAT ATTACH A VALUE TO A
MENT )N ALL OF THE ABOVE EXAMPLES OF CLAIMS OF SIMILAR
SINGLE OBJECT ALL CONTAIN SOME OBJECT TO BE EVALUATED
ITY THE ARGUER HAS TWO DIFFERENT PURPOSES TO SHOW THAT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT PRIVATE PROPERTY CAPITALISM AND
THE TWO CONCEPTS OR OBJECTS HAVE SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS SOME VALUE JUDGMENT THAT IS APPLIED TO THE OBJECTS
OR TO SHOW THAT THE TWO CONCEPTS OR OBJECTS ARE EVALUATED IMMORAL EVIL GOOD
IN SIMILAR WAYS 3OME CLAIMS LIKE THOSE MENTIONED ABOVE IMPLY
)N SOME CASES THE AUDIENCE MAY NOT HAVE ENOUGH RATHER BROAD VALUE JUDGMENTS /THERS MAY CONTAIN
FAMILIARITY WITH EITHER OF THE TWO OBJECTS TO UNDERSTAND MORE SPECIlC ONES
THE VALUES ASSOCIATED WITH THEM )N SUCH A CASE A CLAIM s #APITAL PUNISHMENT IS UNFAIR IN ITS APPLICATION TO
OF SIMILARITY IS SOMETIMES THE lRST STEP TOWARD PROVING A MINORITIES
CLAIM OF EVALUATION #ONSIDER A HYPOTHETICAL CLAIM THAT s 0RIVATE PROPERTY HAS LED TO AN UNCONTROLLED AND
STATES h3ENATOR 8S MEDICAL CARE PLAN IS SIMILAR TO ONE IMMORAL RULING CLASS
INSTITUTED IN #ANADAv )F THE AUDIENCE KNEW NOTHING s #APITALISM PROVIDES INCENTIVE FOR INDIVIDUAL ENTER
ABOUT EITHER 3ENATOR 8S PLAN OR THE #ANADIAN ONE THE PRISE
ARGUER MIGHT ESTABLISH THIS CLAIM TO BE USED AS EVIDENCE
IN A LATER EVALUATIVE CLAIM THAT h3ENATOR 8S PLAN SHOULD 4HESE EXAMPLES CONTAIN VALUE JUDGMENTS THAT ARE
BE ACCEPTED OR REJECTED v )N THIS CASE THE ARGUER MIGHT MORE SPECIlC THAN THE BROAD ONES CITED EARLIER
PRESENT AN EVALUATIVE CLAIM REGARDING THE SUCCESS OF THE
#ANADIAN PLAN AND THEN COMBINE THE TWO CLAIMSONE #LAIMS THAT #OMPARE 4WO /BJECTS
OF SIMILARITY AND ONE REGARDING ACCEPTANCE OR REJECTION )NSTEAD OF EVALUATING A SINGLE OBJECT SOME CLAIMS
4HUS CLAIMS OF RELATIONSHIP FALL INTO THREE BROAD CAT
COMPARE TWO OBJECTS WITH RESPECT TO SOME VALUE TO CON
EGORIES SIGN CAUSATION AND SIMILARITY )N SOME CASES STITUTE A SECOND CATEGORY OF EVALUATIVE CLAIM 5NLIKE THE
CLAIMS OF RELATIONSHIP ARE SUPPORTED BY EVIDENCE BUILT ON PREVIOUS CATEGORY OF EVALUATIVE CLAIMS CLAIMS IN THIS CAT
CLAIMS OF FACT ,IKEWISE RELATIONAL CLAIMS CAN BE USED TO EGORY INCLUDE AT LEAST TWO OBJECTS OF EVALUATION AND AT
ESTABLISH EVALUATIVE CLAIMS LEAST ONE VALUE JUDGMENT TO BE APPLIED TO THOSE OBJECTS
#ONSIDER THESE CLAIMS
#LAIMS OF %VALUATION s ,YING IS MORE PROPER THAN HURTING SOMEONES FEELINGS
%VALUATIVE CLAIMS GO BEYOND DESCRIPTIVE CLAIMS AND s 2EAGAN WAS A BETTER PRESIDENT THAN #LINTON
CLAIMS OF RELATIONSHIP TO THE EVALUATION OF AN OBJECT
EVENT OR CONCEPT %VALUATIVE CLAIMS ARE MORE COMPLEX %ACH OF THESE EXAMPLES CONTAINS TWO OBJECTS LYING
KINDS OF CLAIMS BECAUSE THEY ORDINARILY REQUIRE SOME AND HURTING SOMEONES FEELINGS 2EAGAN AND #LINTON
COMBINATION OF OTHER DElNITIONS DESCRIPTIONS AND RELA
AND ONE VALUE JUDGMENT TO BE APPLIED TO EACH OBJECT
TIONAL STATEMENTS MORE PROPER AND BETTER PRESIDENT
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#LAIMS OF !CTION ARE DEPENDENT ON EARLIER DESCRIPTIVE CLAIMS AND RELATIONAL
#LAIMS OF ACTION SOMETIMES CALLED CLAIMS OF POLICY CLAIMS $EPENDING ON WHETHER OR NOT THE AUDIENCE IS
ARE YET ANOTHER CATEGORY OF EVALUATIVE CLAIM FAMILIAR WITH AND ACCEPTS THE ARGUERS DESCRIPTIVE OF THE
s #APITAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE ABOLISHED CONCEPT TO BE EVALUATED THE ARGUER MAKING AN EVALUATIVE
s 4HE 5NITED 3TATES SHOULD ADOPT A POLICY OF FREE CLAIM MAY ALSO WANT TO EXPLICITLY MAKE PRIOR DESCRIPTIVE
TRADE WITH #UBA CLAIMS AS WELL )N THE PREVIOUS EXAMPLES FOR INSTANCE
ONE CAN EASILY SEE HOW AN ARGUER MIGHT NEED TO DESCRIBE
4HESE CLAIMS EVALUATE A CONCEPT BY SUGGESTING THAT CERTAIN FEATURES OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT PRIVATE PROP
ACTION BE TAKEN WITH RESPECT TO THAT CONCEPT "ECAUSE ERTY LYING #LINTON 2EAGAN FREE TRADE OR #UBA BEFORE
AN ACTION CAN BE EVALUATED ONLY BY COMPARISON OR CON
LAUNCHING INTO AN EVALUATION OF THOSE CONCEPTS
TRAST TO OTHER POSSIBLE ACTIONS CLAIMS OF ACTION BY NECES
)N MANY BUT NOT ALL INSTANCES AN ARGUER ALSO WOULD
SITY COMPARE AT LEAST TWO OBJECTS 4HE CLAIM THAT CAPITAL NEED TO USE A CLAIM OF RELATIONSHIP AS EVIDENCE TO SUP
PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE ABOLISHED COMPARES THE PRES
PORT THE EVALUATIVE CLAIM 4O ILLUSTRATE INSTANCES WHEN
ENCE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT WITH ITS ABSENCE 4HE CLAIM A RELATIONAL CLAIM IS AND IS NOT NEEDED CONSIDER THE
REGARDING FREE TRADE WITH #UBA IMPLIES A COMPARISON OF TWO EXAMPLES OF CLAIMS EVALUATING A SINGLE OBJECT 4HE
A POLICY OF FREE TRADE WITH THE PRESENT POLICY OF TRADE CLAIM THAT hCAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS IMMORALv CAN BE
EMBARGO )N THIS REGARD CLAIMS OF ACTION ARE SIMILAR TO SUPPORTED BY DESCRIBING A FEATURE OF CAPITAL PUNISH
CLAIMS THAT COMPARE TWO OBJECTS MENT THAT IT IS THE INTENTIONAL TAKING OF A HUMAN LIFE
)N A DIFFERENT REGARD CLAIMS OF ACTION ARE DIFFERENT AND EVALUATING THAT FEATURE NEGATIVELY THE INTENTIONAL
FROM THE OTHER CATEGORIES OF EVALUATIVE CLAIMS IN THAT THEY TAKING OF A HUMAN LIFE IS AN IMMORAL ACT ! DESCRIP
RARELY STATE THE VALUE JUDGMENT USED TO COMPARE THE TWO TION AND AN EVALUATION ARE ALL THAT ARE NECESSARY RELA
OBJECTS 4HE REASON THE VALUE JUDGMENT IS NOT ORDINARILY TIONAL EVIDENCE IS NOT NEEDED 4HE SECOND CLAIM THAT
STATED IN THE CLAIM IS THAT AN ACTION CLAIM IS FREQUENTLY hPRIVATE PROPERTY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVILv IS DIFFERENT 4O
SUPPORTED BY A VARIETY OF OTHER CLAIMS OF EVALUATION EACH MAKE THIS CLAIM ONE lRST MIGHT DESCRIBE THE CONCEPT
OF WHICH MAY BE RELYING ON A DIFFERENT VALUE JUDGMENT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY THEN ARGUE THAT PRIVATE PROPERTY
4HE CLAIM ABOUT THE ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR LEADS TO GREED AND SELlSHNESS A RELATIONAL CLAIM THEN
EXAMPLE MIGHT BE SUPPORTED BY OTHER EVALUATIVE CLAIMS ARGUE THAT GREED AND SELlSHNESS ARE EVIL ! SIGNIlCANT
LIKE DIFFERENCE EXISTS BETWEEN THE lRST ARGUMENT AND THE
s #APITAL PUNISHMENT IS IMMORAL SECOND ONE 4HE lRST REQUIRES RELATIONAL EVIDENCE AND
s #APITAL PUNISHMENT CONTRIBUTES TO THE BRUTALIZA
THE SECOND DOES NOT )N THE lRST INSTANCE THE ARGU
TION OF SOCIETY MENT IS EVALUATING AN INHERENT FEATURE OF CAPITAL PUN
s #APITAL PUNISHMENT IS RACIST ISHMENT IN THE SECOND THE ARGUMENT EVALUATES AN
EFFECT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY 7HEN ARGUING AN INHERENT
4O COMPLICATE MATTERS EVEN MORE EVALUATIVE CLAIMS FEATURE OF A CONCEPT RELATIONAL EVIDENCE IS UNNECESSARY
OF ACTION INHERENTLY ARE COMPARATIVE CLAIMS 4O ARGUE IN BECAUSE THE EVALUATION IS OF THE FEATURE RATHER THAN OF
FAVOR OF A PARTICULAR ACTION IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN COMPARISON AN EFFECT OF THE FEATURE "UT MANY TIMES BY THE NATURE
TO OTHER ACTIONS &OR INSTANCE THE PREVIOUS CLAIMS IMPLY OF THE CLAIM AN ARGUER IS FORCED TO EVALUATE AN EFFECT OF
THAT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS LESS MORAL MORE BRUTAL AND A CONCEPT )N THOSE INSTANCES THE ARGUER IS REQUIRED TO
MORE RACIST THAN THE ALTERNATIVES "ECAUSE ACTION CLAIMS ESTABLISH THE EFFECT BY MEANS OF RELATIONAL EVIDENCE
USUALLY REQUIRE MULTIPLE COMPARATIVE CLAIMS AS EVIDENCE )N SUMMARY FOUR CATEGORIES OF EVIDENCE AND CLAIMS
TO SUPPORT THEM ACTION CLAIMS GENERALLY ARE MORE COM
INCLUDE DElNITIONS DESCRIPTIONS RELATIONAL STATEMENTS
PLICATED THAN THE OTHER CATEGORIES OF CLAIMS OF CONTINGENCY AND OF SIMILARITY AND EVALUATIONS
!CCORDING TO THIS CATEGORY SYSTEM EVALUATIVE CLAIMS 3OMETIMES CLAIMS ARE THE END PRODUCTS OF ARGUMENTS AT
ARE GENERALLY DIVIDED INTO THREE TYPES CLAIMS THAT EVALUATE OTHER TIMES THEY ARE USED AS EVIDENCE FOR THE CONSTRUC
A SINGLE OBJECT CLAIMS THAT EVALUATE TWO OR MORE OBJECTS TION OF FURTHER CLAIMS 4HIS INTRODUCTION HAS PRESENTED A
AND ACTION CLAIMS !S INDICATED ONE EVALUATIVE CLAIM CATEGORY SYSTEM AND BEGUN TO EXPLAIN HOW VARIOUS TYPES
CAN SOMETIMES BE USED AS SUPPORT FOR ANOTHER EVALUATIVE OF CLAIMS ARE RELATED TO ONE ANOTHER WHEN ONE IS USED AS
CLAIM LEADING EVENTUALLY TO COMPLICATED CLAIMS BUILT ON EVIDENCE FOR ANOTHER 4HIS INTRODUCTION HAS DONE LITTLE
A WEB OF OTHER CLAIMS OR NOTHING TOWARD EXPLAINING HOW ONE CONSTRUCTS ARGU
)N ADDITION TO THE FACT THAT EVALUATIVE CLAIMS ARE USED MENTS FOR THESE VARIOUS TYPES OF CLAIMS 4HE METHODS
BOTH AS THE END PRODUCT OF AN ARGUMENT AND AS EVIDENCE AND PROCESSES OF CONSTRUCTING THESE CLAIMS ARE THE TOPICS
FOR OTHER EVALUATIVE CLAIMS ALMOST ALL EVALUATIVE CLAIMS OF LATER CHAPTERS
)NTRODUCTION \
4HEORY AND 0RACTICE 7HEN USING THIS VOLUME DEBATERS NEED TO REMEMBER
THAT IT IS ONLY A STARTING POINT 'OOD DEBATERS MUCH LESS
4HIS ESSAY HAS PROVIDED SOME THEORETICAL BACKGROUND EXCELLENT DEBATERS WILL NEED TO GO BEYOND THIS VOLUME
RELEVANT TO ARGUMENTATION IN DEBATING 3PECIlCALLY IT HAS 4HEY WILL NEED TO ENGAGE IN INDIVIDUAL AND PERHAPS COL
PROVIDED A DISCUSSION OF THE 4OULMIN MODEL OF ARGUMENT LECTIVE RESEARCH INTO THE DETAILS OF OTHER CLAIMS AND EVI
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DENCE
MENTS CLAIMS AND EVIDENCE 4HE REASON FOR FOCUSING ON 4HEN OF COURSE COMES THE ACTUAL PRACTICE OF DEBATING
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PROVIDES INFORMATION THAT CAN BE TRANSFORMED INTO EVI
PROVIDED IN THIS VOLUME AND FROM THEIR OWN RESEARCH
DENCE AND CLAIMS TO SUPPORT PROPOSITIONS #LAIMS AND WITH WARRANTS AND RESERVATIONS TO SUPPORT CLAIMS AND
EVIDENCE ARE THE FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUPPORTING TO COMBINE THOSE CLAIMS INTO ARGUMENTS SUPPORTING OR
PROPOSITIONS 7ARRANTS AND RESERVATIONS WHICH ARE MORE REFUTING PROPOSITIONS
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7OMEN SHOULD HAVE CONTROL OVER THEIR OWN BODIESTHEY /F COURSE HUMAN RIGHTS SHOULD BE RESPECTED BUT NO ONE
HAVE TO CARRY THE CHILD DURING PREGNANCY AND UNDERGO HAS A RIGHT TO MAKE A DECISION WITH NO REFERENCE TO THE
CHILDBIRTH .O ONE ELSE CARRIES THE CHILD FOR HER IT WILL RIGHTS AND WISHES OF OTHERS )N THIS CASE DOES THE FATHER
BE HER RESPONSIBILITY ALONE AND THUS SHE SHOULD HAVE THE HAVE ANY RIGHTS IN REGARD TO THE FATE OF THE FETUS -ORE
SOLE RIGHT TO DECIDE )F A WOMAN DOES NOT WANT TO GO IMPORTANT THOUGH PRO
CHOICE GROUPS ACTIVELY IGNORE THE
THROUGH THE FULL NINE MONTHS AND SUBSEQUENT BIRTH THEN MOST IMPORTANT RIGHTTHE CHILDS RIGHT TO LIFE 7HAT IS
SHE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE NOT TO DO SO 4HERE MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIFE !LL OTHER RIGHTS INCLUDING THE
ARE FEWIF ANYOTHER CASES WHERE SOMETHING WITH SUCH MOTHERS RIGHT TO CHOICE SURELY STEM FROM A PRIOR RIGHT
PROFOUND CONSEQUENCES IS FORCED UPON A HUMAN BEING TO LIFE IF YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO ANY LIFE THEN HOW DO YOU
AGAINST HER OR HIS WILL 4O APPEAL TO THE CHILDS RIGHT TO HAVE A RIGHT TO AN AUTONOMOUS ONE ! WOMAN MAY ORDI
LIFE IS JUST CIRCULARWHETHER A FETUS HAS RIGHTS OR NOT OR NARILY HAVE A REASONABLE RIGHT TO CONTROL HER OWN BODY
CAN REALLY BE CALLED A hCHILD v IS EXACTLY WHAT IS AT ISSUE BUT THIS DOES NOT CONFER ON HER THE ENTIRELY SEPARATE AND
%VERYONE AGREES THAT CHILDREN HAVE RIGHTS AND SHOULDNT INSUPPORTABLE RIGHT TO DECIDE WHETHER ANOTHER HUMAN
BE KILLED .OT EVERYONE AGREES THAT FETUSES OF TWO FOUR LIVES OR DIES
EIGHT OR EVEN TWENTY WEEKS ARE CHILDREN
.OT ONLY IS BANNING ABORTION A PROBLEM IN THEORY 5NBORN CHILDREN CANNOT ARTICULATE THEIR RIGHT TO LIFE THEY
OFFENDING AGAINST A WOMANS RIGHT TO CHOOSE IT IS ALSO A ARE VULNERABLE AND MUST BE PROTECTED -ANY LAWS ARE
PRACTICAL PROBLEM ! BAN WOULD NOT STOP ABORTION BUT DIFlCULT TO IMPLEMENT BUT DEGREE OF DIFlCULTY DOES NOT
WOULD DRIVE IT ONCE AGAIN UNDERGROUND AND INTO CON DIMINISH THE VALIDITY AND UNDERLYING PRINCIPLE 0EOPLE
DITIONS WHERE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE WOMAN ARE WILL KILL OTHER PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF THE LAW BUT IT DOES
ALMOST CERTAINLY AT RISK 7OMEN WOULD ALSO CIRCUMVENT NOT FOLLOW THAT YOU SHOULDNT LEGISLATE AGAINST MURDER
THE BAN BY TRAVELING TO COUNTRIES WHERE ABORTION IS LEGAL 7HETHER THE STATE SHOULD RESTRAIN WOMEN FROM TRAVEL
%ITHER THE STATE WOULD HAVE TO TAKE THE DRACONIAN MEA ING FOR ABORTIONS IS A SEPARATE QUESTION BUT ONE THAT CAN
SURE OF RESTRICTING FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT OR IT WOULD BE ANSWERED IN THE AFlRMATIVE GIVEN WHAT IS AT STAKE
HAVE TO ADMIT THAT ITS LAW IS UNWORKABLE IN PRACTICE AND 2ESTRICTING SOMEONES FREEDOM IS A SMALL PRICE TO PAY FOR
ABOLISH IT PROTECTING AN INNOCENT LIFE
!RE WE REALLY TAKING ABOUT A hLIFE v !T WHAT POINT DOES A 4HE QUESTION OF WHAT LIFE IS CAN CERTAINLY BE ANSWERED )T
LIFE BEGIN )S TERMINATING A FETUS WHICH CAN NEITHER FEEL IS SACRED INVIOLABLE AND ABSOLUTE 4HE FETUS AT WHATEVER
NOR THINK AND IS NOT CONSCIOUS OF ITS OWN hEXISTENCE v STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT WILL INEVITABLY DEVELOP THE HUMAN
REALLY COMMENSURATE WITH THE KILLING OF A PERSON )F YOU ABILITIES TO THINK FEEL AND BE AWARE OF ITSELF 4HE UNBORN
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02/3 #/.3
AFlRM THAT HUMAN LIFE IS A QUALITY INDEPENDENT OF AND CHILD WILL HAVE EVERY ABILITY AND EVERY OPPORTUNITY THAT
PRIOR TO THOUGHT AND FEELING YOU LEAVE YOURSELF THE AWK
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PRESERVE ONE OF THE LIVES SETS A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT THAT
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CLEAR AND UNPALATABLE CASE OF TREATING A HUMAN BEING AS
A MEANS TO AN END
.OT ONLY MEDICAL EMERGENCIES PRESENT COMPELLING 7HILE RAPE IS AN APPALLING CRIME IS IT THE FAULT OF THE
GROUNDS FOR TERMINATION 7OMEN WHO HAVE BEEN RAPED UNBORN CHILD 4HE ANSWER IS NO $ENYING SOMEONE LIFE
SHOULD NOT HAVE TO SUFFER THE ADDITIONAL TORMENT OF BECAUSE OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF CONCEPTION IS AS UNFAIR AS
BEING PREGNANT WITH THE PRODUCT OF THAT ORDEAL 4O FORCE ANYTHING ELSE IMAGINABLE
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4ARGETING 46 ADVERTISEMENTS TO CHILDREN IS UNETHICAL #HILDREN ARE NOT NAÉVE INNOCENTS BUT CANNY CONSUMERS
#HILDREN CANNOT DISTINGUISH ADVERTISING FROM PROGRAM
WHO CAN DISTINGUISH BETWEEN ADVERTISEMENTS AND PRO
MING AND CANNOT JUDGE WHETHER AN ADVERTISEMENT IS MIS
GRAMS AT A VERY EARLY AGE -OREOVER THEY CAN LEARN TO
LEADING -OREOVER THEY ARE NOT YET ABLE TO RESIST SALES EVALUATE ADVERTISING ONLY BY BEING EXPOSED TO IT 2ESPON
PITCHES SIBLE PARENTS SHOULD TEACH CHILDREN HOW TO BE GOOD CON
SUMERS BY WATCHING TELEVISION WITH THEM AND DISCUSSING
WHAT THEY HAVE SEEN
!DVERTISING SPECIlCALLY TO CHILDREN IS UNETHICAL BECAUSE !DVERTISING DOES NOT CREATE UNNATURAL DESIRES FOR MATE
THEY HAVE LITTLE OR NO MONEY OF THEIR OWN AND HAVE TO RIAL POSSESSIONS #HILDREN WHO NAG ARE BADLY BROUGHT UP
PERSUADE THEIR PARENTS TO BUY THE PRODUCTS FOR THEM -OREOVER ADVERTISING IS NOT THE ONLY FORCE STIMULATING
2ATHER THAN ADVERTISING DIRECTLY TO PARENTS COMPANIES THE DESIRE FOR TOYS ETC #HILDREN FREQUENTLY WANT THINGS
ENCOURAGE CHILDREN TO NAG AND WHINE FOR WHAT THEY SEE BECAUSE THEIR FRIENDS HAVE THEM !LSO MANY CHILDREN
SUCH BEHAVIOR INEVITABLY LEADS TO BAD FEELING BETWEEN HAVE MONEY EITHER THROUGH ALLOWANCES OR IN THE CASE
PARENTS AND CHILDREN !DVERTISING THAT PRESENTS PROD
OF TEENAGERS THROUGH JOBS ,EARNING HOW TO MANAGE
UCTS TO CHILDREN AS hMUST
HAVEv IS ALSO SOCIALLY DIVISIVE )T lNANCES IS PART OF GROWING UP AND ADVERTISEMENTS HELP
MAKES CHILDREN WHOSE PARENTS CANNOT AFFORD THE NEWEST CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS MAKE SPENDING DECISIONS
FADS FEEL INFERIOR 4HESE PARENTS OFTEN GO INTO DEBT TO SAT
ISFY THEIR CHILDREN
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QUENCES %NCOURAGING GULLIBLE CHILDREN TO CONSUME JUNK HYDRATES AND SUGAR THEY GIVE THEM THE ENERGY THEY NEED
FOOD CREATES OBESE UNHEALTHY YOUNGSTERS 3OCIETY PAYS A TO PLAY AND GROW 9ES EATING ONLY JUNK FOOD IS BAD BUT
HIGH PRICE IN TERMS OF THE EXTRA MEDICAL CARE SUCH CHIL PARENTS SHOULD TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR TEACHING CHILDREN
DREN WILL EVENTUALLY REQUIRE #ONSEQUENTLY GOVERNMENT PROPER EATING HABITS
HAS A DIRECT INTEREST IN BANNING ADVERTISEMENTS THAT CON
TRIBUTE TO THIS PROBLEM
%XPLOITATIVE ADVERTISING BRAINWASHES CHILDREN INTO "ANNING ADVERTISEMENTS IS A SEVERE RESTRICTION ON FREE
BECOMING EAGER CONSUMERS #OMPANIES DELIBERATELY DOM OF SPEECH #OMPANIES SHOULD BE ABLE TO TELL THE
ENCOURAGE THEM TO BE MATERIALISTIC SO THAT THEY ASSOCIATE PUBLIC ABOUT ANY LEGAL PRODUCTS BECAUSE ADVERTISING HELPS
HAPPINESS WITH PURCHASING POWER AND THE POSSESSION OF COMPANIES SUCCEED AND INNOVATE #HILDREN ALSO HAVE A
PARTICULAR GOODS ! STUDY RECENTLY FOUND THAT CHILDREN IN HUMAN RIGHT TO RECEIVE AND EVALUATE INFORMATION FROM
3WEDEN WHERE MARKETING CAMPAIGNS TO UNDER
S ARE A WIDE RANGE OF SOURCES 4HEY ARE FAR FROM BEING BRAIN
BANNED WANTED SIGNIlCANTLY FEWER TOYS THAN CHILDREN IN WASHED BY ADVERTISEMENTS WHICH FORM ONLY A SMALL PART
"RITAIN WHERE THERE ARE NO RESTRICTIONS OF THEIR EXPERIENCES FAMILY FRIENDS SCHOOL AND OTHER
TELEVISION PROGRAMS ARE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT IN SHAP
ING THEIR VIEWS OF THE WORLD
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02/3 #/.3
2ESTRICTING ADVERTISING TO CHILDREN WILL NOT AFFECT BROAD
!DVERTISEMENTS ARE THE MAJOR SOURCE OF TELEVISION STA
CAST REVENUES SIGNIlCANTLY )T WILL LEAD TO BETTER PRO
TION REVENUES )F GOVERNMENT RESTRICTS OR BANS ADVERTIS
GRAMMING -UCH OF CHILDRENS TELEVISION CENTERS AROUND ING TO CHILDREN BROADCASTERS WILL STOP SHOWING CHILDRENS
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lTS INTO OTHER SOCIETIES 4HE VAST MAJORITY OF !FRICANS LANGUAGE BECAUSE IT IS BASED ON HIGHLY DEVELOPED EDUCA
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STANDARD LANGUAGE OF YOUR COUNTRY YOU ARE ESSENTIALLY
DISEMPOWERING MOST CITIZENS IN ACADEMIC COMMERCIAL
AND EVEN SOCIAL SPHERES
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4HE INmUENCES OF THE WORLD ON A COUNTRY CANNOT BE
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COMPETE GLOBALLY &OR THE MOMENT HOWEVER MANY ARE ISOLATING YOUR COUNTRY LINGUISTICALLY FROM THE REST OF THE
DIVIDED INTERNALLYMOST OFTEN ON ETHNIC LINES /NLY WORLD .O MATTER HOW GOOD THAT MAY BE FOR COHESION
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AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT WILL !FRICANS EVER BE ABLE TO IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BY THOSE FEW WHO ARE ABLE TO
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!FRICAN NATIONS
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ARE RESPECTING PUPILS RIGHTS TO BECOME MORE PROlCIENT PEOPLE TO OPT FOR ONE OF THESE AS A lRST LANGUAGE YOU ARE
IN THE LANGUAGE THEY COMMONLY USE IN THEIR SOCIETY THIS DIVIDING YOUR COUNTRY )F YOU DECLARE ONE LANGUAGE TO BE
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SECOND
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A SECOND LANGUAGE RECOGNIZES THIS PROBLEM OF GLOBAL ISOLATION RAISED EARLIER
3AMPLE -OTIONS
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD PUT ITSELF lRST
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES IN A LANGUAGE BARRIER
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COMPANIES ARE MAKING LARGE PROlTS BY SELLING DRUGS TO NIES NEED TO RECOUP SIGNIlCANT lNANCIAL INVESTMENT IN
POOR NATIONS THAT HAVE A GREAT PORTION OF THEIR POPU
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 4HE DEVELOPMENT OF !)$3
LATION INFECTED WITH ()6!)$3 4HIS IS AN IMMORAL DRUGS IS HIGHLY TECHNICAL AND A MEASURABLE RETURN ON
EXPLOITATION OF THOSE !)$3 SUFFERERS WHO CAN LEAST AFFORD INITIAL lNANCIAL INVESTMENT IS NEEDED IF COMPANIES ARE TO
TO PAY FOR TREATMENT AND WHO HAVE THE LEAST POWER INTER
CONTINUE DRUG RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
NATIONALLY TO NEGOTIATE CHEAPER PRICES
4HE COUNTRIES WITH THE BIGGEST !)$3 PROBLEMS ARE A $RUG COMPANIES ARE AS MUCH SUBJECT TO THE FORCES OF THE
CAPTIVE MARKET AND ARE FORCED TO PAY WHATEVER THE DRUG FREE MARKET AS ANY OTHER BUSINESS 4HE THREAT OF ILLEGALLY
COMPANIES DEMAND FOR THEIR PRODUCTS 0OOR NATIONS ARE PRODUCING GENERIC DRUGS ONLY FURTHER SERVES TO DISCOURAGE
THUS JUSTIlED IN USING THE THREAT OF PRODUCING GENERIC DRUG COMPANIES FROM CREATING NEW AND MORE EFFECTIVE
DRUGS TO FORCE DRUG COMPANIES TO LOWER PRICES MEDICINES BECAUSE THE DEVELOPING NATIONS HAVE SHOWN
THEM THAT PATENT PROTECTIONS WILL BE IGNORED
'ENERIC DRUGS WOULD BE FAR CHEAPER TO PRODUCE AND "ECAUSE MOST OF THE DRUG COMPANIES ARE BASED IN RICHER
WOULD AVOID THE SHIPPING COSTS FROM FACTORIES IN %UROPE &IRST 7ORLD NATIONS THEY HAVE BOTH THE TECHNOLOGY TO
OR !MERICA 'ENERIC DRUGS HAVE NO RESEARCH AND DEVEL
PRODUCE EFFECTIVE MEDICINES AND THE FUNDING TO ENSURE
OPMENT COSTS TO RECOUP SO THEY COULD BE SOLD FOR A PRICE THAT NO CORNERS ARE CUT IN THE PROCESS 0OORER NATIONS
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GREATLY REDUCED FROM CURRENT LEVELS 4HE COST OF KEEPING WOULD ALMOST CERTAINLY CUT CHEMICAL CORNERS IN MANU
A PERSON ON !:4 OR OTHER DRUG COCKTAILS IS EXORBITANT FACTURING GENERIC DRUGS SHOULD THE TECHNOLOGY FOR LARGE
SUCH COST WOULD BE GREATLY REDUCED THROUGH THE USE OF SCALE MANUFACTURE EVEN BE AVAILABLE )N ADDITION BY CON
GENERIC DRUGS TRAVENING INTERNATIONAL TREATIES COVERING PATENTS THEY
WOULD NOT BENElT FROM THE NEXT GENERATION OF !)$3
DRUGS BECAUSE COMPANIES WOULD BE RELUCTANT TO SUPPLY
THE NEWER DRUGS TO A COUNTRY THAT STEALS A DRUG FORMULA
TO MANUFACTURE GENERIC DRUGS
-ILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO SUFFER WHILE DRUG )S IT RIGHT THAT THOSE INFECTED WITH ()6 IN THE 4HIRD
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POORER NATIONS AT A PRICE THEY CAN AFFORD !RE THEY TRYING PAY FULL PRICE $EVELOPED NATIONS MAY EVEN HAVE TO PAY
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BATTLE TO GET THE PRICES THEY WANT hCHARITY SALESv TO POOR COUNTRIES !RE NOT POOR COUNTRIES
THEMSELVES USING SUFFERERS AS HOSTAGES -ANY DEVELOPING
NATIONS COULD REALIZE SIGNIlCANT LONG
TERM SAVINGS BY
BUYING AND USING PREVENTIVE MEDICINES TO STOP MOTHER
TO
CHILD TRANSMISSION ETC
$RUG COMPANIES WILL NOT LOSE MONEY BY REDUCING PRICES 4HE MAJORITY OF 4HIRD 7ORLD COUNTRIES WOULD BE UNABLE
THEIR MARKET WILL EXPAND )F PRICES ARE REDUCED THE DRUGS TO AFFORD THE DRUGS EVEN AT A BREAKEVEN PRICE /NE
OFF
WILL BECOME AFFORDABLE TO MILLIONS OF SUFFERERS MANY OF TREATMENTS TO PREVENT MOTHER
TO
CHILD TRANSMISSION FOR
WHOM WILL BE USING PRODUCTS LIKE !:4 FOR THE REST OF EXAMPLE WOULD BE EXPENSIVE ENOUGH 4HE COST FOR COM
THEIR LIVES PLEX DRUG COCKTAILS WOULD STILL BE COMPLETELY OUT OF REACH
OF DEVELOPING NATIONS $RUG COMPANIES WOULD HAVE TO
SELL THEIR MEDICATIONS AT A LOSS TO MAKE THEM AFFORDABLE
TO MOST DEVELOPING NATIONS
()6!)$3 TREATMENTS ARE AS CHEAP AS THEY CAN BE AT .O MATTER HOW LOW THE DRUG COMPANIES PRICE ()6
PRESENT "Y BUYING THE MEDICINES NOW ESPECIALLY FOR !)$3 TREATMENTS THEY ARE UNLIKELY TO EVER BE CHEAP
PREVENTIVE PURPOSES DEVELOPING NATIONS CAN REDUCE THE ENOUGH !S THE NUMBER OF ()6 INFECTED PEOPLE IN !FRICA
CHANCE OF FUTURE ()6 INFECTION IN THEIR POPULATIONS AND GROWS THE STRAIN ON NATIONAL HEALTH BUDGETS WILL BECOME
THUS NOT NEED TO BUY THE NEXT GENERATION OF INEVITABLY UNBEARABLE $EVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE BETTER OFF PURSUING
MORE EXPENSIVE DRUGS PREVENTATIVE MEASURES AND EDUCATION 'OVERNMENTS WILL
NEED TO USE THEIR HEALTH CARE FUNDS CAREFULLYPRODUCING
GENERIC MEDICINES OFFERS SIGNIlCANT SAVINGS
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD INSIST ON CHEAPER DRUGS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT CAPITALISM LETS THE SICK SUFFER
4HIS (OUSE WANTS THE &IRST 7ORLD TO HELP
4HIS (OUSE NEEDS HELP WITH !)$3
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DRUGS 4HOSE WHO BECOME ADDICTED OFTEN LOSE THEIR MAR
SALE OF ALCOHOL (OWEVER IN MOST CULTURES ALCOHOL
RIAGES JOBS FAMILIES AND EVEN THEIR LIVES ! LARGE PROPOR
UNLIKE OTHER DRUGS IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF SOCIAL LIFE AND
TION OF HOMELESS PEOPLE WERE MADE SO BECAUSE OF ALCO
CULTURE 4O BAN IT IS COMPLETELY IMPRACTICAL $OING SO
HOLISM !NY DRUG THIS ADDICTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE SHOULD WOULD MAKE CRIMINALS OF BILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND CREATE
BE ILLEGAL THE BIGGEST BLACK MARKET THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN
)N MANY COUNTRIES ALCOHOL IS A CONTRIBUTORY FACTOR IN n (UMAN BEINGS ARE NATURALLY INCLINED TO VIOLENCE AND
OF VIOLENT CRIMES INCLUDING CHILD ABUSE DOMESTIC CONmICT 3EX AND VIOLENCE ARE PRIMAL PARTS OF OUR GENETIC
VIOLENCE SEXUAL ASSAULT AND MURDER )N ADDITION ALCOHOL MAKE UP AND WE DO NOT NEED ALCOHOL TO BRING THEM TO
IS FAR AND AWAY THE LEADING CAUSE OF PUBLIC DISORDER STREET THE SURFACE !T WORST ALCOHOL MAY SLIGHTLY EXAGGERATE
lGHTS ETC )N SHORT ALCOHOL IS ONE OF THE PRIME CAUSES THESE TENDENCIESBUT THAT MAKES IT THE OCCASION NOT
OF VIOLENCE AND CRIME IN MODERN SOCIETY AND ITS BAN THE UNDERLYING CAUSE OF VIOLENT CRIMES 4HE UNDERLY
NING WOULD IMMEDIATELY REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF THESE ING CAUSES ARE BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL -AKING RAPE AND
CRIMES MURDER ILLEGAL DOES NOT ERADICATE RAPE AND MURDER SO IT
IS UNLIKELY THAT MAKING ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION ILLEGAL WILL
DO SO EITHER
!LTHOUGH ORGANIZATIONS LIKE -OTHERS !GAINST $RUNK 4HE PROGRESS MADE AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING IN RECENT
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SANDS EACH YEAR 4HIS IS UNACCEPTABLE !LCOHOL SHOULD ALLY ERADICATE THE PROBLEM )NJURIES AND DEATHS WHILE
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CIVIL LIBERTIES OF THE VAST MAJORITY OF LAW
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NO VIOLENT CRIME OR PUBLIC DISORDER NEEDS TO BE BANNED HOL SHOULD BOTH BE LEGAL DRUGS BECAUSE THE VAST MAJORITY
BECAUSE OF ITS MIND
ALTERING EFFECTS THEN HOW MUCH OF PEOPLE KNOW HOW TO USE THEM SAFELY AND RESPONSIBLY
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EMPLOYS A LOT OF PEOPLE IS NEVER A GOOD ARGUMENT TO KEEP PLES CIVIL LIBERTIES TO A UNACCEPTABLE DEGREE IT WOULD ALSO
THAT IMMORAL INDUSTRY GOING )NSTEAD THE GOVERNMENT PUT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE OUT OF WORK
SHOULD FUND PROGRAMS TO RETRAIN WORKERS
4AX REVENUES WOULD BE LOST IF ALCOHOL WERE BANNED #URRENTLY GOVERNMENTS RAISE LARGE AMOUNTS OF REVENUE
!GAIN HOWEVER THIS IS NOT A PRINCIPLED REASON TO REJECT FROM TAXES AND DUTIES PAYABLE ON ALCOHOL 4O BAN ALCOHOL
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WOULD TAKE AWAY A MAJOR SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR PUBLIC
MENTS COULD SIGNIlCANTLY REDUCE SPENDING ON POLICE SERVICES )N ADDITION ENFORCING THE BAN WOULD CALL FOR
AND HEALTH THROUGH THE REDUCTION IN CRIME AND ALCOHOL
MUCH ADDITIONAL POLICING )T WOULD ALSO CREATE A NEW
RELATED ILLNESS RESULTING FROM AN ALCOHOL BAN CLASS OF ILLEGAL DRUG USERS TRAFlCKERS AND DEALERS THAT
WOULD BE UNPRECEDENTED IN SIZE
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BAN ALCOHOL
4HIS (OUSE WOULD HIT THE BOTTLE
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT ALCOHOL IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
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!MERICANS ARE CONCERNED PRIMARILY WITH THEIR OWN PER
WHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD !MERICAN SOCIETY IS FOUNDED ON
SONAL WEALTH AND WELL
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TO THE GOOD OF SOCIETY AS A WHOLE PROTECTING INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
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EVIDENCED BY WIDESPREAD GUN OWNERSHIP THE DEATH PEN
TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES !MERICANS ARE NOT BOUND TO STAY
ALTY AND THE FOCUS ON CRIME AND VIOLENCE IN !MERICAN IN THE SAME SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CLASS AS THEIR PARENTS
ENTERTAINMENT %UROPEAN CULTURES IN PARTICULAR ARE OR GRANDPARENTS 7ITH UNIVERSAL PUBLIC EDUCATION AND A
MORE PEACEFUL AND HUMANE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION THAT ACCOMMODATES MILLIONS
OF STUDENTS MANY OF THEM FROM FOREIGN LANDS !MERICA
HELPS HARD WORKERS TO GET AHEAD
!MERICAN SOCIETY IS DRIVEN BY CONSUMPTIONNOT JUST OF !MERICA PRIZES AND REWARDS CREATIVITY AND LEADS THE
GOODS AND SERVICES BUT ALSO OF FOOD 4HE !MERICAN DIET WORLD IN INNOVATION !MERICA CONTINUALLY DEVELOPS NEW
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THE EPIDEMIC OF OBESITY IN !MERICA "Y COPYING !MER MEDICINE AND PHARMACEUTICALS HAVE IMPROVED HEALTH
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD FORBID FURTHER CONSTRUCTION OF GOLDEN ARCHES
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(UMAN BEINGS ARE ACCORDED RIGHTS ON THE BASIS THAT THEY (UMAN BEINGS ARE INlNITELY MORE COMPLEX THAN ANY
ARE ABLE TO THINK AND TO FEEL PAIN -ANY OTHER ANIMALS OTHER LIVING CREATURES 4HEIR ABILITIES TO THINK AND TALK TO
ARE ALSO ABLE TO THINK TO SOME EXTENT AND ARE CERTAINLY FORM SOCIAL SYSTEMS WITH RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND
ABLE TO FEEL PAIN 4HEREFORE NONHUMAN ANIMALS SHOULD TO FEEL EMOTIONS ARE DEVELOPED WELL BEYOND ANY OTHER
ALSO BE ACCORDED RIGHTS EG TO A FREE AND HEALTHY LIFE ANIMALS 4RYING TO PREVENT THE MOST OBVIOUS CASES OF
UNNECESSARY SUFFERING OR TORTURE OF ANIMALS IS REASONABLE
BUT BEYOND THAT NONHUMAN ANIMALS DO NOT DESERVE TO
BE GIVEN hRIGHTSv
%VER SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF #HARLES $ARWINS /RIGIN 4HAT WE ARE INCREDIBLY DISTANTLY RELATED TO OTHER ANI
OF 3PECIES IN WE HAVE KNOWN THAT HUMAN BEINGS MALS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THEY HAVE hRIGHTSv 4HIS SORT OF
ARE RELATED BY COMMON ANCESTRY TO ALL OTHER ANIMALS 7E THINKING WOULD LEAD TO ABSURDITIES 3HOULD WE RESPECT
OWE A DUTY OF CARE TO OUR ANIMAL COUSINS THE hRIGHTv TO LIFE OF BACTERIA 7E MIGHT WISH TO REDUCE
UNNECESSARY ANIMAL SUFFERING BUT NOT BECAUSE ALL CREA
TURES TO WHICH WE ARE DISTANTLY RELATED HAVE RIGHTS
7E SHOULD ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION IN ASCRIBING RIGHTS /NLY HUMAN BEINGS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY HAVE
TO HUMAN OR NONHUMAN CREATURES )F WE PLACE HIGH STAN
RIGHTS 2IGHTS ARE PRIVILEGES THAT COME WITH CERTAIN SOCIAL
DARDS SUCH AS THE ABILITY TO THINK SPEAK OR EVEN TO ENTER DUTIES AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITIES !NIMALS ARE NOT CAPA
INTO A SOCIAL CONTRACT ON THE ASCRIPTION OF RIGHTS THERE BLE OF ENTERING INTO THIS SORT OF hSOCIAL CONTRACTvTHEY
IS A DANGER THAT NOT ONLY ANIMALS BUT ALSO HUMAN INFANTS ARE NEITHER MORAL NOR IMMORAL THEY ARE AMORAL 4HEY
AND MENTALLY HANDICAPPED ADULTS WILL BE CONSIDERED TO DO NOT RESPECT OUR hRIGHTS v AND THEY ARE IRRATIONAL AND
HAVE NO RIGHTS ENTIRELY INSTINCTUAL !MORAL AND IRRATIONAL CREATURES HAVE
\4HE $EBATABASE "OOK
02/3 #/.3
NEITHER RIGHTS NOR DUTIESTHEY ARE MORE LIKE ROBOTS THAN
PEOPLE !LL HUMAN BEINGS OR POTENTIAL HUMAN BEINGS
EG UNBORN CHILDREN CAN POTENTIALLY BE GIVEN RIGHTS
BUT NONHUMAN ANIMALS DO NOT FALL INTO THAT CATEGORY
#RUELTY TO ANIMALS IS THE SIGN OF AN UNCIVILIZED SOCIETY IT 5SING ANIMALS FOR OUR OWN NUTRITION AND PLEASURE IS
ENCOURAGES VIOLENCE AND BARBARISM IN SOCIETY MORE GEN
COMPLETELY NATURAL )N THE WILD ANIMALS STRUGGLE TO SUR
ERALLY ! SOCIETY THAT RESPECTS ANIMALS AND RESTRAINS BASE VIVE ARE HUNTED BY PREDATORS AND COMPETE FOR FOOD AND
AND VIOLENT INSTINCTS IS A MORE CIVILIZED ONE RESOURCES (UMAN BEINGS HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN THIS
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE AND DO NOT NEED TO FEEL ASHAMED
OF EXPLOITING THEIR POSITION AS A SUCCESSFUL SPECIES IN THE
EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
4HAT A SMALL NUMBER OF EXTREMISTS AND CRIMINALS HAVE !NIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ARE HYPOCRITES EXTREMISTS AND TER
ATTACHED THEMSELVES TO THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DOES RORISTS WHO DONT CARE ABOUT HUMAN LIFE /RGANIZATIONS
NOT INVALIDATE THE CAUSE 7HY SHOULDNT ANIMAL RIGHTS LIKE THE !NIMAL ,IBERATION &RONT USE TERRORIST TACTICS
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD RESPECT ANIMALS RIGHTS
4HIS (OUSE CONDEMNS THE EXPLOITATION OF ANIMALS
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!RRANGING MARRIAGE IS AN INSULT TO THE VERY NATURE OF MAR
!RRANGED MARRIAGES ARE OFTEN VERY SUCCESSFUL ONLY A
RIAGE WHICH SHOULD BE ABOUT CREATING A LOVING AND LAST
VERY SMALL NUMBER END IN DIVORCE -ILLIONS OF PEOPLE
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VALUES )T BECOMES EVEN MORE OF AN ISSUE WHEN IT OCCURS POTENTIAL PARTNERS 4O CLAIM THAT ALL MARRIAGES MUST BE
IN A 7ESTERN SOCIETY THAT VALUES FREEDOM OF CHOICE LOVE MATCHES IS PURE ROMANTICISM
0ARENTS AND THE COMMUNITY OFTEN PUT UNACCEPTABLE PRES !RRANGED MARRIAGES DO INVOLVE CHOICE 4HE DIFFERENCE
SURE ON THEIR CHILDREN TO ACCEPT AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE IS MERELY THAT WHOLE FAMILIES ARE INVOLVED IN THE DECI
-OREOVER THE LINE BETWEEN AN ARRANGED AND A FORCED SION -ANY OF WHAT WE WOULD CALL ARRANGED MARRIAGES
MARRIAGE IS SO HAZY THAT IT CANNOT BE POLICED 7E MUST ARE EITHER PARENTS INTRODUCING THEIR CHILDREN TO POTEN
STOP THE FORMER TO PREVENT THE LATTER TIAL PARTNERS OR ENGAGING IN THE NEGOTIATIONS NECESSARY
FOR MARRIAGE AFTER THEIR CHILDREN HAVE CHOSEN A PARTNER
-OREOVER IT IS TOTALLY ILLOGICAL FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO
INTERVENE TO STOP PEOPLE HAVING THE MARRIAGES THAT THEY
AND THEIR FAMILIES HAVE CHOSEN IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM
OF CHOICE 7E MUST STOP FORCED MARRIAGES BUT IN A FREE
SOCIETY PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE AN ARRANGED
MARRIAGE
!RRANGED MARRIAGES ARE BAD BOTH FOR THE INDIVIDUAL !RRANGED MARRIAGES IN %UROPE AND .ORTH !MERICA HAVE
WOMEN CONCERNED AND FOR WOMEN GENERALLY )MMI LOW LEVELS OF ABUSE AND MARITAL VIOLENCE 6ULNERABILITY OF
GRANT WOMEN OFTEN ARE VERY VULNERABLE THEY ARE FAR FROM THOSE WITHOUT LANGUAGE SKILLS IS A PROBLEM FOR ALL IMMI
HOME DO NOT SPEAK THE LOCAL LANGUAGE OR DIALECT AND GRANTS NOT JUST THOSE IN ARRANGED MARRIAGES &INALLY
ARE TOTALLY RELIANT ON THE HUSBANDS HOUSE AND FAMILY MOST MARRIAGE ORGANIZERS ARE WOMEN WHO GAIN PRESTIGE
4HE LACK OF A SUPPORT NETWORK THE LANGUAGE TO APPEAL AND AUTHORITY THROUGH THEIR ROLE 7HAT YOU ARE REALLY
FOR HELP OR KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR RIGHTS MAKES WOMEN IN SAYING IS THAT )SLAMIC SOCIETIES ARE PATRIARCHAL AND THAT
ARRANGED MARRIAGES DISPROPORTIONATELY LIKELY TO SUFFER -USLIMS HAVE ARRANGED MARRIAGES
ABUSE !RRANGED MARRIAGES COMMODIFY WOMEN WHO ARE
BARTERED BETWEEN THE MALE HEADS OF HOUSES 4HIS IS NOT
ACCEPTABLE IN AN EGALITARIAN SOCIETY THAT EMPHASIZES INDI
VIDUAL RIGHTS
!RRANGED MARRIAGE SEPARATES IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES 'ROUPS PRACTICING ARRANGED MARRIAGE ARE NOT THE ONLY
AND THE WIDER SOCIETY )T LEADS TO CULTURAL GHETTOIZATION ONES SET ON MAINTAINING COHESIVE COMMUNITIES MANY
AND DISTRUST IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY WHICH EMPHASIZES GROUPS RETAIN A DISTINCT CULTURAL LIFE WHILE FULLY TAKING
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF CHOICE PART IN THE LIFE OF THIS COUNTRY 4HEIR CULTURAL CONTRIBU
TIONS ARE ONE OF THE MOST VALUABLE ADDITIONS TO MODERN
\4HE $EBATABASE "OOK
02/3 #/.3
MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES ! MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY VALUES
PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND TRADITIONS
!RRANGED MARRIAGE IS NOT AN INVIOLATE CULTURAL VALUE %VERY !RRANGED MARRIAGE IS A CULTURAL TRADITION CONlRMED BY
MAJOR RELIGION INCLUDING )SLAM GUARANTEES FREEDOM OF ETHNOGRAPHIC DATA 4HERE IS NO CONmICT BETWEEN ARRANGE
CHOICE IN MARRIAGE &URTHER THE CUSTOM IS A PRODUCT OF A MENT AND A GUARANTEE OF FREE CHOICE THE TWO ARE ENTIRELY
PATRIARCHAL CULTURE THAT OPPRESSES WOMEN !LTHOUGH WE CONSISTENT 7ESTERN SOCIETIES CANNOT DICTATE WHAT IS CUL
CANNOT INTERVENE IN COUNTRIES WITH SUCH VALUE SYSTEMS TURALLY VALID FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES 4O DO SO WOULD BE
WE CAN STOP THE IMPORTATION OF SUCH SYSTEMS 4RUE MUL
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TICULTURALISM RELIES ON SHARED COMMITMENT TO A TOLERANT GRANTS UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE WE PLACE ON TOLERATION
AND FAIR SOCIETY IF WE DENY THEM CULTURAL FREEDOM
!RRANGED MARRIAGE PROVIDES A COVER FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRA
-OST ARRANGED MARRIAGES LAST BEYOND THE TIME REQUIRED
TION !UTHORITIES WILL CHALLENGE MARRIAGES OF CONVENIENCE FOR CITIZENSHIP SO THEY WOULD BE LEGITIMATE UNDER ANY
BETWEEN CITIZENS AND ALIENS BUT ARE RELUCTANT TO INVESTI
CIRCUMSTANCES
GATE ARRANGED MARRIAGES BECAUSE OF THE DANGER OF BEING
SEEN AS CULTURALLY INSENSITIVE
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BAN ARRANGED MARRIAGES
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES A TRUE MARRIAGE IS A FREE MARRIAGE
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES MARRIAGE SHOULD BE FOR LOVE
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4HE lNANCIAL STRUGGLE THAT ARTISTS EXPERIENCE IS ONE WAY 4HE CREATIVE PROCESS NEEDS TIME )F ARTISTS MUST WORK TO
TO WEED THE GOOD ARTISTS FROM THE BAD /NLY THOSE WHO MAKE ENDS MEET WHEN WILL THEY HAVE THE TIME AND THE
ARE TRULY DEDICATED WILL MAKE THE SACRIlCES NEEDED TO CREATIVE ENERGY TO COMPLETE THEIR PROJECTS 7ITHOUT FED
SUCCEED /THERS WILL ENTER OTHER OCCUPATIONS WHERE THEIR ERAL FUNDING FOR GRANTS FEW ARTISTS WILL BE ABLE TO CON
CREATIVITY AND TALENTS CAN BE REWARDED !RTISTS COULD ALSO TINUE THEIR WORK AND MAINTAIN A REASONABLE STANDARD OF
lND PAID EMPLOYMENT THAT WILL ENABLE THEM TO CONTINUE LIVING !RTISTS WILL BE FORCED TO ENTER THE WORKFORCE AND
WORKING ON THEIR ART )F AN ARTISTS WORK IS WORTHY OF ABANDON ART
lNANCIAL SUPPORT THAT ARTIST WILL lND A PATRON FROM THE
PRIVATE SECTOR WHO WILL SUPPORT HIM OR HER
'OVERNMENT SUBSIDIES FOR ART SIMPLY TAKE MONEY AWAY 4HE .%! COSTS EACH !MERICAN ONLY CENTS A YEAR
FROM MIDDLE
CLASS AND LOW
INCOME PEOPLE TO SUBSIDIZE A !LTHOUGH SOME .%! MONEY IS USED TO SUPPORT ARTS THAT
SELF
INDULGENT HOBBY FOR THE RICH 4HE KIND OF ART THAT THE ARE TRADITIONALLY SUPPORTED BY INDIVIDUALS WITH HIGHER
MAJORITY OF !MERICANS ARE INTERESTED IN POPULAR MOVIES INCOMES MUCH OF THE .%! BUDGET SUPPORTS ARTISTS WHO
AND MUSIC FOR EXAMPLE IS NOT SUBSIDIZED *UST AS A ROCK WORK WITH PROGRAMS LIKE ART EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS AND
BAND SHOULD NOT RECEIVE GOVERNMENT FUNDS TO MAKE TICKET COMMUNITY THEATER 0ROJECTS LIKE THESE BENElT ALL CHIL
PRICES LOWER NEITHER SHOULD OPERAS OR BALLETS ,ET THE RICH DREN AND GIVE PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY WAYS TO CONTRIB
WHO WANT TO ATTEND THESE KINDS OF PERFORMANCES PAY FULL UTE TO MAKING THEIR COMMUNITY A BETTER PLACE
PRICE WHY SHOULD TAXPAYERS UNDERWRITE BARGAIN PRICES FOR
ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE WEALTHY
3UBSIDIES COULD FUNCTION AS A WAY TO REWARD ARTISTS !RTS IN !MERICA ARE A UNIFYING EXPERIENCE 0EOPLE FROM
WHO ARE CREATING WHAT THE GOVERNMENT PREFERS )N THIS DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS CAN COMMUNICATE THROUGH ART AND
WAY SUBSIDIES COULD LEAD TO GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP OF SHARE EXPERIENCES AND TALENTS !RTISTIC EXPRESSION IS CEN
ART TO SILENCE CRITICS #OMMUNIST DICTATORSHIPS SUBSI TRAL TO WHO WE ARE AS !MERICANS AND AS HUMAN BEINGS
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(AVING ARTISTS RELY ON THE GOVERNMENT FOR THEIR hDAILY TRANSMITTING OUR !MERICAN HERITAGE TO FUTURE GENERA
BREADv RISKS THEIR ARTISTIC INTEGRITY HOW COULD THEY BE TIONS )N ADDITION FEDERAL SUPPORT OF ARTISTS IS PATRIOTIC
SOCIAL CRITICS AND ADVOCATE FOR CHANGE IN THE SYSTEM BECAUSE ART BUILDS AND PRESERVES !MERICAN TRADITIONS
WHEN IT IS THE SYSTEM THAT IS PUTTING FOOD ON THE TABLE 4HE GRANT PROCESS BECAUSE IT IS RUN BY ARTISTS ENSURES
4HE STRINGS ATTACHED TO SUBSIDIES MAKE THEM POTENTIAL THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE .%! AND REDUCES THE DANGER
WEAPONS AGAINST DEMOCRACY OF CENSORSHIP
\4HE $EBATABASE "OOK
02/3 #/.3
(ISTORICALLY PATRONS DID NOT SUPPORT UNKNOWN AND 4RADITION IS ON THE SIDE OF THOSE IN POWER SUPPORTING THE
UNPROVEN TALENT !RTISTS GAINED PATRONAGE ONLY AFTER PROV
ARTS 3INCE THE 2ENAISSANCE COMPOSERS AND ARTISTS HAVE
ING THEIR WORTH )N THE CURRENT SYSTEM OF SUBSIDIES NEW BEEN SUPPORTED BY POPES KINGS AND OTHER PATRONS )N
UNPROVEN AND OFTEN SUBSTANDARD ARTISTS RECEIVE GRANTS OUR DEMOCRACY THIS BURDEN FALLS TO GOVERNMENT TO ENSURE
!RTISTS WHO ARE ALREADY SUCCESSFUL GENERALLY DO NOT NEED THAT THE NEXT -OZART OR "EETHOVEN WILL NOT FORGO HIS OR
THE GRANTS TO MEET THEIR LIVING EXPENSES -OZART AND HER ARTISTIC VISION FOR LACK OF FUNDS
"EETHOVEN IF THEY WERE LIVING TODAY WOULD lND MANY
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND WOULD NOT NEED
TO RELY ON GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES
3UBSIDIES USUALLY SUPPORT ARTISTS WHO HAVE CREATED ART 4HE -APPLETHORPE AND 3ERRANO CASES ARE ISOLATED INCI
THAT MOST PEOPLE OBJECT TO 2OBERT -APPLETHORPE WITH DENTS 4HE VAST MAJORITY OF ART THAT IS PRODUCED THROUGH
HIS HOMOEROTIC PHOTOGRAPHS AND !NDRES 3ERRANO WITH SUBSIDIES IS ART THAT MOST TAXPAYERS WOULD SUPPORT 4HE
HIS PHOTOGRAPH OF A CRUCIlX SUBMERGED IN HIS OWN URINE .%! HAS MADE MANY CHANGES IN THE WAY IT AWARDS GRANTS
ARE SPECIlC EXAMPLES OF ARTISTS WHO TAXPAYERS HAVE SUP SINCE THOSE INCIDENTS )N FACT MANY OF THE SAME MEM
PORTED !RTISTS SHOULD HAVE THE FREEDOM TO CREATE ANY BERS OF #ONGRESS WHO CALLED FOR AN ABOLITION OF THE .%!
TYPE OF ART THEY WANT BUT TAXPAYER MONEY SHOULD NOT BE OVER THIS ISSUE VOTED FOR AN INCREASE IN FUNDING IN *ULY
USED TO FUND PROJECTS THAT ARE INDECENT )F PRIVATE FUNDS OF #ONGRESS MANDATES THAT THE CRITERIA OF DECENCY
ARE USED THEN THE !MERICAN PEOPLE CANNOT CLAIM THEY AND RESPECT BE USED IN EVALUATING GRANT PROPOSALS /VER
HAVE INVOLUNTARILY SUPPORTED THE CREATION OF PERVERSE ALL THE ARTWORK SUPPORTED BY SUBSIDIES WOULD MAKE MOST
AND VILE WORKS !MERICANS PROUD
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4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT SUBSIDIZING ARTISTS IS DETRIMENTAL TO DEMOCRACY
4HIS (OUSE WOULD INCREASE SUBSIDIES FOR ARTISTS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT STOPPING SUBSIDIES WOULD HARM ART IN !MERICA
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$EATHS AND MUCH SUFFERING COULD BE PREVENTED IF ONE -URDER CAN NEVER BE JUSTIlED )F WE ASSUME THE ROLE OF
MAN IS KILLED 4HE GREATER GOOD DEMANDS A SINGLE EVIL EXECUTIONER WITHOUT THE BACKING OF LAW WE ARE SINKING TO
ACT ESPECIALLY IF IT WOULD AVERT THE IMMEDIATE AND CERTAIN THE LEVEL OF THE DICTATORS !NY NEW GOVERNMENT FOUNDED
DANGER OF MUCH WORSE EVIL UPON SUCH AN ARBITRARY ACT WILL LACK MORAL LEGITIMACY
UNDERMINING ITS POPULAR SUPPORT AND MAKING ITS FAILURE
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$ICTATORIAL SYSTEMS ARE HIGHLY PERSONAL SO REMOVING THE +ILLING THE INDIVIDUAL WILL ACHIEVE NOTHING $ICTATORS ARE
DRIVING FORCE BEHIND SUCH A REGIME WILL RESULT IN ITS COL PART OF A WIDER RULING ELITE FROM WHICH SOMEONE SHARING
LAPSE ALLOWING A MORE POPULAR AND LIBERAL GOVERNMENT THE SAME AUTOCRATIC VALUES WILL EMERGE TO TAKE THE ASSAS
TO REPLACE IT SINATED LEADERS PLACE 4HIS SUCCESSOR IS LIKELY TO USE THE
ASSASSINATION AS THE EXCUSE FOR FURTHER REPRESSION
!SSASSINATION OF A DICTATOR MAY BE THE ONLY WAY TO EFFECT !SSASSINATION IS LIKELY TO BE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE RALLY
CHANGE IN A COUNTRY WHERE A REPRESSIVE POLICE STATE PRE ING POPULAR FEELING AROUND A REPRESSIVE REGIME AS EXTER
VENTS ANY POSSIBILITY OF INTERNAL OPPOSITION #OWED NAL ENEMIES OR INTERNAL MINORITIES ARE BLAMED RIGHTLY
POPULACES NEED A SIGNAL IN ORDER TO lND THE COURAGE TO OR WRONGLY FOR THE ACT !N UNSUCCESSFUL ASSASSINATION
CAMPAIGN FOR CHANGE ATTEMPT IS EVEN MORE LIKELY TO BRING ABOUT SUCH A RESULT
$ICTATORS ARE A THREAT TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE NOT JUST TO 3OMETIMES DICTATORSHIP IS PREFERABLE TO THE ALTERNATIVES
THEIR OWN PEOPLE 4HEY TEND TO ATTACK OTHER COUNTRIES TO ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY ITSELF 'REAT
DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THEIR UNPOPULAR ACTIONS AT HOME POWERS HAVE OFTEN SUPPORTED AUTOCRATS WHO PROMOTE
THUS ASSASSINATION IS JUSTIlED AS A MEANS OF PREVENTING A SUCH POWERS GEOPOLITICAL INTERESTS IN A WAY THAT A DEMO
WAR THAT MIGHT RAPIDLY BECOME REGIONAL OR GLOBAL CRATIC REGIME WOULD NOT 3OMETIMES DICTATORS HAVE SUC
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WHOLE NATION AND ITS ECONOMY MAKING EVENTUAL REBUILD
LESS CASES CHANGE CAN COME THROUGH POPULAR ACTION
ING MUCH MORE COSTLY IN BOTH HUMAN AND ECONOMIC OFTEN QUICKLY AND WITHOUT GREAT VIOLENCE
TERMS
3AMPLE -OTIONS
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD ASSASSINATE SUPPLY NAME OF CURRENT DICTATOR
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ORGANS AND THE NEED FOR ARTIlCIAL LIFE SUPPORT )N SOME TO PRESERVE QUALITY OF LIFE AS FAR AS POSSIBLE 4ERMINALLY
CASES THE ILLNESS WILL SLOWLY DESTROY THEIR MINDS THE ILL PATIENTS NEED NEVER BE IN PAIN EVEN AT THE VERY END
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&ACED WITH THIS IT IS SURELY MORE HUMANE THAT THESE INDI
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02/3 #/.3
3OCIETY RECOGNIZES THAT SUICIDE IS UNFORTUNATE BUT ACCEPT
4HOSE WHO COMMIT SUICIDE ARE NOT EVIL AND THOSE WHO
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AND ARE UNABLE TO DIE WITHOUT ASSISTANCE FOR EXAMPLE SIMPLY IGNORE A MAN STANDING ON A LEDGE
AND THREATENING TO JUMP SIMPLY BECAUSE IT IS HIS CHOICE
AND YOU WOULD DElNITELY NOT ASSIST IN HIS SUICIDE BY
PUSHING HIM )N THE SAME WAY YOU SHOULD TRY TO HELP A
PERSON WITH A TERMINAL ILLNESS NOT HELP HIM TO DIE
3UICIDE IS A LONELY DESPERATE ACT CARRIED OUT IN SECRECY $EMANDING THAT FAMILY MEMBERS TAKE PART IN SUCH A
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MIGHT HAVE BEEN UNAWARE OF THE TRUE FEELINGS OF THEIR ANY WAY INVOLVED WITH THE DEATH !SSISTED SUICIDE ALSO
LOVED ONE "EING FORCED TO CONFRONT THE ISSUE OF A FAMILY INTRODUCES A NEW DANGER THAT THE TERMINALLY ILL MAY BE
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SUCH CONTESTS IS ALL VERY WELL BUT UGLY WOMEN SIMPLY SUCCESS %VERY COMPETITION OF EVERY KIND VALUES CERTAIN
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WOMEN BUT NOT MEN PRIMARILY ON THEIR LOOKS CONTRIB LIFT HEAVY WEIGHTS IS NOT THE PRIME DElNITION OF HUMAN
UTES TO THE SUBJUGATION OF WOMEN BECAUSE OTHER QUALI WORTH BUT WE CAN STILL GIVE PRIZES FOR WEIGHTLIFTING
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02/3 #/.3
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN THAN FOR MEN BEAUTY CONTESTS
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PROlLE BEAUTY CONTESTS ARE ABLE TO
PUBLICIZE CHARITIES AND CAUSES ABOUT WHICH THEY FEEL
STRONGLY THEY HAVE A PUBLIC PLATFORM THEY COULD NOT
OTHERWISE HAVE GAINED
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BAN BEAUTY CONTESTS
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AMONG ALL LIFE ON %ARTH (UMAN SENTIENCE AND INTEL
AN EXAGGERATION &OSSIL EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT MASS EXTINC
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AND THE CONSEQUENT REDUCTION IN BIODIVERSITY CAUSED BY
DEFORESTATION OVER
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OUR PACE THEY DESERVE TO DIE OUT AND BE SUPPLANTED BY
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SPECIES THEREBY PRESERVING BIODIVERSITY US TO CONCENTRATE ON OTHER SPECIES WHEN HUMANITY HAS
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CITIZENS )T IS HYPOCRITICAL FOR DEVELOPED NATIONS TO CRITI
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ING WORLD CONSIDERING THAT THE &IRST 7ORLD GOT TO ITS
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PAID NO HEED TO BIODIVERSITY POLLUTION AND OTHER SUCH
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-EDICAL EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT EVEN IF A BOXER SURVIVES "OXERS ARE AWARE OF THE SIGNIlCANT RISKS OF THEIR SPORT
INDIVIDUAL BOUTS RELATIVELY UNMARKED THE CUMULATIVE AND ARE PAID WELL FOR ACCEPTING THEM 7E ALLOW INDI
EFFECT OF A CAREER IN BOXING CAN LEAD TO A GREATER SUSCEPTI
VIDUALS TO ENGAGE IN KNOWN RISK BEHAVIORSSMOKING
BILITY TO DISEASES SUCH AS 0ARKINSONS !LTHOUGH THE INCI
AND HANG GLIDING FOR EXAMPLE 7HY SHOULD WE SINGLE
DENCE OF INJURY IS MUCH HIGHER IN SPORTS SUCH AS BASKET
OUT BOXING FOR ABOLITION "OXING AUTHORITIES HAVE MADE
BALL THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY IN BOXING IS FAR GREATER )N EVERY ATTEMPT TO MINIMIZE INJURY $OCTORS AND MEDICAL
FACT THAT RISK IS SO GREAT THAT BOXING SHOULD BE BANNED EQUIPMENT ARE PRESENT AT RINGSIDE AND REFEREES INTERVENE
! BAN QUITE SIMPLY WOULD MEAN FEWER PEOPLE DEAD TO STOP lGHTS IF NECESSARY
INJURED OR PERMANENTLY BRAIN DAMAGED
"OXING IS THE ONLY SPORT IN WHICH COMBATANTS INTENTION
-OST PEOPLE WHO CALL FOR A BAN ON BOXING HAVE NO
ALLY INJURE EACH OTHER )N THE ST CENTURY IT IS BARBARIC THAT UNDERSTANDING OF THE SPORT BEYOND A GUT DISAPPROVAL OF
WE ALLOW PEOPLE TO INTENTIONALLY INmICT INJURIES ON OTHERS IT "OXINGS APPEAL LIES IN ITS SIMPLICITY THE DISTILLATION
FOR THE SAKE OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT AND PRIVATE PROlT OF THE SPORTING CONTEST TO ITS MOST BASIC FORMA PHYSI
0EOPLE UNDER SHOULD ALSO BE BANNED FROM AMATEUR CAL BATTLE BETWEEN TWO EGOS 4O SAY THAT BOXING IS THE
lGHTS BECAUSE OF THE SPORTS HEALTH RISKS )T SEEMS CURIOUS ONLY SPORT WHERE OPPONENTS INTEND TO INJURE ONE ANOTHER
THAT IN MANY COUNTRIES YOU CAN START BOXING BEFORE YOU IGNORES THE REALITY OF SPORTS LIKE HOCKEY )NTRODUCING AN
ARE LEGALLY ABLE TO DRIVE AGE OR lGHT LIMIT MAY WELL BE SENSIBLE BUT THERE IS NO
COMPELLING ARGUMENT FOR A BAN
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IN TO PROFESSIONAL BOUTS BEFORE HIS OR EVEN HER WORKING
CLASS INDIVIDUALS OF AN OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME
HEALTH AND SKILLS DETERIORATE DRAMATICALLY 7HILE IT MAY RICH AND SUCCESSFUL -OHAMMAD !LI WAS A SANITATION
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MORE lGHTS THING DIFFERENTLY OR IF HE HAD ANY REGRETS HIS ANSWER WAS
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VIOLENCE IN SOCIETY "OXERS ARE NOT ROLE MODELS OF WHOM STEREOTYPES &AR MORE DANGEROUS IS THE hSPORTv OF WRES
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!SSERTING THAT BOXING WOULD JUST hGO UNDERGROUNDv IS ! BAN ON BOXING WOULD DRIVE IT UNDERGROUND WHERE
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02/3 #/.3
NONCONSENTING COMBATANTS 7HEN THESE lGHTS COME TO MINIMIZE THE RISK OF INJURIES IT SHOULD REMAIN LEGAL BUT
THE ATTENTION OF THE POLICE THE PERPETRATORS RECEIVE HEFTY REGULATED
PENALTIES 4HESE PENALTIES ARE AN EFFECTIVE DETERRENT AND
WOULD BE FOR BOXING ALSO IF IMPLEMENTED
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BAN BOXING
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BAN CONTACT SPORTS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD END THE lGHT GAME
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES VIOLENCE IS UNACCEPTABLE
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7ITH CONTRIBUTIONS TO A CANDIDATE DONORS EFFECTIVELY $ONORS GIVE MONEY TO A CANDIDATE BECAUSE THEY AGREE
BUY INmUENCE OR AT LEAST ACCESS WHICH MAY BE THE SAME WITH THE CANDIDATES POSITIONS 4HE DONATION IS IN EFFECT
THING SO THAT THEIR INTERESTS ARE REPRESENTED WHEN LAWS A FORM OF SPEECH AND SHOULD BE PROTECTED BY THE &IRST
ARE MADE 4HE RESULT IS INEQUALITY 4HE WEALTHY HAVE !MENDMENT
MORE INmUENCE THAN THE POOR
\4HE $EBATABASE "OOK
02/3 #/.3
-ORE OFTEN THAN NOT TELEVISION CAMPAIGNS ARE SUPERl
#ANDIDATES CANNOT CONVEY THEIR IDEAS TO THE VOTING
CIAL AND DISTORTED !DVERTISEMENTS SHOULD BE REPLACED BY POPULACE WITHOUT EXPENSIVE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS IN
PUBLICLY lNANCED FORUMS THAT WOULD ALLOW CANDIDATES TO THE ELECTRONIC AND PRINT MEDIA &INANCE REFORM IMPEDES
DISCUSS POLITICAL ISSUES IN A SUBSTANTIVE WAY THEIR ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE WITH VOTERS
4HE COST OF RUNNING POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS HAS GOTTEN SO !S NO LIMIT IS PLACED ON HOW MUCH CAN BE SPENT BY
HIGH THAT ORDINARY CITIZENS CANNOT RUN FOR OFlCE CANDI
WEALTHY CANDIDATES TO lNANCE THEIR OWN CAMPAIGNS
DATES NEED TO BE PERSONALLY WEALTHY OR WELL CONNECTED TO lNANCE REFORM WILL PUT POORER CANDIDATES WHO DEPEND
SOURCES OF FUNDS &INANCE REFORM WOULD LEVEL THE PLAYING ON CONTRIBUTIONS AT A DISADVANTAGE
lELD
4HE COST OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS HAS FORCED LEGISLATORS TO %XPERIENCE HAS SHOWN THAT INCUMBENTS USUALLY HAVE
SPEND MUCH OF THEIR TIME RAISING MONEY FOR THEIR REELEC AN ADVANTAGE IN ELECTIONS LARGELY BECAUSE THEY ARE WELL
TION CAMPAIGNS ,IMITING CAMPAIGN EXPENSES WOULD KNOWN &INANCE REFORM WILL HURT THE ABILITY OF CHALLENG
ELIMINATE THIS DISTRACTION ERS TO OVERCOME THAT ADVANTAGE
,ARGE CONTRIBUTIONS ARE MADE BY LARGE ORGANIZATIONS ,EGISLATORS PASS LAWS THAT HAVE DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE
CORPORATIONS UNIONS TRADE ASSOCIATIONS AND THE LIKE EFFECTS ON ORGANIZATIONS 4HESE ORGANIZATIONS SHOULD BE
4HE SIZE OF THESE CONTRIBUTIONS MEANS THAT LEGISLATORS PAY FREE TO SUPPORT CANDIDATES WHO ARE SYMPATHETIC TO THEIR
MORE ATTENTION TO THE ORGANIZATIONS AND LESS ATTENTION TO INTERESTS
INDIVIDUAL VOTERS
!LTHOUGH #ONGRESS PASSED LAWS LIMITING CAMPAIGN CON !NY RESTRICTIONS ARE DOOMED TO FAIL BECAUSE INDIVIDU
TRIBUTIONS ALMOST YEARS AGO THE EMERGENCE OF POLITI ALS AND ORGANIZATIONS WILL NEVER SURRENDER THEIR RIGHT TO
CAL ACTION COMMITTEES AND hSOFT MONEYv GIVEN TO PARTIES EXPRESS THEMSELVES POLITICALLY .O RESTRICTIONS SHOULD BE
RATHER THAN CANDIDATES HAS MADE THE ORIGINAL RESTRICTIONS PLACED ON CONTRIBUTIONS WHICH SHOULD HOWEVER BE FULLY
USELESS 2EFORM IS NEEDED TO CLOSE LOOPHOLES DISCLOSED TO THE PUBLIC
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD MAKE ALL POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS PUBLICLY lNANCED
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BAN PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISING ON TELEVISION
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02/3 #/.3
4HE PRINCIPLE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS THAT CERTAIN %XECUTION IS IN SIMPLEST TERMS STATE
SANCTIONED KILLING
CRIMES DESERVE NOTHING LESS THAN DEATH AS A JUST PROPOR
)T DEVALUES THE RESPECT WE PLACE ON HUMAN LIFE (OW
TIONATE AND EFFECTIVE RESPONSE 4HE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED CAN WE SAY THAT KILLING IS WRONG IF WE SANCTION KILLING
WITH THE DEATH PENALTY ARE CONCERNED WITH ITS IMPLEMEN
CRIMINALS -ORE IMPORTANT IS THE PROVEN RISK OF EXECUT
TATION RATHER THAN ITS PRINCIPLE -URDERERS FORGO THEIR ING INNOCENT PEOPLE !T LEAST INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE
RIGHTS AS HUMANS THE MOMENT THEY TAKE AWAY THE RIGHTS EXECUTED IN THE 53 IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 4HE EXECU
OF ANOTHER HUMAN "Y WIELDING SUCH A POWERFUL PUNISH
TION OF AN INNOCENT PERSON CAN NEVER BE JUSTIlED
MENT AS THE RESPONSE TO MURDER SOCIETY IS AFlRMING THE
VALUE THAT IS PLACED ON THE RIGHT TO LIFE OF THE INNOCENT
PERSON -ANY MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED BY
RELEASED PAROLED OR ESCAPED MURDERERS THAN INNOCENT
PEOPLE EXECUTED
#APITAL PUNISHMENT IS EFFECTIVE AS A DETERRENT TO (IGHER EXECUTION RATES CAN ACTUALLY INCREASE VIOLENT
THE CRIMINAL BEING EXECUTED THAT KILLER CANNOT COMMIT CRIME RATES #ALIFORNIA AVERAGED SIX EXECUTIONS ANNU
ANY MORE CRIMES !S A DETERRENT TO OTHERS IT DEPENDS ON ALLY FROM TO AND HAD TWICE THE MURDER RATE
HOW OFTEN THE DEATH PENALTY IS APPLIED )N THE 53 WHERE OF THE PERIOD FROM UNTIL WHEN THERE WERE
LESS THAN OF MURDERERS ARE EXECUTED IT IS DIFlCULT TO NO EXECUTIONS )N .EW 9ORK FROM TO THE
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IT CAN BE A RACIST TOOL -AKE THE DEATH PENALTY MANDATORY THE 53 NEARLY OF THOSE EXECUTED WERE CONVICTED OF
IN ALL CAPITAL CASES KILLING WHITES DESPITE THE FACT THAT NON
WHITES MAKE UP
MORE THAN OF ALL MURDER VICTIMS
/PPONENTS OF THE DEATH PENALTY PREFER TO IGNORE THE FACT #APITAL PUNISHMENT COSTS MORE THAN LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE
THAT THEY THEMSELVES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS HIGH COSTS 3TUDIES IN THE 53 SHOW THAT CAPITAL CASES FROM ARREST TO
BY lLING A NEVERENDING SUCCESSION OF APPEALS 0RISONS IN EXECUTION COST BETWEEN MILLION AND MILLION ! CASE
MANY COUNTRIES ARE OVERCROWDED AND UNDERFUNDED 4HIS RESULTING IN LIFE IMPRISONMENT COSTS AROUND
PROBLEM IS MADE WORSE BY LIFE SENTENCES OR DELAYED DEATH
SENTENCES FOR MURDERERS 7HY SHOULD THE TAXPAYER BEAR
THE COST OF SUPPORTING A MURDERER FOR AN ENTIRE LIFETIME
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ATTITUDES TOWARD THE JUSTIlABILITY OF EXECUTING MENTALLY ANSWER h9ESv TO QUESTIONS IN THE DESIRE TO PLEASE OTHERS
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02/3 #/.3
INCOMPETENT OR TEENAGED MURDERERS )F SOCIETY OPPOSES 4HIS CAN LEAD TO FALSE CONFESSIONS /VER MENTALLY
SUCH EXECUTIONS THEN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DEATH PEN
RETARDED PEOPLE HAVE BEEN EXECUTED IN THE 53 SINCE
ALTY IN THESE CASES IS A PROBLEM &OR OPPONENTS TO SEIZE
ON SUCH CASES IS TO CLOUD THE ISSUE THIS IS NOT AN ARGU
MENT AGAINST THE PRINCIPLE
3OME CRIMINALS ARE BEYOND REHABILITATION 0ERHAPS CAPI
"Y EXECUTING CRIMINALS YOU ARE RULING OUT THE POSSIBIL
TAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE RESERVED FOR SERIAL KILLERS TER
ITY OF REHABILITATION 9OU HAVE TO CONSIDER THAT THEY MAY
RORISTS MURDERERS OF POLICEMEN AND SO ON REPENT OF THEIR CRIME SERVE A SENTENCE AS PUNISHMENT
AND EMERGE AS USEFUL MEMBERS OF SOCIETY
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE SUPPORTS THE DEATH PENALTY
4HIS (OUSE WOULD TAKE AN EYE FOR AN EYE A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH AND A LIFE FOR A LIFE
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02/3 #/.3
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0HYSICALLY HOLDING A HANDSET REMOVES ONE HAND FROM OUS IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES BUT SUCH USE IS NOT RISKY IN
THE CONTROLS MAKING ACCIDENTS MORE LIKELY WHILE DIAL
MANY SITUATIONS FOR EXAMPLE WHILE THE CAR IS AT A STAND
ING IS EVEN WORSE AS IT ALSO REQUIRES USERS TO DIVERT STILL IN GRIDLOCKED TRAFlC WHILE WAITING AT TRAFlC LIGHTS OR
ATTENTION FROM THE ROAD 2ESEARCH SHOWS THAT DRIVERS WHILE DRIVING ON A QUIET ROAD WITH GOOD VISIBILITY /THER
SPEAKING ON A CELL PHONE HAVE MUCH SLOWER REACTIONS IN ACTIONS IN A CAR CAN BE AT LEAST AS DISTRACTINGEATING
BRAKING TESTS THAN NONUSERS SUCH DRIVERS HAVE REACTION CHANGING TAPES RETUNING THE RADIO ARGUING WITH PASSEN
TIMES THAT ARE WORSE EVEN THAN THE REACTION TIMES OF GERS ABOUT DIRECTIONS TRYING TO STOP CHILDREN SQUABBLING
DRUNK DRIVERS ETC 7E SHOULD NOT INTRODUCE A LAW THAT VICTIMIZES CELL
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02/3 #/.3
PHONE USERS UNDER ALL CONDITIONS WHILE IGNORING MANY
OTHER CAUSES OF ACCIDENTS
2ESEARCH SHOWS VERY LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN USING (ANDS
FREE CELL PHONE SETS WITH EARPIECES AND VOICE
A HANDHELD AND A HANDS
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GETIC ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS TO WARN PEOPLE OF A RANGE OF
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.EW LAWS WOULD BE ENFORCEABLE BECAUSE BILLING RECORDS "ANNING CELL PHONE USE BY DRIVERS WILL BE UNENFORCE
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EMPLOYEES TO RISK THEIR LIVES FOR THE COMPANY
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD DO MORE TO PROMOTE ROAD SAFETY
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INCITEMENT TO RACIAL HATRED AND SIMILAR HATE SPEECH WE THERMORE AS LONG AS NO ILLEGAL ACTS WERE COMMITTED IN
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LIMITS !RT SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO THE SAME RESTRICTIONS AS DECIDING WHETHER TO VIEW THE RESULTING CONTENT !RGU
ANY OTHER FORM OF EXPRESSION "Y MAKING AN EXCEPTION MENTS ABOUT CHILD PORNOGRAPHY DISPLAYED AS ART ARE IRREL
FOR ART WE WOULD BE CREATING A LEGAL LOOPHOLE FOR CONTENT EVANT BECAUSE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IS ILLEGAL
SUCH AS HATE SPEECH WHICH COULD SEEK PROTECTION ON THE
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4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT YOU ARE WHAT YOU SEE
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4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT EDUCATION IS THE BEST ECONOMICS
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CAUSE IS THE SAME AS THAT CAUSED BY ADULTS COMMITTING A )T IS THE INABILITY OF CHILDREN TO FORM MORAL JUDGMENTS
SIMILAR OFFENSE CHILDREN SHOULD NOT RECEIVE SPECIAL TREAT
THAT MAKES THEM LESS CULPABLE AND THEREFORE WORTHY OF
MENT 4HE ASSUMPTION THAT CHILDREN ARE NOT AS MORALLY LIGHTER PUNISHMENT
CULPABLE AS ADULTS IS FALSE
4REATING CHILDREN MORE LENIENTLY THAN ADULTS UNDERMINES 4HE DETERRENCE THEORY ASSUMES THAT ALL CRIME IS COMMIT
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SERIOUSLY BECAUSE THEY THINK THE JUSTICE SYSTEM WILL TREAT LIBERTY CURTAILED 4HE REAL PROBLEM IS THAT MOST CRIMES
THEM LENIENTLY ARE COMMITTED BY PEOPLE WHO DO NOT MAKE RATIONAL DECI
SIONS
4HE BEST WAY TO PREVENT CRIME IN THE SHORT RUN IS TO LOCK 4HIS IS AN ARGUMENT THAT WOULD JUSTIFY IMPRISONING
UP THE OFFENDERS 4HIS STOPS THEM FROM IMMEDIATELY PEOPLE FOR LIFE BECAUSE THAT IS THE SUREST WAY TO PREVENT
HARMING SOCIETY )N THE LONG TERM THESE CHILDREN WILL BE THEM FROM HARMING ANYONE "ECAUSE THIS IS PLAINLY RIDIC
RELUCTANT TO RETURN TO CRIME BECAUSE OF THEIR MEMORY OF ULOUS IT MUST BE ACCEPTED THAT LOCKING A PERSON UP IS AT
HARSH PUNISHMENT BEST A SHORT TERM REMEDY 4HE LONG TERM ANSWER LIES IN
REHABILITATION
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COMMITTED THE SAME CRIMES FROM THE ADULTS
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD LOWER THE AGE OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
4HIS (OUSE WOULD PUNISH CHILDREN AS IF THEY WERE ADULTS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT SPARING THE ROD SPOILS THE CHILD
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DOMINATE THE CONVENTIONAL TRADING RELATIONSHIPS AND THE .ETHERLANDS )N #HINAS PEAK YEAR FOR THE RECEIPT OF
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PRESENTED A FORMIDABLE MILITARY THREAT #HINA HAS THE MILITARY THREAT )N TERMS OF DEFENSE SPENDING #HINA IS
WORLDS LARGEST STANDING ARMY AND POSES A THREAT BOTH INSIGNIlCANT ACCOUNTING FOR ONLY OF THE GLOBAL
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4AIPEI UNDUE INmUENCE ON 4AIWAN "OTH THE 4AIWANESE AND THE
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OF MAINLAND #HINA
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MADE MANY EFFORTS TO PROMOTE INTERNATIONAL PEACE BOTH
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EXPANSIONIST PHILOSOPHY
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE SHOULD REGARD #HINA AS A GLOBAL POWER
4HIS (OUSE THINKS THAT #HINA IS MERELY A REGIONAL POWER
4HIS (OUSE TREATS #HINA AS AN EQUAL POWER
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BE BROKEN THEIR VIEWS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IS UNNECESSARY 0ROTESTS
CAN BE MADE PERFECTLY WELL WITHOUT BREAKING THE LAW
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AIN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE 5NITED 3TATES RIlCE OF INNOCENT LIVES PROTEST MUST BE PEACEFUL OR NOT
ARE BOTH EXAMPLES OF AN EVENTUALLY SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN AT ALL
THAT WON BY ITS CONFRONTATION WITH AUTHORITY WHERE MORE
SEDATE METHODS WOULD SIMPLY NOT HAVE SUCCEEDED
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE SUPPORTS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BREAK THE LAW IN A GOOD CAUSE
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REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF UNDERAGE PREGNANCY AND THE BEGINNING SEXUAL ACTIVITY EARLIER
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TO DO %DUCATORS NEED NOT ENDORSE SEXUAL ACTIVITY BUT OFFENSIVE TO PEOPLE FROM A VARIETY OF RELIGIONS WHO OPPOSE
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DECIDE TO HAVE SEX 3UCH AN APPROACH IS SENSIBLE BECAUSE
IT ACCEPTS THE INEVITABILITY THAT SOME YOUNG PEOPLE
REGARDLESS OF THE STRENGTH OF AN ABSTINENCE MESSAGE WILL
STILL HAVE SEX
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4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES ABSTINENCE
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4HE REBEL mAGS MODERN ASSOCIATION WITH WHITE SUPREMA
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CISTS MAKES IT A mASHPOINT FOR RACIAL CONFRONTATION -ANY RIGHTS ARE BEING TRAMPLED IN THE NAME OF POLITICAL CORRECT
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A SOCIETY BASED ON SLAVERY AND THE DEHUMANIZING OF OPPOSITION TO A BAN &URTHERMORE SLAVES WERE BROUGHT
BLACKS TO THE 5NITED 3TATES ON SHIPS SAILING UNDER THE 3TARS AND
3TRIPES AND THERE IS NO SUGGESTION THAT THE NATIONAL mAG
BE BANNED
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SHOULD THE #ONFEDERATE mAG BE REGARDED ANY DIFFERENTLY OWN CULTURES TO DEMAND A CESSATION OF SUCH CELEBRATION
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REGARDING THE CULTURE OF THE 3OUTH OF WHICH THE #ONFED
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IN THE PAST )NDEED THE #ONFEDERATE mAG DID NOT ENJOY SHORT OF PERVERSE 4HE mAG MEANS MORE THAN PRIDE IN THE
RENEWED POPULARITY UNTIL THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA OF THE S #ONFEDERACY IT ALSO MEANS SOUTHERN PRIDE IN THE 3OUTH
WHEN IT BECAME A SYMBOL OF OPPOSITION TO THE MOVE
OF THE PRESENT
MENT
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ARE BACKWARD LOOKING REJECTING THE DIVERSITY AND DYNA
WISH TO PRESERVE TRADITIONAL WAYS ARE NOW AN EMBATTLED
MISM OF THE .EW 3OUTH THAT HAS DEVELOPED SINCE THE CIVIL GROUP ASSAULTED BY POLITICALLY CORRECT LIBERALS AND OTHERS
RIGHTS ERA "Y PERSISTENTLY PROMOTING A DIVISIVE SYMBOL WHO WANT TO PUBLICIZE THEIR OWN MINORITY RIGHTS AGENDA
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GENERATE NEGATIVE VIEWS OF THE 3OUTH WHY SHOULD THE CULTURE OF THE OLD 3OUTH BE UNIQUELY
SINGLED OUT FOR ATTACK
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BAN THE #ONFEDERATE mAG
4HIS (OUSE WOULD mY A mAG AGAINST RACISM
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02/3 #/.3
7E ACCEPT THE NEED FOR NATIONAL SERVICE IN WARTIME SER
.O JUSTIlCATION EXISTS FOR COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE
VICE IN PEACETIME IS JUST AN EXTENSION OF THE SAME IDEA )T 4HE ARMED FORCES AS THEY STAND ARE CAPABLE OF CARRYING
WOULD MEAN THAT THE COUNTRY WAS PREPARED FOR EMERGEN
OUT THEIR ROLE WITHOUT CONSCRIPTS )N FACT THE MILITARY
CIES WHEN THEY HAPPEN RATHER THAN HAVING TO PREPARE PREFERS A VOLUNTEER ARMY
AFTER THE FACT
.ATIONAL SERVICE DEVELOPS VALUABLE CHARACTER TRAITS 9OUNG &ORCING YOUNG PEOPLE TO GO INTO THE ARMED FORCES AGAINST
PEOPLE LEARN RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY SELF
DISCIPLINE TEAM
THEIR WILL FOSTERS ONLY RESENTMENT AGAINST AUTHORITY AND
WORK AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS UNDERMINES ANY REAL CHANCE AT LEARNING NEW SKILLS
4HE MILITARY TEACHES IMPORTANT SKILLS THAT HELP YOUNG 4HE GOVERNMENT WOULD BE BETTER OFF ESTABLISHING CIVIL
PEOPLE GET JOBS )N THE LONG RUN THIS WILL REDUCE UNEM IAN TRAINING PROGRAMS 4HE MILITARY IS NOT AN EDUCATIONAL
PLOYMENT AND HELP THE ECONOMY INSTITUTION
.ATIONAL SERVICE HELPS TO PROMOTE PATRIOTISM AND A SENSE 0ATRIOTISM SHOULD NOT BE CENTERED ON THE MILITARY 7E
OF NATIONHOOD HAVE SEEN THE DETRIMENTAL EFFECT A FOCUS ON THE MILITARY
HAS HAD IN OTHER NATIONS SUCH AS 'ERMANY .ATIONAL
PRIDE SHOULD BE FOSTERED IN OTHER WAYS
4HE INDIVIDUAL HAS A DUTY TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK TO SOCI
! CITIZEN HAS A DUTY TO PAY TAXES AND FOLLOW THE RULES OF
ETY AND NATIONAL SERVICE ALLOWS THIS 7HETHER THROUGH SOCIETY !NY SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY SHOULD BE VOL
PROTECTING THE COUNTRY OR HELPING WITH SOCIAL OR ENVIRON
UNTARY
MENTAL PROJECTS NATIONAL SERVICE ENCOURAGES THE IDEA OF
WORKING AS A COMMUNITY
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD REINTRODUCE THE DRAFT
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53 GOVERNMENT SITE PRESENTING INFORMATION ON PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAMS
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02/3 #/.3
#RIMINALS MUST BE PUNISHED !LL FORMS OF PUNISH
0UNISHING WITH PAIN IS BARBARIC A THROWBACK TO SOCIET
MENT RECOGNIZE THAT WITH THE COMMISSION OF CRIMINAL IES BUILT ON MILITARY MIGHT SLAVERY AND THE TREATMENT
ACTS INDIVIDUALS SURRENDER SOME OF THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS OF CRIMINALS AS ENTITIES WITHOUT ANY RIGHTS 4HE MARK OF
7HY LOGICALLY IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ANY MORE OF AN CIVILIZED SOCIETY IS THAT IT BEHAVES BETTER THAN ITS CRIMI
INFRINGEMENT OF THESE RIGHTS THAN PRISON #ORPORAL PUN
NALS 0RISON IS NECESSARY AS A METHOD OF PUNISHMENT PRE
ISHMENT IS AN EASY STRONG VISIBLE AND THEREFORE EFFEC
VENTION AND REHABILITATION BUT IT DOES NOT OR AT LEAST
TIVE DETERRENT )T IS ALSO A PROPORTIONATE PUNISHMENT FOR SHOULD NOT STOOP TO CRUELTY 4HIS IS WHY THE 5. $EC
CERTAIN CRIMES LARATION OF (UMAN 2IGHTS FORBIDS hTORTURE OR CRUEL
INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENTv
,IKE ALL FORMS OF PUNISHMENT mOGGING AND WHIPPING CAN !NY REGULATION TENDS TO BE ARBITRARY AND ALLOW ABUSE
AND SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO REGULATION )N 3INGAPORE FOR 3INGAPORES LIST OF CRIMES FOR WHICH CANING MAY BE
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YEAR
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EXISTENT LITTLE ELSE REMAINS TO HELP MAINTAIN ORDER PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE TO ABUSE FROM PRISON SUPERVISORS
WHO SEEK TO MAINTAIN ORDER THROUGH A CLIMATE OF FEAR
#ORPORAL PUNISHMENT IS APPROPRIATE FOR SOME CULTURES 3OCIETIES WITH A COLLECTIVE MENTALITY NEED LESS STRICT PUN
BUT NOT FOR OTHERS #ITIZENS OF 7ESTERN DEMOCRACIES lND ISHMENT LAWS THAN SOCIETIES WITHOUT 4HE 53 DOESNT
A GREAT DEAL OF STATE CONTROL AND AUTHORITY FRIGHTENING HAVE MORE CRIME THAN 3INGAPORE BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF
AND HOLD VERY DIVERSE VIEWS ON ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR AND CORPORAL PUNISHMENT BUT PRECISELY BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF
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WHAT IS ACCEPTABLEAND A HARSHER COLLECTIVE RESPONSE
EXISTS TOWARD THOSE WHO BREACH SOCIETYS NORMS 3INGA
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD mOG CRIMINALS LIVE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BRING BACK THE BIRCH
7EB ,INKS
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02/3 #/.3
#ORPORAL PUNISHMENT SPECIlCALLY SPANKING OR SIMILAR (ITTING A CHILD IS NEVER RIGHT 4HE POWER OF PHYSICAL
ACTIONS CAN BE AN EFFECTIVE PUNISHMENT AND DETERRENT PUNISHMENT TO TEACH A CHILD THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RIGHT
FOR CHILDISH MISBEHAVIOR )F CHILDREN DO NOT RESPOND AND WRONG IS UNPROVEN ! YOUNG CHILD MAY LEARN THAT
SERIOUSLY TO VERBAL WARNINGS OR LIGHT PUNISHMENT FROM THE ADULT IS DISPLEASED BUT NOT WHY 3PANKING WILL CAUSE
TEACHERS OR PARENTS THEN A SHORT SHARP STIMULUS WHICH A STATE OF EXTREME DISTRESS AND CONFUSION THAT MAKES CHIL
INmICTS PAIN BUT NO LASTING DAMAGE IS THE LAST RESORT TO DREN LESS LIKELY TO ANALYZE THEIR BEHAVIOR WITH CLARITY )N
CAUSE THE CHILD TO ASSOCIATE MISBEHAVIOR WITH PUNISH
OLDER CHILDREN DISCIPLINED AT SCHOOL A PHYSICAL PUNISH
MENTA CRUCIAL ASSOCIATION IN A CHILDS DEVELOPMENT MENT IS LIKELY TO PROVOKE RESENTMENT AND FURTHER MIS
BEHAVIOR
-UCH OF THE ARGUMENT AGAINST CORPORAL PUNISHMENT HAS .O MATTER HOW ORDERLY YOU MAKE THE BEATING OF A CHILD
A HYSTERICAL EDGE #ORPORAL PUNISHMENT MUST BE USED AS ADVERSE EFFECTS ARE NUMEROUS #HILDREN LOSE TRUST IN THE
PART OF A WIDER STRATEGY AND AT THE CORRECT TIME WHEN ADULTS WHO ADMINISTER THE BEATING THEY LEARN THAT FORCE
OTHER IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINE HAS FAILED AND AFTER AN INITIAL IS ACCEPTABLE IN HUMAN INTERACTION THEY FEEL HUMILIATED
WARNING AND OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CHILD TO REPENT 4HE AND LOSE SELF
RESPECT AND THEY BUILD UP RESENTMENT THAT
PERSON DELIVERING THE PUNISHMENT MUST NOT BE ANGRY AT MAY LEAD TO SEVERE MISBEHAVIOR IN THE FUTURE
THE TIME
3ERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURIES OCCUR ONLY WHERE DISCIPLINED 4HE ACTUAL PHYSICAL DAMAGE INmICTED VIA CORPORAL PUN
STRATEGIC CORPORAL PUNISHMENT BECOMES CHILD ABUSE ISHMENT ON CHILDREN CAN BE HORRIFYING %XAMPLES CAN BE
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3PANKING OF THE BUTTOCKS CAN CAUSE DAMAGE TO THE SCIATIC
NERVE
#ORPORAL PUNISHMENT ADMINISTERED IN THE PRESENCE OF AT 4HE BUTTOCKS ARE A SEXUAL ZONE !DULTS CAN DERIVE PLEASURE
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02/3 #/.3
LEAD TO SEXUAL ABUSE !T SCHOOL ANOTHER TEACHER SHOULD PUNISHMENT CAN AFFECT THE PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT OF
BE PRESENT AT HOME BOTH PARENTS CHILDREN BEING DISCIPLINED %VEN THE PRESENCE OF ANOTHER
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD SPANK ITS CHILDREN WHEN NECESSARY
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT IT IS NEVER RIGHT TO HIT A CHILD
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#ORRUPTION REDUCES BUREAUCRACY AND SPEEDS THE IMPLE
#OUNTRIES WITH LOWER LEVELS OF CORRUPTION STILL HAVE
MENTATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES GOVERNING ECO
EFlCIENT BUREAUCRACIES AND ENJOY BETTER ECONOMIC WELL
NOMIC FORCES OF THE MARKET #ORRUPT PUBLIC OFlCIALS BEING #ORRUPTION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR IS THE BIGGEST
ACQUIRE INCENTIVES TO CREATE A DEVELOPMENT
FRIENDLY OBSTACLE TO INVESTMENT CAUSING MISALLOCATION OF VALUABLE
SYSTEM FOR THE ECONOMY !S A RESULT CORRUPTION STARTS RESOURCES AND SUBVERSION OF PUBLIC POLICIES )T IS ALSO AN
A CHAIN OF BENElTS FOR ALL THE ECONOMIC ACTORS MAKING INVISIBLE TAX ON THE POOR '$0 LEVELS FOR CORRUPTED STATES
OVERREGULATED OBSTRUCTIVE BUREAUCRACIES MUCH MORE COULD BE MUCH HIGHER WITHOUT CORRUPTION
EFlCIENT
#ORRUPTION IS A 7ESTERN CONCEPT AND IS NOT APPLICABLE 4HE VERY IDEA OF CORRUPTION IS UNETHICAL REGARDLESS OF
TO TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES WHERE CORRUPTION DOES NOT HAVE ONES TRADITIONS #ULTURAL RELATIVISM IS JUST AN ATTEMPT TO
SUCH A NEGATIVE MEANING -ANY TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES WITH LEGITIMIZE CORRUPTION BY THE CORRUPTED .OT ENOUGH EVI
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CULTURAL PRACTICES
POLITICAL TRADITIONS OF MANY COUNTRIES ARE BASED ON THE -OREOVER REGARDING CORRUPTION AS AN INNATE QUALITY OF
BENElCIAL EFFECT OF CORRUPTION AND CANNOT SURVIVE IN ITS HUMAN CULTURE UNDERMINES THE HOPE FOR ANY IMPROVE
ABSENCE MENT AND IS INHERENTLY FATALISTIC SERVING AS AN EXCUSE FOR
CREATING CULTURES OF CORRUPTION AND FEAR
#ORRUPTION IS A CONDITION OF DEVELOPING STATES AND #ORRUPTION IS UNIVERSAL AND THE FACT THAT A NATION IS
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TRIES THEMSELVES WERE ONCE THE MOST CORRUPTED SOCIETIES CORRUPTION 3OME &IRST 7ORLD COUNTRIES HAVE HIGH RATES
OF THE WORLD .OT ONLY IS CORRUPTION ENDEMIC IN UNDER
OF PUBLIC CORRUPTION (AVING A LOW LEVEL OF CORRUPTION
DEVELOPED NATIONS IT IS ALSO AN EVOLUTIONARY LEVEL THAT HOWEVER GIVES A UNIQUE ADVANTAGE TO ANY DEVELOPING
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WITHOUT HAVING ACHIEVED THE LEVEL OF ECONOMIC DEVELOP
MENT NECESSARY TO lGHT IT
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE DECLARES THAT ANTICORRUPTION EFFORTS DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD
4HIS (OUSE CONlRMS THAT CORRUPTION IS UNETHICAL
4HIS (OUSE SHOULD lGHT PUBLIC CORRUPTION
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#OVENANT MARRIAGES MIGHT REDUCE THE NUMBER OF DOMES
)N A COVENANT MARRIAGE A PARTNER MUST PROVE THAT ABUSE
TIC VIOLENCE CASES ! *USTICE $EPARTMENT STUDY CON
ACTUALLY OCCURRED TO BE PERMITTED TO END THE MARRIAGE
CLUDED THAT CURRENT HUSBANDSFATHERS ACCOUNT FOR ONLY 4HIS ESPECIALLY WORRIES ADVOCATES FOR BATTERED WOMEN
OF THE CASES OF DOMESTIC ABUSE 4HE REST OF THE ABUSE WHO SAY THAT PROVING DOMESTIC ABUSE CAN BE DIFlCULT AND
WAS PERPETRATED BY FORMER HUSBANDS BOYFRIENDS OR THE WAITING PERIOD MAKES WOMEN STAY IN ABUSIVE RELA
TRANSIENT PARTNERS 7ITHOUT DIVORCE WOMEN MAY BE LESS TIONSHIPS LONGER )N ADDITION MENTAL ABUSE IS NOT SEEN AS
LIKELY TO BE INVOLVED WITH ABUSIVE MEN A LEGITIMATE REASON TO END A MARRIAGE
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4HE SANCTIONS CAUSE REAL AND UNACCEPTABLE HARM TO THE 3ANCTIONS DIDNT CAUSE ECONOMIC FAILURE IN #UBA 4HE
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LAWS ON THE FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION AND REPEATED 5. OWN CITIZENS AND CITIZENS OF #UBA )F THE 53 BREAKS INTER
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#UBA BUT THE "USH ADMINISTRATION REMAINS OPPOSED A STABLE POLICY ON ISSUES OF NATIONAL SECURITY
4HIS IS ELECTIONEERING GOVERNMENT AT ITS WORST
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD DROP THE SANCTIONS ON #UBA
4HIS (OUSE WOULD SANCTION SANCTIONS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES IN #UBA ,IBRE
4HIS (OUSE CONDEMNS 53 FOREIGN POLICY
7EB ,INKS
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#ULTURAL TREASURES SHOULD BE DISPLAYED IN THE CONTEXT !RT TREASURES SHOULD BE ACCESSIBLE TO THE GREATEST NUMBER
IN WHICH THEY ORIGINATED ONLY THEN CAN THEY BE TRULY OF PEOPLE AND TO SCHOLARS )N PRACTICE THIS MEANS DISPLAY
UNDERSTOOD )N THE CASE OF THE %LGIN -ARBLES THIS IS AN ING THEM IN THE GREAT MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD 2ETURN
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT THAT ONLY PROXIMITY TO THE 0ARTHE
ING TREASURES TO THEIR ORIGINAL CONTEXT IS IMPOSSIBLE 4OO
NON ITSELF CAN PROVIDE MUCH HAS CHANGED PHYSICALLY AND CULTURALLY OVER THE
CENTURIES FOR THEM TO SPEAK MORE CLEARLY IN THEIR COUN
TRY OF ORIGIN THAN THEY DO IN MUSEUMS WHERE THEY CAN
BE COMPARED TO LARGE ASSEMBLIES OF OBJECTS FROM A WIDE
VARIETY OF CULTURES )N ANY CASE COPIES COULD BE PLACED IN
ORIGINAL LOCATIONS
$ISPLAY OF CULTURAL TREASURES IN 7ESTERN MUSEUMS IS AN &OR WHATEVER REASON THE TREASURES WERE lRST COLLECTED WE
UNFORTUNATE LEGACY OF IMPERIALISM )T REmECTS THE UNAC SHOULD NOT REWRITE HISTORY SENDING SUCH ARTIFACTS BACK
CEPTABLE BELIEF THAT DEVELOPING NATIONS ARE UNABLE TO TO THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN WOULD SET A BAD PRECEDENT THAT
LOOK AFTER THEIR ARTISTIC HERITAGE 4HE DISPLAY OF IMPERIAL COULD DENUDE MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD 0LACING GREAT
TROPHIES IN INSTITUTIONS SUCH AS THE "RITISH -USEUM OR ARTIFACTS IN A GEOGRAPHICAL AND CULTURAL GHETTO!FRI
THE ,OUVRE HAS BECOME OFFENSIVE CAN SCULPTURES COULD BE VIEWED ONLY IN !FRICA %GYPTIAN
MUMMIES ONLY IN %GYPTWOULD LEAVE THE WORLD MUCH
POORER AND REDUCE POPULAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE ACHIEVE
MENTS OF SUCH CIVILIZATIONS
!RTIFACTS WERE OFTEN ACQUIRED ILLEGALLY THROUGH LOOTING !LTHOUGH SOME ART TREASURES MAY HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED
IN WAR UNDER THE DURESS OF IMPERIAL FORCE OR BY BRIB
ILLEGALLY THE EVIDENCE FOR THIS IS OFTEN AMBIGUOUS &OR
ING OFlCIALS WHO WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SAFEGUARDING THEIR EXAMPLE ,ORD %LGINS BRIBES WERE THE COMMON WAY OF
COUNTRYS ARTISTIC TREASURES FACILITATING ANY BUSINESS IN THE /TTOMAN %MPIRE AND DO
NOT UNDERMINE "RITAINS SOLID LEGAL CLAIM TO THE 0ARTHE
NON MARBLES BASED UPON A WRITTEN CONTRACT MADE BY THE
INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AUTHORITIES IN !THENS AT THE
TIME -UCH ART WAS FREELY SOLD TO THE IMPERIAL POWERS
INDEED SOME ART WAS SPECIlCALLY PRODUCED FOR THE %URO
PEAN MARKET
3OME TREASURES HAVE RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS 4HIS MAY BE TRUE BUT RELIGIOUS ARTIFACTS MAY HAVE BEEN
WITH THE AREA FROM WHICH THEY WERE TAKEN BUT NONE FOR ORIGINALLY PURCHASED OR GIVEN IN GOOD FAITH PERHAPS
THOSE WHO VIEW THEM IN GLASS CASES $ESCENDANTS OF THEIR WITH THE INTENTION OF EDUCATING A WIDER PUBLIC ABOUT
CREATORS ARE OFFENDED BY SEEING ASPECTS OF THEIR SPIRITUAL THE BELIEFS OF THEIR CREATORS $ESCENDANTS SHOULD NOT BE
ITY DISPLAYED FOR ENTERTAINMENT ALLOWED TO SECOND GUESS THEIR ANCESTORS INTENTIONS !LSO
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02/3 #/.3
MANY CULTURAL TREASURES RELATE TO EXTINCT RELIGIONS AND
CULTURES NO CLAIM FOR THEIR RETURN CAN BE VALIDLY MADE
)N THE PAST COUNTRIES MAY NOT HAVE BEEN CAPABLE OF LOOK )N THE CASE OF THE 0ARTHENON MARBLES ,ORD %LGINS ACTION
ING AFTER THEIR HERITAGE BUT THAT HAS CHANGED ! STATE OF IN REMOVING THEM WAS AN ACT OF RESCUE BECAUSE THE
THE ART MUSEUM IS PLANNED IN !THENS TO HOUSE THE SUR /TTOMAN AUTHORITIES WERE PILLAGING THEM FOR BUILDING
VIVING MARBLES WHILE POLLUTION CONTROL MEASURES HAVE STONE 4HEY CARED NOTHING FOR THE CLASSICAL 'REEK HERI
REDUCED SULFUR DIOXIDE IN THE CITY TO A lFTH OF ITS PREVIOUS TAGE &URTHERMORE HAD THEY BEEN RETURNED UPON 'REEK
LEVEL !T THE SAME TIME THE CURATORSHIP OF INSTITUTIONS INDEPENDENCE IN THE HEAVILY POLLUTED AIR OF !THENS
SUCH AS THE "RITISH -USEUM IS BEING CALLED INTO QUESTION WOULD BY NOW HAVE DESTROYED THEM 3IMILAR PROBLEMS
AS IT BECOMES APPARENT THAT CONTROVERSIAL CLEANING AND FACE THE RETURN OF ARTIFACTS TO !FRICAN OR .ATIVE !MERICAN
RESTORATION PRACTICES MAY HAVE HARMED THE SCULPTURES MUSEUMS $ELICATE ARTIFACTS WOULD BE DESTROYED WITH
THEY CLAIM TO PROTECT OUT PROPER HANDLING AND PRESERVATION TECHNIQUES 4HESE
INSTITUTIONS FREQUENTLY LACK THE QUALIlED PERSONNEL OR
NECESSARY FACILITIES TO PRESERVE THESE TREASURES
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD RETURN CULTURAL TREASURES TO THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
4HIS (OUSE WOULD RETURN THE %LGIN -ARBLES
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES A JEWEL IS BEST IN ITS ORIGINAL SETTING
4HIS (OUSE WOULD LOSE ITS MARBLES
7EB ,INKS
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02/3 #/.3
9OUTH CRIME IS A MAJOR AND GROWING PROBLEM OFTEN #URFEWS ARE NOT AN EFFECTIVE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF
INVOLVING BOTH DRUGS AND VIOLENCE 0ARTICULARLY WORRYING YOUTH CRIME 2ESEARCH lNDS NO LINK BETWEEN REDUCTION
IS THE RISE OF YOUTH GANGS WHICH CAN TERRORIZE URBAN AREAS IN JUVENILE CRIME AND CURFEWS !LTHOUGH SOME TOWNS
AND CREATE A SOCIAL CLIMATE IN WHICH CRIMINALITY BECOMES WITH CURFEWS DID SEE A DROP IN YOUTH CRIME THIS OFTEN
THE NORM )MPOSING CURFEWS ON MINORS CAN HELP SOLVE HAD MORE TO DO WITH OTHER LAW
ENFORCEMENT STRATEGIES
THESE PROBLEMS 4HEY KEEP YOUNG PEOPLE OFF THE STREET SUCH AS ZERO
TOLERANCE POLICING OR WITH DEMOGRAPHIC
AND OUT OF TROUBLE #URFEWS ARE EASY TO ENFORCE COM
AND ECONOMIC CHANGES IN THE YOUTH POPULATION )N ANY
PARED TO OTHER FORMS OF CRIME PREVENTION AND ARE THERE
CASE MOST JUVENILE CRIME TAKES PLACE BETWEEN PM AND
FORE EFFECTIVE PM AFTER THE END OF SCHOOL AND BEFORE WORKING PAR
ENTS RETURN HOME RATHER THAN IN THE HOURS COVERED BY
CURFEWS
4HE USE OF CURFEWS CAN HELP PROTECT VULNERABLE CHILDREN 9OUTH CURFEWS INFRINGE UPON INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND LIBER
!LTHOUGH RESPONSIBLE PARENTS DO NOT LET YOUNG CHILDREN TIES #HILDREN HAVE A RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND
OUT IN THE STREETS AFTER DARK NOT ALL PARENTS ARE RESPON
ASSEMBLY WHICH CURFEWS DIRECTLY UNDERMINE BY CRIMI
SIBLE )NEVITABLY THEIR CHILDREN SUFFER BOTH FROM CRIME NALIZING THEIR SIMPLE PRESENCE IN A PUBLIC SPACE 4HIS
AND IN ACCIDENTS AND ARE LIKELY TO FALL INTO BAD HABITS REVERSES THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE BY ASSUMING ALL
3OCIETY SHOULD ENSURE THAT SUCH NEGLECTED CHILDREN ARE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE POTENTIAL LAWBREAKERS 4HEY ARE ALSO
RETURNED HOME SAFELY AND THAT THEIR PARENTS ARE MADE TO SUBJECT TO BLANKET DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF AGE
FACE UP TO THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES ALTHOUGH ONLY A FEW YOUNG PEOPLE COMMIT CRIMES &UR
THERMORE CURFEWS INFRINGE UPON THE RIGHTS OF PARENTS TO
BRING UP THEIR CHILDREN AS THEY CHOOSE *UST BECAUSE WE
DISLIKE THE WAY SOME PARENTS TREAT THEIR CHILDREN DOES
NOT MEAN THAT WE SHOULD INTERVENE 3HOULD WE INTERVENE
IN FAMILIES WHOSE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS MEAN GIRLS ARE TREATED
AS INFERIOR TO BOYS OR IN HOMES WHERE PARENTS PRACTICE
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
#HILDREN HAVE NO GOOD REASON TO BE OUT ALONE LATE AT #HILDREN IN THEIR MID
TEENS HAVE LEGITIMATE REASONS TO BE
NIGHT SO A CURFEW IS NOT REALLY A RESTRICTION ON THEIR LIB
OUT AT NIGHT WITHOUT ADULTS -ANY HAVE PART
TIME JOBS
ERTY 4HEY WOULD BE BETTER OFF AT HOME DOING SCHOOLWORK /THERS PARTICIPATE IN CHURCH GROUPS OR YOUTH CLUBS
AND PARTICIPATING IN FAMILY ACTIVITIES 2EQUIRING ADULTS TO TAKE THEM TO AND FROM ACTIVITIES IS
UNREASONABLE )T WILL ENSURE MANY CHILDREN DO NOT PAR
TICIPATE IN AFTER
SCHOOL ACTIVITIES EITHER BECAUSE ADULTS ARE
UNWILLING OR ARE UNABLE TO ACCOMPANY THEM /N A MORE
SINISTER NOTE SOME CHILDREN ARE SUBJECT TO ABUSE AT HOME
AND ACTUALLY FEEL SAFER OUT ON THE STREETS
#HILD CURFEWS ARE A FORM OF ZERO TOLERANCE POLICING 4HE 9OUTH CURFEWS HAVE GREAT POTENTIAL FOR ABUSE RAISING CIVIL
IDEA OF ZERO TOLERANCE COMES FROM THE THEORY THAT IF THE RIGHTS ISSUES %VIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT POLICE ARREST FAR MORE
POLICE IGNORE LOW LEVEL CRIMES THEY CREATE A PERMISSIVE BLACK CHILDREN THAN WHITE FOR CURFEW VIOLATIONS #URFEWS
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02/3 #/.3
ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH SERIOUS CRIME CAN mOURISH AND LAW TEND TO BE IMPOSED IN INNER CITIES WITH FEW PLACES FOR
AND ORDER BREAKS DOWN ENTIRELY #HILD CURFEWS CAN HELP CHILDREN TO AMUSE THEMSELVES SAFELY AND LEGALLY #URFEWS
THE POLICE ESTABLISH A CLIMATE OF ZERO TOLERANCE AND CREATE COMPOUND THE SOCIAL EXCLUSION THAT MANY POOR CHILDREN
A SAFER COMMUNITY FOR EVERYONE FEEL WITH PHYSICAL EXCLUSION FROM PUBLIC SPACES 4HIS
PROBLEM IS MADE WORSE BY THE INEVITABLE DETERIORATION IN
RELATIONS BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THE YOUNG PEOPLE SUB
JECT TO THE CURFEW
#HILD CURFEWS CAN HELP CHANGE A NEGATIVE YOUTH CULTURE )MPOSING CURFEWS ON CHILDREN WOULD ACTUALLY BE COUN
IN WHICH CHALLENGING THE LAW IS SEEN AS DESIRABLE AND GANG TER
PRODUCTIVE BECAUSE IT WOULD TURN MILLIONS OF LAW
MEMBERSHIP AN ASPIRATION )MPRESSIONABLE YOUNGSTERS ABIDING YOUNG PEOPLE INTO CRIMINALS -ORE !MERICAN
WOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM GANG ACTIVITY ON THE STREETS AT CHILDREN ARE CHARGED WITH CURFEW OFFENSES THAN WITH ANY
NIGHT AND A CYCLE OF ADMIRATION AND RECRUITMENT WOULD OTHER CRIME /NCE CHILDREN ACQUIRE A CRIMINAL RECORD
BE BROKEN "Y SPENDING MORE TIME WITH THEIR FAMILIES THEY CROSS A PSYCHOLOGICAL BOUNDARY MAKING IT MUCH
AND IN MORE POSITIVE ACTIVITIES SUCH AS SPORTS WHICH CUR
MORE LIKELY THAT THEY WILL PERCEIVE THEMSELVES AS CRIMI
FEWS MAKE A MORE ATTRACTIVE OPTION FOR BORED YOUNGSTERS NALS AND HAVE MUCH LESS RESPECT FOR THE LAW 4HIS CAN
CHILDREN WILL DEVELOP GREATER SELF
ESTEEM AND DISCIPLINE LEAD TO MORE SERIOUS OFFENSES !T THE SAME TIME A CRIMI
NAL RECORD DECREASES THE CHANCES FOR EMPLOYMENT AND
SO CONTRIBUTES TO THE SOCIAL DEPRIVATION AND DESPERATION
THAT BREED CRIME
7E SHOULD TRY OTHER WAYS OF REDUCING YOUTH CRIME BUT ! NUMBER OF ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES EXIST THAT ARE LIKELY
THEY WILL WORK BEST IN CONJUNCTION WITH CURFEWS )F A TO DO MORE TO REDUCE YOUTH CRIME 2ATHER THAN A BLAN
TROUBLED AREA DEVELOPS A CULTURE OF LAWLESSNESS IDENTIFY
KET CURFEW INDIVIDUAL CURFEWS COULD BE IMPOSED UPON
ING SPECIlC YOUNGSTERS FOR REHABILITATION BECOMES MORE PARTICULAR TROUBLEMAKERS !NOTHER SUCCESSFUL STRATEGY
DIFlCULT ! CURFEW TAKES THE BASICALLY LAW
ABIDING MAJOR
IS WORKING INDIVIDUALLY WITH YOUNG TROUBLEMAKERS &OR
ITY OFF THE STREETS ALLOWING THE POLICE TO ENGAGE WITH THE EXAMPLE AUTHORITIES CAN REQUIRE THEM TO MEET WITH VIC
MOST DIFlCULT ELEMENT #URFEWS ARE A TOOL IN THE STRUGGLE TIMS OF CRIME SO THAT THEY UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES
TO IMPROVE LIVES IN RUNDOWN AREAS 4HEY ARE LIKELY TO OF THEIR ACTIONS 9OUTHS CAN ALSO BE PAIRED WITH TRAINED
BE USED FOR RELATIVELY SHORT PERIODS TO BRING A SITUATION MENTORS /VERALL THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO ENSURE GOOD
UNDER CONTROL SO THAT OTHER MEASURES CAN BE PUT IN PLACE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS SO
AND GIVEN A CHANCE TO WORK THAT YOUNGSTERS FEEL SOME HOPE FOR THEIR FUTURES
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD INTRODUCE CHILD CURFEWS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD LOCK UP ITS DAUGHTERS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES CHILDREN SHOULD BE NEITHER SEEN NOR HEARD
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02/3 #/.3
&REEDOM OF SPEECH IS A DElNING MARK OF A CIVILIZED SOCI
/F COURSE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY WHATEVER THEY
ETY TO BE MEANINGFUL IT MUST EXTEND TO EVERYONE LIKESUBJECT TO THE LAW (OWEVER YOUR FREEDOM OF
SPEECH DOES NOT GIVE ME A DUTY TO LISTEN TO YOU OR TO
HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH YOU OR TO PUBLISH WHAT YOU WANT
TO SAY 7E ALL HAVE TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT IS WORTH
LISTENING TO AND ENGAGING WITH (OLOCAUST DENIAL AND
CREATION SCIENCE ARE NOT
4HE PUBLIC IS INTERESTED IN THESE TOPICS AND HAS A RIGHT 7E SHOULD NOT WASTE TIME ON PATENTLY FALSE POSITIONS OR
TO HEAR THEM DISCUSSED )F THERE IS PUBLIC DEMAND FOR A GIVE A PLATFORM TO PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN THEM
DEBATE ON CREATIONISM OR WHETHER THE %ARTH IS mAT THAT
DEMAND SHOULD BE MET
(OLOCAUST DENIAL AND CREATION SCIENCE ARE WRONG )F WE 0UBLIC DISCOURSE DOES NOT CONSIST OF THE DISPASSIONATE
PRESENT THE EVIDENCE AGAINST THEM WE WILL WIN A DEBATE PRESENTATION OF FACTS TO A PERFECTLY RATIONAL AUDIENCE )T
7E SHOULD HAVE CONlDENCE IN THE POWER OF OUR ARGU INVOLVES THE ARTICULATE STYLISH PRESENTATION OF ARGUMENTS
MENTS TO DEFEAT OUR OPPONENTS AND PERSUADE THE PUBLIC DESIGNED TO APPEAL TO AN AUDIENCE AND MAKE A POSITION
AT LARGE )F WE REFUSE TO ENGAGE WITH THEM THEN WE APPEAR LOOK AS ATTRACTIVE AS POSSIBLE )F SOMEONE ORGANIZED A
TO LACK CONlDENCE IN OUR POSITION AND WE LOSE DEBATE BETWEEN A WORLD CHAMPION DEBATER AND AN INAR
(OWEVER DISTASTEFUL YOU MAY lND THEM HOWEVER IGNO TICULATE ACADEMIC HISTORIAN ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER
RANT THEY MAY BE MANY PEOPLE REALLY DO DENY THE (OLO THE (OLOCAUST HAPPENED THE DEBATER MIGHT WELL CON
CAUST OR BELIEVE THAT *APAN HAS NO REASON TO BE ASHAMED VINCE MANY PEOPLE THAT IT HAD NOT
OF ITS CONDUCT IN THE S AND DURING 7ORLD 7AR )) )F
THEY ARE WRONGAND OF COURSE THEY ARETHEN WE HAVE
TO ENGAGE WITH THEM DISCUSS THEIR IDEAS AND BELIEFS AND
SHOW THEM WHY THEY ARE WRONG
)F THE INDIVIDUALS HOLDING DEMONSTRABLY FALSE VIEWS HAVE $EBATE IN ALL ITS FORMS HAS CONVENTIONS GIVING EQUAL TIME
HIDDEN AGENDAS ALL THE MORE REASON TO EXPOSE THEM IN TO OPPOSING POSITIONS 4HIS GIVES LEGITIMACY TO BOTH
PUBLIC &OR MOST PEOPLE THE FACT THAT (OLOCAUST DENIAL SIDES )N DEBATES ABOUT FACT WHERE ONE SIDE IS DEMONSTRA
LEADS TO NEO
.AZISM WILL BE ONE MORE COMPELLING ARGU
BLY RIGHT AND THE OTHER WRONG WE SHOULD NOT GIVE LEGITI
MENT AGAINST IT !GAIN THE TRUTH HAS NOTHING TO FEAR AND MACY TO THE FALSE POSITION 4HOSE WHO PROMOTE VIEWS
THE EVIL IMPLICATIONS OF FALSEHOOD SHOULD NOT BE COVERED THAT ARE FALSE AND MAY BE DANGEROUS WILL BOAST THAT THEY
UP BY REFUSING TO ENGAGE WITH IT HAVE SPOKEN AT PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES OR DEBATED AGAINST
EMINENT AUTHORITIES TO GIVE THEIR VIEWS MORE CREDIBILITY
THEY WILL NOT RECORD HOW THEIR SPEECHES WERE RECEIVED
)F WE REFUSE TO ALLOW THOSE WHO HOLD FALSE POSITIONS A "OTH CREATION SCIENCE AND (OLOCAUST DENIAL HAVE SERI
PLATFORM WE GIVE LEGITIMACY TO THEIR CLAIMS OF CENSOR
OUS AND DANGEROUS HIDDEN AGENDAS 7E SHOULD NOT ALLOW
SHIP 7E ALSO ENABLE THEM TO SAY h)F OUR POSITION IS SUCH VIEWS THE LEGITIMACY THAT DEBATE GIVES THEM
WRONG WHY WONT ANYONE DISCUSS IT )S IT BECAUSE THEY 4URNING DEMONSTRABLY FALSE VIEWS SUCH AS CREATIONISM
KNOW WERE RIGHT v #ENSORSHIP IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE AND (OLOCAUST DENIAL INTO RESPECTABLE LEGITIMATE POSI
TIONS IS TOO HIGH A PRICE TO PAY FOR REDUCING THEIR APPEAL
TO CONSPIRACY THEORISTS
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD CENSOR HATE
4HIS (OUSE SUPPORTS FREEDOM OF SPEECH
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED
4HIS (OUSE WOULD TALK TO TERRORISTS
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INDEBTED POOR COUNTRIES ARE STRUGGLING TO PAY EVEN THE WORLDS POOREST NATIONS 4HEY MAY OFTEN HAVE HEAVY
INTEREST ON THEIR LOANS LET ALONE PAYING DOWN THE PRIN
DEBT BURDENS BUT THE DEBT IS NOT NECESSARILY THE CAUSE OF
CIPAL 4HIS MASSIVELY DISTORTS THEIR ECONOMIES AND THEIR THE PROBLEMS -ANY COUNTRIES SPEND HUGE AMOUNTS OF
SPENDING PRIORITIES !FRICAN NATIONS CURRENTLY SPEND MONEY ON WEAPONS TO lGHT LOCAL WARS INSTEAD OF INVEST
FOUR TIMES AS MUCH ON DEBT REPAYMENTS AS THEY DO ON ING IN THEIR PEOPLE -ANY ARE LED BY DICTATORS OR OTHER
HEALTH 4HE REFORMS DEMANDED BY THE )-& IN RETURN CORRUPT GOVERNMENTS WHOSE INCOMPETENCE OR GREED
FOR RESCHEDULED DEBT MAKE THIS PROBLEM EVEN WORSE )N IS KILLING THEIR OWN POPULATION 4HE MONEY TO PAY FOR
:IMBABWE SPENDING ON HEALTH CARE HAS DROPPED BY A SOCIAL PROGRAMS AND AT THE SAME TIME REPAY DEBT MAY
THIRD IN 4ANZANIA SCHOOL FEES HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED TO WELL EXIST BUT IT IS BEING WASTED IN OTHER AREAS
RAISE MORE MONEY 0ROGRESS MADE IN HEALTH AND EDUCA
TION OVER THE PAST YEARS IS ACTUALLY BEING REVERSED IN
SOME COUNTRIES )T IS OBSCENE THAT GOVERNMENTS ARE CUT
TING SPENDING IN THESE VITAL AREAS TO REPAY DEBTS 4HE
DEBTS MUST BE CANCELLED NOW
4O RAISE THE CASH FOR DEBT REPAYMENTS POOR COUNTRIES !GAIN THERE ARE MANY POTENTIAL CAUSES FOR STARVATION
HAVE TO PRODUCE GOODS THAT THEY CAN SELL INTERNATION
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ALLY /FTEN THIS MEANS GROWING CASH CROPS INSTEAD OF THE TIONS NOT BY DEBT 7HILE GROWING CASH CROPS CAN SEEM
FOOD NEEDED TO SUPPORT THEIR POPULATION 0EOPLE IN FER
TO BE COUNTER
INTUITIVE THE MONEY THEY BRING IN HELPS
TILE COUNTRIES CAN lND THEMSELVES STARVING BECAUSE THEY BOOST THE COUNTRYS ECONOMY 4HE IDEA THAT A NATION
CANNOT AFFORD TO BUY IMPORTED FOOD COULD AND SHOULD BE AGRICULTURALLY AND INDUSTRIALLY SELF
SUFlCIENT IS OUTDATED
$EBT REPAYMENTS OFTEN PUNISH THOSE WHO WERE NOT 4HIS THINKING HAS DANGEROUS IMPLICATIONS ON AN INTER
RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING THE DEBT IN THE lRST PLACE )N A NATIONAL LEVEL 'OVERNMENTS ARE ALWAYS CHANGING IN
NUMBER OF POORER COUNTRIES HUGE DEBTS WERE AMASSED BY DEMOCRACIES BUT NATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO HONOR THEIR
THE IRRESPONSIBLE SPENDING OF DICTATORS IN THE PAST 4HEY DEBTS ! CRUCIAL ELEMENT IN LENDING MONEY IS THE PROM
HAVE NOW BEEN OVERTHROWN YET THE NEW GOVERNMENT AND ISE THAT THE DEBT WILL BE REPAID )F EVERY NEW GOVERNMENT
THE PEOPLE OF THAT COUNTRY STILL ARE REQUIRED TO PAY THE COULD DECIDE THAT IT WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS PREDE
PRICE FOR THE DICTATORS ACTIONS 4HIS IS CLEARLY UNFAIR CESSORS DEBTS THEN NO ONE WOULD EVER LEND MONEY TO
A COUNTRY $EVELOPING COUNTRIES IN PARTICULAR STILL NEED
LOANS TO INVEST IN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS #ANCELING DEBT
NOW WOULD MAKE LENDERS FAR LESS LIKELY TO PROVIDE LOANS
ON GOOD TERMS IN THE FUTURE AND WOULD RETARD ECONOMIC
GROWTH IN THE LONG TERM
!LL POOR COUNTRIES NEED IS THE CHANCE TO HELP THEM
2EFORM MUST COME lRST #ORRUPT AND INCOMPETENT
SELVES 7HILE THEIR ECONOMIES ARE DOMINATED BY THE NEED GOVERNMENTS AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS CRIPPLE MANY POOR
TO REPAY DEBT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO TRULY INVEST COUNTRIES #ANCELING DEBT WOULD THEREFORE MAKE NO DIF
IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND EDUCATION "Y CANCELING DEBT WE FERENCE IT WOULD BE THE EQUIVALENT OF GIVING A ONE
TIME
WOULD GIVE THEM A FRESH START AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO PAYMENT TO DICTATORS AND CROOKS WHO WOULD SIPHON OFF
BUILD SUCCESSFUL ECONOMIES THAT WOULD SUPPLY THE NEEDS THE EXTRA MONEY AND BECOME RICH WHILE THE PEOPLE STILL
OF GENERATIONS TO COME SUFFER %VEN WORSE DICTATORS MIGHT SPEND MORE MONEY
ON WEAPONS AND PALACES THUS REINCURRING POSSIBLY EVEN
GREATER DEBT ! COUNTRYS GOVERNMENT MUST BE ACCOUNT
ABLE AND ITS ECONOMY STABLE BEFORE DEBT REDUCTION OR
CANCELLATION IS EVEN CONSIDERED
4HE DEVELOPED WORLD HAS A MORAL DUTY TO THE DEVELOPING 4HE PARALLEL WITH BANKRUPTCY CANNOT WORK ON A NATIONAL
WORLD BECAUSE OF THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF DEVELOP
SCALE &IRST WHEN AN INDIVIDUAL IS DECLARED BANKRUPT MOST
ING WORLD DEBT )N THE RUSH TO INVEST IN THE S MANY ASSETS AND POSSESSIONS ARE SEIZED TO PAY AS MUCH DEBT AS
BANKS MADE HASTY LOANS POURING MONEY INTO POINTLESS POSSIBLE 4HIS IS WHY BANKS lND BANKRUPTCY AN ACCEPTABLE
PROJECTS WITHOUT PROPERLY EXAMINING WHETHER THEY WOULD OPTION )N NATIONAL TERMS THIS WOULD MEAN THE TOTAL LOSS
EVER MAKE A PROlT "ECAUSE OF THESE BAD INVESTMENTS OF SOVEREIGNTY &OREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND BANKS WOULD BE
SOME OF THE WORLDS POOREST COUNTRIES ARE SO BURDENED ABLE TO SEIZE CONTROL OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE OR THE RESOURCES
WITH DEBTS THAT THEY CAN NOW NO LONGER REALISTICALLY OF THE hBANKRUPTv COUNTRY AT WILL .O GOVERNMENT COULD
EXPECT TO PAY THEM OFF AND ARE INSTEAD SIMPLY SERVICING OR SHOULD EVER ACCEPT THIS 3ECOND THE DIFFERENCE IN SCALE
THE INTEREST !N IMPORTANT PARALLEL MAY BE MADE WITH IS VITALLY IMPORTANT 7HEREAS THE BANKRUPTCY OF A SINGLE
BANKRUPTCY )F AN INDIVIDUAL IS UNABLE TO REPAY HIS OR HER INDIVIDUAL WITHIN A COUNTRY IS UNLIKELY TO CAUSE MAJOR
DEBTS HE OR SHE IS DECLARED BANKRUPT AND THEN ALLOWED TO PROBLEMS FOR THAT COUNTRYS ECONOMY THE BANKRUPTCY OF A
MAKE A FRESH START 4HE SAME SYSTEM SHOULD BE USED WITH NATION WOULD SIGNIlCANTLY AFFECT THE WORLD ECONOMY 4HE
COUNTRIES )F THEY ARE UNABLE TO REPAY THEIR DEBTS THEY ECONOMIC PLANS OF BANKS AND NATIONS CURRENTLY INCLUDE THE
SHOULD BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO START AGAIN ! COUN
INTEREST PAYMENTS ON DEVELOPING WORLD DEBT IF THIS SUB
TRY MAKING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORLD ECONOMY IS FAR STANTIAL REVENUE STREAM WERE SUDDENLY CUT OFF ECONOMIC
BETTER THAN A COUNTRY IN DEBT SLAVERY !T THE SAME TIME REPERCUSSIONS COULD BE CATASTROPHIC %VEN IF THIS DEBT RELIEF
BANKS WOULD BE DISCOURAGED FROM MAKING BAD LOANS AS WOULD BE HELPFUL TO THE hBANKRUPTv COUNTRIES IN THE SHORT
THEY DID IN THE S TERM A WORLD ECONOMY IN RECESSION WOULD BE IN NOBODYS
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD END DEVELOPING WORLD DEBT
4HIS (OUSE WOULD KILL THE DEBT NOT THE DEBTORS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BREAK THE CHAINS OF DEBT
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RATE $.! PROlLE FROM VERY SMALL AMOUNTS OF GENETIC BY SWAPPING SALIVA 4HERE IS ROOM FOR HUMAN ERROR OR
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4HE USE OF A $.! lNGERPRINT IS NOT AN AFFRONT TO CIVIL $.! lNGERPRINTING WOULD HAVE TO BE MANDATORY OTH
LIBERTIES 4HE PROCEDURE FOR TAKING A SAMPLE OF $.! IS ERWISE THOSE LIABLE TO COMMIT CRIME WOULD SIMPLY REFUSE
LESS INVASIVE THAN THAT REQUIRED FOR TAKING A BLOOD SAMPLE TO PROVIDE A SAMPLE )NDIVIDUALS CONSENT TO PASS PERSONAL
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THE .ATIONAL #RIME )NFORMATION #ENTER #OMPUTER IN CITIZENS RELEASE INFORMATION TO OUTSIDE AGENCIES THEY
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!MERICANS ! FORENSIC $.! DATABASE SHOULD BE SEEN SAMPLE OF $.! THE INNOCENT CITIZEN WOULD RECEIVE THE
IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT OTHER SCANT BENElT OF BEING ELIMINATED FROM A POLICE INVESTIGA
AGENCIES HOLD )NSURANCE COMPANIES COMMONLY REQUIRE TION -OREOVER THE STORAGE BY INSURANCE COMPANIES OF
AN EXTENSIVE MEDICAL HISTORY OF THEIR CLIENTS -ORTGAGE GENETIC INFORMATION REMAINS HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL BECAUSE
LENDERS USUALLY DEMAND A FULL CREDIT REPORT ON APPLICANTS OF THE POTENTIAL ABUSE OF THAT INFORMATION &INALLY CRE
-ANY EMPLOYERS SUBJECT THEIR EMPLOYEES TO RANDOM ATION OF THE DATABASE WOULD CHANGE THE ATTITUDE OF GOV
DRUG TESTING )F WE ARE PREPARED TO PLACE OUR PERSONAL ERNMENT TOWARD ITS CITIZENS %VERY CITIZEN SOME FROM THE
INFORMATION IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR WHY CAN WE NOT TRUST MOMENT OF THEIR BIRTH WOULD BE TREATED AS A POTENTIAL
IT TO THE POLICE ,AW ENFORCEMENT OFlCIALS WILL USE THE CRIMINAL
$.! SAMPLE ONLY IN THE DETECTION OF A CRIME )N SHORT
THE INNOCENT CITIZEN SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR
4HE CREATION OF A $.! DATABASE WOULD NOT REQUIRE A 4HE INITIAL AND CONTINUING EXPENSE OF A $.! DATABASE
DISPROPORTIONATE INVESTMENT OF TIME OR PUBLIC RESOURCES WOULD BE A GROSS MISAPPLICATION OF lNITE PUBLIC RESOURCES
4HE REQUISITE COMPUTER AND LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY IS 0UBLIC CONlDENCE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM WILL NEI
ALREADY AVAILABLE 4HE 5NITED 3TATES HAS DEVELOPED THE THER BE IMPROVED BY REQUIRING INDIVIDUALS TO GIVE TIME
#OMBINED $.! )NDEX 3YSTEM 4HE EXPENSE OF SAM AND TISSUE TO THE POLICE NOR BY THE CREATION OF A BUREAU
PLING THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF MOST COUNTRIES WOULD BE CRACY DEDICATED TO ADMINISTERING THE DATABASE 4HE FUNDS
SUBSTANTIAL AND IS UNLIKELY TO BE OFFSET BY ANY SUBSEQUENT WOULD BE BETTER SPENT ON RECRUITING MORE POLICE OFlCERS
SAVING IN POLICE RESOURCES BUT THIS IS PART OF THE PRICE AND DEPLOYING THEM ON FOOT PATROL
FOR JUSTICE 0OPULAR SUPPORT FOR hLAW AND ORDERv SUGGESTS
THAT THE PUBLIC PUTS A VERY HIGH PREMIUM ON PROTECTION
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! $.! DATABASE IS NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE CONVENTIONAL 4HERE IS A SERIOUS RISK THAT OFlCIALS WILL USE GENETIC EVI
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS 4HE DATABASE WOULD IDENTIFY DENCE TO THE EXCLUSION OF MATERIAL THAT MIGHT PROVE THE
POTENTIAL SUSPECTS EACH OF WHOM COULD THEN BE INVES
SUSPECT INNOCENT -OREOVER THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD HAVE A CRIMINAL $.! DATABASE
4HIS (OUSE WOULD GIVE AWAY ITS $.!
4HIS (OUSE WOULD CATCH A CROOK BY HIS GENES
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4HIS (OUSE SUPPORTS MEASURES TO ALLOW OIL DEVELOPMENT IN !.72
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES ECOLOGY SHOULD BE VALUED OVER DEVELOPMENT
4HIS (OUSE MAINTAINS THAT LIMITED DEVELOPMENT IN THE !.72 IS JUSTIlED
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OF IMPROVED PERFORMANCES LET THEM DO SO 4HEY HARM !THLETES ARE VERY DRIVEN INDIVIDUALS WHO GO TO GREAT
NOBODY BUT THEMSELVES AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS ADULTS LENGTHS TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS 4O SOME THE CHANCE OF A
CAPABLE OF MAKING RATIONAL DECISIONS ON THE BASIS OF GOLD MEDAL IN TWO YEARS TIME MAY OUTWEIGH THE RISKS OF
WIDELY AVAILABLE INFORMATION 7E SHOULD NOT FORBID THEM SERIOUS LONG
TERM HEALTH PROBLEMS 7E SHOULD PROTECT
PERFORMANCE
ENHANCING DRUGS EVEN IF SUCH DRUGS HAVE ATHLETES FROM THEMSELVES AND NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO TAKE
LONG
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ENHANCING DRUGS
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MEDICAL TREATMENTS ETC TO IMPROVE THEIR PERFORMANCE lRST TO PROTECT ATHLETES FROM HARMFUL DRUGS SECOND TO
4HERE IS NOTHING hNATURALv ABOUT TAKING VITAMIN PILLS PRESERVE THE SPIRIT OF FAIR PLAY AND UNAIDED COMPETITION
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ADVANTAGE TO THOSE ATHLETES WHO CAN AFFORD THE BEST OF ALL CLEARLY IN A DIFFERENT CATEGORY FROM TAKING STEROIDS AND
THESE AIDS !S THERE IS NO CLEAR WAY TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN GROWTH HORMONES 7E SHOULD CONTINUE TO MAKE THIS DIS
LEGITIMATE AND ILLEGITIMATE ARTIlCIAL AIDS TO PERFORMANCE TINCTION AND AIM FOR GENUINE DRUG
FREE ATHLETIC COMPETI
THEY SHOULD ALL BE ALLOWED TIONS
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ING lELD #URRENTLY SUSPICION ABOUT DRUG USE SURROUNDS MANCE ENHANCING DRUGS LEADS TO SERIOUS HEALTH PROBLEMS
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02/3 #/.3
EVERY SPORT AND EVERY SUCCESSFUL ATHLETE 4HOSE COMPETI
INCLUDING hSTEROID RAGE v THE DEVELOPMENT OF MALE CHAR
TORS WHO DONT TAKE PERFORMANCE
ENHANCING DRUGS SEE ACTERISTICS IN FEMALE ATHLETES HEART ATTACKS AND GREATLY
THEMSELVES AS AND OFTEN ARE DISADVANTAGED 4HERE ARE REDUCED LIFE EXPECTANCY 3OME DRUGS ARE ALSO ADDICTIVE
NO TESTS FOR SOME DRUGS AND IN ANY CASE NEW MEDICAL
AND CHEMICAL ADVANCES MEAN THAT CHEATERS WILL ALWAYS
BE AHEAD OF THE TESTERS ,EGALIZATION WOULD REMOVE THIS
UNCERTAINTY AND ALLOW EVERYONE TO COMPETE OPENLY AND
FAIRLY
,EGALIZING THESE DRUGS WILL PROVIDE BETTER ENTERTAINMENT 3PECTATORS ENJOY THE COMPETITION BETWEEN ATHLETES RATHER
FOR SPECTATORS 3PORT HAS BECOME A BRANCH OF THE ENTER
THAN INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES A CLOSE RACE IS BETTER THAN
TAINMENT BUSINESS AND THE PUBLIC DEMANDS hHIGHER A NO
CONTEST IN A WORLD RECORD TIME 3IMILARLY THEY ENJOY
FASTER STRONGERv FROM ATHLETES )F DRUG
USE ALLOWS ATHLETES DISPLAYS OF SKILL MORE THAN SIMPLE RAW POWER )N ANY CASE
TO CONTINUALLY BREAK RECORDS OR MAKES FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHY SHOULD WE SACRIlCE THE HEALTH OF ATHLETES FOR THE SAKE
BIGGER AND MORE EXCITING TO WATCH WHY DENY THE SPECTA
OF PUBLIC ENJOYMENT
TORS WHAT THEY WANT ESPECIALLY IF THE ATHLETES WANT TO
GIVE IT TO THEM
#URRENT RULES ARE VERY ARBITRARY AND UNFAIR &OR EXAMPLE 7HAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN %VEN IF PERFORMANCE ENHANC
THE /LYMPICS FORBIDS ATHLETES FROM USING COLD MEDI ING DRUGS WERE LEGALIZED ONLY FOR ADULTS HOW WOULD
CINES EVEN IN SPORTS WHERE THE STIMULANTS IN THESE MEDI YOU CONTROL THE PROBLEM AMONG CHILDREN 4EENAGE ATH
CINES WOULD HAVE MINIMAL EFFECTS ON PERFORMANCE 4HERE LETES TRAIN ALONGSIDE ADULTS AND SHARE THE SAME COACHES
IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY THAT SOME POSITIVE TESTS ARE SIMPLY -ANY WOULD SUCCUMB TO THE TEMPTATION AND PRESSURE TO
THE RESULT OF USING A COMBINATION OF LEGAL FOOD SUPPLE USE DRUGS IF THESE WERE WIDELY AVAILABLE AND EFFECTIVELY
MENTS #YCLISTS LEGALLY HAVE HEART OPERATIONS TO ALLOW ENDORSED BY LEGALIZATION 9OUNG ATHLETES ARE UNABLE TO
INCREASED CIRCULATION AND THUS IMPROVE PERFORMANCE BUT MAKE FULLY RATIONAL INFORMED CHOICES ABOUT DRUG TAKING
THEY WOULD BE BANNED IF THEY WERE TO USE PERFORMANCE AND THE HEALTH IMPACT ON THEIR GROWING BODIES WOULD
ENHANCING DRUGS BE EVEN WORSE THAN FOR ADULT USERS ,EGALIZATION OF PER
FORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS WOULD ALSO SEND A POSITIVE
MESSAGE ABOUT DRUG CULTURE IN GENERAL MAKING THE USE
OF hRECREATIONAL DRUGSv WITH ALL THEIR ACCOMPANYING EVILS
MORE WIDESPREAD
)N MANY COUNTRIES BANS ON PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS ,EGALIZATION DISCRIMINATES AGAINST POOR NATIONS &AR
FAIL TO STAND UP IN COURT 4HE LEGAL BASIS FOR DRUG TESTING FROM CREATING A LEVEL PLAYING lELD LEGALIZATION WOULD
AND THE SUBSEQUENT BARRING OF TRANSGRESSORS FROM FURTHER TILT IT IN FAVOR OF THOSE ATHLETES FROM WEALTHY COUNTRIES
PARTICIPATION IS OPEN TO CHALLENGE BOTH AS RESTRAINT OF WITH ADVANCED MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES
TRADE AND INVASION OF PRIVACY 3PORTS GOVERNING BODIES !THLETES FROM POORER NATIONS WOULD NO LONGER BE ABLE TO
OFTEN lGHT AND LOSE SUCH COURT CASES WASTING VAST SUMS COMPETE ON TALENT ALONE
OF MONEY
)F DRUGS WERE LEGAL THEY COULD BE CONTROLLED AND MONI
2EFORM IS PREFERABLE TO SURRENDER 4HE CURRENT TESTING
TORED BY DOCTORS MAKING THEM MUCH SAFER !THLETES ON REGIME IS NOT PERFECT BUT BETTER RESEARCH TESTING AND
DRUGS TODAY OFTEN TAKE FAR MORE THAN NEEDED FOR PERFOR
FUNDING PLUS SANCTIONS AGAINST UNCOOPERATIVE COUNTRIES
MANCE ENHANCEMENT BECAUSE OF IGNORANCE AND THE NEED AND SPORTS COULD GREATLY IMPROVE THE lGHT AGAINST DRUGS
FOR SECRECY ,EGALIZATION WOULD FACILITATE THE EXCHANGE IN SPORTS
OF INFORMATION ON DRUGS AND OPEN MEDICAL SUPERVISION
WILL AVOID MANY OF THE HEALTH PROBLEMS CURRENTLY ASSOCI
ATED WITH PERFORMANCE
ENHANCING DRUGS
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD LEGALIZE THE USE OF PERFORMANCE
ENHANCING DRUGS FOR ATHLETES
4HIS (OUSE WOULD WIN AT ALL COSTS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES YOUR PHARMACIST IS YOUR BEST FRIEND
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NOT SUSPECTED OF DRUG USE IS TO VIEW THEM AS GUILTY UNTIL
AGERS AT AN IMPRESSIONABLE AGE AND AT THE TIME WHEN THEIR PROVEN INNOCENT .OTHING JUSTIlES THE SACRIlCE OF THE
ATTITUDE TO EDUCATION GREATLY AFFECTS THEIR ENTIRE LIVES HUMAN RIGHTS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE
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DRUG PROBLEM
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MODEL STUDENTS ETC SENDS A POWERFUL MESSAGE TO THE CONIAN "IG "ROTHERnSTYLE TACTICS OF RANDOM DRUG TESTING
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AGAINST SCHOOL AUTHORITIES
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02/3 #/.3
5RINE HAIR AND BREATH SAMPLES CAN BE USED TO DETECT USE $RUG USERS WILL ONLY TURN TO DRUGS THAT ARE MORE DIFlCULT
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HEROIN AND METHAMPHETAMINES BEFORE BEING TESTED
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4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES IN A STUDENTS RIGHT TO PRIVACY
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WHICH ARE RENEWABLE ANYWAY 7E MUST PRESERVE %ARTH FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
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ENVIRONMENT SHACKLES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND CONTRIB MILLIONS BETTER LIVES "UT WE MUST INSIST ON SUSTAINABLE
UTES TO AND WIDENS THE GREAT DIVIDE BETWEEN THE &IRST AND DEVELOPMENT THAT INTEGRATES ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
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GROWTH JUST TO PRESERVE VITAL RESOURCES SUCH AS WATER
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02/3 #/.3
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MOUNTABLE BARRIERS TO ECONOMIC PROGRESS ALSO UNSOUND ECONOMICALLY
2APID INDUSTRIALIZATION DOES NOT HAVE TO PUT MORE PRES
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4HE h'REEN 2EVOLUTIONv HAS DOUBLED THE SIZE OF GRAIN 4HE 'REEN 2EVOLUTION IS THREATENING THE BIODIVERSITY OF
HARVESTS 4HUS CUTTING DOWN MORE FORESTS OR ENDANGER
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ING FRAGILE ECOSYSTEMS TO PROVIDE MORE SPACE FOR CROPS IS 7E DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE LONG
TERM ENVIRONMENTAL OR
NO LONGER NECESSARY 7E NOW HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE TO FEED ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES WILL BE 7E DO KNOW THAT IN
THE WORLDS INCREASING POPULATION WITHOUT HARMING THE THE SHORT RUN SUCH HYBRID CROPS CAN INDIRECTLY CAUSE
ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS 4HE FARMER USING HYBRID SEED
WHICH IS EXPENSIVE MUST BUY NEW SEED EACH YEAR BECAUSE
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RICHEST PART OF )NDIA WENT BANKRUPT !S A RESULT FERTILE
LANDS LAY IDLE AND UNTILLED RESULTING IN DROUGHTS AND
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4HIRD 7ORLDS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT ECONOMIC GROWTH EVEN AT THE EXPENSE OF SOME ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IS JUSTIlED BY THE NEED TO FEED
THE RISING WORLD POPULATION
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD PUT TRADE RELATIONS ABOVE HUMAN RIGHTS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES IN FREE TRADE
4HIS (OUSE WOULD MAKE MONEY NOT WAR
4HIS (OUSE WOULD ENGAGE NOT ESTRANGE NONDEMOCRATIC NATIONS
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4HE %LECTORAL #OLLEGE ENSURES THAT THE PERSON ELECTED
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%LECTORAL #OLLEGE VIOLATES THIS MANDATE IN PRINCIPLE AND 7ITHOUT THE COLLEGE CANDIDATES COULD WIN BY APPEALING
SOMETIMES IN PRACTICE ONLY TO HEAVILY POPULATED URBAN AREAS
4HE %LECTORAL #OLLEGE WAS ESTABLISHED AT A TIME WHEN THE 4HE PRINCIPLE BEHIND THE %LECTORAL #OLLEGE IS SIMILAR TO
PEOPLE WERE NOT TRUSTED TO CHOOSE WISELY SENATORS TOO THE PRINCIPLE THAT DETERMINES THE COMPOSITION OF THE
WERE INITIALLY NOT CHOSEN BY POPULAR VOTE 4HE SYSTEM 3ENATE WHEREIN EVERY STATE IS DEEMED EQUAL NO MATTER
SHOULD BE CHANGED TO TRUST THE WISDOM OF THE !MERICAN ITS SIZE 4HE COLLEGE IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE SYSTEM OF
PEOPLE FEDERALISM WHICH GIVES THE STATES DISTINCT AND IMPORTANT
RIGHTS
4HE %LECTORAL #OLLEGE SYSTEM GIVES GREATER WEIGHT TO 4HE %LECTORAL #OLLEGE FORCES CANDIDATES TO CAMPAIGN
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THEIR VOTES FOR THE CANDIDATES WHO HAVE WON THE POPULAR #OLLEGE IS PART OF THAT SYSTEM 4HE %LECTORAL #OLLEGE IS
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TO DISREGARD THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE SIBLE IN UNRESTRAINED DEMOCRACY
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4HIS (OUSE VALUES THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE OVER THE RIGHTS OF THE STATES
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OPED COUNTRIES CAUSED VIRTUALLY ALL THE PROBLEMS LAID OUT COUNTRIES HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEVELOP ECONOMICALLY AND
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TIMES THE POPULATION OF THE DEVELOPED WORLD WERE TO ALIZATION WILL IMPROVE THE LIVING STANDARDS OF BILLIONS OF
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DEVELOPING WORLD ABOUT EMISSIONS
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ENOUGH TO REQUIRE ACTION 4HE POTENTIAL BENElT OF ACTING REGULATIONS AGAINST #HINA AN IMPORTANT TRADING PARTNER
TO SAVE THE PLANETS ECOSYSTEM FAR OUTWEIGHS ANY DOWN
AND THE LINCHPIN OF REGIONAL STABILITY THE WORLDS FAST
SIDE 7E ARE NOT CONCEDING THAT THE CLAIMS ARE EXAGGER
EST GROWING POLLUTER 3ECOND THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ATED MERELY THAT IT DOES NOT MATTER EVEN IF THEY ARE PARTICULARLY THOSE THAT FAIL TO MEET THE STANDARDS WOULD
RESENT SUCH OUTSIDE INTRUSION )N ADDITION WITHHOLDING
AID COULD CAUSE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND THE SUBSEQUENT
RISE OF DICTATORSHIPS 2OGUE NATIONS MIGHT FORM ALLIANCES
THAT THREATENED WORLD STABILITY )N THEIR RUSH TO DEVELOP
THESE STATES WOULD INCREASE POLLUTION BECAUSE DEVELOPED
COUNTRIES WOULD HAVE NO INmUENCE OVER THEM
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD LINK AID TO EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT THE ENVIRONMENT MUST COME lRST
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NATIONS MIGHT BE UNETHICAL BUT IF THE GOVERNMENT STOPS
SUCH SALES CITIZENS LOSE JOBSAND THE WEAPONS ARE PUR
CHASED ELSEWHERE
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FOREIGN COUNTRY AND WHAT ACTION MIGHT DO TO OUR IMAGE
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02/3 #/.3
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SECUTION OF MINORITIES IN 2USSIA OR #HINA /UR GUIDING
FORCE IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE NOT WHAT IS PRINCIPLED 7HY LIE
ABOUT IT
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COMPETITIVE BUSINESS DAMAGING THE POTENTIAL PROSPER
FOCUS FOR THE LOYALTY OF THEIR CITIZENS 4HE FURTHER POWER
ITY OF ALL OF %UROPES CITIZENS ! FEDERAL %UROPEAN STATE IS REMOVED FROM THE CITIZENS THE MORE DETACHED THEY ARE
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FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS THE LESS ACCOUNTABLE POWER
BERS TO FURTHER THE COMMON GOOD WHILE ACCOMMODATING BECOMES AND THE MORE LIKELY GOVERNMENT IS TO MAKE
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES BOTH BAD DECISIONS AND DECISIONS BADLY ! FEDERAL SYSTEM
CAN DAMAGE THE INTEREST OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
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NESS WITH MAXIMUM ACCOUNTABILITY #ITIZENS GAIN THE FEDERAL %UROPE COULD RAISE DORMANT NATIONALIST FEELINGS
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POLITICALLY POWERFUL STATE AND INCREASE INDIVIDUAL OPPOR
AGENDAS AND ENDANGER THE STABILITY OF THE %5 ! h%UROPE
TUNITIES FOR WORK STUDY ETC !T THE SAME TIME THEY OF .ATIONS v NOT A FEDERALIZED GOVERNMENT PRESERVES THE
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CURRENT BENElTS OF THE %5 WITHOUT THE RISKS OF FURTHER
NECTION TO THE POLITICAL PROCESS RESPECT FOR LOCAL CULTURAL UNWANTED POLITICAL INTEGRATION
TRADITIONS AND RESPONSIVENESS TO DIFFERING ECONOMIC AND
PHYSICAL SITUATIONS 4HE CHECKS AND BALANCES OF A FEDERAL
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THE 5NITED 3TATES IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS PARTNERSHIP WITH THE 5NITED 3TATES WHICH CURRENTLY PAYS
A DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF %UROPES DEFENSE COSTS
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EXAMPLE OF A LONG
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WHAT WOULD BE KEY FEDERAL ISSUES INCLUDING DEFENSE AND
FOREIGN POLICY AGRICULTURAL REFORM AND TRADE
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STATES CANNOT )N A FEDERAL %UROPE MINORITY GROUPS WOULD AND &RANCE HAVE SHOWED IN THE S AND AS 'ERMANY
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RUNNING CONmICTS COULD BE RESOLVED BECAUSE ISSUES OF SOV RORISTS IN THE "ASQUE REGION SHOWS THAT EVEN A GREAT DEAL
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.ATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY IS INCREASINGLY IRRELEVANT AS A RESULT %UROPE SHOULD BE WIDER NOT DEEPER IN ITS POLITICAL DEVEL
OF GLOBALIZATION 4HE GLOBAL ECONOMY DEMANDS THAT OPMENT 0EACE AND PROSPERITY CAN BE MOST SURELY PRO
MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS WHICH CAN PIT NATIONAL VIDED BY THE ACCESSION OF ALL %UROPEAN STATES TO THE %5
GOVERNMENTS AGAINST EACH OTHER IN SEARCH OF ECONOMIC 'IVEN THE FORMER COMMUNIST AND 3OVIET DOMINATED
ADVANTAGE BE TAMED ! FEDERAL %UROPE WOULD BE POWER PAST OF MANY OF THESE NATIONS THEY ARE UNLIKELY TO AGAIN
FUL ENOUGH TO DEMAND HIGH STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOR FROM GIVE THEIR INDEPENDENCE AWAY 4HE %5S FOCUS ON THE
SUCH COMPANIES AND COULD MAKE A GREATER DIFFERENCE ON CREATION OF A SINGLE CURRENCY IN THE S HAS ALREADY
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IS A JUSTIlABLE REASON FOR CURBING FREE SPEECH ELSE WE RISK TURNING INTO THE KIND OF SOCIETY THAT THESE
EXTREMIST GROUPS SUPPORT
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DIFFERENT 4HE FORMER IS TO BE PRESERVED BUT THE LATTER OUS )F ONE IS INVITED INTO SOMEONES HOME DOES THIS
HAS AN IMPACT ON OTHER PEOPLE THAT CAN BE HARMFUL IT IS MAKE WHAT WOULD BE PUBLIC SPEECH NOW PRIVATE )N ANY
THIS SPEECH WE ARE SEEKING TO RESTRAIN CASE ALTHOUGH POLITICIANS IN EXTREMIST PARTIES MAY PRO
MOTE INTOLERANCE AND DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES VERY RARELY
DO THEY DIRECTLY CALL FOR VIOLENT ACTION SO WHAT IMPACT
ARE WE SEEKING TO AVOID
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A DUTY TO ACT AGAINST A THREAT TO OUR SOCIETY IN THE FORM ATE RESPONSE TO A LIMITED THREAT
OF EXTREMISM
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%XTREMISTS CANNOT BE ALLOWED ON THE SAME DEMOCRATIC HONEST DEBATE ARE THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAYS OF HIGHLIGHTING
TICKET AS RESPECTABLE PRO SYSTEM GROUPS BECAUSE THEIR THE mAWS IN THEIR THINKING AND SOLUTIONS
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4HOSE WHO TALK OF PARTIES GOING UNDERGROUND IF THEY ARE 3UCH PARTIES BENElT FROM GOING UNDERGROUND 4HEY CAN
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PRESENT THEMSELVES AS MARTYRS AND AS BEING PERSECUTED
TIES WILL MEAN THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN A NATION BY THE ESTABLISHMENT WHICH IS DENYING THEIR CHANCE TO
NEVER HEAR THEIR VIEWS 3UCH PARTIES WILL NEVER GET ANY
HAVE A SAY 3UCH ANTISTATE REBELLIOUS SENTIMENT WILL BE
WHERE WITHOUT MASS SUPPORT AND PUBLICITY VERY ATTRACTIVE TO A CROSS SECTION OF THE DISPOSSESSED AND
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BAN EXTREMIST POLITICAL PARTIES
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES AN OPEN SOCIETY MUST HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTECT ITSELF FROM ITS ENEMIES
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7ESTERN COUNTRIES /F COURSE IT STILL MAY BE USEFUL IN TION -ORE THAN OF THE WORLDS MILLION REFUGEES
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AND HUMAN RIGHTS YEAR MILLION GIRLS UNDER ARE COERCED ABDUCTED OR
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SEXES 4HERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH SEX ROLE DIFFERENTIA DIVIDE IS BIOLOGICAL IS SUSPECT 7OMEN HAVE SHOWN THAT
TION -EN AND WOMEN ARE BIOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT AND THEY ARE JUST AS CAPABLE AS MEN OF PLAYING A CENTRAL ROLE IN
THESE DIFFERENCES ARE WHAT HAVE LED TO WOMENS DOMI PUBLIC LIFE MEN HAVE SHOWN THAT THEY ARE JUST AS CAPABLE
NANCE OF THE PRIVATE SPHERE HOME LIFE AND CHILD REARING AS WOMEN OF LOOKING AFTER THE HOUSE AND BRINGING UP
AND MENS DOMINANCE OF PUBLIC LIFE THE WORKPLACE AND CHILDREN &EMINISTS POINT OUT THAT CLAIMING THE TRADI
POLITICAL AUTHORITY !LL OF THESE ARE ESSENTIAL TO A FUNC TIONAL MALE DOMINATION OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR TO BE NATU
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SEX IS AN ENTIRELY SENSIBLE PRINCIPLE OF SOCIAL ORDER 4HERE POWER OVER WOMEN 3WEEPING ASSERTIONS THAT WOMEN
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ACTUALLY DAMAGE THE WOMEN THEY CLAIM TO HELP &EMI
TENTION THAT WOMEN HAVE FACED DISCRIMINATION FOR YEARS
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ACTIVE INTERVEN
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RELATIVELY FEW WOMEN ARE INTERESTED IN THESE PROFESSIONS IOUS REASONS WHY MANY MORE MEN THAN WOMEN CHOOSE
RATHER THAN THE FACT THAT EMPLOYERS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST CERTAIN PROFESSIONS ONE OF WHICH IS THAT MALE
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QUALIlED MEN CAUSES NATED PROFESSIONS CAN BE UNPLEASANT ONES FOR WOMEN
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WOMEN WHO DO NOT WANT TO FEEL THAT THEY HAVE AN UNFAIR IS LIKELY TO BE SELF
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TERMS WITH MEN MEN FOR YEARS
-EN ALSO ENCOUNTER UNEQUAL TREATMENT BASED ON THEIR 4HERE ARE TWO RESPONSES TO THIS &IRST THE DISCRIMINATION
SEX &OR EXAMPLE COURTS OFTEN DISCRIMINATE AGAINST SINGLE MEN OCCASIONALLY ENCOUNTER IS MINOR COMPARED TO THE
FATHERS IN CHILD CUSTODY AND CHILD SUPPORT CASES 4HE FEAR DISCRIMINATION WOMEN ENDURE 3ECOND FEMINISM POS
OF BEING ACCUSED OF SEXISM IS SO WIDESPREAD THAT IT OFTEN SESSES THE RESOURCES TO OFFER A DISTINCT AND USEFUL CRITIQUE
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AND WOMEN SHOULD JOIN FORCES TO OFFER FEMINIST RESPONSES
TO DISCRIMINATION NOT BLAME FEMINISM WHEN MEN
ENCOUNTER DIFlCULTIES IN THE WORKPLACE OR IN LIFE
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MIDDLE CLASS WHITE WOMEN WHO CAN AFFORD TO WORRY A NARROW CONSTITUENCY 4HE FEMINIST MOVEMENT HAS LONG
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LEMS WOMEN SUFFER ACROSS THE WORLD SUCH AS POVERTY
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SEEING THE MOVEMENT AS A RELIC OF THE S -ODERN HOLD WHAT WOULD ONCE HAVE BEEN SEEN AS EXTREME FEMI
WOMEN ARE CAPABLE OF COMPETING WITH MEN ON EQUAL NIST VIEWS SUCH AS THE BELIEF THAT WOMEN ARE CAPABLE OF
TERMS AND RESENT SUGGESTIONS THAT THEY NEED SPECIAL TREAT COMPETING WITH MEN ON EQUAL TERMS &EMINISTS HAVE
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THEY HAVE CAMPAIGNED AGAINST LEGAL CULTURAL AND SOCIAL
BARRIERS THAT HAVE WORKED AGAINST WOMEN AND THAT HAVE
PREVENTED THEM FROM ACHIEVING EQUALITY
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4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT hWOMENS LIBv IS AN OUTDATED CONCEPT
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53 CITIZENS WASTE TOO MUCH TIME AND MONEY lLLING OUT !SKING CITIZENS TO COMPLETE TAX FORMS IS A SMALL PRICE
TAX FORMS *UST lLLING OUT A STANDARD FORM TAKES TO PAY FOR HAVING A GOVERNMENT THAT DOES SO MUCH FOR
OVER HOURS /VERALL TAXPAYERS SPEND BILLION ITS CITIZENS 4AX DOLLARS PAY FOR MANY THINGS ROADS THE
HOURS lLLING OUT )23 FORMS AND PAPERWORK )F THE GOV
MILITARY SOCIAL PROGRAMS AND FOREIGN AID AMONG THEM
ERNMENT PAID CITIZENS MINIMUM WAGE TO DO THEIR TAXES &OR MOST CITIZENS lLING THEIR TAXES IS NOT PLEASANT BUT
THAT WOULD AMOUNT TO BILLION A YEAR 7HEN YOU ADD RECENTLY THE )23 HAS ENACTED MANY POLICIES DESIGNED TO
IN THE COST OF TAX PROFESSIONALS THE COST OF COMPLIANCE HELP TAXPAYERS )T HAS A TOLL
FREE NUMBER FOR QUESTIONS
COULD BE AS HIGH AS BILLION ACCORDING TO THE 4AX AND A COMPREHENSIVE 7EB SITE 4HE HIGH COSTS OF TAX PRO
&OUNDATION #LEARLY THESE COSTS ARE TOO HIGH AND DRAIN FESSIONALS ARE USUALLY THE RESULT OF COMPANIES AND INDI
TOO MANY RESOURCES FROM THE ECONOMY VIDUALS TRYING TO lND WAYS TO PAY LESS IN TAXES ! mAT
TAX WOULD LIMIT OR DO AWAY WITH DEDUCTIONS AND COULD
INCREASE TAXES FOR THOSE WITH LOWER INCOMES
4HE ONLY HOMEOWNERS WHO WILL BE NEGATIVELY AFFECTED 4HE CURRENT TAX SYSTEM ALLOWS HOMEOWNERS TO DEDUCT
BY THE mAT TAX WILL BE THE RICH ! PAPER h4HE &LAT 4AX THE INTEREST THEY PAY ON THEIR MORTGAGES FROM THEIR
AND (OUSING 6ALUES v WRITTEN BY * $ &OSTER 4AX &OUN
INCOME TAXES 4HIS CREATES AN INCENTIVE FOR PEOPLE TO
DATION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CHIEF ECONOMIST SAYS THAT BECOME HOMEOWNERS THUS STRENGTHENING THE ECONOMY
OWNERS OF HOMES CURRENTLY PRICED AT AROUND AND NEIGHBORHOODS )F THIS INCENTIVE IS REMOVED FEWER
OR BELOW SHOULD ACTUALLY SEE A SIGNIlCANT INCREASE IN THE PEOPLE WILL WANT TO PURCHASE HOMES AND PEOPLE SELLING
VALUE OF THEIR HOME &OSTER SAYS THAT OWNERS OF HOMES IN HOMES WILL LOSE MONEY
THE RANGE SIMILARLY HAVE LITTLE TO FEAR EVEN WITH
A PURE mAT TAX AS THE NET EFFECT OF THE VARIOUS PROPOSED
TAX CHANGES SEEMS TO LEAVE THEM WITH LITTLE HOPE OF A
WINDFALL BUT LITTLE FEAR OF A SIGNIlCANT LOSS /NLY OWNERS
OF HOMES THAT COST MORE THAN ABOUT MAY SEE A
MODEST DECLINE IN THE VALUE OF THEIR HOME
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! mAT TAX WOULD INCREASE PRIVACY )N THE CURRENT SYSTEM #ITIZENS ARE PROTECTED BY MANY FEDERAL LAWS THAT REGU
)23 EMPLOYEES HAVE ACCESS TO MANY DETAILS ABOUT A PER
LATE THE PRIVACY OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED TO THE )23
SONS SAVINGS INVESTMENTS AND ASSETS PROPERTY HOLDINGS 7HEN APPLYING FOR LOANS OR OTHER lNANCIAL TRANSACTIONS
AND RETIREMENT SAVINGS #ORPORATIONS ALSO MUST DISCLOSE SIMILAR TYPES OF INFORMATION MUST BE PROVIDED 4HE )23
DETAILS OF THEIR BUSINESSES 7ITH A mAT TAX ALL PROlTS FROM HAS AN EXCELLENT TRACK RECORD ON PRIVACY ESPECIALLY CON
ASSETS WOULD BE LUMPED TOGETHER AND INDIVIDUAL ASSETS SIDERING THE NUMBER OF TAX RETURNS THAT ARE SUBMITTED
WOULD NOT NEED TO BE LISTED 'ETTING RID OF THE ESTATE TAX EACH YEAR
WOULD MEAN THAT WHEN PEOPLE DIE THE )23 WONT NEED TO
GO THROUGH THEIR ASSETS
4HE mAT TAX WOULD TREAT EVERYONE EQUALLY 4HE CURRENT )F THIS PROVISION IS ADDED TO THE mAT TAX PACKAGE THEN
TAX SYSTEM FORCES LOW
INCOME INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES POOR PEOPLE WILL LIVE OUTSIDE THE INCOME TAX SYSTEM )N
TO PAY A LARGER PERCENTAGE OF THEIR INCOME IN TAXES THAN MANY PEOPLES MINDS THEY WILL BECOME SECOND
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INCOME AND THEN THE REST OF THEIR EARNINGS ARE TAXED AT A THE GOVERNMENT 7ITHOUT GRADUATION YOU COULD BE
STANDARD RATE NO MATTER WHAT THEIR INCOME )NDIVIDUALS PAYING NO TAX ONE YEAR AND START PAYING ON YOUR
OWE TAXES ONLY ON THE INCOME ABOVE THE STANDARD ALLOW
RAISE THE NEXT YEAR
ANCE 0EOPLE WHO ARE IN THE LOW
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INCOME
RANGES WILL RECEIVE THE LARGEST REDUCTION IN AVERAGE TAXES
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PERCENTAGE OF THEIR INCOME 3OME LOW
INCOME INDIVIDU
ALS AND FAMILIES WILL PAY NO TAXES AT ALL
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MAKE PEOPLE PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE )T WILL RESULT IN PEOPLE ECONOMIC GROWTH IS FALLACIOUS (ISTORY HAS SHOWN THAT
KEEPING MORE OF THEIR HARD
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SIDE POLICIES LIKE THE mAT TAX DO NOT ACTUALLY BOOST
TO SPEND MORE ON ITEMS THEY WANT AND NEED 3TUDIES OF THE ECONOMY 4HE mAT TAX WILL REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF TAXES
THE mAT TAX PROJECT A LARGE INCREASE IN PER CAPITA INCOME PAID BY BUSINESSES %VEN 0RESIDENT 2ONALD 2EAGAN A HUGE
IF IT IS IMPLEMENTED #ONSUMER SPENDING WILL STIMULATE PROPONENT OF SUPPLY
SIDE POLICIES CLOSED LOOPHOLES THAT
THE ECONOMY AND THIS WILL IMPROVE THE 53 ECONOMY BUSINESSES WERE USING TO AVOID TAXES %CONOMIC THEORY
OFFERS NO PROOF THAT SUPPLY
SIDE POLICIES WORK AND MANY
HISTORICAL FACTS INDICATE THAT THE ECONOMY WOULD BE BETTER
OFF WITH THE CURRENT TAX SYSTEM
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD ADOPT A mAT TAX SYSTEM
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES A mAT TAX SYSTEM WOULD BE BETTER FOR THE 53
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&REE SPEECH IS AN INHERENTLY AMBIGUOUS CONCEPT THAT 4HE LIMITS TO FREE SPEECH ARE TOO IMPORTANT TO BE DETER
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!S *USTICE /LIVER 7ENDELL (OLMES WROTE hTHE MOST 4HE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY IS A GOOD REASON TO RESIST
STRINGENT PROTECTION OF FREE SPEECH WOULD NOT PROTECT GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP ! HEALTHY DEMOCRACY RECOGNIZES
A MAN IN FALSELY SHOUTING lRE IN A THEATER AND CAUSING THAT SMALLER GROUPS MUST BE HEARD TO GUARANTEE THAT
A PANICv 7E ACCEPT LIMITATIONS ON FREE SPEECH WHEN IT THEY HAVE A PUBLIC VOICE NO RESTRICTIONS SHOULD BE PUT
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IS NEVER ABSOLUTE
3PEECH LEADS TO PHYSICAL ACTS 0ORNOGRAPHY HATE SPEECH 3OCIETY IS SELF REGULATING 4HE LINK BETWEEN SPEECH AND
AND POLITICAL POLEMIC ARE LINKED TO RAPE HATE CRIMES AND ACTION IS A FALSE ONE 9ES PEOPLE WHO COMMIT HATE CRIMES
INSURRECTION ARE LIKELY TO HAVE READ HATE LITERATURE AND PEOPLE WHO
COMMIT SEX CRIMES ARE LIKELY TO HAVE WATCHED PORNOG
RAPHY "UT VIEWING PORNOGRAPHY OR READING HATE SPEECH
DOES NOT NECESSARILY LEAD TO CRIME )N ADDITION EXPOS
ING HATE SPEECH AND EXTREME POLITICAL POLEMIC TO SOCIETAL
SCRUTINY INCREASES THE LIKELIHOOD THAT IT WILL BE DISCRED
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SECUTION
'OVERNMENT MUST PROTECT ITS CITIZENS FROM FOREIGN AND 2EGARDLESS OF THE SITUATION THE PUBLIC HAS THE RIGHT TO A
INTERNAL ENEMIES 4HUS GOVERNMENTS SHOULD BE PERMIT FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS AND TO KNOW WHAT THE GOVERNMENT
TED TO CURB SPEECH THAT MIGHT UNDERMINE THE NATIONAL IS DOING
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3OME VIEWS ARE ANTITHETICAL TO RELIGIOUS BELIEFS 4O PROTECT 7E MUST DEFEND THE RIGHT OF THE NONRELIGIOUS TO EXPRESS
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7E NEED TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM EXPOSURE TO OBSCENE 7E ALL AGREE THAT GOVERNMENT MUST PROTECT CHILDREN BUT
OFFENSIVE OR POTENTIALLY DAMAGING MATERIALS THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE THE
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD RESTRICT FREEDOM OF SPEECH
4HIS (OUSE WOULD MUZZLE THE PRESS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD CENSOR THE )NTERNET
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BAN BOOKS
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LESS WASTE AND THEREFORE MORE AFFORDABLE GOODS FOR CON
OF GOVERNMENT INCOME 7ITHOUT TARIFFS GOVERNMENTS
SUMERS CANNOT PROTECT THE JOBS OF THEIR CITIZENS
&REE TRADE MIGHT LEAD TO DOMESTIC LAYOFFS BUT THE UNI *OB SECURITY IS A LEGITIMATE CONCERN OF GOVERNMENTS 4HE
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PROJECTS FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT INVESTOR WHIM RATHER THAN ECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS
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4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES FREE TRADE SERVES A UNIVERSAL GOOD
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES FREE TRADE IS GOOD FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD ALLOW GAY COUPLES TO ADOPT CHILDREN
4HIS (OUSE WOULD EXPLODE THE NUCLEAR FAMILY
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,EVITICUS ALSO PERMITS POLYGAMY BANS TATTOOS AND PRO
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HIBITS THE WEARING OF CLOTHES MADE OF BLENDED TEXTILES 'ENESIS A CAPITAL CRIME ,EVITICUS AND
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SOCIETAL ATTITUDES OF THE TIME AND ARE NOT RELEVANT TODAY #ORINTHIANS n #HRISTIANSESPECIALLY THE
4HE ONLY .EW 4ESTAMENT COMMENTS ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL
CLERGYMUST ACCEPT THE "IBLE AS THE ULTIMATE AUTHOR
ITY COME FROM 0AUL *ESUS DOES NOT ADDRESS THE ISSUE ITY #HRISTIAN MINISTRY IS THEREFORE INCOMPATIBLE WITH
HOMOSEXUALITY *ESUS WAS A RADICAL TEACHER WHO OVER
TURNED *EWISH TRADITION WHERE HE THOUGHT IT NECESSARY
(IS SILENCE ON HOMOSEXUALITY INDICATES THAT HE SAW NO
NEED IN THIS CASE
3CIENTISTS ARE NOW CONlDENT THEY HAVE ISOLATED THE hGAY 7HILE HOMOSEXUALITY CERTAINLY HAS A GENETIC COMPONENT
GENEv THAT MAKES INDIVIDUALS HOMOSEXUAL 3INCE SCIENCE THE EXISTENCE OF A hGAY GENEv HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN !LSO
IS PART OF NATURE HOMOSEXUALITY MUST BE PART OF 'ODS GENES CREATE ONLY PREDISPOSITION IF ONE IDENTICAL TWIN IS
PLAN GAY THE PROBABILITY THAT THE OTHER TWIN WILL BE GAY IS ONLY
'ENETIC PRE
DISPOSITIONS TO ALCOHOLISM AND PEDO
PHILIA HAVE ALSO BEEN FOUND BUT SOCIETY DOES NOT ACCEPT
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#ONDEMNING HOMOSEXUALITY AS SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE AND 4HE "IBLE AND *ESUS STRONGLY CONDEMN SEX OUTSIDE OF
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MARRIAGE !LTHOUGH *ESUS SPENT TIME IN THE COMPANY OF
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02/3 #/.3
0RIESTS HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO REPRESENT THE MEMBERS 0RIESTS ACT AS REPRESENTATIVES OF 'OD FOR MEMBERS OF
OF THEIR CONGREGATIONS ! LARGE NUMBER OF #HRISTIANS THEIR CONGREGATION 3OME PEOPLE OPPOSE WOMEN PRIESTS
ARE GAY AND THEY CAN RECEIVE BETTER SPIRITUAL DIRECTION BECAUSE WHILE WOMEN ARE CHILDREN OF 'OD AND PART OF
FROM GAY MINISTERS THAN FROM HETEROSEXUALS WHO DO NOT THE CHURCH THEY CANNOT REPRESENT *ESUS BECAUSE HE WAS
UNDERSTAND THEIR LIFESTYLES OR RELATIONSHIPS MALE 4HE SAME APPLIES TO GAYS THEY CANNOT REPRESENT
*ESUS BECAUSE HE WAS HETEROSEXUAL
/VER THE CENTURIES THE CHURCH HAS REVISED ITS STAND 4HE CHURCH IS NOT A POLITICAL INSTITUTION CHANGING AND
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ACCEPTANCE OF HOMOSEXUALITY AND ORDINATION OF OPENLY MATTER HOW UNFASHIONABLE #HRISTIANITY WILL SURVIVE IN
GAY PRIESTS IS A NECESSARY NEXT STEP AN INCREASINGLY SECULAR AGE BY MAINTAINING A CLEAR CON
SISTENT MESSAGE
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES IN THE ORDINATION OF GAY CLERGY
4HIS (OUSE CALLS FOR A REPRESENTATIVE CLERGY
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ONE OF THE LAST AREAS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST GAYS 4HE TION IN GENERAL SOME FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION CAN BE
STATE SHOULD PERMIT GAY COUPLES TO MARRY AS A MEANS OF OBJECTIVELY JUSTIlED 3OCIETY HAS ALWAYS VIEWED MARRIAGE
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02/3 #/.3
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OUGHT TO CHANGE WITH THE TIMES UNION BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN
0ERMITTING GAY COUPLES TO MARRY WOULD ENABLE THEM TO -ANY OF THE lNANCIAL BENElTS THAT MARRIED COUPLES ENJOY
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE VARIOUS lNANCIAL BENElTS ACCORDED ARE NOT DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE MARRIAGE PER SE BUT TO PRO
TO HETEROSEXUAL MARRIED COUPLES MOTE THE CONVENTIONAL FAMILY
7E MUST MODIFY RELIGIOUS ATTITUDES TO REmECT CHANGES (ISTORICALLY MARRIAGE HAS BEEN A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION
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SIONS INTO THE SANCTITY OF THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE
SEXUAL COUPLES THUS LEADING TO DISCRIMINATION #ONSEQUENTLY IT SHOULD PROVE ACCEPTABLE TO THE RELIGIOUS
SECTIONS OF SOCIETY
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD ALLOW GAY COUPLES TO MARRY
4HIS (OUSE WOULD GIVE HOMOSEXUALS EQUAL RIGHTS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT DISCRIMINATION CAN NEVER BE JUSTIlED
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AS HETEROSEXUALS /NLY SHEER BIGOTRY WOULD DENY THE ON MUTUAL TRUST AND UNCOMPLICATED CAMARADERIE 3EXUAL
OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN THE MILITARY AND SUFFER ITS PERVASIVE RELATIONS OR TENSION BETWEEN SOLDIERS NO MATTER THE
HOMOPHOBIA TO THOSE WHO WANT TO DO SO GENDER UNDERMINE THIS BOND
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BASED ON HOMOPHOBIA WHICH IS ENCOURAGED BY CONTIN
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ACCEPTS HOMOSEXUALITY
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DISCRIMINATION AT ITS WORST ARE NOT BEING MISLED
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD NOT ADMIT GAYS INTO THE ARMED FORCES
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT THE MILITARY AND SEXUALITY DO NOT MIX
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FROM DOING SO A PARTICULAR GENE SHOWS A BASIC DISREGARD FOR HUMANITY
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ALLY ACCEPTABLE BUT PATENTING GENES IS NOT
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INGS 7ITHOUT THE SAFEGUARDS THAT A PATENT PROVIDES HAS CONTRIBUTED BY FAR THE GREATER AMOUNT OF KNOWL
COMPANIES WILL END THEIR RESEARCH BECAUSE THEY SEE NO EDGE IN THIS AREA 0ATENTING STImES RESEARCH 7E NEED TO
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FUTURE PROlT SCREENING PROCEDURE #OMPANIES ARE PUTTING PRIVATE
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RESEARCH INVESTMENT COMPANIES HAVE A MORAL DUTY TO
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02/S #/.3
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BENElTS RESEARCH SHOULD BE THOSE OF CONSCIENCE
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD ALLOW THE PATENTING OF GENES
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT GENES ARE INVENTIONS
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4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT GLOBALIZATION WILL BRING ABOUT THE END OF THE 4HIRD 7ORLD
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A PORTION OF THE POLAR ICE CAPS MIGHT MELT AND LEAD TO A TIONS 3OME SCIENTISTS FOR EXAMPLE HAVE SUGGESTED THAT
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AND CM IN THE LAST YEARS 'IANT CRACKS HAVE RAINFALL PATTERNS AND OCEAN CURRENTS SHIFT )NDEED RElNE
BEEN FOUND IN THE ,ARSEN ICE SHELF IN !NTARCTICA WHICH MENTS IN THE MODELS USED BY THE )0## HAVE CAUSED IT
SUGGEST THAT IT IS BREAKING APART A SECTION MILES WIDE TO MODIFY ITS PREDICTIONS )N THE )0## ESTIMATED
AND MILES LONG DRIFTED FREE AND MELTED AS EARLY AS THAT BY THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WOULD RISE BY #
)F AS EXPERTS BELIEVE TEMPERATURES RISE A FURTHER AND THE SEA WOULD RISE BY ABOUT CM IN IT REVISED
# OVER THE NEXT CENTURY LOW LYING AREAS AND EVEN ITS ESTIMATES TO # AND CM 4HE MORE RESEARCH THAT
ENTIRE COUNTRIES SUCH AS "ANGLADESH COULD DISAPPEAR TAKES PLACE THE LESS CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL WARMING SEEMS
UNDER THE WAVES TO BE 4HE MEDIA ALWAYS REPORT THE PREDICTIONS OF DOOM
MOST WIDELY
4ECHNOLOGY HAS NOW REACHED THE POINT WHERE WE CAN /F COURSE GREATER ENERGY EFlCIENCY IS IMPORTANT (OW
CONTINUE TO INCREASE STANDARDS OF LIVING WITHOUT BURNING EVER MOST ALTERNATIVE FUELS ARE SIMPLY NOT EFFECTIVE 4HEY
FOSSIL FUELS 2ENEWABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY SUCH AS WIND CAN ALSO CAUSE THEIR OWN PROBLEMS .UCLEAR POWER CRE
OR SOLAR POWER ARE RIPE FOR DEVELOPMENT BUT HAVE YET ATES UNACCEPTABLE RADIOACTIVE WASTE HYDROELECTRIC POWER
TO SEE THE LEVELS OF INVESTMENT NEEDED TO MAKE THEM PROJECTS SUCH AS THE 4HREE 'ORGES DAM IN #HINA LEAD
TRULY EFFECTIVE -ORE EFlCIENT USE OF ENERGY IS ALSO VITAL TO THE mOODING OF VAST AREAS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE
%NCOURAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRIC CARS OR PROMOT
LOCAL ENVIRONMENT SOLAR AND WIND POWER OFTEN REQUIRE
ING BETTER INSULATION OF HOUSES COULD MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL THE COVERING OF LARGE AREAS OF NATURAL BEAUTY WITH SOLAR
DIFFERENCE IN #/ LEVELS IN THE LONG RUN PANELS OR TURBINES %NVIRONMENTALISTS OFTEN PAINT AN IDE
ALISTIC VIEW OF RENEWABLE ENERGY THAT IS FAR FROM THE LESS
ROMANTIC REALITY
'LOBAL WARMING IS A WORLDWIDE CATASTROPHE WAITING TO 4HE EVIDENCE FOR GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH
HAPPEN 4HE EMISSION OF GREENHOUSE GASES AFFECTS EVERY TO MERIT THIS KIND OF RESPONSE 4HE CHANGES OVER THE PAST
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NOW 4HE TARGETS SET BY THE +YOTO 0ROTOCOL WILL BARELY MENTALISTS IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD CAN AFFORD THE LUXURY
SCRATCH THE SURFACE OF THE PROBLEM 4HE DEVELOPED WORLD OF DEMANDING GOVERNMENT ACTION BECAUSE REDUCING POL
AGREED TO ONLY MINIMAL REDUCTIONS IN CARBON DIOXIDE LUTION WILL HAVE A MINIMAL IMPACT ON THEIR TECHNOLOGY
EMISSIONS AND NO AGREEMENT WAS REACHED INVOLVING THE BASED ECONOMIES 4HOSE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD ARE NOT
DEVELOPING WORLD WHICH IS PRODUCING A GREATER PERCENT
SO LUCKY )NDUSTRIALIZATION IS A KEY PART OF BUILDING SUC
AGE OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS EVERY YEAR 'ASES LIKE CESSFUL ECONOMIES AND BRINGING PROSPERITY TO THE WORLDS
#/ REMAIN IN THE ATMOSPHERE FOR CENTURIES )F WE WAIT POOREST PEOPLE HEAVY INDUSTRY IS OFTEN THE ONLY AREA IN
UNTIL WE CAN SEE THE RESULTS OF GLOBAL WARMING IT MAY BE WHICH DEVELOPING NATIONS CAN COMPETE 'LOBAL ACTION
TOO LATE 4HE DAMAGE WILL HAVE BEEN DONE 7E MUST ACT ON GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS WOULD SUSTAIN THE INEQUALI
NOW AND WE MUST ACT GLOBALLY $EVELOPED COUNTRIES MUST TIES OF THE STATUS QUO 4HE DEVELOPING WORLD WOULD HAVE
DO ALL THEY CAN TO REDUCE THEIR USE OF FOSSIL FUELS 4HEY TO DEPEND ON MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS TO PROVIDE THE
MUST ASSIST DEVELOPING NATIONS TO DO THE SAME BY SHAR
TECHNOLOGY NEEDED TO KEEP POLLUTION LEVELS LOW OR ELSE
ING TECHNOLOGY OR PERHAPS THROUGH hEMISSIONS TRADING v THEY WOULD HAVE TO STOP EXPANDING THEIR ECONOMIES
ALLOWING POORER COUNTRIES TO SELL THEIR QUOTA OF POLLUTION (AVING APPARENTLY CAUSED THE PROBLEM THROUGH THE
IN RETURN FOR HARD CASH )NTERNATIONAL PRESSURE MUST BE INDUSTRIALIZATION THAT MADE THEM POWERFUL DEVELOPED
EXERTED AGAINST THOSE COUNTRIES THAT DO NOT COOPERATE COUNTRIES WOULD BE PULLING THE LADDER UP BEHIND THEM
EVEN IF THIS SLOWS ECONOMIC GROWTH 4HE POOREST REGIONS DEPRIVING OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE CHANCE TO GROW 4HIS IS
OF THE WORLD WOULD SUFFER MOST FROM MORE DROUGHTS AND SIMPLY UNACCEPTABLE )N THE MODERN WORLD ONE OF OUR
mOODS AND RISING SEA LEVELS (OWEVER DIFlCULT IT MAY BE lRST PRIORITIES MUST BE TO HELP THE POOREST PEOPLE ACHIEVE
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LIVES IN THE FUTURE RENT EVIDENCE FOR GLOBAL WARMING DOES NOT BEGIN TO MERIT
ENDANGERING THIS GOAL
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT +YOTO DIDNT GO FAR ENOUGH
4HIS (OUSE CALLS FOR URGENT ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING
4HIS (OUSE FEARS A GLOBAL GREENHOUSE
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT GLOBAL WARMING DEMANDS GLOBAL ACTION
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4HE WORLD IS SO MAGNIlCENT AND WONDERFUL SO FULL OF 9OU CANNOT INFER FROM THE VARIETY AND BEAUTY OF THE
VARIETY AND BEAUTY THAT IT IS INCONCEIVABLE THAT IT COULD WORLD THAT 'OD WAS THE CREATOR 4HE CONCEPTION OF 'OD
HAVE COME ABOUT PURELY BY CHANCE )T IS SO INTRICATE THAT A CONTAINS MANY EXTRA ATTRIBUTES THAT ARE NOT NECESSARY FOR
CONSCIOUS HAND MUST HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN ITS CREATION A WORLD CREATOR *UST BECAUSE THE WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL AND
4HEREFORE 'OD EXISTS AS THE CREATOR OF THE WORLD VARIED DOES NOT MEAN IT WAS CONSCIOUSLY DESIGNED 7HY
CANT BEAUTY HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT
)F YOU SAW A WATCH LYING ON THE SAND YOU WOULD THINK 4HE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A WATCH AND HUMANS IS THAT THE
THAT SOMEONE MUST HAVE MADE THE WATCHA WATCH WATCH SERVES A PURPOSETO TELL TIME 4HEREFORE SEEING
MAKER 3IMILARLY WE HUMAN BEINGS ARE SO COMPLICATED SOMETHING SO PERFECTLY SERVING A PURPOSE SUGGESTS DESIGN
AND AMAZING THAT WE MUST CONCLUDE THAT WE HAD A CON 7HAT PURPOSE DO WE SERVE 7E DONT WE JUST EXIST !ND
SCIOUS MAKER EVEN IF WE WERE DESIGNED FOR A PURPOSE THE EARLIER ARGU
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'OD
/NLY HUMAN BEINGS ARE CAPABLE OF RATIONAL THOUGHT 4HAT 4HE ARGUMENT FROM PROBABILITY DOES NOT WORK )T RELIES
WE ARE HERE AT ALL IS AMAZING /NE INlNITESIMAL CHANGE ON THERE BEING SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT US 7HAT IS SO
IN THE WORLD AND LIFE WOULD NOT HAVE EVOLVED 'ETTING SPECIAL ABOUT US 7E ARE RATIONALSO WHAT
SOMETHING SO AMAZING ON SUCH LONG ODDS SMACKS OF
INTENTION
'OD MUST BE PERFECT IF HE EXISTS "UT A THING THAT EXISTS IS 4HIS ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT CAN BE REBUTTED BY REJECTING
MORE PERFECT THAN A THING THAT DOESNT EXIST "UT NOTHING THE IDEA THAT EXISTENCE IS A PERFECTION 3OMETHING EITHER
CAN BE MORE PERFECT THAN 'OD 3O 'OD MUST EXIST EXISTS OR IT DOESNT 4HE ARGUMENT IS A DISGUISED CONDI
TIONAL 9OU SAY hIF 'OD EXISTS THEN HE MUST BE PERFECT
AND IF HE MUST BE PERFECT HE MUST THEREFORE EXISTv "UT
ALL THIS RESTS ON THE INITIAL hIF 'OD EXISTSv )F 'OD DOESNT
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DOESNT WORK
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THAT TIME IS ONE LONG CHAIN OF CAUSE AND EFFECT WITHOUT UNCAUSED lRST CAUSE STILL DOESNT NECESSARILY HAVE ALL THE
BEGINNING BUT IT MUST BE BECAUSE WE CANNOT CONCEIVE OF ATTRIBUTES IT WOULD NEED TO BE CALLED 'OD EG OMNIPO
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AS THE UNCAUSED lRST CAUSE AN UNCAUSED lRST CAUSE IS JUST AS INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO US
AS AN ENDLESS CHAIN OF CAUSE AND EFFECT 9OU ARE JUST SHIFT
ING THE INCOMPREHENSION ONE STAGE BACK
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT 'OD EXISTS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT REPORTS OF 'ODS DEATH HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED
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4HE SCIENTIlC COMMUNITY AGREES THAT SOMETHING MUST BE 4HE ENVIRONMENTAL LOBBY HAS HUGELY OVERESTIMATED THE
DONE TO CURB EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES THAT MAY BE CLAIMS FOR POLLUTION DAMAGING THE ENVIRONMENT 4HE
THE CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING 4HE POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES FOSSIL RECORD INDICATES THAT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS OCCURRED
OF GLOBAL WARMING INCLUDE CROP FAILURE MASS mOODING FREQUENTLY IN THE PAST AND THERE IS LITTLE EVIDENCE LINKING
AND THE DESTRUCTION OF ENTIRE ECOSYSTEMS WITH THE POS
CLIMATE CHANGE WITH EMISSIONS
SIBLE LOSS OF BILLIONS OF LIVES /THER CONSEQUENCES OF POL
LUTION INCLUDE ACID RAIN AND THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE HOLE
IN THE OZONE LAYER
4HE 401 PLAN IS THE ONLY PRACTICAL WAY TO REDUCE EMIS
4HE 401 PLAN ENSURES MORE POLLUTION IN THE LONG RUN
SIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES GLOBALLY )T WILL GUARANTEE THAT THAN IF LIMITS WERE STRICTLY ENFORCED FOR EACH COUNTRY AND
GLOBAL LEVELS OF THESE GASES ARE KEPT BELOW STRICT TARGETS PUNITIVE TAXES IMPOSED ON THOSE EXCEEDING THEIR QUOTAS
AND IS MORE REALISTIC THAN EXPECTING HEAVY POLLUTERS TO 7ITHOUT 401S THE ENVIRONMENT WOULD BENElT FURTHER
CUT THEIR EMISSIONS OVERNIGHT IF A COUNTRY KEPT WELL BELOW ITS EMISSIONS QUOTA !DOPT
ING THE 401 PLAN MEANS THAT THIS BENElT IS LOST BECAUSE
THE RIGHT TO THIS EXTRA POLLUTION IS BOUGHT BY ANOTHER
COUNTRY
%MISSIONS ARE A GLOBAL PROBLEM 4HE EMISSION OF THE MAIN 3TATING THAT IT DOES NOT MATTER WHERE POLLUTION IS PRO
GREENHOUSE GAS CARBON DIOXIDE FOR EXAMPLE AFFECTS THE DUCED IS SIMPLISTIC AND COMPLETELY UNTRUE FOR MANY GASES
ENTIRE PLANET REGARDLESS OF WHERE THE GAS IS PRODUCED WHICH DO AFFECT THE REGION IN WHICH THEY ARE CREATED &UR
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4HIS VALIDATES THE USE OF 401S WHICH ACT TO LIMIT THE THERMORE TO PERMIT DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TO INDUSTRIAL
TOTAL AMOUNT OF EACH POLLUTING GAS GLOBALLY 401S ARE IZE THEY HAVE BEEN EXEMPTED FROM THE PROTOCOL 4HIS
MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE THAN THE ALTERNATIVE OF TAXING EMIS
SERIOUSLY UNDERMINES ITS EFlCIENCY &URTHERMORE IF TAXES
SIONS BECAUSE RICH COMPANIES OR COUNTRIES WILL BE ABLE TO ON POLLUTION WERE SET HIGH ENOUGH BIG COMPANIES WOULD
PAY THE TAX AND STILL POLLUTE STOP POLLUTING BECAUSE IT WOULD BE PROHIBITIVELY EXPEN
SIVE )N ADDITION THE INTRODUCTION OF 401S WILL MAKE
LATER REDUCTIONS IN GLOBAL EMISSIONS MUCH HARDER /NCE
TRADING IN 401S HAS STARTED COUNTRIES THAT HAVE BOUGHT
EXTRA EMISSION RIGHTS WOULD CERTAINLY NOT VOLUNTARILY GIVE
THEM UP TO HELP REDUCE GLOBAL EMISSIONS FURTHER
401S ARE TRIED AND TESTED 4HE 5NITED 3TATES HAS USED 401S HAVE HAD SOME SUCCESS IN THE 5NITED 3TATES BUT
THEM SUCCESSFULLY SINCE THEY WERE INTRODUCED IN THEY FAILED IN %UROPE FOR TWO REASONS &IRST THE %UROPEAN
4HEREFORE WE HAVE GOOD REASON TO EXPECT THEM TO SUC PLANS WERE POORLY CONCEIVED AS WAS THE +YOTO 0ROTOCOL
CEED ON A GLOBAL SCALE 3ECOND WHEREAS THE !MERICAN SOLUTION TO POLLUTION WAS
ALWAYS TRADING EMISSIONS THE MAIN %UROPEAN SOLUTION
WAS AND STILL IS TO PRODUCE NEW TECHNOLOGY TO CLEAN THE
EMISSIONS %XTENDING THE 401 PLAN TO THE ENTIRE GLOBE
WILL SLOW THE TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS NEEDED TO
REDUCE GREENHOUSE GASES
0ROGRESS IN THE lELD OF EMISSION CONTROL IS REMARKABLY 4HE +YOTO 0ROTOCOL LACKS A COMPREHENSIVE ENFORCEMENT
DIFlCULT BECAUSE OF THE OPPOSITION FROM THE INDUSTRIAL MECHANISM AND IS THUS INEFFECTIVE )N ADDITION ASSESS
LOBBY MOST NOTABLY IN THE 5NITED 3TATES WHICH SEES ING THE EFFECT THAT AN INDIVIDUAL COUNTRYS CARBON hSINKv
SUCH RESTRICTIONS AS HARMFUL TO ITS ECONOMY 401S ARE IS HAVING ON THE ATMOSPHERE IS IMPOSSIBLE 4HIS MERELY
THE ONE METHOD OF CONTROL ACCEPTABLE TO THESE LOBBY CREATES A LOOPHOLE THAT ALLOWS A COUNTRY TO ABUSE THE PRO
GROUPS AND MORE SIGNIlCANT TO THE 53 GOVERNMENT !S TOCOL AND PRODUCE MORE THAN ITS QUOTA OF GASES
THE WORLDS BIGGEST POLLUTER THE 5NITED 3TATES MUST BE
INCLUDED IN ANY MEANINGFUL TREATY 4HEREFORE 401S ARE
THE ONLY PRACTICAL WAY FORWARD
401S CAUSE LESS DAMAGE TO AN ECONOMY THAN ANY OTHER 401S WILL HIT EMPLOYMENT HARD %VEN DEVELOPED COUN
EMISSION CONTROL REGIME )NDIVIDUAL COMPANIES AND TRIES ARE NOT SO RICH THAT THEY CAN SIMPLY BUY ENOUGH
COUNTRIES CAN TRADE 401S ON THE FREE MARKET UNTIL THEY QUOTAS TO AVOID POLLUTION NEITHER CAN THEY AFFORD TO
HAVE STRUCK THE RIGHT BALANCE BETWEEN THE COST OF PAYING INSTALL THE EXPENSIVE CLEANING TECHNOLOGY 'ROWTH WILL
TO POLLUTE AND THE COST OF CLEANING UP THEIR INDUSTRY CONSEQUENTLY DECLINE AND WITH THAT DECLINE WILL COME A
DROP IN LIVING STANDARDS IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BUY THE RIGHT TO POLLUTE
4HIS (OUSE SUPPORTS TRADABLE POLLUTION QUOTAS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT +YOTO GOT IT RIGHT
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4HE ONLY FUNCTION OF A GUN IS TO KILL 4HE MORE INSTRU
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SELVES THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR PROPERTY -ANY PEOPLE
ALSO NEED GUNS FOR OTHER REASONS FARMERS FOR EXAMPLE
NEED THEM TO PROTECT THEIR STOCK AND CROPS
4HE LEGAL OWNERSHIP OF GUNS BY LAW
ABIDING CITIZENS 'UNS DONT KILL PEOPLE PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE 2ESTRICTING
INEVITABLY LEADS TO MANY UNNECESSARY AND TRAGIC DEATHS GUN OWNERSHIP WILL DO NOTHING TO MAKE SOCIETY SAFER
,EGALLY HELD GUNS END UP IN THE HANDS OF CRIMINALS WHO -OST CRIMES INVOLVE ILLEGAL WEAPONS
WOULD HAVE GREATER DIFlCULTY IN OBTAINING WEAPONS IF
THEY WERE LESS PREVALENT 'UNS ALSO END UP IN THE HANDS
OF CHILDREN LEADING TO TRAGIC ACCIDENTS AND TERRIBLE DISAS
TERS LIKE THE #OLUMBINE MASSACRE
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OF ALL lREARMS CREATING A GUN CULTURE THAT GLAMORIZES AND ING PEOPLE 3PORTSMEN HAVE THE RIGHT TO CONTINUE THEIR
LEGITIMIZES UNNECESSARY GUN OWNERSHIP 4HE MINORITY CHOSEN LEISURE ACTIVITY 3PENDING ON GUNS AND ANCILLARY
WHO ENJOY BLOOD SPORTS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BLOCK EQUIPMENT PUTS LARGE SUMS INTO THE ECONOMY (UNTERS
THE INTERESTS OF SOCIETY AS A WHOLE IN GUN CONTROL ALSO PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE
"URGLARY SHOULD NOT BE PUNISHED BY VIGILANTE KILLINGS ,AW
ABIDING CITIZENS DESERVE THE RIGHT TO PROTECT THEIR
.O AMOUNT OF PROPERTY IS WORTH A HUMAN LIFE +EEPING FAMILIES IN THEIR OWN HOMES 7OULD
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DEATHS !ND PERVERSELY CRIMINALS MAY BE MORE LIKELY A HOUSE WHERE OWNERS MAY KEEP lREARMS
TO CARRY WEAPONS IF THEY THINK THEY ARE IN DANGER FROM
HOMEOWNERS
4HERE IS A CORRELATION BETWEEN THE LENIENCY OF A COUNTRYS ! COUNTRY IS MORE ABLE TO DEFEND ITSELF IF MANY OF ITS CITI
GUN LAWS AND ITS SUICIDE RATENOT BECAUSE GUN OWNERS ZENS ARE PROlCIENT WITH lREARMS 3OME COUNTRIES REQUIRE
ARE DEPRESSIVE BUT BECAUSE THE MEANS OF QUICK AND EFFEC
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TIVE SUICIDE IS AT HAND 4HE STATE SHOULD DISCOURAGE AND IN THEIR USE /F COURSE SUCH WIDESPREAD OWNERSHIP OF
RESTRICT THE OWNERSHIP OF SOMETHING THAT WASTES SO MANY WEAPONS IS ALSO A SAFEGUARD AGAINST DOMESTIC TYRANNY
LIVES
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE CALLS FOR STRICTER CONTROLS ON GUN OWNERSHIP
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THERE IS NO RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
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LAWS RELATED TO TRANSPORTABILITY OF HEALTH INSURANCE THE OF TRANSPORTABILITY OF COVERAGE ARE COVERED BY FEDERAL
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STANTIALLY MORE FOR HEALTH INSURANCE THAN EMPLOYEES WHO
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BERS OF THE GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD ADOPT A UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN lNANCIAL CONCERNS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT IT IS IMMORAL THAT 53 CITIZENS DO NOT HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
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#LONING WILL LEAD TO A DIMINISHED SENSE OF IDENTITY AND #HILDREN PRODUCED BY REPRODUCTIVE CLONING WILL NOT BE
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CONSIDERED AS A UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL THE CHILD WILL BE AN WILL MEAN THAT CHILDREN WILL NOT BE EMOTIONALLY OR MEN
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SAME TRAITS AND INTERESTS (IS LIFE WILL NO LONGER BE HIS 9OU WOULD HAVE TO APPLY THE SAME OBJECTION TO IDENTICAL
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AND AUTONOMY THAT WE GRANT TO EVERY HUMAN PERSON 4HE SUFFER FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS RELATED TO FEELINGS OF
CONFUSION OF THE OFFSPRING IS LIKELY TO BE COMPOUNDED BY A LACK OF INDIVIDUALITY (OWEVER CLONED CHILDREN WOULD
THE FACT THAT THE hPARENT v FROM WHOM HE IS CLONED WILL BE IN A BETTER POSITION THAN TRADITIONAL TWINS BECAUSE
BE GENETICALLY HIS TWIN BROTHER 4HERE IS NO WAY OF KNOW
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4HE DONOR OF AN ORGAN OR HIS FAMILY WILL BENElT CONSID
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ERABLY FROM THE SALE "OTH A KIDNEY AND A PIECE OF LIVER CAN 4HIRD 7ORLD TO THE &IRST 4HE RELATIVE ABSENCE OF REGULA
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DECISION TO DONATE OR SELL THESE ORGANS IS PATRONIZING ENGING ORGAN MERCHANTS 4HE lNANCIAL REWARDS MAKE THE
4HE FAMILY OF A RECENTLY DECEASED INDIVIDUAL ALSO OUGHT DECISION TO SELL AN ORGAN ONE OF COMPULSION RATHER THAN
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RECEIVE REMUNERATION NIALIST SURGEON STEALS FROM BODIES
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02/3 #/.3
4HE TRANSPLANT SURGEON THE NURSING STAFF AND EVEN THE 0UTTING A PRICE ON THE HUMAN BODY INVITES ONLY EXPLOITA
PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES PRODUCING THE ANTI
REJECTION TION BY THE UNSCRUPULOUS
DRUGS RECEIVE PAYMENT FOR EACH OPERATION PERFORMED
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NERATION 7HAT IS REMARKABLE IS THAT A LIFESAVING TREAT
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD LEGALIZE THE SALE OF ORGANS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD HAVE A HEARTWITH A PRICE TAG
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BUY BODY PARTS
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HUMAN RIGHTS 7E EXTRAPOLATE FROM THIS HUMANITY THE MENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS ON EXTRAPOLATING FROM hFEELINGSv
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SO TREATED
$ESIRES ARE NOT WHAT GROUNDS HUMAN RIGHTS 7HAT )F HUMAN RIGHTS ARE REQUIREMENTS OF REASON THEN WHY DO
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ARE 4HERE IS HUGE DEBATE OVER WHAT RIGHTS WE HAVE AND
SHIPS WITHIN SOCIETY 4HIS SECURITY ISNT JUST DESIRABLE IT MANY PEOPLE CANNOT AGREE THAT WE HAVE BASIC ECONOMIC
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HUMAN BEINGS ARE EQUAL IN THEIR CAPACITY TO HARM ONE
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TRANSFORM ACCEPTED STANDARDS OF LIVING INTO ACTUAL RIGHTS
RIENCE THE LACK OF SOMETHING TO APPRECIATE HOW VITAL IT )N THAT CASE TWO CULTURES COULD HAVE RADICALLY DIFFERENT
ISTHIS IS TRUE OF HUMAN RIGHTS BUT VALID INTERPRETATIONS OF A SPECIlC HUMAN RIGHT #AN
THIS BE A SATISFACTORY BASIS FOR CONCRETE AND ACTUAL RIGHTS
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES IN FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES RIGHTS ARE RIGHT
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02/3 #/.3
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WHO INFRINGE ON HUMAN RIGHTS ARE IN THE WRONG HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD USE FORCE TO UPHOLD HUMAN RIGHTS
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AND SEND TO THEIR FAMILIES AT HOME ARE GAINS FOR A MIGRANTS TO THE HOME COUNTRY /FTEN THE WORKERS CHILDREN AND
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02/3 #/.3
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4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT RICH COUNTRIES SHOULD ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION
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4HE )## WILL LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSECUTION )T WILL SUBJECT 4HE 53 SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR IF IT BEHAVES LAWFULLY
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INVESTIGATION BY THE )NTERNATIONAL #RIMINAL 4RIBUNAL FOR REQUIREMENT THAT HE OBTAIN THE APPROVAL OF THREE JUDGES
THE &ORMER 9UGOSLAVIA )#49 INTO THE .!4/ BOMBING BEFORE ISSUING AN ARREST WARRANT OR INITIATING PROCEED
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PROSECUTOR CHOSE TO INVESTIGATE A CAMPAIGN THAT HAD BEEN BECAUSE IT WOULD END DOUBTS ABOUT THE JUSTIlABILITY OF ITS
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SUPPORT OF THE 3ECURITY #OUNCIL ALTHOUGH AFTER THE FACT PROSECUTOR BECAUSE IT DID NOT EXPECT ITS FORCES TO COMMIT
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OUT A BRUTAL POLICY OF GENOCIDE 4HIS GRIM PRECEDENT
SUGGESTS THAT A PROSECUTOR WILL NOT HESITATE TO INVESTIGATE
OTHER GOOD FAITH AND SUCCESSFUL MILITARY ACTIONS ACROSS
THE GLOBE
4HE 53 HOLDS A UNIQUE POSITION IN MAINTAINING INTER 4HE VERY PREEMINENCE OF THE 53 DEMANDS THAT IT ADHERE
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INCREASES THE LIKELIHOOD OF PROSECUTION 7HEN ROGUE SUCH AS THE 5+ AND &RANCE HAVE RATIlED THE 2OME 3TAT
REGIMES ARE INCAPABLE OF DEFEATING THE 53 MILITARILY UTE WITHOUT HESITATION 4HESE STATES ACCEPT THE PRINCIPLE
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DAMAGE 53 INTERESTS FAR MORE THAN ANY CONVENTIONAL ESTABLISH HUMAN RIGHTS MUST RESPECT THOSE SAME HUMAN
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CARRYING OUT A POLICY OF GENOCIDE COULD REQUEST THAT A OF CONVENTIONAL AND CUSTOMARY LAW 4HE 5. #HARTER
NATION BE PROSECUTED FOR PREVENTING GENOCIDE -OREOVER PROHIBITS BOTH THE UNAUTHORIZED USE OF FORCE AGAINST
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TION OF FOREIGN NATIONALS FOR CRIMES ALLEGEDLY COMMITTED NEGOTIATORS CAN PLAY AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THE !SSEMBLY OF
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3ERB ARMY IN THE SAME TERRITORY
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SHOULD BE NO EXCEPTION TO THESE BASIC STANDARDS 4RULY MATERIAL /THER FORMS OF SPEECH MAY WELL BE OFFENSIVE
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ON THE 7EB BE EXPOSED TO IT AND HAVE IT OUT IN THE OPEN 7ITHOUT
SUCH FREEDOM THESE GROUPS ARE DRIVEN UNDERGROUND AND
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#ENSORSHIP IS TAILORED TO THE POWER OF THE MEDIUM 4HE DISTINCTION BETWEEN CENSORSHIP OF PRINT AND BROAD
!CCORDINGLY A HIGHER LEVEL OF CENSORSHIP IS ATTACHED CAST MEDIA IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY IRRELEVANT 0RINT
TO TELEVISION lLMS AND VIDEO THAN TO NEWSPAPERS AND MEDIA ARE COMPARATIVELY UNREGULATED BECAUSE THEY ARE THE
BOOKS 7E RECOGNIZE THAT MOVING PICTURES AND SOUND ARE PRIMARY MEANS OF DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION IN SOCIETY )N
MORE GRAPHIC AND POWERFUL THAN TEXT PHOTOGRAPHS OR THE NEAR FUTURE THE )NTERNET MAY BECOME THIS PRIME DIS
ILLUSTRATIONS 6IDEOS ARE NORMALLY MORE REGULATED THAN SEMINATOR 4HUS THE )NTERNET MUST BE ALLOWED THE SAME
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CONTROL OF THE MEDIUMTHE POWER TO REWIND VIEW PHILOSOPHER *OHN 3TUART -ILL CONSIDERED FREEDOM OF
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ACCORDINGLY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THE PRIMARY AND MOST POWERFUL
ORGAN OF INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION AT THAT TIME THE PRINT
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THE )NTERNET
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USE THAT AS AN EXCUSE NOT TO TRY 0REVENTING THE SALE OF CURTAILMENT OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH )NTERNET CENSORSHIP
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ITY THAT THE )NTERNET PROVIDES PORNOGRAPHERS AND CRIMI BORDERS WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE 7HAT IS THE POINT IN THE
NALS !SIAN COUNTRIES HAVE EXPERIMENTED WITH REQUIRING 53 REMOVING ALL DOMESTIC LINKS TO HARD CORE PORNOGRA
CITIZENS TO PROVIDE IDENTIlCATION BEFORE POSTING CONTENT PHY WHEN SUCH MATERIAL FROM THE 5+ OR 3WEDEN COULD
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TRULY OFFENSIVE AND HARMFUL CONTENT DOMAIN 4RUE FREEDOM OF SPEECH REQUIRES ANONYMITY IN
SOME CASES TO PROTECT THE AUTHOR 'OVERNMENTS THAT HAVE
INTRODUCED )$ REQUIREMENTS FOR )NTERNET USE ALSO DENY
MANY BASIC RIGHTS TO THEIR CITIZENS 4HE )NTERNET ALLOWS
CITIZENS TO CRITICIZE THEIR GOVERNMENT AND DISTRIBUTE NEWS
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02/3 #/.3
AND INFORMATION WITHOUT REPRISAL FROM THE STATE 4HESE
FREEDOMS CLEARLY COULD NOT SURVIVE )NTERNET )$ REQUIRE
MENTS
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RIAL THAT INCITES RACIAL HATRED INCURS MULTIPLE LIABILITY PEOPLE TO DECIDE WHAT CAN AND CANNOT BE PLACED ON THE
7HERE THE AUTHOR OR PUBLISHER CANNOT BE TRACED OR IS )NTERNET "IG BUSINESS ALREADY CONTROLS FAR TOO MUCH OF
INSOLVENT THE PRINTERS CAN OFTEN BE SUED OR PROSECUTED THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY WITHOUT ALSO MAKING IT JUDGE AND
4HE RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER OF )NTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS JURY OF ALL )NTERNET CONTENT )N ANY CASE THE SHEER BULK
)30S SHOULD BE MADE LIABLE IF THEY ASSIST IN THE PROVI OF INFORMATION )30S ALLOW TO BE PUBLISHED IS SUCH THAT
SION OF DANGEROUS OR HARMFUL INFORMATION REVIEWING IT ALL WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE 7ERE )30S TO BE
HELD LIABLE FOR ALLOWING SUCH MATERIAL TO BE DISPLAYED
THEY WOULD INEVITABLY ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION TO PRO
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MORE HEAVILY CENSORED )NTERNET
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
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3ADDAM (USSEIN POSSESSED WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION GENCE REPORTS WERE WRONG 3ADDAM ACTED AGAINST HIS OWN
(E HAD USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST BOTH )RAN AND BEST INTERESTS IN REFUSING TO COOPERATE
THE +URDISH MINORITY IN )RAQ -OREOVER HE REFUSED TO
COOPERATE WITH WEAPONS INSPECTORS DESPITE THREATS OF A
53 INVASION 'EORGE "USH COULD LOGICALLY ASSUME THAT HE
REFUSED TO COOPERATE BECAUSE HE HAD SOMETHING TO HIDE
)N ADDITION INTELLIGENCE REPORTS SUGGESTED THAT HE HAD
WEAPONS
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4O DATE THERE IS NO CONCRETE EVIDENCE LINKING 3ADDAM
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NOT TO CONDEMN THE 3EPTEMBER ATTACKS AND ONE OF GLED OUT AS A TARGET FOR INVASION -OST OF THE GROUPS )RAQ
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HIJACKER !T THE VERY LEAST THE REGIME PROVIDED ENCOUR
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ARE INTENT ON KILLING CIVILIANS AND OVERTHROWING LEGITI
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THAT THE INTERNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST TERROR WILL FALL
APART AS A RESULT "USHS )RAQ POLICY
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)SRAEL WAS EVIDENT SINCE IT CAME TO OFlCE 'EORGE "USH DESTROYED 53 SUPPORT HAS BEEN CRITICAL TO )SRAELS SUR
HAS REFUSED TO MEET WITH 9ASIR !RAFAT BECAUSE HE VIEWS VIVAL
THE 0ALESTINIAN LEADER AS AN OBSTACLE TO PEACE
!MERICAN POLICY IN THE -IDDLE %AST HAS BEEN GUIDED 4HROUGHOUT THE WORLD THE 5NITED 3TATES IS COMMITTED
BY POLITICS NOT PRINCIPLES /N THE ONE HAND PRESIDENTS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF OPEN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES )SRAEL
HAVE RESPONDED TO THE PRESSURE FROM *EWISH VOTERS TO IS THE ONLY FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY IN THE -IDDLE %AST
SUPPORT )SRAEL /N THE OTHER POLICY TOWARD !RAB STATES AND SHARES MANY OF !MERICAS POLITICAL VALUES )T DESERVES
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4HE 53 HAS CLAIMED THAT IT SUPPORTS )SRAEL BECAUSE IT IS 4HE 53 HAS ALWAYS ACTED AS AN IMPARTIAL BROKER SEEKING
THE ONLY DEMOCRACY IN THE REGIONBUT SUCH SUPPORT CONCESSIONS FROM BOTH SIDES 4HE 53 HAS USED ITS INmU
OF DEMOCRACY HAS NOT BEEN A lRMLY HELD PRINCIPLE AND ENCE TO HAVE )SRAEL CONSIDER !RAB DEMANDS AND TO HAVE
NOT ACTED ON IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD 4HE 53 HAS !RAB NATIONS AND NEGOTIATORS CONSIDER )SRAELS DEMANDS
KNOWINGLY SUPPORTED CORRUPT AND UNJUST AUTHORITARIAN
REGIMES IN !RAB COUNTRIES WHEN THEIR OIL POLICIES FAVORED
!MERICA
4HE 53 HAS BEEN INCONSISTENT IN THE APPLICATION OF ITS 4HE 53 HAS ACTED IN GOOD FAITH WITH THE 0ALESTINIAN
MORAL PRINCIPLES )T HAS ROUTINELY CONDEMNED 0ALESTIN
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE SUPPORTS 53 SPONSORSHIP OF A 0ALESTINIAN STATE
4HIS (OUSE WOULD VALUE DEMOCRACY MORE THAN VOTES AND OIL
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02/3 #/.3
4HE ELEPHANT POPULATIONS OF SOUTHERN !FRICAN STATES ARE %LEPHANTS ARE HIGHLY INTELLIGENT ANIMALS TO KILL THEM FOR
GROWING RAPIDLY PLACING A STRAIN UPON THE NATIONAL PARKS THEIR IVORY IS UNETHICAL ,IFTING THE BAN WOULD LEGITIMIZE
IN WHICH THEY LIVE 4HIS HAS NECESSITATED GOVERNMENT THE VIEW THAT HUMANKIND CAN EXPLOIT THEM IN ANY WAY
CULLS THAT HAVE RESULTED IN LARGE STOCKPILES OF IVORY ALSO CONVENIENT
ACQUIRED FROM ANIMALS THAT DIED NATURALLY THAT THESE
NATIONS ARE CURRENTLY UNABLE TO SELL 2ELAXING THE #)4%3
BAN ON TRADING IVORY SUBJECT TO CAREFUL REGULATION WOULD
BRING MUCH
NEEDED CASH TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
OF THESE IMPOVERISHED COUNTRIES HELPING THEM TO SAFE
GUARD THE LONG
TERM SURVIVAL OF !FRICAN ELEPHANTS
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ARE ACTUALLY LOWER THAN BEFORE ,IFTING THE TRADING
AGING POACHING *APAN IS EMERGING FROM THE ECONOMIC BAN WOULD RENEW INTEREST IN IVORY ARTIFACTS AND INCREASE
PROBLEMS THAT DEPRESSED DEMAND DURING THE S AND THE SIZE OF THE MARKET THUS RAISING THEIR PRICE (IGHER
#HINAS GROWING PROSPERITY IS CREATING A NEW MARKET PRICES PRESENT A LONG
TERM THREAT TO ELEPHANTS AND
#ONSEQUENTLY THE ILLEGAL TRADE WILL GENERATE HIGHER ENCOURAGE CONTINUED POACHING )N ANY CASE POVERTY IN
PROlTS IN THE FUTURE ,EGITIMATE REGULATED SALES WOULD !FRICA IS SO SEVERE THAT EVEN A DROP IN PRICE WILL NOT STOP
UNDERCUT THE ILLEGAL MARKET AND DRIVE THE POACHERS OUT THE POACHERS
OF BUSINESS
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02/3 #/.3
0OACHING HAS BEEN EFFECTIVELY ELIMINATED IN SOUTHERN !LTHOUGH ELEPHANT POPULATIONS IN SOUTHERN !FRICA ARE
!FRICA THROUGH EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF GAME PARKS VIABLE AND INCREASING THIS IS NOT THE CASE ELSEWHERE IN
4HE DEVELOPMENT OF ECOTOURISM ALSO GIVES LOCAL PEOPLES !FRICA .OR IS IT TRUE OF THE WILD !SIAN ELEPHANT POPULA
AN INCENTIVE TO PROTECT WILDLIFE AS A LONG
TERM ECONOMIC TIONS OF 3OUTH !SIA 4ESTING CANNOT REVEAL WHERE CARVED
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GREATER INCOME FROM THEIR ELEPHANT POPULATIONS 2EALIS
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FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF 3OUTH !FRICA AND "OTSWANA RATHER WIDESPREAD CORRUPTION IN !FRICA AND PARTS OF !SIA ALLOWS
THAN SEEK TO HARM THE SUCCESSFUL CONSERVANCY PROGRAMS POACHERS TO MASK THE ILLEGAL ORIGINS OF THEIR IVORY WHICH
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)VORY IS EXPENSIVE TO OBTAIN THROUGH CULLS OR MONITORING 3TORAGE COSTS AND DEPRECIATION ARE PROBLEMS ONLY IF IVORY
OF VERY ELDERLY ANIMALS AND STORE )T ALSO DEGRADES OVER IS STORED IN THE HOPE OF EVENTUAL SALE +ENYAS GAME CON
TIME 4HEREFORE COMMON SENSE TELLS US TO ALLOW ITS SALE SERVANCY BURNS THE IVORY IT OBTAINS FROM CULLS OR CON
ON A PERMANENT CONTROLLED BASIS RATHER THAN THROUGH lSCATES FROM POACHERS AVOIDING BOTH OF THESE PROBLEMS
ONE
OFF SCHEMES SUCH AS THE SALE TO *APAN AND SHOWING ITS COMMITMENT TO ENDING ALL POSSIBILITY OF
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD ALLOW TRADE IN IVORY
4HIS (OUSE WOULD SAVE THE ELEPHANTS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES CONSERVATION MUST JUSTIFY ITSELF ECONOMICALLY
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/NE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE )T IS A PRIMARY OBLIGATION OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
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TO ESTABLISH CLEAR AND CERTAIN PENALTIES FOR CRIME 4HE
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STRIKES LAWS OFFER SUCH CLARITY AND THEIR MANDATORY
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NATURE MAKES PUNISHMENT CERTAIN 4HESE LAWS PREVENT
OUS AND VIOLENT OR MINOR AND NON
VIOLENT "ECAUSE INCONSISTENCY IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
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CRIMES IT FOLLOWS THAT THE SENTENCE DOES NOT NECESSARILY
CORRESPOND TO THE GRAVITY OF THE OFFENSE
)T OFTEN HAPPENS THAT THE THIRD FELONYTHAT IS THE ONE (ISTORICALLY JUDGES HAVE ABUSED THE DISCRETION THAT THEY
THAT TRIGGERS THE AUTOMATIC SENTENCEIS RELATIVELY MINOR HAVE BEEN GIVEN BY THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM 4OO
&OR EXAMPLE A LIFE SENTENCE HAS BEEN IMPOSED ON SOME OFTEN JUDGES HAVE IMPOSED LIGHT SENTENCES ON CRIMINALS
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TENCING SHOULD TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF ZENS "UT THESE CITIZENS ARE NOT PROTECTED BY hREVOLVING
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OF HARM CAUSED BY THE CRIME -ANDATORY SENTENCES ROB AFTER REPEAT OFFENSES 4HREE STRIKES LAWS REMOVE REPEAT
JUDGES OF THOSE DISCRETIONARY POWERS THAT ARE PROPERLY OFFENDERS FROM SOCIETY AND PREVENT THEM FROM COMMIT
THEIRS )NDEED MANDATORY SENTENCES ARE IMPOSED IN TING FURTHER CRIMES
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HARSH SENTENCING
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02/3 #/.3
4HE THREE
STRIKES LAWS ARE IN EFFECT EX POST FACTO LAWS /PPONENTS OF THREE
STRIKES LAWS CLAIM THAT THESE LAWS
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IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY FOR RECIDIVISTS 3OMEONE WHO HAS COM
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TUTES hDOUBLE JEOPARDYv #RIMINALS ARE BEING PUNISHED THE DESTINY OF THE RECIDIVIST TO KEEP COMMITTING CRIMES
AGAIN FOR CRIMES FOR WHICH THEY ALREADY SERVED TIME
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD RESTORE DISCRETION IN SENTENCING TO THE JUDICIARY
4HIS (OUSE WOULD MAKE THE PUNISHMENT lT THE CRIME
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02/3 #/.3
!LTHOUGH MARIJUANA DOES HAVE SOME HARMFUL EFFECTS IT 5NLIKE ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO MARIJUANA HAS AN INHERENTLY
IS NO MORE HARMFUL THAN LEGAL SUBSTANCES LIKE ALCOHOL DANGEROUS HALLUCINATORY EFFECT ON THE MIND &URTHER
AND TOBACCO 2ESEARCH BY THE "RITISH -EDICAL !SSOCIA
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TION SHOWS THAT NICOTINE IS FAR MORE ADDICTIVE THAN MARI
CRIME TO FUND THEIR ADDICTION 4HE LEGALIZATION OF MARI
JUANA &URTHERMORE THE CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL AND JUANA WILL LEAD TO THE DRUG BECOMING MORE READILY AVAIL
CIGARETTE SMOKING CAUSE MORE DEATHS PER YEAR THAN DOES ABLE WHICH IN TURN WILL MEAN THAT MANY MORE PEOPLE
MARIJUANA 4HE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA WILL REMOVE AN WILL GAIN ACCESS TO IT AND BECOME ADDICTED 4HE CRIME
\4HE $EBATABASE "OOK
02/3 #/.3
ANOMALY IN THE LAW WHEREBY SUBSTANCES THAT ARE MORE RATE WILL INEVITABLY RISE $ATA FROM THE .ETHERLANDS SHOW
DANGEROUS THAN MARIJUANA ARE LEGAL WHILE THE POSSESSION THAT THE DECRIMINALIZATION AND EVENTUAL LEGALIZATION OF
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)N RECENT YEARS SCIENTISTS AND MEDICAL RESEARCHERS HAVE 4HE 53 HAS SUPPORTED SCIENTIlC RESEARCH INTO THE MEDI
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HUMAN KNOWLEDGE HAD IT SURVIVED
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4HIS (OUSE SUPPORTS PROTECTION OF MINORITY LANGUAGES
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CHURCH SCHOOLS WITH ALL
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4HIS (OUSE SUPPORTS THE CREATION OF SINGLE
RACE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD SERVE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE BEST WAYS POSSIBLE
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES IN SEPARATE BUT EQUAL
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4HE CONCEPT OF MONARCHY IS UNDEMOCRATIC )F THE MON
#ONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY IS A VERY EFFECTIVE POLITICAL
ARCH RETAINS ANY SIGNIlCANT POLITICAL POWERS THESE ARE SYSTEM ! HEREDITARY HEAD OF STATE ACTS AS AN IMPORTANT
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ARCHY MAY ALSO BE USED TO PROP UP OTHER UNJUSTIlABLE NONE HAS DONE SO SINCE THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY !S
ELEMENTS WITHIN GOVERNMENT FOR EXAMPLE THE (OUSE OF lGURES ABOVE THE POLITICAL CONmICTS OF THE DAY MONARCHS
,ORDS IN THE 5+ RETAIN AN IMPORTANT SYMBOLIC ROLE AS A FOCUS FOR NATIONAL
UNITY )N "RITAIN THEIR RIGHT hTO ADVISE ENCOURAGE AND
WARNv THE PRIME MINISTER HAS ACTED AS A CHECK AGAINST
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SHAPED IT !S SUCH IT IS A POWERFUL FOCUS FOR LOYALTY AND A
SAGE THAT THE CLASS YOU ARE BORN INTO MATTERS MORE THAN SOURCE OF STRENGTH IN TIMES OF CRISIS AS WELL AS A REMINDER
WHAT YOU MAKE OF YOURSELF 4HIS CAN STImE ASPIRATIONS OF ENDURING VALUES AND TRADITIONS 3EPARATING THE POSI
AND LEAD TO A CULTURE OF DEFERENCE THAT DOES NOT VALUE TIONS OF HEAD OF STATE AND HEAD OF GOVERNMENT ALSO MAKES
THE ENTREPRENEUR OR INDIVIDUAL ABILITY AND INITIATIVE ! GREAT PRACTICAL SENSE 4HE MONARCH UNDERTAKES MUCH OF
SYSTEM OF ROYAL HONORS MAY BE USED TO TIE ACHIEVERS INTO THE CEREMONIAL WORK AT HOME AND ABROAD LEAVING THE
THE TRADITIONAL SOCIAL STRUCTURES MAKING RADICAL SOCIAL PRIME MINISTER FREE TO FOCUS MORE ON GOVERNING
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EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING A PRESIDENT WITH A LARGE STAFF AND
ARCHS AND THEIR IMMEDIATE FAMILY RECEIVE SUBSTANTIAL EQUALLY STRINGENT SECURITY REQUIREMENTS 2OYAL RESIDENCES
AMOUNTS OF MONEY FROM THE STATE TO MAINTAIN LUXURIOUS ARE HELD IN TRUST FOR THE NATION AND WOULD INCUR THE SAME
LIFESTYLES 4HE STATE ALSO SPENDS A GREAT DEAL TO MAINTAIN UPKEEP COSTS WHETHER A MONARCH INHABITED THEM OR NOT
AND RUN PALACES AND OTHER ROYAL RESIDENCES WHICH ARE -ONARCHY MORE THAN PAYS ITS WAY THROUGH ITS GENERA
SELDOM ACCESSIBLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT SUPPORTS TION OF TOURIST REVENUE AS MILLIONS VISIT SITES ASSOCIATED
THEM THROUGH TAXES 3ECURITY COSTS ARE ALSO VERY HIGH WITH ROYALTY AND THROUGH ITS ROLE IN PROMOTING TRADE AND
INDUSTRY ABROAD ON ROYAL VISITS
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WANED (OW MANY PEOPLE TRAVELING ABROAD LIKE TO lND ACCOUNTABLE LEADERS WITH A MANDATE TO GOVERN BUT AVOIDS
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LEGES GRANTED A PARTICULAR FAITH
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD ABOLISH THE MONARCHY
4HIS (OUSE WOULD STORM THE PALACE
4HIS (OUSE WOULD RATHER BE FREE CITIZENS THAN LOYAL SUBJECTS
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-ULTICULTURALISM IS CLEARLY BETTER HOW CAN YOU EXPECT )F YOU DECIDE THAT YOU WANT TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY YOU
PEOPLE TO GIVE UP THEIR HERITAGE )MMIGRANTS DO NOT LEAVE HAVE TO RESPECT ITS TRADITIONS %XPECTING NEW CITIZENS OR
A COUNTRY TO LEAVE THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITY BEHIND RESIDENTS TO CONFORM TO CERTAIN NATIONAL NORMS IS NOT
UNREASONABLE
)F A SOCIETY CLAIMS TO BE TOLERANT OF PERSONAL CHOICE IT 7HAT SOME PEOPLE CALL SOCIAL ENGINEERING INTEGRATIONISTS
MUST RESPECT THE CHOICE OF IMMIGRANTS TO RETAIN THEIR CALL ENSURING THAT SOCIETY IS AS HARMONIOUS AND CONmICT
HERITAGE !NYTHING LESS SMACKS OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING FREE AS POSSIBLE )F DIFFERENCE BREEDS CONTEMPT THEN THE
LEAST DIFFERENCE THE BETTER
#LINGING TO AN IDEA OF MONOLITHIC NATIONAL IDENTITY IS 7E TOTALLY REJECT THE NOTION OF THE DEMISE OF THE NATION
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STATE MODEL FOR SOCIETY IS STATE )T IS STILL THE PRIMARY MODE OF NATIONAL IDENTITY !S
CRUMBLING AND IS BEING OUTSTRIPPED BY TRANSNATIONAL 53 HISTORY HAS SHOWN A NATION CAN ABSORB MILLIONS OF
MODELS SUCH AS THE %UROPEAN 5NION !S A RESULT THERE IS IMMIGRANTS AND YET MAINTAINED A UNIQUE IDENTITY
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ALISM IS DESTRUCTIVE AND HISTORY SHOWS IT TO BE SO
0ERPETUATING A NATIONAL IDENTITY INEVITABLY LEADS TO THE 4HERE IS A MIDDLE POINT BETWEEN DENYING ANYONE THE
ALIENATION OF THOSE WHO FOR RELIGIOUS OR OTHER REASONS RIGHT TO PRACTICE THEIR RELIGION OPENLY AND DENYING ANY
CHOOSE NOT TO CONFORM )F THE NATIONAL IDENTITY DOES NOT SORT OF NATIONAL IDENTITY OR CONFORMITY ! SHARED SENSE
INCLUDE THE WEARING OF A TURBAN HEADDRESS OR ROBE THEN OF BELONGING AND PURPOSE IS VITAL FOR NATIONAL COHERENCE
THOSE WHO DO WEAR THESE GARMENTS ARE EXCLUDED FROM AND SERVES THE NATION AND THE NATIONS PEOPLES WELL IN
THE MAINSTREAM 3UCH EXCLUSION GIVES RISE TO THE NOTION TIMES OF WAR )N ADDITION WE WANT EVERYONE TO CHEER
OF THE hOTHERv AND LEAVES THOSE PERCEIVED AS THE hOTHERv THEIR FAVORITE BALL TEAM
OPEN TO PHYSICAL ASSAULT
7E SHOULD EMBRACE THE FACT THAT PEOPLE CAN SUPPORT 4HIS IS NAÉVE AND PRESUMES ARROGANTLY THAT WE HAVE
BOTH THEIR OLD AND NEW NATIONS )T SHOWS THAT WE HAVE MOVED BEYOND THE POINT WHERE WE ARE AT RISK FROM ENE
MOVED BEYOND THE DIVISIVE NATIONAL STEREOTYPING THAT MIES !S THE RISE IN EXTREMISM AND ITS SUPPORT FROM SOME
CAUSES CONmICT 4HE MORE TOLERANCE OF DIFFERENCE AND OF OUR OWN CITIZENS SHOW WE HAVE BEEN TOO LIBERAL 7E
EMBRACE OF OTHER CULTURES WE CAN ACHIEVE THE LESS CON
HAVE FORGOTTEN WHY NATIONHOOD IS IMPORTANT AND WHY
mICT THERE WILL BE WE ALL NEED TO FEEL A COMMUNAL BELONGING AND AFlNITY
WITH THE BASIC VALUES OF OUR SOCIETY
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BE MULTICULTURAL
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES IN MULTICULTURALISM
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT THE NATION
STATE IS DEAD
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! NATIONAL CURRICULUM FOR MOST CORE SUBJECTS ALREADY 4HE MANDATE FOR A NATIONAL TEST MAKES EVERY LOCAL
EXISTS WITHOUT SCHOOL BOARDS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES EVEN ITY TEACH THE SAME CURRICULUM %ACH STATE AND LOCAL
REALIZING IT -OST HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE PREPARING FOR ITY SHOULD BE ABLE TO DETERMINE ITS OWN CURRICULUM AS
STANDARDIZED COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMS AND THEREFORE STUDY SCHOOLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE VERY DIFFERENT AND SHOULD
WHAT IS NEEDED TO DO WELL ON THESE TESTS !LSO ONLY A FEW BE ABLE TO MAKE DECISIONS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL ON WHAT WILL
TEXTBOOK COMPANIES PRODUCE TEXTS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STU
BE TAUGHT WITHIN THEIR CLASSROOMS 2EQUIRING NATIONAL
DENTS 7HEN LOCALITIES SELECT ONE OF THESE TEXTBOOKS THEY TESTING REMOVES THE TRADITIONAL RIGHTS OF LOCALITIES TO
ARE IN EFFECT AGREEING TO WHAT AMOUNTS TO A NATIONAL ADAPT TO COMMUNITY STANDARDS AND DESIRES WHEN MAKING
CURRICULUM "ESIDES STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY SHOULD CURRICULUM DECISIONS
LEARN THE SAME SKILLS
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CURRICULUM STUDENT SUCCESS ON THE TEST WILL FOLLOW $RILL
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MAKE A DECISION TO TEST WITHOUT ALTERING THEIR CURRICU
EDGE THAT WILL HELP THEM BECOME GOOD CITIZENS AND CON
LUMS 3TUDENTS UNDENIABLY NEED TO HAVE CERTAIN BASIC TRIBUTE IN MEANINGFUL WAYS TO SOCIETY 4HEY WILL BECOME
SKILLS AND SUBJECT MASTERY WHEN THEY GRADUATE 4HE GOOD TEST TAKERS BUT WILL MISS OUT ON THE JOY OF LEARNING
.ATIONAL !SSESSMENT OF %DUCATIONAL 0ROGRESS AND THE FOR LEARNINGS SAKE 3UBJECTS LIKE ART AND MUSIC THAT ARE
STATE
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DAY AFFORDS PLENTY OF TIME FOR STUDENTS TO LEARN THE BASICS CHILDRENS EDUCATION WOULD BECOME NARROWLY FOCUSED ON
AND STILL PARTICIPATE IN ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ATTEND A YEARLY TEST
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02/3 #/.3
4HE ENTIRE REASON THAT PUBLIC EDUCATION IN !MERICA WAS 5SING A NATIONAL TEST TO DETERMINE IF SCHOOLS AND STU
FOUNDED WAS TO DEVELOP A MORE PRODUCTIVE WORKFORCE DENTS ARE WORKING OVERSIMPLIlES EDUCATION !DVOCATES OF
!LTHOUGH EDUCATION BY ITSELF IS A WORTHY GOAL ULTIMATELY NATIONAL TESTING USE TERMS THAT ARE MORE SPECIlC TO BUSI
WHAT WE WANT FOR OUR CHILDREN IS FOR THEM TO BE SUCCESS
NESS AS IF CHILDREN ARE SIMPLY WIDGETS COMING OUT AT THE
FUL INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ABLE TO EARN A LIVING WHEN THEY END OF AN ASSEMBLY LINE 0ROPONENTS OF NATIONAL TESTING
GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL OR COLLEGE &OCUSING ON WORD USE TERMS LIKE hSETTING OBJECTIVES v hGETTING RESULTS v AND
CHOICES THAT MAY ALSO BE USED IN THE BUSINESS WORLD IS hTHE BOTTOM LINEv WHEN TALKING ABOUT OUR NATIONS CHIL
JUST A DISTRACTER USED BY OPPONENTS OF NATIONAL TESTING TO DREN 7E CANNOT LET THE UNETHICAL CORRUPT AND PROlT
SHIFT THE DEBATE AWAY FROM WHAT REALLY NEEDS TO HAPPEN DRIVEN WORLD OF BUSINESS ENCROACH INTO OUR NATIONS CLASS
IN OUR NATIONS SCHOOLS ROOMS
)N A SOCIETY WHERE EDUCATION IS SO IMPORTANT TO SUCCESS 5SING A NATIONAL TEST TO DETERMINE IF STUDENTS ARE MASTER
WE MUST MAKE SURE OUR SCHOOLS ARE PERFORMING FOR OUR ING MATERIAL IS UNFAIR AND WILL DRIVE GOOD TEACHERS OUT
NATIONS CHILDREN 4HE PRIMARY REASON FOR NATIONAL STAN
OF OUR CLASSROOMS MAKING EXISTING PROBLEMS WORSE !
DARDS AND ASSESSMENT IS TO MAKE SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS BETTER ALTERNATIVE IS A BROAD
BASED ASSESSMENT WHICH
ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT GOES ON IN THE CLASSROOM )F SCHOOLS LOOKS AT MULTIPLE MEASURES OF WHAT A STUDENT HAS LEARNED
AND TEACHERS ARE DOING A GOOD JOB THEY HAVE NOTHING TO )NSTEAD OF TESTING A STUDENT ON ONE DAY A MULTIPLE
MEA
FEAR AS WE MOVE TO A NATIONAL SYSTEM OF ACCOUNTABILITY SURE ASSESSMENT USES TEACHER EVALUATIONS TEACHER
CREATED
THROUGH ASSESSMENT TESTS AND STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS THAT OCCUR OVER THE
ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR 4HIS WOULD ESPECIALLY BENElT STUDENTS
WHO ARE NOT GOOD TEST TAKERS
$EVELOPING ACCEPTABLE NATIONAL STANDARDS IS NOT EASY 4HE IDEA OF NATIONAL STANDARDS MAY SEEM LIKE A GOOD ONE
BUT OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT CREATING UNTIL YOU START TO ACTUALLY TRY TO CREATE THE STANDARDS THAT
GOOD STANDARD TESTS THAT MOTIVATE STUDENTS AND TEACH TEACHERS MUST TEACH TO !GREEING WHAT MUST BE TAUGHT IS
ERS IS POSSIBLE %XCELLENCE IS CREATED BY BRINGING TOGETHER DIFlCULT ENOUGH IN A LOCAL SETTING NATIONALLY SUCH AGREE
THE RIGHT PEOPLE EXAMINING TEXTBOOKS AND LOOKING AT MENT IS PROBABLY NOT ACHIEVABLE 7HICH HISTORIC lGURES
STANDARDS ALREADY PUT IN PLACE BY MANY NATIONAL TEACHERS SHOULD ALL STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT 7HAT PARTS OF HISTORY
ASSOCIATIONS )N THE 5NITED 3TATES THE QUALITY OF EDUCA ARE MOST IMPORTANT !LSO GOOD STANDARDS ARE DIFlCULT TO
TION THAT STUDENTS RECEIVE DEPENDS ON WHAT STATE COUNTY CRAFT 3TANDARDS ARE EITHER TOO VAGUE SO THE TEST MAKERS
AND TOWN THEY LIVE IN AND EVEN IN WHAT PART OF TOWN AND TEACHERS DO NOT KNOW WHAT MATERIAL TO FOCUS ON OR
THEY RESIDE 4HIS VIOLATES THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY THAT IS THEY ARE TOO DETAILED SO THAT TEACHERS AND STUDENTS ARE
FUNDAMENTAL TO THE VALUES OF OUR COUNTRY )F ALL TEACHERS OVERWHELMED BY THE SHEER NUMBER OF SUBJECTS THAT MUST
ARE EXPECTED TO ACHIEVE THE SAME STANDARDS THE QUALITY OF BE MASTERED
EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN CAN GO UP
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BAN NATIONAL TESTING
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT NATIONAL STANDARDS ARE MORE VALUABLE THAN LOCALLY DEVELOPED CURRICULUMS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT NATIONAL STANDARDS WILL HAVE A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON EDUCATION
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT NATIONAL STANDARDS PROMOTE EQUALITY IN EDUCATION
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0ERCEIVING THE WORLD AS A COLLECTION OF DISTINCT NATION
)N THE NEAR FUTURE THE PRESENT FRAMEWORK OF NATION
STATES IS STILL VIABLE AS A CONSTRUCT OF THE WORLD ORDER STATES WILL BE REPLACED BY LOOSE FEDERATIONS OF COUNTRIES
.ATION
STATES REMAIN FORMIDABLE AND WILL BE ABLE TO REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ENORMOUS TRANSNATIONAL CORPORA
RESIST THE TIDE OF GLOBALIZATION FOR CENTURIES (UMAN TIONS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 0OLITICS BASED ON
NATURE WANTS TO REMAIN SEPARATE AND EQUAL MAINTAIN
NATIONAL IDENTITY WILL DIE WHEN TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURAL
ING AN IDENTITY AND MARKING AND DEFENDING CERTAIN TER
AND ECONOMIC ADVANCES CREATE GLOBAL SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
RITORY .O AMOUNT OF INTERNATIONALIZATION CAN DESTROY COHESION 'LOBALIZATION IS TOO STRONG TO RESIST AND ANY
THE SYSTEM THAT HAS WORKED SUCCESSFULLY FOR ALMOST NATION THAT TRIES TO DO SO WILL BE PUSHED TO THE MARGINS
YEARS OF THE WORLD ORDER
7HAT WE ARE SEEING IS NOT GLOBALIZATION BUT GROW
'LOBALIZATION IS GETTING STRONGER )N FACT THE DOMINA
ING REGIONALISM WHICH PEOPLE FEAR MAY CHALLENGE THE TION OF THE WORLD ORDER BY ONE SUPERPOWER THREATENS THE
NATION
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.O VIABLE ALTERNATIVE TO THE CURRENT ORDER EXISTS 4HE 'ROWING FEDERALISM AND REGIONALISM IN AREAS LIKE %UROPE
NATION
STATE IS THE BEST SYSTEM AVAILABLE FOR PRESERVING HAVE PROVED THAT HUMANS CAN OVERCOME THEIR PAROCHIAL
CULTURES AND INSTITUTIONS $EPRIVING PEOPLE OF THEIR CONCERNS 4HIS COMBINATION OF FEDERALISM AND REGIONAL
NATIONAL IDENTITY FOR THE SAKE OF GLOBALIZATION IS A VIOLA
GOVERNMENT IS LIKELY TO BE REPLACED BY GLOBAL GOVERN
TION OF HUMAN RIGHTS MENT IN THE FUTURE
/NGOING SECESSIONIST MOVEMENTS ARE EVIDENCE THAT NO 4HE SYSTEM OF NATION
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CONTINUE GLOBAL PEACE AND SECURITY &ORCING PEOPLE TO REMAIN LOYAL
TO THEIR NATIONS OFTEN RESULTS IN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT THE NATION
STATE SYSTEM DOES NOT DESCRIBE THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL ORDER
4HIS (OUSE SHOULD ENDORSE NATION
STATES AGAINST GLOBALIZATION
4HIS (OUSE HOLDS THAT NATION
STATES HAVE NO FUTURE
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#URRENTLY THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLDS ELECTRICITY IS GENER
%STIMATES OF HOW LONG FOSSIL FUEL RESOURCES WILL LAST HAVE
ATED USING FOSSIL FUELS !LTHOUGH ESTIMATES VARY GREATLY REMAINED UNCHANGED FOR THE LAST FEW DECADES 0REDICTING
ABOUT THE WORLDS SUPPLY OF FOSSIL FUELS SOME ESTIMATES WHEN THESE FUELS WILL BE DEPLETED IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE
SUGGEST THAT OIL COULD BE EXHAUSTED WITHIN YEARS AND BECAUSE NEW DEPOSITS MAY BE DISCOVERED AND BECAUSE
COAL WITHIN YEARS 4HUS WE MUST lND A NEW SOURCE THE RATE OF USE CANNOT BE PREDICTED ACCURATELY )N ADDI
OF ENERGY 7E MUST START TO CONVERT TO NUCLEAR ENERGY TION SOME EXPERTS ESTIMATE THAT THE WORLD HAS YEARS
NOW SO THERE IS NOT A MAJOR CRISIS WHEN FOSSIL FUELS DO OF NATURAL GAS 7E HAVE NO CURRENT NEED TO SEARCH FOR
RUN OUT A NEW POWER SOURCE -ONEY SPENT ON SUCH EXPLORATION
WOULD BE BETTER SPENT ON CREATING TECHNOLOGY TO CLEAN
THE OUTPUT FROM POWER STATIONS
.UCLEAR ENERGY IS CLEAN )T DOES NOT PRODUCE GASEOUS %VEN APART FROM THE SAFETY ISSUES NUCLEAR POWER PRESENTS
EMISSIONS THAT HARM THE ENVIRONMENT 'RANTED IT DOES A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS &IRST IT IS EXPENSIVE AND RELATIVELY
PRODUCE RADIOACTIVE WASTE BUT BECAUSE THIS IS A SOLID IT INEFlCIENT 4HE COST OF BUILDING REACTORS IS ENORMOUS AND
CAN BE HANDLED EASILY AND STORED AWAY FROM POPULATION THE PRICE OF SUBSEQUENTLY DECOMMISSIONING THEM IS ALSO
CENTERS "URNING FOSSIL FUELS CAUSES FAR MORE ENVIRONMEN
HUGE 4HEN THERE IS THE PROBLEM OF WASTE .UCLEAR WASTE
TAL DAMAGE THAN USING NUCLEAR REACTORS EVEN IF WE FACTOR CAN REMAIN RADIOACTIVE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS )T MUST BE
IN THE #HERNOBYL CATASTROPHE #ONSEQUENTLY NUCLEAR STORED FOR THIS TIME AWAY FROM WATER INTO WHICH IT CAN
ENERGY IS PREFERABLE TO FOSSIL FUELS &URTHERMORE AS NEW DISSOLVE AND FAR FROM ANY TECTONIC ACTIVITY 3UCH STORAGE
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02/3 #/.3
TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS FAST BREEDER REACTORS BECOME AVAIL
IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE AND SERIOUS CONCERNS HAVE ARISEN
ABLE THEY WILL PRODUCE LESS NUCLEAR WASTE 7ITH MORE OVER THE STATE OF WASTE DISCARDED EVEN A FEW DECADES AGO
INVESTMENT SCIENCE CAN SOLVE THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED
WITH NUCLEAR ENERGY MAKING IT EVEN MORE DESIRABLE
5NFORTUNATELY THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY HAS A BAD REPUTATION 4HE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY HAS A SHAMEFUL SAFETY RECORD !T
FOR SAFETY THAT IS NOT ENTIRELY DESERVED 4HE OVERWHELM
4HREE -ILE )SLAND WE WERE MINUTES AWAY FROM A MELT
ING MAJORITY OF NUCLEAR REACTORS HAVE FUNCTIONED SAFELY DOWN AND AT #HERNOBYL THE UNTHINKABLE ACTUALLY HAP
AND EFFECTIVELY 4HE TWO MAJOR NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS 4HREE PENED 4HE EFFECTS ON THE LOCAL PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRON
-ILE )SLAND AND #HERNOBYL WERE BOTH IN OLD STYLE REAC
MENT WERE DEVASTATING 4HE FALLOUT FROM #HERNOBYL
TORS EXACERBATED IN THE LATTER CASE BY LAX 3OVIET SAFETY CAN STILL BE DETECTED IN OUR ATMOSPHERE 4RUE MODERN
STANDARDS 7E ARE ADVOCATING NEW REACTORS BUILT TO THE NUCLEAR REACTORS ARE SAFER BUT THEY ARE NOT PERFECTLY SAFE
HIGHEST SAFETY STANDARDS 3UCH REACTORS HAVE AN IMPEC
$ISASTER IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE .UCLEAR POWER STATIONS HAVE
CABLE SAFETY RECORD 0ERHAPS THE BEST GUARANTEE OF SAFETY HAD A NUMBER OF hMINORv ACCIDENTS 4HE INDUSTRY HAS
IN THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY IS THE INCREASING TRANSPARENCY TOLD US THAT THESE PROBLEMS WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN BUT
WITHIN THE INDUSTRY -ANY OF THE EARLY PROBLEMS WERE TIME AND TIME AGAIN THEY RECUR 7E HAVE TO CONCLUDE
CAUSED BY EXCESSIVE CONTROL DUE TO THE ORIGIN OF NUCLEAR THAT THE INDUSTRY IS TOO DOMINATED BY THE PROlT MOTIVE
ENERGY FROM MILITARY APPLICATIONS !S A CIVILIAN NUCLEAR TO REALLY CARE ABOUT SAFETY AND TOO SHROUDED IN SECRECY TO
INDUSTRY DEVELOPS IT BECOMES MORE ACCOUNTABLE BE ACCOUNTABLE )N ADDITION THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY HAS HAD
A TERRIBLE IMPACT ON THOSE LIVING AROUND POWER PLANTS
4HE RATE OF OCCURRENCE OF CERTAIN TYPES OF CANCER SUCH
AS LEUKEMIA IS MUCH HIGHER IN THE POPULATION AROUND
NUCLEAR PLANTS
7E MUST EXAMINE THE ALTERNATIVES TO NUCLEAR ENERGY &OR !LTHOUGH ALTERNATIVE ENERGY IS NOT EFlCIENT ENOUGH TO
THE REASONS EXPLAINED ABOVE WE CAN RULE OUT FOSSIL FUELS SERVE THE ENERGY NEEDS OF THE WORLDS POPULATION TODAY
IMMEDIATELY 7E ALSO SEE ENORMOUS PROBLEMS WITH OTHER IT COULD WITH INVESTMENT IN ALL THESE METHODS BE MADE
FORMS OF ENERGY 4HE MOST EFlCIENT SOURCE OF RENEWABLE EFlCIENT ENOUGH TO SERVE HUMANKIND 7E ARE NOT ADVO
ENERGY HAS BEEN HYDROELECTRIC POWER (OWEVER THIS USU CATING A BLANKET SOLUTION TO EVERY PROBLEM -ANY DAM
ALLY CREATES MORE PROBLEMS THAN IT SOLVES "UILDING A LARGE PROJECTS COULD HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY SOLAR POWER HAD THE
DAM NECESSARILY mOODS AN ENORMOUS REGION BEHIND THE TECHNOLOGY BEEN AVAILABLE )N ADDITION MOST COUNTRIES
DAM DISPLACING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE $AMS ALSO USUALLY HAVE AT LEAST ONE RENEWABLE RESOURCE THAT THEY
CAUSE ENORMOUS DAMAGE TO THE ECOLOGY AND INCUR ENOR CAN USE TIDES FOR ISLANDS THE SUN FOR EQUATORIAL COUN
MOUS SOCIAL AND CULTURAL COSTS 3OLAR ENERGY HAS NEVER TRIES HOT ROCKS FOR VOLCANIC REGIONS ETC #ONSEQUENTLY
LIVED UP TO EXPECTATIONS BECAUSE IT IS HUGELY INEFlCIENT ANY COUNTRY CAN IN PRINCIPLE BECOME ENERGY SELF SUF
7IND ENERGY IS ONLY MARGINALLY BETTER WITH AN UNSIGHTLY lCIENT WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY 4HE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION
WIND FARM THE SIZE OF 4EXAS NEEDED TO PROVIDE THE ENERGY OF URANIUM IS HUGELY UNEVEN MUCH MORE SO THAN FOR
FOR 4EXAS ALONE 4HE GREAT IRONY IS THAT NOT ONLY ARE MOST FOSSIL FUELS ACCORDINGLY THE USE OF NUCLEAR POWER GIVES
RENEWABLE SOURCES INEFlCIENT BUT MANY ARE ALSO ECOLOGI COUNTRIES WITH URANIUM DEPOSITS DISPROPORTIONATE ECO
CALLY UNSOUND 4HE OPPOSITION TO BUILDING WIND FARMS IN NOMIC POWER 5RANIUM COULD CONCEIVABLY BECOME SUB
CERTAIN AREAS HAS BEEN JUST AS STRONG AS THE OPPOSITION TO JECT TO THE SAME KIND OF MONOPOLY THAT THE /RGANIZATION
NUCLEAR POWER BECAUSE WIND FARMS DESTROY THE SCENERY OF 0ETROLEUM %XPORTING #OUNTRIES HAS FOR OIL 4HIS PRE
VENTS COUNTRIES FROM ACHIEVING SELF SUFlCIENCY IN ENERGY
PRODUCTION
4HE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY IS A MAJOR EMPLOYER )T CREATES 3UGGESTING THAT NUCLEAR POWER IS THE ONLY EMPLOYMENT
NUMEROUS JOBS AND WITH INVESTMENT WILL CREATE EVEN PROVIDER IS COMPLETELY FATUOUS %NERGY PRODUCTION
MORE WILL ALWAYS PROVIDE ROUGHLY THE SAME NUMBER OF JOBS
)F SPENDING ON THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY WERE REDIRECTED TO
RENEWABLE ENERGY THEN JOBS WOULD SIMPLY MOVE FROM
THE ONE TO THE OTHER
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD GO NUCLEAR
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02/3 #/.3
.UCLEAR WEAPONS ARE MORALLY REPUGNANT /VER THE PAST 4HE USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS WOULD INDEED BE A GREAT
YEARS WE HAVE SEEN A MOVEMENT TOWARD LIMITED WAR
TRAGEDY BUT SO TO A GREATER OR LESSER EXTENT IS ANY WAR
FARE AND PRECISION WEAPONS THAT MINIMIZE THE IMPACT ON 4HE REASON FOR MAINTAINING AN EFFECTIVE NUCLEAR ARSENAL IS
CIVILIANS .UCLEAR WEAPONS HAVE MASSIVE INDISCRIMINATE TO PREVENT WAR 4HE CATASTROPHIC RESULTS OF USING NUCLEAR
DESTRUCTIVE POWER 4HEY CAN KILL MILLIONS AND CAUSE CATA
WEAPONS DISCOURAGE CONmICT 4HE #OLD 7AR WAS ONE OF
STROPHIC HARM TO THE WORLD ENVIRONMENT THE MOST PEACEFUL TIMES IN HISTORY LARGELY BECAUSE OF THE
NUCLEAR DETERRENTS OF THE TWO SUPERPOWERS
4HE IDEA OF A SO CALLED NUCLEAR DETERRENT NO LONGER APPLIES 4HE DETERRENT PRINCIPLE STILL STANDS $URING THE 0ERSIAN
$URING THE #OLD 7AR PEACE WAS MAINTAINED ONLY BY A 'ULF 7AR FOR EXAMPLE THE FEAR OF 53 NUCLEAR RETALIATION
BALANCE OF POWER NEITHER SUPERPOWER HAD AN ADVANTAGE WAS ONE OF THE FACTORS THAT PREVENTED )RAQ FROM USING
LARGE ENOUGH TO BE CONlDENT OF VICTORY (OWEVER A BAL CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST )SRAEL ! SIMILAR FEAR MAY PRE
ANCE OF POWER NO LONGER EXISTS 7ITH THE PROLIFERATION VENT ROGUE STATES FROM USING NUCLEAR WEAPONS -OREOVER
OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS SOME ROGUE STATES MAY DEVELOP THE ALTHOUGH THE CITIZENS OF THE CURRENT NUCLEAR POWERS MAY
ABILITY TO STRIKE AT NATIONS THAT HAVE NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS OPPOSE THE USE OF FORCE AGAINST CIVILIANS THEIR OPINIONS
7OULD THE MAJOR NUCLEAR POWERS THEN STRIKE BACK AT THE WOULD RAPIDLY CHANGE IF THEY FOUND WEAPONS OF MASS
AGGRESSOR 4HE ANSWER IS UNKNOWN )N ADDITION MOST DESTRUCTION USED AGAINST THEM
OF THE EMERGING NUCLEAR THREATS WOULD NOT COME FROM
LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENTS BUT FROM DICTATORS AND TERROR
IST GROUPS 7OULD KILLING THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS EVER BE
ACCEPTABLE IN RETALIATION FOR THE ACTIONS OF EXTREMISTS
"Y MAINTAINING A STRATEGIC DETERRENT THE CURRENT NUCLEAR 4HE NUCLEAR GENIE IS OUT OF THE BOTTLE AND CANNOT BE PUT
POWERS ENCOURAGE THE PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS BACK IN 4HE IDEAL OF GLOBAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT IS lNE
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02/3 #/.3
DESTRUCTION #OUNTRIES BELIEVE THAT BEING A MEMBER OF IN THEORY BUT IT WILL NOT WORK IN PRACTICE .ATIONS WILL
THE hNUCLEAR CLUBv INCREASES THEIR INTERNATIONAL STATUS NOT DISARM IF THEY FEAR A ROGUE STATE HAS SECRET NUCLEAR
!LSO NATIONS AT ODDS WITH A COUNTRY WITH NUCLEAR CAPA
CAPABILITY 7ITHOUT THE THREAT OF A RETALIATORY STRIKE A
BILITY FEEL THAT THEY MUST DEVELOP THEIR OWN CAPABILITY ROGUE NUCLEAR STATE COULD ATTACK OTHERS AT WILL
TO PROTECT THEMSELVES 4HEREFORE NUCLEAR POWERS MUST
TAKE THE LEAD IN DISARMAMENT AS AN EXAMPLE FOR THE REST
OF THE WORLD
.UCLEAR WEAPONS CAN FALL INTO THE WRONG HANDS 4HIS IS 7HILE NUCLEAR WEAPONS CAN BE DISMANTLED THEY CANNOT
PARTICULARLY TRUE IN 2USSIA WHICH CONTROLS THE FORMER BE EASILY DESTROYED 3PECIAL FACILITIES ARE NEEDED FOR STOR
3OVIET ARSENAL 4HE MILITARY IS DISASTROUSLY UNDERFUNDED AGE )N ADDITION DISMANTLING MISSILES DOES NOT DESTROY
NUCLEAR EXPERTS AND OFlCERS ACCUSTOMED TO A HIGH STAN THE WEAPONS GRADE PLUTONIUM THAT FORMS THEIR WAR
DARD OF LIVING ARE NOW lNDING THEMSELVES WITHOUT PAY HEADS 0LUTONIUM IS THE MOST VALUABLE PART OF THE MIS
SOMETIMES FOR YEARS !T THE SAME TIME OTHER NATIONS AND SILE HENCE THE RISK OF THEFT DOES NOT DECREASE AND MAY
EXTREMIST GROUPS ARE WILLING TO PAY SUBSTANTIAL SUMS FOR IN FACT INCREASE 3ECURITY AT PLUTONIUM STORAGE FACILITIES
THEIR SERVICES AND FOR ACCESS TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS /NLY IS OFTEN INADEQUATE MOREOVER STEALING A RELATIVELY SMALL
DESTROYING THE WEAPONS WILL END THE DANGER OF SOMEONE QUANTITY OF PLUTONIUM IS RELATIVELY EASY
STEALING A WEAPON OR EXTREMISTS TAKING OVER A NUCLEAR
BASE
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BAN THE BOMB
7EB ,INKS
s !BOLITION HTTPWWWABOLITIONORG
,INKS TO SITES OFFERING GENERAL INFORMATION IN SUPPORT OF GLOBAL ELIMINATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
s &EDERATION OF !MERICAN 3CIENTISTS .UCLEAR &ORCES 'UIDE HTTPWWWFASORGNUKEGUIDEINDEXHTML
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DEPTH INFORMATION ON THE
STATUS OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION TERRORISM AND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
&URTHER 2EADING
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02/3 #/.3
4HE #4"4 IS THE BEST WAY TO STOP THE DEVELOPMENT AND 4HE #4"4 IS A MISGUIDED ATTEMPT TO FREEZE THE CURRENT
PROLIFERATION OF MORE AND MORE COMPLEX NUCLEAR WEAP
NUCLEAR POWER BALANCE )T WILL ONLY CURTAIL THOSE NATIONS
ONS 4HE TREATY NOT ONLY LIMITS THE TECHNICAL DEVELOP
THAT PRESENT NO REAL THREAT TO GLOBAL STABILITY )N FACT BY
MENT OF WEAPONS BUT ALSO REDUCES THE EXTENT TO WHICH RESTRICTING THESE COUNTRIES THE TREATY CAN MAKE THE REALITY
THEY CAN BE DISPLAYED THUS REDUCING THEIR VALUE AS A BAR
OF -UTUALLY !SSURED $ESTRUCTION LESS CLEAR AND ACTUALLY
GAINING CHIP AND A SYMBOL OF POWER 4HE #4"4 MEANS ENCOURAGE RECKLESSNESS BY LESS STABLE NUCLEAR POWERS
FEWER WEAPONS IN FEWER COUNTRIES AND IS THEREFORE A VALU
ABLE WAY OF REDUCING NUCLEAR TENSIONS
.UCLEAR EXPLOSIONS HAVE A MASSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT /VERT TESTING BY NUCLEAR POWERS HAPPENS IN ONLY THE MOST
AND CAUSE MASSIVE HARM ,ARGE AREAS ARE IRRADIATED BY DESERTED AND ENVIRONMENTALLY STABLE AREAS FOR EXAMPLE
THE BLASTS AND THE LONG
TERM EFFECTS OF RADIOACTIVE MATE
3IBERIA AND THE DESERTS OF .EVADA AND WESTERN !USTRALIA
RIALS THROWN INTO THE ATMOSPHERE BY THE EXPLOSIONS ARE 4HUS THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT IS NOT JUST MINIMAL
UNCERTAIN .UCLEAR TESTS OFTEN INVOLVE MOVING PEOPLE OFF BUT MUCH LESS THAN THAT OF SECRET TESTS THAT MIGHT TAKE
THEIR OWN LANDS AS WITH THE &RENCH TESTS IN 0OLYNESIA IN PLACE TO CIRCUMVENT THE TREATY
AND INVOLVE THE DESTRUCTION OF HABITATS !LTHOUGH
INFORMATION IS SCANTY THE UNDERGROUND TESTS CONDUCTED
IN #HINA ARE SUSPECTED TO HAVE CAUSED EARTHQUAKES
4HE #4"4 CAN BE EFFECTIVE IN STOPPING THE TESTING OF 4HE #4"4 IS TOOTHLESS AND UNENFORCEABLE )TS ONLY SPE
NUCLEAR WEAPONS 4HE TREATY INCLUDES SPECIlC MEASURES CIlC MEASURE IS EXPULSION FROM THE TREATY RIGHTS AND OBLI
OF REDRESS AND GIVES SCOPE FOR WIDER ACTION -OREOVER GATIONS IT IS LIKELY TO AFFECT ONLY STABLE NATIONS WHOSE
VOLUNTARY COMMITMENTS TO CURTAIL NUCLEAR TESTING DO NUCLEAR ARMORIES POSE THE LEAST THREAT %FFECTIVELY THIS
HOLD MORAL FORCE 4HE &RENCH GOVERNMENT WAITED FOR THE TREATY PUTS THE TOOL OF NUCLEAR TESTING IN THE HANDS OF THE
END OF A ONE
YEAR MORATORIUM BEFORE RESUMING TESTING LEAST SCRUPULOUS OF THE NUCLEAR POWERS
IN
6ERIlCATION OF THE TEST BAN IS NOW POSSIBLE THE #OM
6ERIlCATION CAN NEVER BE PERFECT THUS UNCERTAINTY AND
PREHENSIVE 4EST "AN /RGANIZATION IN 6IENNA IS IN CHARGE MISTRUST WILL ALWAYS BE PRESENT )F NATIONS PERFORM COVERT
OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONITORING SYSTEM A NETWORK OF TESTS NOT ONLY ARE THEY MORE LIKELY TO BE CONDUCTED IN
STATIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THAT CAN TAKE SEISMIC A MORE DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENT BUT SUCH TESTS WILL ALSO
HYDRO
ACOUSTIC AND INFRASOUND MEASUREMENTS IN ALL INCREASE INTERNATIONAL TENSIONS BECAUSE OF THE UNCER
ENVIRONMENTS 4HESE STATIONS CAN ALSO MEASURE RADIONU
TAINTY ABOUT THE SOURCE OF THE RESULTING NUCLEAR POLLU
CLIDE LEVELS IN DEBRIS 4HE TREATY ALSO PROVIDES A RIGHT OF TION &URTHER THE AREAS IN WHICH TESTING WAS BANNED BY
INSPECTION BETWEEN SIGNATORIES LIKE THOSE INCLUDED IN THE THE ,IMITED 4EST "AN 4REATY ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE USED IF
53
5332 WEAPONS REDUCTION TREATIES TESTS ARE CONDUCTED SECRETLY
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02/3 #/.3
4HE #4"4 DOES NOT THREATEN EXISTING NUCLEAR ARSENALS #OMPUTER MODELING WORKS ONLY IF IT IS BASED ON DATA
/THER ASPECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS LIKE GUIDANCE SYSTEMS FROM REAL EXPLOSIONS 4HE LESS REAL DATA THE LESS RELIABLE
AND MISSILES CAN STILL BE TESTED BESIDES COMPUTER MODEL
COMPUTER MODELING !S NEW TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOP MOD
ING NOW DOES MUCH OF THE WORK FOR hTESTINGv EXPLOSIONS ELING WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSATISFACTORY -OREOVER
2USSIA AND "RITAIN HAVE BOTH RATIlED THE #4"4 NEITHER IT IS EXACTLY THE UNEXPECTED EFFECTS THAT ARE IMPORTANT IN
HAS ANY INTENTION OF RELINQUISHING ITS STATUS AS A NUCLEAR THE TESTS 4HEY NOT ONLY ALLOW US TO ENSURE THE WEAPONS
POWER ARE WORKING BUT ALSO YIELD DATA THAT HAVE BEEN FOUND
HIGHLY USEFUL IN THE PEACEFUL NUCLEAR INDUSTRIES THAT ARE
SPECIlCALLY PROTECTED IN THE .ON
0ROLIFERATION 4REATY
6OTERS IN THE 5NITED 3TATES FOR EXAMPLE OVERWHELM 4HE #4"4 IS A POLITICAL DEAD DUCK 0OLITICAL SUPPORT IS
INGLY FAVOR THE #4"4 7ORLD OPINION IN ALL BUT A FEW NONEXISTENT PROVED BY THE FACT THAT MANY OF THE NATIONS
ROGUE STATES STRONGLY FAVORS BANNING NUCLEAR TESTING THUS INVOLVED IN ITS DEVELOPMENT HAVE NOT RATIlED IT !
SHOWING SIGNIlCANT SUPPORT AND CREATING POLITICAL IMPE TREATY THAT HAS NONE OF THE SUPPORT NECESSARY TO COME
TUS FOR SIGNING THE TREATY INTO FORCE IS CLEARLY NOT ONE WORTH COMMITTING TIME AND
ENERGY TO
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BAN NUCLEAR TESTING
4HIS (OUSE WOULD RATIFY THE #OMPREHENSIVE .UCLEAR 4EST "AN 4REATY
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BAN THE BOMB
7EB ,INKS
s #OALITION TO 2EDUCE .UCLEAR $ANGERS HTTPWWWCLWORGCOALITIONINDEXHTML
0ROVIDES INFORMATION ON A WIDE VARIETY OF ISSUES INVOLVING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
s #OMPREHENSIVE .UCLEAR 4EST "AN 4REATY /RGANIZATION HTTPWWWCTBTOORG
3UMMARIZES THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE #4"4
s 0HYSICIANS FOR 3OCIAL 2ESPONSIBILITY HTTPWWWPSRORGHOMEEFM ID SECURITY
/FFERS DETAILED ESSAY ON THE 53 RESPONSE TO THE #4"4
s 53 3TATE $EPARTMENT "UREAU OF !RMS #ONTROL HTTPWWWSTATEGOVTAC
)NFORMATION ON CURRENT 53 POLICY AND DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS ON A VARIETY OF ARMS CONTROL ISSUES
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02/3 #/.3
4HE USE OF PERFORMANCE
ENHANCING DRUGS IS WIDESPREAD 7E SHOULD HAVE SOME SYMPATHY FOR ATHLETES 6ERY OFTEN
AT THE /LYMPICS AND MAKES THE VICTORIES OF THOSE WHO THE TEAMS COACH COMPELS THEM TO TAKE DRUGS 4HERE ARE
TAKE THEM MEANINGLESS .EW DRUGS ARE VERY DIFlCULT TO STORIES OF #HINESE SWIMMERS EATING STEROID
LACED NOODLES
DETECT BUT THE /LYMPIC AUTHORITIES ARE DOING LITTLE TO 4HE )NTERNATIONAL /LYMPIC #OMMITTEE )/# #ONFER
ADDRESS THE PROBLEM ENCE IN &EBRUARY RECOMMENDED THAT COACHES TAKE
THE /LYMPIC OATH AS WELL AS ATHLETES /LYMPIC AUTHORI
TIES ARE EMBRACING NEW TECHNIQUES TO DETECT DRUGS !
NEW MASS
SPECTROSCOPY UNIT WAS INSTALLED FOR THE lRST
TIME AT THE !TLANTA 'AMES !N )NDEPENDENT !NTI
$OPING !GENCY WAS ESTABLISHED IN 3YDNEY IN AS
WAS A TESTING TECHNIQUE THAT CAN DETECT IF AN ATHLETE HAS
TAKEN GROWTH HORMONES UP TO SIX MONTHS EARLIER 4HE
BATTLE IS BEING WON CASES OF DOPING IN TWO
IN 4HE )/# IS COMING DOWN HARD ON THOSE WHO
TAKE DRUGS )T HAS INTRODUCED A TWO
YEAR BAN FOR THE lRST
OFFENSE
4HE MAN WHO REVIVED THE /LYMPICS AT THE END OF THE 4HE /LYMPIC MOVEMENT GIVES CONSIDERABLE FUNDING TO
NINETEENTH CENTURY "ARON DE #OUBERTIN INSISTED THAT COMMUNITY SPORTS PROGRAMS TO TEACH FAIR PLAY -EAN
EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN THE SPIRIT OF FAIR PLAY AND IN THE WHILE h$REAM 4EAMSv ARE ESSENTIAL TO FULlLLING THE BASIC
IMPORTANCE OF TAKING PART RATHER THAN WINNING WERE /LYMPIC AIMS FASTER HIGHER STRONGER 3URELY WATCHING
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CAN THUS TRAIN TO FAR HIGHER LEVELS THAN CAN THOSE OF DEVEL PROCESS OF PUTTING ALL COUNTRIES ON AN EQUAL FOOTING
OPING COUNTRIES 4HIS PREVENTS COMPETITION ON AN EQUAL
FOOTING ONE FEATURE OF THE /LYMPIC DREAM
4HE /LYMPICS HAVE BEEN HIJACKED SO MANY TIMES FOR 7HY SHOULD WE EXPECT THE /LYMPICS TO TRANSCEND THE
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ONLY TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED !RE THOSE WHO PLAY THE OPTION OPEN TO THE 53 IN 4HE 5. HAD CONDEMNED
'AMES LESS IMPORTANT THAN THE SPECTACLE OF THE 'AMES THE 5332S INVASION OF !FGHANISTAN AND APPROXIMATELY
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SPORT FOR ITS OWN SAKE WAS DEVALUED STILL FURTHER
4HE )/# AND MANY NATIONAL /LYMPIC COMMITTEES LACK 7HATEVER GOES ON IN THE COMMITTEES CANNOT AFFECT THE
INTEGRITY 4HIS KILLS THE 'AMES SPIRIT &OR EXAMPLE SEV
/LYMPIC DREAM ITSELFTHAT IS CARRIED ON THE SHOULDERS
ERAL OF THE JUDGES WHO SELECTED .AGANO FOR THE OF THE ATHLETES )T IS POSSIBLE TO BE FASTER HIGHER AND
7INTER /LYMPICS 3YDNEY FOR THE /LYMPICS AND STRONGER WHEREVER THE 'AMES ARE HELD SO MONEY MATTERS
3ALT ,AKE #ITY FOR THE 7INTER /LYMPICS ARE KNOWN ARE DETACHED FROM THE /LYMPIC DREAM
TO HAVE TAKEN BRIBES FROM THE WINNING CITIES AND FROM
SOME OF THE OTHER COMPETING CITIES AS WELL
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT THE /LYMPIC DREAM IS DEAD
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT THE BATTLE AGAINST DOPING IN SPORT IS BEING LOST
4HIS (OUSE WANTS TO WIN AT ALL COSTS
7EB ,INKS
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BILLION BY 'IVEN THE STRAIN ON GLOBAL RESOURCES GROWTH ! NATIONS POPULATION MAY GROW RAPIDLY IN THE
AND THE ENVIRONMENT TODAY AN ENVIRONMENTAL DISAS
EARLY STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT BUT WITH INDUSTRIALIZATION
TER IS CLEARLY WAITING TO HAPPEN AS THE POPULATION TIME AND RISING LEVELS OF EDUCATION THE POPULATION TENDS TO
BOMB TICKS AWAY 7HILE REPRODUCTION IS A FUNDAMENTAL STABILIZE AT THE REPLACEMENT RATE %VEN IF THE QUOTED
HUMAN RIGHT RIGHTS COME WITH RESPONSIBILITIES 7E HAVE lGURE OF BILLION BY IS TRUE THIS IS LIKELY TO
A RESPONSIBILITY TO FUTURE GENERATIONS AND POPULATION REMAIN STEADY THEREAFTER AS THE DEVELOPING NATIONS OF
CONTROL IS ONE METHOD OF ENSURING THAT NATURAL RESOURCES TODAY ACHIEVE MATURITY $EVELOPED NATIONS CAN USE ALTER
WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR OUR DESCENDANTS NATIVE METHODS TO SOLVE THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL
PROBLEMS ARISING FROM OVERPOPULATION !LL AVAILABLE
OPTIONS SHOULD BE EXHAUSTED BEFORE MAKING THE DRASTIC
DECISION TO CURB REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
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TRAINED WORKERS ARE REQUIRED TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON THE
CORRECT USE OF CONTRACEPTIVES %VEN WITH AN INVESTMENT IN
TRAINING BIRTH CONTROL METHODS MAY BE USED INCORRECTLY
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ARE THE ONLY SECURITY FOR OLD AGE &URTHERMORE HAVING A
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7OMEN MAY NOT HAVE THE CHOICE TO USE CONTRACEPTIVES
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TERM NING 2ELIGIOUS PRESSURE TO HAVE AS MANY CHILDREN AS POS
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02/3 #/.3
POLICY WHEN CONSIDERED AS A WHOLE OFTEN VIOLATE WOM
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DEVELOPING WORLD 4HE LACK OF OBSTETRIC CARE AND THE OPING NATIONS SUCH NATIONS OFTEN NEED TO ADDRESS OTHER
PREVALENCE OF DISEASE AND MALNUTRITION CONTRIBUTE TO MORE PRESSING ISSUES 0ROVIDING BASIC HEALTH CARE AND
A HIGH RATE OF MORTALITY AMONG PREGNANT MOTHERS AND PROPER SANITATION CAN IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF AN ENTIRE
THEIR NEWBORN CHILDREN 4HIS RISK CAN BE OVER TIMES FAMILY IN ADDITION TO REDUCING CHILD MORTALITY OFTEN A
THAT OF MOTHERS IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES MAJOR REASON FOR PARENTS WANTING TO HAVE A LARGE NUMBER
OF CHILDREN 3PENDING ON SUCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND SER
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CONTRACEPTION POLICIES IN THE
OFlCIALS DEVELOPED WORLD
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE SUPPORTS CONTRACEPTION IN DEVELOPING NATIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD CAP POPULATION GROWTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT THERE ISNT ENOUGH ROOM
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REASON &OREIGN WORKERS ARE CHEAPER 7HEN COMPANIES PAY IN THE LONG RUN 4HEY KNOW THAT A HEALTHY AND A
ARE DRIVEN BY THE PROlT MOTIVE THEY HAVE AN INCENTIVE HAPPY WORKFORCE IS GOING TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE AND GIVE
TO PAY AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE AND TO SKIMP ON EQUIPMENT THEIR OPERATION LONG
TERM STABILITY #ERTAINLY MANUFAC
AND PROCEDURES THAT WOULD PROVIDE COMFORT AND SAFETY TURERS CARE ABOUT THE BOTTOM LINE AND IT IS PRECISELY THAT
TO WORKERS 7ORKERS NEED TO BE PROTECTED FROM CORPORA
CONCERN THAT MOTIVATES THEM TO TREAT THEIR WORKERS WELL
TIONS THAT CARE MORE ABOUT PROlTS THAN PEOPLE
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3OME FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS ARE SO EAGER TO ATTRACT !MERI
ElT ON THE ECONOMIES OF THEIR HOST COUNTRIES 7ORKERS ARE
CAN INVESTMENT THAT THEY FAVOR MANAGEMENT OVER LABOR TAUGHT SKILLS AND EXPOSED TO NEW TECHNOLOGY -OREOVER A
4HEY DO NOT PROTECT THEIR OWN CITIZENS WITH STRONG LABOR STRONG INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY HAS BEEN PROVED TO BE THE BEST
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UNIONS 7ORKERS ARE AT THE MERCY OF THEIR EMPLOYERS WILL ACHIEVE WAGES AND WORKING CONDITIONS COMPARABLE TO
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MUNITY )F THE WORKERS BECOME TOO EXPENSIVE OR IF THE IS ABSURD THEREFORE TO EXPECT !MERICAN COMPANIES TO
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4HE !MERICAN OBJECTION TO CHILD LABOR IS FOUNDED ON THE
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SHOULD REFUSE TO TAKE PART IN THIS ABUSE 4HERE IS LITTLE IN MANY COUNTRIES WHERE THE FACTORIES OPERATE UNIVERSAL
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF COUNTRIES WHERE A CHILD MUST PRO
SCHOOLING IS NONEXISTENT AND THE CHILD WHO IS THROWN OUT
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WILL NOT BUY MATERIALS MADE IN FOREIGN SWEATSHOPS
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THE LIFE OF ANOTHER ENDANGER PRINCIPLES AS FUNDAMENTAL AS HUMAN RIGHTS
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02/3 #/.3
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD BE PACIlST
4HIS (OUSE REJECTS VIOLENCE
4HIS (OUSE WOULD TURN THE OTHER CHEEK
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TIVE FOR PARENTS TO ACT RESPONSIBLY )F PARENTS ARE LIABLE PROBLEMS THAT CAN BE SOLVED BY THE LEVERAGE OF CRIMINAL
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ARE SUPERVISED AND WELL CARED FOR 0ROBLEMS SUCH AS ALCOHOLISM POVERTY POOR EDUCATION
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OF ABUSE CAN LOCK A FAMILY INTO A NEGATIVE CYCLE THAT CON
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FOR THEMSELVES UNTIL THEY HAVE REACHED THE AGE OF MAJOR LIGIBLE 3OME CHILDREN RUN AWAY FROM HOME OR FORCIBLY
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GOVERNMENTS BELIEVE THAT JUVENILES MAKE MISTAKES AND NOUS AND SO UNEXPECTED THAT NO REASONABLE PERSON
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THEIR ACTIONS 0ARENTS AND THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE HAVE TO WHAT AGE CONSTITUTES hADULTHOODv 4HE AGE OF MAJOR
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4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES PARENTS SHOULD BE HELD CIVILLY LIABLE FOR THE ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES OF THEIR CHILDREN
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT ON BALANCE PARENTS ARE MORE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS OF CHILDREN THAN THE CHILDREN ARE THEMSELVES
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD CHANGE CAMPAIGN lNANCE LAWS TO ALLOW CONTRIBUTIONS FROM INDIVIDUALS ONLY
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MARRY MORE THAN ONE PERSON WHY SHOULD THE STATE STOP DOES TO WOMEN AND FAMILIES 0OLYGAMY HARMS CHILDREN
ME )F MY PARTNER AGREES TO THE ADDITION TO THE FAMILY WHO ARE PRESENTED WITH CONFUSING SIGNALS ABOUT ROLE
THEN WHY SHOULD THE STATE PRESUME TO SAY IT KNOWS BETTER MODELS AND FAMILY LIFE )T ALSO REDUCES A WOMANS FREE
7E HAVE A RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND A RIGHT TO NONINTERFERENCE DOM 7OMEN OFTEN DO NOT HAVE A SAY IN WHETHER THE
IN OUR FAMILY LIFE HUSBAND TAKES ANOTHER WIFE
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LOVE NOT JEALOUSY BETWEEN WIVES WHO ARE HAPPY TO HAVE OF THE MAJORITY OF FAMILY UNITS NAMELY JEALOUSY AND
OTHERS SHARE THEIR WORK (IERARCHIES EXIST IN MONOGA SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS WITH OTHERS )T IS TRUE THAT JEALOUSY
MOUS FAMILIESBETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE BETWEEN EXISTS OUTSIDE MARRIAGES AND IN MONOGAMOUS MARRIAGES
SIBLINGS 4HAT THEY CAN EXIST IN POLYGAMOUS MARRIAGES IS BUT WHY SET UP A SITUATION IN WHICH IT IS GUARANTEED
NOT A STRONG ARGUMENT AGAINST SUCH UNIONS WHICH ARE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STABLE HOMES 3OME MARRIAGES ARE
GOOD SOME BADTHATS TRUE OF BOTH MONOGAMY AND
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4HE IDEA THAT THE INDIVIDUAL CAN LOVE ONLY ONE PERSON IS -ARRIAGE IS ABOUT DEVOTION TO ANOTHER THE GIVING OF ONE
FALSE A PRODUCT OF A PARTICULAR TIME PLACE AND CULTURE SELF WHOLLY TO THAT PERSON GRANTING LOVE TO THEM TO THE
0OLYGAMY HAS BEEN THE NORM IN MANY SOCIETIES THROUGH EXCLUSION OF ALL OTHERS (OW COULD ONE HAVE SUCH A RELA
OUT HISTORY 0OLYGAMY IS NOT ABOUT FREEDOM TO FORNICATE TIONSHIP WITH MORE THAN ONE PERSON )T IS NOT POSSIBLE TO
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INDIVIDUALS ONE WANTS TO SPEND THE REST OF ONES LIFE WITH SARILY INVOLVES THE EXPLOITATION OF AT LEAST ONE PARTY AND
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4HIS REDUCES THE STRAINS ON FAMILY LIFE AND MINIMIZES THE )NDEED POLYGAMY ENCOURAGES ADULTERY BECAUSE IT DILUTES
LIKELIHOOD OF BREAKDOWN AND DIVORCE THE IDEA OF lDELITY TO ONE PERSON SUBSTITUTING THE LEGITI
MACY OF INTERCOURSE WITH MANY
/F COURSE AN INDIVIDUAL SHOULD NOT BELONG TO ANOTHER ,EGALIZING POLYGAMY WOULD LEGITIMIZE THE IDEA OF WOMEN
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ABOUT THE CULTURES OF OTHERS AND AT WORST VEILED RACISM THINKING WE WANT TO DISCOURAGE 7HILE POLYGYNOUS MAR
7E SHOULD NOT STOP PEOPLE FROM PRACTICING THEIR FAITHS IN RIAGES ARE TECHNICALLY POSSIBLE IN THE -USLIM WORLD THEY
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FAITH 7HY SHOULD NOT THE VALIDITY OF SUCH MARRIAGES BE TREATED FAIRLY +ORAN IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO MEET
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD LEGALIZE POLYGAMY
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VICTIM IS THE VERY FABRIC OF SOCIETY ITSELF ART AND LITERATURE DO
0ORNOGRAPHY HELPS TO REINFORCE THE SIDE OF OUR SEXUAL 0ORNOGRAPHY IS A LEGITIMATE EXPLORATION OF SEXUAL FANTASY
IDENTITY THAT SEES PEOPLE AS OBJECTS AND DEBASES BOTH ONE OF THE MOST VITAL PARTS OF HUMAN LIFE 0SYCHOLOGISTS
THEIR THOUGHTS AND BODIES 7E HAVE SEEN EVIDENCE OF THIS HAVE CONlRMED THE IMPORTANT IF NOT DRIVING ROLE THAT
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MEN ARE USED IN ADVERTISING 3OCIETYS ACCEPTANCE OF POR
OR DENYING THIS PART OF OUR PERSONALITIES IS BOTH PRUD
NOGRAPHY LEADS TO THE OBJECTIlCATION OF WOMEN AND THUS ISH AND IGNORANT #ONSEQUENTLY PORNOGRAPHY SHOULD
DIRECTLY TO SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION BE AVAILABLE FOR ADULTS TO VARY THEIR SEX LIVES )NDEED FAR
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HELP MAINTAIN AND STRENGTHEN MARRIAGES BY LETTING COU
PLES FULLY EXPLORE THEIR SEXUAL FEELINGS
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ENCOURAGES ILLEGAL FORMS SUCH AS CHILD PORNOGRAPHY !RE 0EOPLE INTERESTED IN CHILD PORNOGRAPHY WILL OBTAIN IT
WE TO ALLOW PEDOPHILES THE hLEGITIMATE SEXUAL EXPLORA
REGARDLESS OF ITS LEGAL STATUS (UMAN SEXUALITY IS SUCH THAT
TIONv OF THEIR FEELINGS 4HE OPPOSITION CANNOT LET HUMAN MERE EXPOSURE TO ADULT PORNOGRAPHY DOES NOT ENCOURAGE
IMPULSES OVERRIDE SOCIETAL RULES THAT PROTECT CHILDREN INDIVIDUALS TO EXPLORE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
-ANY RAPISTS ARE OBSESSED WITH PORNOGRAPHY )T ENCOUR 3ADLY RAPE WILL EXIST WITH OR WITHOUT PORNOGRAPHY
AGES THEM TO VIEW WOMEN AS OBJECTS AND HELPS JUSTIFY 2APISTS MAY USE PORNOGRAPHY BUT PORNOGRAPHY DOES
THEIR CONTENTION THAT WOMEN ARE WILLING PARTICIPANTS IN NOT CREATE RAPISTS 4HE CLAIM THAT PORNOGRAPHY IS RAPE
THE ACT )NDEED FEMINISTS HAVE PROPOSED THAT PORNOGRA IS INVALID /UR LEGAL SYSTEM DEPENDS ON THE DISTINCTION
PHY IS RAPE BECAUSE IT EXPLOITS WOMENS BODIES 0ORNOGRA BETWEEN THOUGHT AND ACT THAT THIS CLAIM SEEKS TO BLUR
PHY SERVES ONLY TO ENCOURAGE BRUTAL SEX CRIMES 0ORNOGRAPHY IS A LEGITIMATE FORM OF EXPRESSION AND
ENJOYMENT 'OVERNMENT SHOULD NOT CENSOR IT IN THE
INTERESTS OF SEXUAL REPRESSION AND PRUDERY
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES PORNOGRAPHY DOES MORE HARM THAN GOOD
4HIS (OUSE WOULD BAN PORNOGRAPHY
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT PORNOGRAPHY IS BAD FOR WOMEN
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OTHER THAN 0ETER WERE MARRIED BUT WE DO KNOW THAT
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TANT *ESUS LED A CELIBATE LIFE
4HE NUMBER OF PRIESTS IN !MERICA IS ON THE DECLINE AND 0ROTESTANT CHURCHES WHICH DO NOT REQUIRE CELIBACY ALSO
MANY PARISHES ARE WITHOUT A PRIEST 4HE PROHIBITION ON ARE HAVING PROBLEMS RECRUITING CLERGY 7ORLDWIDE THE
MARRIAGE PUSHES SOME MEN AWAY FROM THE PRIESTHOOD NUMBER OF NEW PRIESTS IS INCREASING /NLY THE DEVELOPED
4HE REQUIREMENT OF CELIBACY DRASTICALLY REDUCES THE POOL WORLD HAS SEEN A DECLINE IN PRIESTLY VOCATIONS ! RECENT
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0RIESTLY CELIBACY IS OUTDATED )T SETS THE PRIEST APART FROM 4HE PRIEST IS SET APART FROM THE WORLD (E HAS A UNIQUE
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*ESUS LED A LIFE OF CHASTITY DEDICATED TO 'OD A PRIEST MUST
OFFER HIS LIFE TO 'ODS PEOPLE
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COMPLICATED MARITAL RELATIONSHIP 4HEY LACK CREDIBILITY POWER OF SELF
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WHEN CONDUCTING MARITAL AND FAMILY COUNSELING -AR
ARE KEY IDEAS IN MARRIAGE 4HE PRIEST IS MARRIED TO THE
RIED PRIESTS CAN BETTER SERVE THEIR PARISHIONERS BECAUSE OF CHURCH AND CAN COUNSEL COUPLES AND FAMILIES USING THAT
THEIR MARITAL AND FAMILY EXPERIENCES KNOWLEDGE
4HE PROSPECT OF CELIBACY DRAWS SEXUALLY DYSFUNCTIONAL #ELIBACY AND PEDOPHILIA ARE NOT CONNECTED 3EXUAL ABUSE
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD PERMIT PRIESTS TO MARRY
4HIS (OUSE WOULD HAVE THE 6ATICAN STOP REQUIRING PRIESTLY CELIBACY
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT A MARRIED PRIEST IS A BETTER PRIEST
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ASPECTS OF PEOPLES LIVES IN EXCHANGE THE PEOPLE HAVE ALIST PRESS )F THE PRESS FOCUSED ON THE POLICIES AND PUBLIC
THE RIGHT TO MAKE INFORMED JUDGMENTS ABOUT THE KIND ACTIONS OF POLITICIANS RATHER THAN THEIR PERSONAL FOIBLES
OF LEADERS THEY WANT !NY ATTEMPT TO RESTRICT WHAT MAY DEMOCRACY WOULD BE BETTER SERVED
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ADVANTAGE )F THE PUBLIC IMAGE THEY SEEK TO CREATE IS AT A PUBLIC ISSUE 4HIS DOES NOT JUSTIFY INTRUSION INTO THE
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BE COMPELLED TO ENTER PROSTITUTION BY CIRCUMSTANCES
BEYOND THEIR CONTROL SUCH AS SUBSTANCE ADDICTION OR THE
NECESSITY TO PROVIDE FOR A FAMILY
0ROSTITUTION HAS EXISTED IN ALL CULTURES THROUGHOUT HIS
'OVERNMENTS HAVE A DUTY TO PROTECT THE MORAL AND
TORY 'OVERNMENTS SHOULD RECOGNIZE THAT THEY CANNOT PHYSICAL HEALTH OF THEIR CITIZENS ,EGALIZING PROSTITU
ERADICATE IT #ONSEQUENTLY THEY SHOULD PASS LEGISLATION TION WOULD IMPLICITLY APPROVE A DANGEROUS AND IMMORAL
THAT MAKES PROSTITUTION SAFER RATHER THAN PERSIST WITH PRACTICE 0ROSTITUTION IS NEVER A LEGITIMATE CHOICE FOR A
FUTILE AND DANGEROUS PROHIBITION YOUNG GIRL
0ROSTITUTES HAVE PERFORMED A VALID SOCIAL FUNCTION FOR 0ROSTITUTION HARMS THE FABRIC OF SOCIETY 3EXUAL INTER
THOUSANDS OF YEARS 0ROSTITUTION ACTUALLY HELPS MAINTAIN COURSE OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE OR A RELATIONSHIP OF LOVE SHOWS
MARRIAGES AND RELATIONSHIPS ! PURELY PHYSICAL COMMER
DISREGARD FOR THE SANCTITY OF THE SEXUAL ACT AND FOR THE
CIAL TRANSACTION DOES NOT JEOPARDIZE THE EMOTIONAL STA
OTHER PARTNER IN A RELATIONSHIP %MOTIONAL COMMITMENT
BILITY OF A RELATIONSHIP )N )TALY FOR EXAMPLE VISITING A IS INEXTRICABLY LINKED TO PHYSICAL COMMITMENT
PROSTITUTE DOES NOT VIOLATE THE LAW AGAINST ADULTERY
-ANY LIBERTARIAN FEMINISTS BELIEVE THAT PROSTITUTION &EMINISTS OVERWHELMINGLY OPPOSE PROSTITUTION 4HE RAD
REmECTS THE INDEPENDENCE AND DOMINANCE OF MODERN ICAL FEMINIST SCHOOL THAT EMERGED IN THE S SUPPORTS
WOMEN 4HE MAJORITY OF PROSTITUTES ARE WOMEN /NCE THE IDEA THAT PROSTITUTION LEADS TO THE OBJECTIlCATION OF
THE DANGER OF ABUSE FROM MALE CLIENTS AND PIMPS IS WOMEN -EN WHO USE WOMENS BODIES SOLELY FOR SEXUAL
REMOVED THE CAPACITY OF WOMEN TO CONTROL MENS SEXUAL GRATIlCATION DO NOT TREAT THEM AS PEOPLE 4HIS LACK OF
RESPONSES IN A lNANCIALLY BENElCIAL RELATIONSHIP IS LIBER RESPECT DEHUMANIZES BOTH THE PROSTITUTE AND THE CLIENT
ATING &URTHERMORE MANY CAMPAIGNERS FOR THE RIGHTS OF AND DOES NOT REPRESENT A VICTORY FOR EITHER SEX
PROSTITUTES NOTE THAT THE HOURS ARE RELATIVELY SHORT AND
THE WORK WELL PAID 0ROSTITUTES ARE PAID FOR SERVICES OTHER
WOMEN MUST PROVIDE WITHOUT CHARGE
3OME STUDIES SUGGEST THAT PROSTITUTION LOWERS THE INCI (OW CAN YOU PROVE THAT SOME INDIVIDUALS WHO VISIT PROS
DENCE OF SEX CRIMES TITUTES WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE COMMITTED VIOLENT OFFENSES
0SYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES THAT RECOMMENDED THE USE OF
PROSTITUTES HAVE BEEN WIDELY DISCREDITED 4HE NUMBER
OF REPORTED ATTACKS ON PROSTITUTES AND THE CONSIDERABLY
GREATER NUMBER OF SUCH CRIMES THAT GO UNREPORTED SUG
GEST THAT PROSTITUTES ARE THE VICTIMS OF THE MOST SERIOUS
CRIMES )N 6ICTORIA WHERE PROSTITUTION IS LEGAL TWO RAPES
OF PROSTITUTES ARE REPORTED EACH WEEK
,EGALIZATION WOULD IMPROVE THE SEXUAL HEALTH OF PROS -ORE SEXUAL HEALTH PROBLEMS ARE INEVITABLE 7HEN PROSTI
TITUTES AND AS A RESULT THAT OF THEIR CLIENTS 4HE SEXUAL TUTION IS LAWFUL AND SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE A GREATER NUMBER
TRANSACTION WOULD OCCUR IN A CLEAN AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT OF MEN WILL USE PROSTITUTES -EDICAL STUDIES SHOW THAT
RATHER THAN ON THE STREET )N AREAS WHERE PROSTITUTION IS THE CONDOM IS ONLY EFFECTIVE -OREOVER DURING THE
LEGAL PROSTITUTES HAVE REGULAR HEALTH CHECKS AS A CONDI PERIOD BETWEEN EACH HEALTH CHECK A PROSTITUTE COULD
TION OF WORKING IN THE BROTHELS &URTHERMORE THE USE CONTRACT AND TRANSMIT A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE
OF CONTRACEPTION IS COMPULSORY AND CONDOMS ARE FREELY #ONSEQUENTLY THE LEGALIZATION OF PROSTITUTION WILL RESULT
AVAILABLE IN THE TRANSMISSION OF MORE POTENTIALLY FATAL DISEASES
,EGALIZING PROSTITUTION WOULD BREAK THE LINK BETWEEN 4HE LEGALIZATION OF THE "UNNY 2ANCH IN .EVADA DID NOT
PROSTITUTES AND PIMPS 0IMPS PHYSICALLY ABUSE PROSTI PREVENT THE MAJORITY OF PROSTITUTES FROM CONTINUING TO
TUTES AND OFTEN THREATEN GREATER VIOLENCE THEY CONlSCATE WORK OUTSIDE OF THE LICENSED BROTHEL AND REMAIN DEPEN
PART IF NOT ALL OF THEIR EARNINGS AND OFTEN ENCOURAGE THE DENT ON PIMPS ,ICENSED BROTHELS ARE EXPENSIVE FOR PROS
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WOMEN TO BECOME ADDICTED TO DRUGS 0ROVIDING A SECURE TITUTES TO WORK IN AND FOR CLIENTS TO VISIT ! LEGAL BUSINESS
ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH TO WORK FREES MEN AND WOMEN OF HAS TO PAY FOR RENT HEALTH CHECKS AND SECURITY PROSTI
PIMPS TUTES WORKING OUTSIDE THE hSYSTEMv NEED NOT WORRY ABOUT
SUCH EXPENSES 3OME PROSTITUTES USE PRIVATE APARTMENTS
WHILE OTHERS WORK ON THE STREET ,EGALIZING PROSTITUTION
WILL NOT REMOVE THE STREET MARKET OR THE DANGERS ASSOCI
ATED WITH IT 4HE DANGEROUS STREET ENVIRONMENT IS A CON
SEQUENCE OF ECONOMICS NOT LEGAL CONTROLS
,ICENSED BROTHELS WILL IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR 0ROSTITUTES WILL CONTINUE TO WORK ON THE STREETS AND ARE
PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK IN AREAS CURRENTLY FREQUENTED UNLIKELY TO WORK NEAR THE COMPETITION OFFERED BY THE
BY PROSTITUTES 2EGULATIONS CAN REQUIRE BROTHELS TO LOCATE LICENSED BROTHELS &URTHERMORE WILL LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
IN AREAS AWAY FROM HOMES AND SCHOOLS WANT TO CREATE hGHETTOSv OF PROSTITUTION IN CERTAIN AREAS
%XISTING LEGAL PROHIBITIONS AGAINST PROSTITUTION DO NOT -ERELY BECAUSE SOME INDIVIDUALS BREAK A LAW DOES NOT
WORK 0ROSTITUTES ARE REGULARLY ARRESTED AND lNED 4O PAY MEAN THAT THE LAW ITSELF IS AT FAULT OR THAT IT SHOULD BE
THE lNES THEY MUST PROSTITUTE THEMSELVES 4HE LAWS BAN
ABOLISHED 4HE EASE WITH WHICH PROSTITUTES CAN RETURN TO
NING PROSTITUTION ARE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE WORK SUGGESTS THAT PENAL SANCTIONS SHOULD BE MORE SEVERE
RATHER THAN REMOVED ALTOGETHER
,EGALIZING PROSTITUTION WOULD GIVE GOVERNMENTS ECO
!N ECONOMIC BENElT CANNOT OFFSET SOCIAL HARMS THAT
NOMIC BENElTS ! TAX ON THE FEE CHARGED BY A PROSTITUTE RESULT FROM THE LEGALIZATION OF CERTAIN PROHIBITED ACTIVI
AND THE IMPOSITION OF INCOME TAX ON THE EARNINGS OF TIES /THERWISE WE WOULD ENCOURAGE GOVERNMENTS TO
PROSTITUTES WOULD GENERATE REVENUE BECOME INVOLVED IN OTHER UNLAWFUL TRADES INCLUDING TRAF
lCKING IN DRUGS -OREOVER SEX WORKERS ARE UNLIKELY TO
DECLARE THEIR TRUE EARNINGS FROM WHAT IS A CONlDENTIAL
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE WORKER AND CLIENT 4HUS THE
AMOUNT OF REVENUE GENERATED IS LIKELY TO BE SLIGHT
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IN A SMALL NUMBER OF DESTINATIONS WILL DISAPPEAR ONCE QUESTION A DESTINATION FOR SEX TOURISTS 2ELAXED LEGAL CON
A LARGER NUMBER OF COUNTRIES LEGALIZE PROSTITUTION 3UP
TROLS ON PROSTITUTION IN 4HAILAND THE 0HILIPPINES AND IN
PORTING THIS MOTION THEREFORE WILL REDUCE THE PROBLEM THE .ETHERLANDS HAVE MADE THESE COUNTRIES ATTRACTIVE TO
OF SEX TOURISM THESE UNDESIRABLE INDIVIDUALS
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4HIS (OUSE CALLS FOR THE INCREASED USE OF REFERENDA
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TO JUSTIFY BRUTAL ACTIONS 4HE )NQUISITION CARRIED OUT ITS
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PREJUDICES )N THE INTEREST OF GLOBAL HARMONY WE SHOULD
DISCARD RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE REJOICES THAT 'OD IS DEAD
4HIS (OUSE DOES NOT BELIEVE
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT RELIGION HAS DONE MORE HARM THAN GOOD
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4HE LEGAL PRECEDENT BEHIND !FRICAN
!MERICAN DEMANDS 2EPARATIONS ARE NOT HISTORICALLY JUSTIlED 4HE CALL FOR
FOR SLAVERY REPARATIONS ORIGINATES FROM 53 !RMY &IELD REPARATIONS IS MERELY THE MERGING OF DEMAGOGIC APPEALS
/RDER ISSUED BY 'EN 7ILLIAM 4ECUMSEH 3HERMAN TO POPULISM BY !FRICAN
!MERICAN LEADERS AND THE OVERLY
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ACRES OF LAND AND A DRAFT ANIMAL TO WORK THE LAND AS WOULD HAVE GIVEN PROPERTY AND TANGIBLE GOODS #ASH
COMPENSATION FOR THEIR ENSLAVEMENT "ITTERNESS OVER THE PAYMENTS AND PROPERTY TRANSFER ARE NO LONGER JUSTIlED
GOVERNMENTS FAILURE TO HONOR THAT ORDER EXISTS IN BLACK )F THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO HELP DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES
CULTURE AND CONTRIBUTES TO RACIAL HOSTILITY 2EPARATIONS IT SHOULD OFFER OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOP
COULD POSSIBLY REDUCE SOME OF THAT HOSTILITY AND LEAD TO MENT AND EDUCATION &URTHERMORE SHOULD REPARATIONS
BETTER RACE RELATIONS IN !MERICA BE DECIDED ON HOW WOULD THEY BE DETERMINED (OW
MUCH IS AN MULE WORTH IN TODAYS DOLLARS 3HOULD
THE GOVERNMENT EXECUTE THE ORDER OR ADJUST IT BASED ON
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LIVING CHANGES AND ECONOMIC CHANGES #ALLS FOR
REPARATIONS ENTRENCH PERCEPTIONS OF !FRICAN !MERICANS
AS VICTIMS A SURE ROAD TO LEARNED HELPLESSNESS
(ISTORICAL PRECEDENTS FOR REPARATIONS TO !FRICAN !MERI 7HO SHOULD RECEIVE THE PAYMENTS !FRICAN !MERICANS
CAN DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES ARE THE PAYMENT BY 'ERMANY OR !FRICANS OR BOTH 4HE HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS CITED ARE
TO )SRAEL FOR THE .AZI (OLOCAUST AND THE PAYMENTS INVALID 'ERMANY WAS FORCED TO MAKE REPARATIONS TO
MADE BY THE 53 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR ITS INTERNMENT )SRAEL BECAUSE 'ERMANY HAD COMMITTED A CRIME AGAINST
OF *APANESE !MERICANS DURING 7ORLD 7AR )) )N ADDI HUMANITY GENOCIDE AGAINST THE *EWISH PEOPLE OF %UROPE
TION HISTORICAL PRECEDENT FOR REPARATIONS EXISTS IN THE 'ENOCIDE IS DIFFERENT FROM SLAVERY %CONOMICALLY SLAVERY
ONGOING PROVISION OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO .ATIVE !MERICAN MANDATES BETTER TREATMENT BECAUSE THE SLAVES POSSESSED
POPULATIONS IN .ORTH !MERICA VALUE ON THE OPEN MARKET 4HE *APANESE !MERICANS
IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS WERE TREATED HORRIBLY BY THE
53 GOVERNMENT (OWEVER THEY WERE ALSO A VERY EASILY
DElNED AND TRACKED GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WHO COULD BE
MONETARILY COMPENSATED 4HE !FRICAN !MERICAN SLAVES
ARE MANY GENERATIONS AWAY FROM THEIR ANCESTORS WHO
WERE ACTUALLY SLAVES 4RACKING DOWN WHO IS DESCENDED
FROM WHOM WOULD BE A HUGE IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE TASK
.ATIVE !MERICANS RECEIVE PAYMENTS AND SOCIAL SERVICES
BASED ON THEIR TREATIES WITH THE 53 GOVERNMENT AND THE
GOVERNMENTS OF THE )NDIAN TRIBES 4HE DESCENDANTS OF
!FRICAN SLAVES HAVE NO NATION STATE OR TREATIES WITH THE
GOVERNMENT
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02/3 #/.3
3LAVERY WAS DEEMED A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY IN THE 4HE 53 GOVERNMENT IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS DESIGNATION
SUMMER OF AT THE 5NITED .ATIONS 7ORLD #ONFER
4HE 2OME 3TATUTE OF THE )NTERNATIONAL #RIMINAL #OURT
ENCE !GAINST 2ACISM IN 3OUTH !FRICA 4HE DESIGNATION HAS NOT BEEN RATIlED BY THE 53 )N ADDITION THE 53 HAS
HAS LEGAL IMPLICATIONS -OST IMPORTANT THERE IS NO STAT
SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY AND COULD NOT BE SUED BY ITS OWN
UTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY MEANING CITIZENS IN !MERICAN COURTS 4HE lRST CASE SEEKING REPA
53 INSTITUTIONS COULD BE HELD LIABLE FOR TRANSGRESSIONS RATIONS #ATO V THE 5NITED 3TATES WAS DISMISSED
DATING TO THE lRST INSTANCE OF SLAVE TRADE IN THE !MERICAS CITING 53 SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
IN IN *AMESTOWN 6IRGINIA
!FRICANS SHOULD BE PAID REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY 3LAVERY !LLOWING SOME HARMED GROUPS TO RECEIVE REPARATIONS
ENTRENCHED A VIOLENT AND CORRUPT POLITICAL SYSTEM AND FROM THE GOVERNMENT WILL ENCOURAGE OTHER TRANSGRESSED
FOSTERED A CULTURE THAT ACCEPTED THE COMMODIlCATION GROUPS TO PRODUCE AND PRESENT THEIR OWN CLAIMS FOR
OF HUMAN LIFE 4HE HARMS INmICTED BY SLAVERY HINDERED REPARATIONS 2EPARATIONS CLAIMS COULD CONCEIVABLY BANK
!FRICAS DEVELOPMENT THUS !FRICANS SHOULD RECEIVE COM RUPT OUR GOVERNMENT AND TORPEDO OUR ECONOMY 7HY
PENSATION AND REPARATIONS SHOULD THE 53 GOVERNMENT PROVIDE REPARATIONS -ANY
OTHER NATIONS PARTICIPATED IN THE SLAVE TRADE INCLUDING
!FRICAN NATIONS -ANY !RAB NATIONS ALSO BENElTED FROM
THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY 3AUDI !RABIA TRADED AND USED
SLAVES FOR DEVELOPMENT EXTENSIVELY MANY DECADES AFTER
THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY HAD BEEN ABOLISHED IN THE 7EST
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0RIVATE CORPORATIONS SHOULD PAY REPARATIONS TO DESCEN
0RIVATE CORPORATE LIABILITY LAWSUITS SHOULD BE AVOIDED
DANTS OF SLAVES -ANY PRIVATE CORPORATIONS HELD SLAVES -ERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS MAKE THE lNANCIAL LIABILITY TOO
OR SOLD SLAVES AND PROlTED GREATLY FROM THEIR PARTICIPA
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ANNOUNCED PLANS TO SET UP A FUND TO COMPENSATE THESE BRING THIS ISSUE TO PUBLIC ATTENTION AND DISCUSSION IN THE
WORKERS 5NITED 3TATES
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD GIVE REPARATIONS TO THE DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT THE 53 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD PROVIDE REPARATIONS FOR ITS PART IN THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT MORAL ANDOR lNANCIAL ATONEMENT FOR THE RACIAL SINS OF THIS COUNTRYS FATHERS IS DESIRABLE
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PROMOTING DISCIPLINE AND HELPING RAISE ACADEMIC STAN
DENTS FROM ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY FOR ASPECTS OF THEIR
DARDS 4HIS IS WHY EDUCATORS FREQUENTLY ADOPT THEM OWN LIVES 4HEY ENCOURAGE TEACHERS TO VIEW STUDENTS AS
WHEN TRYING TO REVIVE FAILING SCHOOLS A GROUP RATHER THAN AS INDIVIDUALS WITH DIFFERENT CHARAC
TERS AND ABILITIES 5NIFORMS WERE BETTER SUITED TO AN AGE
OF ROTE LEARNING AND MILITARY
STYLE DISCIPLINE 4HEY DO
NOT BELONG IN MODERN EDUCATION WHICH ENCOURAGES THE
IMAGINATION AND INTELLECTUAL EXPLORATION THAT IS BECOM
ING INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT IN THE WIDER ECONOMY -ANY
SCHOOLS INDEED MANY COUNTRIES MANAGE TO MAINTAIN
HIGH STANDARDS OF DISCIPLINE COMMUNITY AND ACADEMIC
PERFORMANCE WITHOUT ADOPTING UNIFORMS
7EARING UNIFORMS ACTS AS A SOCIAL LEVELER ALL STUDENTS ARE 3TUDENTS ALWAYS lND WAYS TO TEASE OR BULLY OTHERS REGARD
EQUAL IN THE EYES OF THE SCHOOL AND OF EACH OTHER )N INSTI
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0UPILS WITHOUT EXPENSIVE TRENDY CLOTHES MAY BECOME MINUTE CLASSES ARE OVER 0ARENTS OFTEN lND SOME UNIFORM
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THEY SAVE MONEY THEY CAN NEVER BE WORN OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL
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DRESS CODES RONISTIC !DULTS WHO ATTENDED SCHOOLS WITHOUT UNIFORMS
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EST MONTHS 3OME GROUPS SUCH AS CONSERVATIVE -USLIMS
MAY OPPOSE SPECIlC UNIFORM STYLES FOR CULTURAL REASONS
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02/3 #/.3
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THE STAFF WILL HAVE TO BE VIGILANT IN ANY CASE
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD INTRODUCE SCHOOL UNIFORMS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD CREATE A STRONGER SCHOOL ETHOS
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4HE CURRENT PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM IS FAILING COUNTLESS 4HE !MERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS BEEN CENTRAL
STUDENTS PARTICULARLY IN INNER
CITY NEIGHBORHOODS )N AN TO !MERICAN DEMOCRACY )T HAS PROVIDED EDUCATION FOR
ERA WHERE EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS THESE CHILDREN ALL CHILDREN REGARDLESS OF THEIR ETHNIC BACKGROUND THEIR
ARE NOT BEING PROVIDED WITH THE CHANCE TO DEVELOP THE RELIGION THEIR ACADEMIC TALENTS OR THEIR ABILITY TO PAY )T
SKILLS NECESSARY TO COMPETE IN THE MODERN WORLD 6OUCH
HAS HELPED MILLIONS OF IMMIGRANTS ASSIMILATE AND PRO
ERS GIVE POOR PARENTS THE ABILITY TO SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO VIDED THE CIVIC EDUCATION NECESSARY FOR FUTURE CITIZENS
BETTER SCHOOLS 4HESE CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE SACRIlCED TO UNDERSTAND !MERICAN VALUES %STABLISHING A VOUCHER
WHILE WE WAIT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL REFORM SYSTEM IS SAYING THAT WE ARE GIVING UP ON PUBLIC EDUCA
TION )NSTEAD OF GIVING UP WE SHOULD PUT OUR EFFORTS INTO
REFORMING THE SYSTEM
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THEIR STUDENTS RATHER THAN SQUANDER THEM ON BUREAU
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CITY SCHOOLS
CRACIES AS MANY DO TODAY %VENTUALLY THE UNSALVAGEABLE WITH LITTLE TO NO FUNDING -OST STATES FUNDING OF PUBLIC
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PRODUCING AN OVERALL BETTER LEARNING ENVIRONMENT 4HE ENROLLMENT LAGS THEN THE SCHOOL IS NOT AS WELL FUNDED AS
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ING INCREASES 4HUS EVEN IF URBAN SCHOOLS ARE MOTIVATED
TO IMPROVE THEY WILL LACK THE RESOURCES TO DO SO
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THE RISKS .OT ALL STUDENTS IN NONPERFORMING SCHOOLS TIAL ENOUGH TO GIVE TRUE lNANCIAL AID TO STUDENTS 4HEY
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MENT WOULD RESULT
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02/3 #/.3
ENABLES PARENTS TO PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN AND REDUCE THE PRISON TERM AND THEN BEING FREED 2EGISTRATION IMPOSES
RATE OF SEXUAL CRIME BY REPEAT OFFENDERS A NEW PUNISHMENT FOR AN OLD CRIME AND INEVITABLY WILL
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LOST THEIR JOBS AS A RESULT OF NOTIlCATION )NNOCENT PEOPLE
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THREATS AND INACCURATE INFORMATION MADE PUBLIC BY THE
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DISTINCTION AND STIGMATIZES THOSE WHO HAVE GENUINELY
REFORMED /UR PENAL SYSTEM IS BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF
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BOTH LUDICROUS AND UNFAIR
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SWIFTLY AND SURELY 4HESE LAWS AND THEIR STRONG AND SWIFT ABOUTS ADDS NO ADVANTAGE AND MIGHT BE COUNTERPRODUC
ENFORCEMENT PROVIDE A STRONG DETERRENT AGAINST REPEAT TIVE 4HE ABUSE AND HARASSMENT THAT OFFENDERS MIGHT
OFFENSES SUFFER COULD DRIVE THEM UNDERGROUND MAKING POLICE
MONITORING MORE DIFlCULT
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ARE NOT GETTING TREATMENT AND COULD POSE A FUTURE RISK TO
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EDUCATION OF ANY SORT 3UCH SINGLE SEX INSTITUTIONS BOTH FOR MEN THEN THAT WOULD BE DISCRIMINATORY HOWEVER
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THEM FROM FULL SOCIAL INCLUSION A SINGLE SEX INSTITUTION OR A COEDUCATIONAL ONE YOU
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LARGELY MALE STAFF WHERE WOMEN MAY FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE UNDERMINE THE PROGRESS AND CONlDENCE OF GIRL STUDENTS
OR DENIED OPPORTUNITY AND VICE VERSA BY REFUSING TO CALL ON THEM TO ANSWER QUESTIONS
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3MOKING IS EXTREMELY HARMFUL TO THE SMOKERS HEALTH 7HILE A GOVERNMENT HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT ITS
4HE !MERICAN #ANCER 3OCIETY ESTIMATES THAT TOBACCO POPULATION IT ALSO HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO DEFEND FREEDOM
CAUSES UP TO DEATHS EACH YEARMORE THAN OF CHOICE 4HE LAW PREVENTS CITIZENS FROM HARMING OTHERS
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)T SHOULD NOT STOP PEOPLE FROM BEHAVIOR THAT THREATENS
CIDES AND lRES COMBINED 7ORLDWIDE SOME MILLION ONLY THEMSELVES $ANGEROUS SPORTS SUCH AS ROCK CLIMB
PEOPLE DIE FROM SMOKING EACH YEAR ONE EVERY SECONDS ING AND PARACHUTING ARE LEGAL .O LAWS HAVE BEEN PASSED
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BY 3MOKERS ARE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DEVELOP SUCH AS EATING FATTY FOODS OR DRINKING TOO MUCH ALCOHOL
LUNG CANCER THAN NONSMOKERS AND SMOKING CAN LEAD TO "ANNING SMOKING WOULD BE AN UNMERITED INTRUSION INTO
A HOST OF OTHER HEALTH PROBLEMS INCLUDING EMPHYSEMA PERSONAL FREEDOM
AND HEART DISEASE /NE OF THE MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES OF ANY
GOVERNMENT IS TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF ITS POPULATION THAT
IS WHY TAKING HARD DRUGS AND BREAKING THE SPEED LIMIT
ARE ILLEGAL 0UTTING A BAN ON SMOKING WOULD THEREFORE BE
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02/3 #/.3
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OF PLEASURE THAT WHILE HAVING SERIOUS ASSOCIATED HEALTH
RISKS ARE FATAL ONLY AFTER MANY DECADES 4HEY ARE QUITE
DIFFERENT FROM POISONOUS FOODS OR UNSAFE CARS WHICH
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OF CHEMICAL COMPULSION 4HE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BAN AND ACTIVITIES CAN BE ADDICTIVE EG COFFEE PHYSICAL EXER
TOBACCO JUST AS IT DOES OTHER ADDICTIVE DRUGS LIKE HEROIN CISE BUT THIS IS NO REASON TO MAKE THEM ILLEGAL 0EOPLE
AND COCAINE BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO FORCE PEOPLE TO ARE ABLE TO ABSTAINMANY GIVE UP SMOKING EVERY YEAR
QUIT -OST SMOKERS SAY THAT THEY WANT TO KICK THE HABIT IF THEY CHOOSE TO LIVE A HEALTHIER LIFE .EVERTHELESS MANY
SO THIS LEGISLATION WOULD BE DOING THEM A FAVOR ENJOY SMOKING AS PART OF THEIR EVERYDAY LIFE
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THEY WOULD JUST QUIT "ANNING SMOKING WOULD MAKE A POPULAR RECREATIONAL DRUG LEADS TO CRIME )N ADDITION
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RESOURCES SALES WHICH THEY COULD USE TO COVER THE COSTS OF HEALTH
CARE
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lLLED ENVIRONMENTS CAN BE UNPLEASANT FOR
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD NOT SMOKE
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02/3 #/.3
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OF EMBRYOS FOR LITTLE OR NO SCIENTIlC GAIN
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02/3 #/.3
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4HIS (OUSE SUPPORTS THERAPEUTIC CLONING
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&OR MANY YEARS THE 3OUTH !FRICAN GOVERNMENTAND AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH
MANY FOREIGN GOVERNMENTSREGARDED IT AS AN ILLEGAL TER
RORIST ORGANIZATION 3OUTH !FRICAS BLACK MAJORITY ON THE
OTHER HAND VIEWED IT AS A CHAMPION OF FREEDOM (ISTORY
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!NY GOVERNMENTS PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY IS TO SAVE LIVES 'IVING IN TO TERRORISTS MAY SAVE LIVES IN THE SHORT TERM
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SUCCEEDING AGAINST TERRORISTS $EFEATING TERRORIST GROUPS RESORT TO VIOLENCE BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE
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FREEDOMS OF THE INNOCENT )N THE CASE OF PROLONGED INTER
MAKING CONCESSIONS THE LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT SETS A
NAL CAMPAIGNS OF TERRORISM THE PROMISE OF NEGOTIATIONS DANGEROUS PRECEDENT AND BASICALLY SAYS THAT GROUPS THAT
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ISOLATED INCIDENTS SUCH AS HOSTAGE
TAKING MAKING CON
THAT USE PEACEFUL METHODS 'OVERNMENTS MUST DEMAND
CESSIONS USUALLY SAVES LIVES THAT GROUPS ABANDON VIOLENCE AND CEASE ACTS OF TERRORISM
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-ANY TERRORIST CAMPAIGNS ARE THE RESULT OF LONG
STAND
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ILY MAKE CONCESSIONS /NLY BY TAKING THE LEAD WILL THE
GOVERNMENT BE ABLE TO END THE KILLING
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!GAIN NEGOTIATING WITH TERRORISTS GIVES THEM A LEGITIMACY
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MAY BE AROUSED BECAUSE THEY APPEAR TO BE lGHTING AN TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS SHOULD BE RESPECTED THOSE WHO
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MURDER AND TERRORIZE INNOCENT CIVILIANS MUST BE TREATED
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4HIS (OUSE WOULD TALK TO TERRORISTS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT FORCE CANNOT ELIMINATE IDEOLOGY
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02/3 #/.3
5NQUESTIONABLY SMOKING CREATES HEALTH PROBLEMS 4HE DECISION TO CLASSIFY TOBACCO AS A DRUG IS AN EXAMPLE
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TION ARE OFTEN THE RESULT OF BACKROOM DEALS THAT IGNORE MAJORITY OF THE VOTERS -OREOVER MOST COUNTRIES HAVE
CAMPAIGN PROMISES AND VOTER WISHES CONSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS TO ENSURE A RELATIVELY SMOOTH
TRANSITION TO A NEW GOVERNMENT
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THE 5. OR THE CAUSE OF GLOBAL PEACE IF THEY LOSE THE VETO THE WORLD FROM NUCLEAR WAR .OW INCREASING PROLIFERA
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DRAMATICALLY SINCE .UCLEAR WEAPONS HAVE SPREAD UNITY OF THE 0 BY MEANS OF THE VETO )F THE 0 IS SPLIT
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FAILS TO CONSIDER ISSUES THAT MIGHT BE VETOED &OR EXAM
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WITHOUT 3ECURITY #OUNCIL AUTHORIZATION BECAUSE IT HAD FORCE 4HE 3ECURITY #OUNCIL THUS PROVED TO BE A UNIFY
BECOME EVIDENT THAT 2USSIA AND #HINA WOULD VETO 5. ING FORCE
MILITARY INVOLVEMENT
)N THE RARE RECENT CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH THE VETO #OLLECTIVE SECURITY IS OFTEN INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE
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DEMANDS AND PETTY NATIONAL INTERESTS #HINA PREVENTED MEMBERS IS SUCH THAT THEY MUST AVOID DISAGREEMENT TO
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BECAUSE THESE COUNTRIES HAD TIES TO 4AIWAN 4HE VETO IS CAST THE VETO FOR SELlSH REASONS -AINTAINING UNITY IS
NO LONGER APPLIED FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF COLLECTIVE SECU
MORE IMPORTANT AND MORE CRITICAL THAN EVER IN TODAYS
RITY MULTIPOLAR WORLD
4HE ISSUE OF ABOLISHING THE VETO IS WORTHY OF DISCUSSION !BOLISHING THE VETO IS IMPOSSIBLE 4HE 0 WILL NOT WILL
! DEBATE WILL CLARIFY THE NATURE OF THE VETO AND ITS APPLI
INGLY CEDE ITS PREEMINENT POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL POLI
CATION AND EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON THE #HARTERS AIMS 4HE TICS !ND REMEMBER EACH MEMBER OF 0 WOULD HAVE THE
PUBLIC COULD THEN PRESSURE MEMBERS TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE POWER OF VETO OVER ANY PROPOSAL TO REMOVE THE VETO
WITH THE #HARTER
4HE VETO POWER OPERATES TO THE DETRIMENT OF INTERNA
9OU CANNOT GLIBLY ATTRIBUTE THE FAILURE TO CREATE AN EFFEC
TIONAL ARMS CONTROL AGREEMENTS 4HE 3ECURITY #OUNCIL TIVE SYSTEM FOR ARMS LIMITATION TO 0 VETO POWER 6ETO OR
DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ENFORCES THE WEB OF ARMS LIMITA
NO VETO WHAT SHOULD CONSTITUTE THE APPROPRIATE 3ECURITY
TION TREATIES EITHER BECAUSE TREATIES MAKE THE #OUNCIL THE #OUNCIL RESPONSE TO A BREACH OF A NONPROLIFERATION TREATY
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5NDER THE #HARTER THE #OUNCIL COULD AUTHORIZE ECO
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TO PROMOTE THEIR NATIONAL INTERESTS $IPLOMACY IS OFTEN BEST CONDUCTED WITHOUT THE BIG STICK
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WOULD LIKELY BE INmAMED WITHOUT THE CRUCIAL SAFETY VALVE
THE VETO PROVIDES FOR POWER POLITICS
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD ABOLISH THE 3ECURITY #OUNCIL VETO
4HIS (OUSE WOULD SAY NO TO THE VETO
4HIS (OUSE WOULD VETO EVERY VETO
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4HE 5. MUST REFORM THE WAY IT RAISES MILITARY MISSIONS ! 5. STANDING ARMY IS UNNECESSARY )N MANY CASES 5.
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ARE IN THE lELD THESE FORCES ARE OFTEN INADEQUATE TO THE LENGTHY AND DIFlCULT 3ECURITY #OUNCIL DELIBERATIONS
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ACTED TOO LATE WITH TOO LITTLE FORCE AND AS A RESULT HAS HAD A STANDING ARMY IT WOULD BE MORE LIKELY TO USE INAP
FAILED TO AVERT HUMANITARIAN DISASTERS IN 3OMALIA "OSNIA PROPRIATE FORCE ! VERY RAPID RESPONSE MAY ALSO WORSEN
AND 3IERRA ,EONE ! 5. STANDING ARMY WOULD BE ABLE PROBLEMS 4HE TIME IT NOW TAKES TO GATHER AND INSERT A
TO RAPIDLY CONTAIN CRISES BEFORE THEY TURN INTO WARS AND 5. FORCE MAY PROVIDE A PERIOD IN WHICH THE WARRING
HUMANITARIAN DISASTERS GROUPS FEEL COMPELLED TO NEGOTIATE BEFORE OUTSIDE INTER
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OF THE GREAT POWERS IT WOULD BE RESPECTED AS NEUTRAL )T WOULD INEVITABLY MAKE THE 5. A WORLD GOVERNMENT ONE
WOULD ALSO BE FREE OF ACCUSATIONS OF MEDDLING AND SELF
THAT IS NOT DEMOCRATIC AND WHERE A TOTALITARIAN STATE HAS
INTEREST THAT ACCOMPANY THE TROOPS FROM NEIGHBORING VETO POWER OVER KEY DECISION MAKING ! STANDING ARMY
STATES IN 5. INTERVENTIONS MAY BE COUNTER
PRODUCTIVE UNDERMINING PERCEPTIONS OF
THE 5.S NEUTRALITY AND WEAKENING ITS MORAL AUTHORITY
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BY PREVENTING REFUGEE CRISES AND OTHER HUMANITARIAN WOULD HAVE TO TRAIN TRANSPORT AND EQUIP THE FORCE FOR
DISASTERS 4HESE COSTS ARE BOTH DIRECT THROUGH AID AND EVERY POSSIBLE TYPE OF COMBAT SITUATION !T PRESENT THE
INDIRECT AS DEVELOPED NATIONS OFTEN BECOME THE DESTI
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TO GREATER PROSPERITY 4HE 5. PAYS MEMBER STATES FOR
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MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE PRESENT SYSTEM
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REFORMS WILL NOT ADDRESS THE CENTRAL PROBLEMS OF PEACE
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ATE ANIMAL SUFFERING ON A HUGE SCALE A LARGER CRUELER TENCE 4HAT HUMANS HAVE SUCCEEDED IN THAT STRUGGLE BY
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MEANS HUMANS HAVE THE REASONING POWER AND MORAL IS MUCH LESS BRUTAL THAN THE PAIN AND HARDSHIP ANIMALS
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ANOTHER PLANET MUCH MORE INTELLIGENT AND POWERFUL
THAN HUMANS FARMED AND FORCE
FED HUMAN BEINGS IN
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FOOD lNANCIAL INCENTIVES WILL BE IN PLACE TO CONTINUE CUT TO POLLUTION AND MANY WORSE SOURCES OF POLLUTION EXIST
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AND GRAINS %ATING MEAT FOWL AND lSH CAUSES NOT ONLY NOT LIMITING MEAT FARMING WILL SOLVE THIS PROBLEM
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SHOULD RESPECT THEIR SACRIlCE BY VOTING POWERFUL STATEMENT BECAUSE IT DECREASES TURNOUT WHICH
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VOTERS TO THE BALLOT BOX A GOVERNMENT CAN MAKE ITS MAN
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AS HIGH AS POPULATION DECIDED NOT TO VOTE IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE
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TO MAKE EVERY NONVOTER PAY THE lNE 4HE GOVERNMENT
WOULD HAVE TO CHASE DOWN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND TAKE
ACTION AGAINST MILLIONS WHO WOULD NOT PAY )RONICALLY
THIS MEASURE WOULD HURT MOST THOSE WHO ARE SUPPOSEDLY
BEING ENFRANCHISED BECAUSE THEY ARE LEAST ABLE TO PAY
)N NATIONS WITH COMPULSORY VOTING POSTAL AND PROXY -ANY PEOPLE DONT VOTE BECAUSE THEY ARE BUSY AND CANNOT
VOTING IS AVAILABLE FOR THOSE WHO ARE OTHERWISE BUSY )N TAKE THE TIME OFF -AKING VOTING COMPULSORY WILL NOT GET
ADDITION WHEN )NTERNET VOTING BECOMES AVAILABLE IN A THESE PEOPLE TO THE BALLOT BOX IF THEY ARE ACTUALLY UNABLE
FEW YEARS THOSE WITH COMPUTERS WILL BE ABLE TO VOTE FROM TO DO SO
THEIR OWN HOMES
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD MAKE VOTING COMPULSORY
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT A DEMOCRACY IS NO PLACE FOR APATHY
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES THAT VOTING IS A DUTY NOT A RIGHT
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TRIAL CAN SUPPLY DISINTERESTED DUE PROCESS MITTED !NY OUTSIDE INTERVENTION IN MATTERS OF SOVEREIGN
STATES IS HIGH
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TO INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS 4HESE BODIES ARE TRYING TO ATE LARGE PORTIONS OF THE NATION AND TURN PEOPLE AGAINST
ACHIEVE JUSTICE AND CLOSURE THAT WILL BENElT THE ENTIRE THE NEW GOVERNMENT WHICH IS SEEN AS COLLABORATING WITH
NATION FOREIGN IMPERIALISTS 3UCH TRIALS INCREASE TENSION
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4HE WORLD COMMUNITY MUST SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT IT .O ONE CAN DISPUTE THE ENORMITY OF SUCH CRIMES "UT
WILL ACT AGAINST APPALLING WAR CRIMES 4HIS MUST BE DONE THESE TRIALS DAMAGE A NATION BY REOPENING OLD WOUNDS
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NATIONALIZATION OF LEGAL SYSTEMS SUCH AS THE USE OF INTER
JUSTICE UNDERMINES INTERNATIONAL LAW
NATIONAL TRIBUNALS IS WELCOME
7E HAVE TO UPHOLD THE PRINCIPLE THAT IF YOU COMMIT 4HE THREAT OF POSSIBLE LEGAL ACTION HAS NOT STOPPED
SERIOUS CRIMES YOU WILL BE PUNISHED )F WE DO NOT TAKE COUNTLESS HEINOUS CRIMES IN THE PAST SO WHY SHOULD IT
ACTION AGAINST WAR CRIMINALS WE WILL ENCOURAGE FUTURE NOW 4HESE PEOPLE ARE NOT RATIONAL AND HAVE NO RESPECT
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD HAVE WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES WAR CRIMES MUST BE PUNISHED
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WATER
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RESOURCES TO SUPPORT THEIR ECONOMIES &AILURE TO VIEW RIGHT TO WATER AND mOWING WATER HAS NO POLITICAL BOUND
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LESS VALUED AND LEADS TO UNRESTRICTED WATER USE BY ENVI
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#ONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF WATERTHE MAINTENANCE OF )T IS IMMORAL TO CHARGE FOR WATER BEYOND THE COST OF
DAMS RESERVOIRS AND IRRIGATION SYSTEMSCOSTS MILLIONS WATER SYSTEMS MAINTENANCE 7ATER IS A COMMODITY ONLY
OF DOLLARS AND IS A BURDEN ON UPSTREAM STATES BUDGETS UP TO A CERTAIN POINT /NCE WATER EXCEEDS A RESERVOIRS
!LL OF THESE EXPENSES INCLUDING THE OPPORTUNITY COST OF CAPACITY IT IS NOT A COMMODITY BECAUSE IT WILL mOW FREE
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COVERED BY DOWNSTREAM STATES WHICH ARE THE PRIMARY TIONS BECAUSE DOWNSTREAM STATES MAY BE mOODED IF A DAM
CONSUMERS OF WATER &OR EXAMPLE THAT AN UPSTREAM STATE BREAKS
CANNOT USE THE WATER mOWING THROUGH IT TO PRODUCE ELEC
TRICITY TO OFFSET THE COSTS OF WATER MANAGEMENT IS UNFAIR
7ATER RESOURCES ARE DISTRIBUTED UNEQUALLY 5NEVEN DISTRI &ACED WITH SCARCITY AND DROUGHT STATES MAY RESORT
BUTION AND WASTEFUL CONSUMPTION WARRANT THE INTRODUC TO FORCE TO GAIN CONTROL OF WATER RESOURCES 4HEREFORE
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TO USE WATER TO IRRIGATE INFERTILE SEMI DESERTS DOWNSTREAM CONmICTS AND SHOULD BE AVOIDED
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3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE AGREES THAT WATER mOWS CAN BE AN ARTICLE OF TRADE
4HIS (OUSE SHOULD ENDORSE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE IN WATER RESOURCES
4HIS (OUSE DOES NOT SUPPORT LEGISLATION FOR TRADING OF WATER RESOURCES
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PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT NO ANIMAL SHOULD SUFFER AND DIE FOR
UCTS 7HALES SHOULD NOT BE HUNTED TO EXTINCTION BUT THE BENElT OF HUMANS BUT EVEN IF YOU DO NOT HOLD SUCH
IF THEIR NUMBERS ARE HEALTHY THEN HUNTING THEM SHOULD VIEWS WHALES SHOULD BE TREATED AS A SPECIAL CASE 7HALES
BE PERMITTED 3CIENTISTS HAVE CONDUCTED STUDIES OF INTEL
ARE EXCEPTIONALLY INTELLIGENT AND SOCIAL BEINGS ABLE TO
LIGENCE ON DOLPHINS NOT WHALES THESE STUDIES HOWEVER COMMUNICATE mUENTLY WITH EACH OTHER 4HE HUNTING AND
CANNOT MEASURE INTELLIGENCE IN ANY USEFUL WAY !LTHOUGH THE KILLING OF ANIMALS THAT APPEAR TO SHARE MANY SOCIAL
PEOPLE IN SOME 7ESTERN NATIONS VIEW WHALES AS SPECIAL AND INTELLECTUAL ABILITIES WITH HUMANS ARE IMMORAL
AND IN NEED OF PROTECTION THIS VIEW IS NOT WIDELY SHARED
BY OTHER COUNTRIES 4O IMPOSE IT UPON OTHERS IS A FORM OF
CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
7HALE POPULATIONS ARE HEALTHY PARTICULARLY THOSE OF 7E SHOULD ADHERE TO A PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE !CTUAL
MINKE WHALES WHICH NOW NUMBER OVER A MILLION ! WHALE POPULATIONS ARE NOT TRULY KNOWN BUT THEY APPEAR
RESUMPTION OF HUNTING UNDER REGULATION WILL NOT ADVERSELY TO BE NOWHERE NEAR AS GREAT AS PRO
WHALERS SUGGEST 5NTIL
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.UMBERS HAVE NOW GREATLY INCREASED 4HE BAN HAS SERVED LIFTED ESPECIALLY BECAUSE REGULATION IS DIFlCULT %VEN IF
ITS ORIGINAL PURPOSE AND IT IS TIME TO LIFT IT HUNTING WERE RESTRICTED TO THE MORE NUMEROUS SPECIES
OF WHALES OTHER LESS COMMON SPECIES MAY BE KILLED BY
MISTAKE
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&OR SOME GROUPS THE HUNTING OF A SMALL NUMBER OF WHALES DRIVING WHALES TO BEACH THEMSELVES AND THEN KILLING THEM
IS AN IMPORTANT FEATURE IN THE LOCAL SUBSISTENCE ECONOMY SLOWLY WITH LONG KNIVES OR SINGLING OUT VULNERABLE NURS
A WAY OF RECONNECTING THEMSELVES WITH THE TRADITIONS OF ING MOTHERS WITH CALVES "ECAUSE ONLY SMALL NUMBERS ARE
THEIR ANCESTORS AND AFlRMING THEIR GROUP IDENTITY AGAINST TAKEN WITH RELATIVELY PRIMITIVE EQUIPMENT THE HUNTERS
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TO ACHIEVE THE CLEAN AND QUICK KILLS NECESSARY TO PREVENT
SUFFERING !LSO WHAT IF THE WHALES THESE GROUPS WISH
TO HUNT ARE FROM THE MOST ENDANGERED SPECIES 3HOULD
THESE GROUPS BE PERMITTED TO KILL THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR
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TICES EG SLAVERY FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION HAVE BEEN
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)N BOTH *APAN AND .ORWAY REMOTE COASTAL COMMUNITIES MORE INCOME WORLDWIDE THAN THE WHALING INDUSTRY
DEPEND ON WHALING FOR THEIR LIVELIHOOD "OTH COUNTRIES BROUGHT IN PRIOR TO THE HUNTING BAN 4HIS INDUSTRY AND
HAVE AN INVESTMENT IN SHIPS RESEARCH PROCESSING CENTERS THE JOBS IT CREATES IN REMOTE COASTAL AREAS WOULD BE JEOP
ETC THAT WOULD BE WASTED IF THE TEMPORARY WHALING BAN ARDIZED IF WHALE NUMBERS FELL OR IF THESE INTELLIGENT ANI
WERE EXTENDED INDElNITELY MALS BECAME MUCH MORE WARY AROUND HUMAN ACTIVITY
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FACTORY FARMING OF CHICKENS COWS AND PIGS -OST WHALES POONED IT IS USUALLY EXHAUSTED BY A LONG AND STRESSFUL
DIE INSTANTLY OR VERY QUICKLY AND *APANESE RESEARCHERS CHASE "ECAUSE WHALES ARE MOVING TARGETS A MARKSMAN
HAVE DEVELOPED NEW MORE POWERFUL HARPOONS THAT WILL CAN ACHIEVE A DIRECT HIT ONLY WITH GREAT DIFlCULTY 4HE
MAKE KILLS EVEN MORE CERTAIN EXPLOSIVE
TIPPED HARPOON WOUNDS MANY WHALES WHO
OFTEN SURVIVE FOR SOME TIME BEFORE lNALLY BEING KILLED
BY RImE SHOTS OR BY ADDITIONAL HARPOONS %VEN WHEN A
DIRECT HIT IS SCORED THE EXPLOSIVE OFTEN FAILS TO DETONATE
*APANESE WHALING SHIPS REPORT THAT ONLY OF WHALES
ARE KILLED INSTANTLY
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REDUCE THE DECLINE IN lSH STOCKS OCEANS HAD PLENTY OF lSH BEFORE LARGE
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TIONAL LAW PREVENTS THEM FROM RESUMING WHALING OUTSIDE
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MORE WHALES DYING AND PERHAPS GREATER CRUELTY
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD ALLOW WHALING TO RESUME
4HIS (OUSE WOULD HARVEST THE BOUNTY OF THE SEA
4HIS (OUSE WOULD SAVE THE WHALE
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THE DEPENDENCY CULTURE 2ECEIVING BENElTS FOR DOING TREATED AS SLAVE LABOR .O ONE VOLUNTARILY SEEKS TO LIVE ON
NOTHING MAKES INDIVIDUALS TOO RELIANT ON THE STATE AND THE VERY LOW INCOME PROVIDED BY WELFARE BENElTS 7ORK
ENCOURAGES APATHY AND LAZINESS 4YING WELFARE PAYMENTS FARE IGNORES THE TALENTS AND AMBITIONS OF THOSE INVOLVED
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ING ASSUMPTIONS OF SOME WELFARE RECIPIENTS AND SHOWS THAT TEACH THEM NO USEFUL SKILLS
THAT THE STATE HAS A RIGHT TO ASK FOR SOMETHING IN RETURN
FOR THE GENEROSITY OF ITS TAXPAYERS
7ORKFARE OFFERS A ROUTE OUT OF POVERTY BY GIVING PARTICI
7ORKFARE PROGRAMS ARE OF LITTLE USE IF NO JOBS ARE AVAIL
PANTS THE SKILLS NEEDED TO lND AND KEEP JOBS 0RODUCTIVE ABLE /FTEN PROGRAMS DO NOT TEACH PEOPLE NECESSARY
WORK INCREASES SELF
RESPECT AND PROVIDES THE POOR WITH SKILLS SUCH AS LITERACY FACILITY WITH MATH AND FAMILIARITY
MORE CONlDENCE IN THEIR ABILITIES )NDIVIDUALS WHO ARE WITH MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY )NSTEAD WORKFARE
CURRENTLY WORKING ARE ALSO MORE ATTRACTIVE TO POTENTIAL RECIPIENTS ARE GIVEN MENIAL TASKS UNLIKELY TO MAKE THEM
EMPLOYERS THAN THOSE WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED MORE EMPLOYABLE 'OVERNMENT SHOULD INVEST IN EDUCA
TION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS INSTEAD OF WORKFARE &INALLY
IF PEOPLE ON WORKFARE ARE FORCED INTO REAL JOBS THAT NEED
DOING THEY SHOULD BE EMPLOYED THROUGH NORMAL CHAN
NELS
-AKING THE UNEMPLOYED WORK FOR THEIR WELFARE BENElTS 0UTTING THE UNEMPLOYED INTO WORKFARE PROGRAMS LIMITS
CALLS THE BLUFF OF THOSE CLAIMING BENElTS BUT NOT REALLY THEIR OPPORTUNITIES TO LOOK FOR REAL WORK 3OME MAY TURN
LOOKING FOR JOBS -OVING FROM A TRADITIONAL SOMETHING
TO CRIME RATHER THAN ACCEPT WORKFARE PROJECTS
FOR
NOTHING WELFARE POLICY TO A WORKFARE SYSTEM STOPS
INDIVIDUALS FROM BEING A BURDEN ON THE STATE )T CUTS
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WELFARE ROLLS VERY RAPIDLY AND ALLOWS THE GOVERNMENT TO
CONCENTRATE UPON ASSISTING THE TRULY NEEDY
3PENDING MONEY ON WORKFARE PROGRAMS IS AN INVESTMENT 7ORKFARE IS ACTUALLY MORE EXPENSIVE THAN TRADITIONAL WEL
IN PEOPLE WHO GAIN THE OPPORTUNITY TO LIFT THEMSELVES FARE PROGRAMS BECAUSE THE STATE ALSO HAS TO PAY THE COSTS
OUT OF POVERTY 7ORKFARE ALSO BENElTS THE ECONOMY OF SETTING UP THE PROGRAMS AND SUPERVISING THEM
BY PROVIDING A BETTER SUPPLY OF LABOR AND BY INCREAS
ING CONSUMER SPENDING !LTHOUGH WORKFARE PROGRAMS
MIGHT COST MORE PER PERSON THAN JUST HANDING OUT
WELFARE CHECKS THEIR ABILITY TO DETER FRAUDULENT CLAIMS
MAKES THEM CHEAPER IN THE LONG RUN
3OCIETY ALSO BENElTS FROM THE WORK DONE BY THOSE IN )NDIVIDUALS FORCED INTO WORKFARE LACK INCENTIVES TO WORK
WORKFARE PROGRAMS THAT IMPROVE THE ECONOMY OR HELP TO A HIGH STANDARD AND MAY BE ACTIVELY DISAFFECTED 4HE
THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED )N MANY CASES THE LABOR THEY WORK THEY DO IS THEREFORE UNLIKELY TO BENElT ANYONE AND
PROVIDE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE IN ANY OTHER WAY RAISES A NUMBER OF ISSUES 7OULD YOU USE A BRIDGE BUILT
BY WORKFARE LABOR 7OULD YOU TRUST YOUR AGED PARENT OR
YOUNG CHILD TO SOMEONE ON WORKFARE
7ORKFARE PROJECTS CAN BE DESIGNED SO THAT THEY DO NOT 4HOSE ON WORKFARE WILL BE COMPETING WITH THOSE WHO ARE
DISPLACE LOW
PAID WORKERS )N ANY CASE MANY OF THOSE ALREADY EMPLOYED PARTICULARLY WORKERS IN MENIAL JOBS
IN MINIMUM WAGE JOBS DO SUCH WORK FOR A RELATIVELY 7HY SHOULD LOCAL GOVERNMENT PAY PEOPLE TO PICK UP
SHORT TIME BEFORE lNDING BETTER POSITIONS #ONSEQUENTLY LITTER IF WORKFARE TEAMS CAN BE MADE TO DO IT FOR MUCH
WORKFARE WILL NOT JEOPARDIZE THOSE AT THE LOW END OF THE LESS )F LOW
PAID WORKERS ARE DISPLACED THE ULTIMATE RESULT
JOB MARKET MAY BE HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE WOULD INTRODUCE WORKFARE
4HIS (OUSE WOULD END WELFARE
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES IN THE DIGNITY OF LABOR
7EB ,INKS
s )S 7ORKFARE 7ORKING HTTPWWWLINCPROJECTORG.EWSLETTERS72)4HE7ORDISSUESFOLDERBARRAISESHTML
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02/3 #/.3
:ERO TOLERANCE POLICING PROVIDES A POWERFUL DETERRENT -INOR OFFENDERS GANG MEMBERS AND THE POOR ARE VERY
TO CRIMINALS FOR THREE REASONS &IRST IT IS ACCOMPANIED UNLIKELY TO BE AWARE OF THE PUNISHMENTS FOR THEIR CRIMES
BY A GREATER POLICE PRESENCE 2ESEARCH SHOWS A DIRECT SO THE THREAT OF PUNISHMENT HAS LITTLE EFFECT ON THEM
LINK BETWEEN THE PERCEIVED CHANCE OF DETECTION AND -ANY CRIMES ARE A RESULT OF POVERTY AND DRUGS AND CAN
CRIME RATES 3ECOND STRICT AND CERTAIN PUNISHMENT BE REDUCED ONLY BY STRUCTURAL CHANGES TO THE SOCIETY NOT
DETERS CRIMINALS 4HIRD IT PROVIDES THE hSHORT SHARP BY THREATENING PUNISHMENT 4HE IDEA OF A hSHORT SHARP
SHOCKv THAT STOPS PETTY CRIMINALS FROM ESCALATING THEIR SHOCKv IS UNCONVINCING ,ABELING PEOPLE CRIMINALS AT AN
CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR )T GIVES A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT CRIME IS EARLY AGE CAUSES THEM TO PERCEIVE THEMSELVES AS SUCH 4HIS
NOT TOLERATED LEADS PETTY CRIMINALS TO COMMIT MORE SERIOUS OFFENSES
:ERO TOLERANCE POLICING IS EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE AGAINST !RRESTING SMALL
SCALE PUSHERS AND USERS TARGETS THE VIC
SMALL
SCALE DRUG PUSHERS WHOSE PRESENCE IN A NEIGHBOR
TIMS TO STOP THE CRIME !S WELL AS BEING UNFAIR IT IS INEF
HOOD CREATES AN ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH CRIME mOURISHES FECTIVE !S LONG AS THERE IS A DEMAND FOR DRUGS THERE
$RUG USE IS A MAJOR CAUSE OF CRIME BECAUSE ADDICTS USU
WILL BE DRUG DEALING $EMAND CAN BE STOPPED ONLY BY
ALLY STEAL TO SUPPORT THEIR HABIT REHABILITATION
:ERO TOLERANCE ALSO ALLOWS FOR REHABILITATION ! PRISON 0RISON SENTENCES CONTRIBUTE TO REPEAT OFFENSES 0RISONS
SENTENCE PARTICULARLY FOR JUVENILES TAKES THEM AWAY FROM SHOULD HAVE A REHABILITATIVE ROLE BUT THEY DONT *UVENILES
THE ENVIRONMENT THAT ENCOURAGED CRIMINALITY 2EHABILI
WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS HAVE DIFlCULTY lNDING JOBS AND SO
TATION IS A CENTRAL TENET OF MOST PENAL CODES 4HE LARGE ARE LIKELY TO RESORT TO CRIME )N PRISON THEY MEET ESTAB
NUMBER OF POLICE ON THE STREETS ALSO INCREASES THE SUPER
LISHED CRIMINALS WHO BOTH ENCOURAGE THE LIFESTYLE AND
VISION OF RELEASED PRISONERS PREVENTING REPEAT OFFENSES TEACH THE SKILLS NEEDED TO BE A SUCCESSFUL CRIMINAL 0RISON
OFTEN FOSTERS RESENTMENT OF THE POLICE 4HE HARASSMENT
THAT JUVENILES ASSOCIATE WITH ZERO TOLERANCE ALSO CREATES AN
EXTREMELY ANTAGONISTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH THE POLICE
:ERO TOLERANCE IMPROVES THE STANDARD OF POLICING )T :ERO TOLERANCE GIVES THE POLICE ALMOST LIMITLESS POWER IN
REDUCES CORRUPTION AND RACIST TREATMENT BECAUSE INDIVID POOR COMMUNITIES 4HEY ARE ABLE TO STOP AND SEARCH AND
UAL OFlCERS ARE NOT GIVEN THE SCOPE TO DECIDE THEIR ACTIONS HARASS INDIVIDUALS CONSTANTLY 5SUALLY ETHNIC MINORITIES
ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS 4HEIR RESPONSE IS SET )N ADDITION ARE TARGETED .EW 9ORK #ITY SAW A TREMENDOUS GROWTH
ZERO TOLERANCE POLICING TAKES OFlCERS OUT OF THEIR CARS AND IN COMPLAINTS ABOUT POLICE RACISM AND HARASSMENT AFTER
PUTS THEM INTO THE COMMUNITY WHERE THEY HAVE CONTACT ZERO TOLERANCE WAS INSTITUTED
WITH INDIVIDUALS #HASES AND SHOOTOUTS ACTUALLY ARE LESS
COMMON UNDER ZERO TOLERANCE
:ERO TOLERANCE IS VITAL FOR REBUILDING INNER CITIES :ERO 2EBUILDING INNER CITY NEIGHBORHOODS IS ONE OF THE MOST
TOLERANCE REDUCES THE AMOUNT OF DEAD GROUND USED FOR POWERFUL WAYS OF TARGETING CRIME AND IT OCCURS INDE
DRUG DEALING AND SO RETURNS PARKS AND OPEN SPACES TO THE PENDENT OF ZERO TOLERANCE &OR EVERY CITY WHERE URBAN
COMMUNITY "Y OFFERING PROTECTION AGAINST PETTY CRIME RENEWAL AND ZERO TOLERANCE HAVE TOGETHER BEEN ASSOCI
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02/3 #/.3
IT ENCOURAGES SMALL BUSINESSES VITAL FOR NEIGHBORHOOD ATED WITH A FALLING CRIME RATE .EW 9ORK #ITY THERE
REHABILITATION TO RETURN TO AN AREA IS AN AREA WHERE RENEWAL HAS WORKED ON ITS OWN (ONG
+ONG -OST IMPORTANT FOR URBAN RENEWAL IS INDIVIDU
ALS TAKING PRIDE IN THEIR AREA 4HIS IS FAR MORE LIKELY TO
HAPPEN WHEN PEOPLE DONT FEEL PERSECUTED BY THE POLICE
.O POLICE PRESENCE IS SUFlCIENT TO DEFEND A BUSINESS THAT
HAS NOT CULTIVATED GOOD RELATIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY
7E CAN AFFORD ZERO TOLERANCE 0ROTECTING BUSINESSES AND 4HE ENORMOUS EXPENSE OF ZERO TOLERANCE IN MONEY MAN
DEVELOPING A REPUTATION FOR LOW CRIME ATTRACTS BOTH POWER AND PRISONS LIMITS POLICING )T LEAVES LITTLE MONEY
PEOPLE AND INVESTMENT $ETERRENCE REDUCES CRIME AND FOR ADDRESSING SERIOUS CRIME 3O ALTHOUGH TOTAL CRIME
THUS THE COST OF POLICING ALTHOUGH PRISONS ARE EXPENSIVE RATES MAY DROP SERIOUS CRIMES MAY STILL BE A PROBLEM
THE REDUCTION IN RECIDIVISM SHOULD EMPTY THEM IN TIME
4HE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION IS WHETHER WE BELIEVE
SPENDING OUR TAX DOLLARS TO GUARANTEE OUR SAFETY IS A GOOD
USE OF THAT REVENUE -OST VOTERS SAY YES
3AMPLE -OTIONS
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES IN ZERO TOLERANCE POLICING
4HIS (OUSE WOULD CLAMP DOWN
4HIS (OUSE BELIEVES IN STRICT PUNISHMENT
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